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EventRobert Sobukwe, first PAC president, dies
… on humanitarian grounds, as he was banned to Galeshewe Township, Kimberley, but it was turned down by the …
EventKen Oosterbroek is killed
… was killed in bloody pre-election fighting in Thokoza township on the East Rand, just two weeks before South …
Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws
… was obviÂously very old at that time, and living in the township. Her advice to us was: 'Unity begets bravery and … the country. However, right at home, in…
PlaceIsipingo, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… of arrangement, where else can you catch a taxi from one township to another?” he asked. Slindelo “Butterscotch” …
PlaceCottages 60 and 62 Simonstown Road, Fish Hoek
… was soon afterwards subdivided into lots to form the township now known as Fish Hoek. The original portions of …
EventDeputy Minister of Bantu Education,Treurnicht is warned about deteriorating conditions in Soweto
… not fully informed about the situation in the Black township as the events of 16 June 1976 bore testimony. …
EventFour men die instantly in car races
… Mukhari (formerly Ga-Rankuwa) hospital in Ga-Rankuwa township. The fifth victim died later in hospital while the …
EventThe ANC sends a report on police violence to President F. W. de Klerk
… Meshack Kunene was shot dead on 30 June in the Alexandra Township near Johannesburg. …
Polokwane the Segregated city
… Development in 1963 set aside land to establish a Black township, Moletse, in order to resettle the people of New … children to attend schools in the area as…
EventVerwoerdburg is renamed Centurion.
… Verwoerdburg originates from Lyttelton Township that was marked out on the farm Droogegrond in 1904. …
EventRobert Mugabe returns to Rhodesia after being in exile for five years
… Mugabe's arrival at the grounds in the Highfield black township of Salisbury. Mugabe told the riotous rally of …
ArticleNegotiations and the transition
… in Observatory and the murder of Amy Biehl in Gugulethu township. St James Massacre On Sunday 25 July 1993 an … Biehl was driving along the NY1 Road in the…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Introducing by Carol Hermer
… permits without which no non-black person could enter the township. By 1970 the population was already 50 000. No new … took place between them until the…
EventAllan Boesak is arrested
… appeared in court on charges of trying to enter a Black township without permit, but charges were subsequently …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education
… Town Communities, 1980-1985 by Sean Field Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984 by Noor …
PlaceHammarsdale, KZN
… Mpumalanga, also widely known as Hammarsdale, is a Township in eThekwini, in the KwaZulu-Natal Province. It is a Township about 10 km South-East of Cato…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
… bomb explosion in an administrative building in the Batho township of Bloemfontein injures 79 Black people who were … Front (UDF) was launched in Mitchell's…
EventFather Smangaliso Mkhatshwa served with restriction order
… appointed parish priest of St Charles Lwanga in Soshanguve Township, north of Pretoria. Mkhatshwa went on to become …
EventNyanga school Principal’s office burnt
… as a teaching medium in their schools. Riots raged in the township for 3 days and quickly spread throughout the …
EventANC government tension continues
… to take strong measures against the perpetrators of the township violence, including elements within the South …
EventA Xhosa film wins Golden Bear award
… Festival in Germany. The film was shot in the Cape Town Township of Khayelitsha. The musical, sung entirely in Xhosa, …
EventVaal Uprising Begins as Sharpeville Residents Resist Rent Increases
… continued and intensified, contributing to the sustained township uprisings that would eventually help bring the …
The diary of Maria Tholo - December 16 - 1 January 1977 by Carol Hermer
… Mrs. Maphila hailed us. They wanted a lift back to the township. They were camping there and had forgotten … There's a sad and quiet feeling right through…
PlaceShri Jagannath Puri Temple, Tongaat
… temple thereon, being the remainder of Lot 79, Tongaat Township, situated in the Township of Tongaat, Province of Natal, and measuring (12 …
The diary of Maria Tholo - Epilogue by Carol Hermer
… still costs much more than in the white areas. Guguletu township, along with Nyanga and Langa, remain the only …
EventFormer premier of Mpumalanga, Afrikaans poet and lawyer, Mathews Phosa is born
… Afrikaans poet and lawyer was born in Mbombela Township in Nelspruit. Phosa was an African National Congress …
EventWhite sympathisers join evicted Black squatters in a protest
… took place at Unibel Modderdam, Werkgenot and KTC, a Black township near Nyanga. The government could not destroy the …
EventArchibald Lamont, ex-mayor of Durban, passes away.
… Africa and in 1929 became the mayor of Durban, Lamont township (currently Lamontville) was named after him at the …
Ernest Cole: Brave photographer who exposed horrors of apartheid from within by Teo Kermeliotis, (cnn.com), 5 January 2015
… woman, Cole was born in Eersterust, a black freehold township near Pretoria, in 1940. The fourth of six children, …
BiographyOlive Peace Landman
Beginnings Olive Peace Rosenberg was born in Knysna on 5 August 1919, the eldest daughter of Hendrika Jacoba Pieterse and Ellis Lawrence Rosenberg. Hendrika…