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BiographyPieter Willem Botha
… the Afrikaanse Nasionale Studentebond (National Afrikaans Student Association). At the age of twenty he delivered an …
BiographyPravin Jamnadas Gordhan
… to its executive council in 1974. He organised and led the student movement and civic structures during the 1970s and …
BiographyWalter Ulyate Sisulu
… In 1941 Sisulu met Albertina Thethiwe, a young nursing student from the Transkei. He was so taken with Albertina …
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
… The student protest that broke out on 16 June 1976 was organised … Congress (PAC) . This has been confirmed by some student leaders who were actively…
ArticleKey People in the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising
… section is to organize biography categories as follows: student organization leaders, students, parents, government … Bokwe Mafuna Thom Manthata Justice…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
… be revived. When the UDF formed, the TIC became one of its affiliates. The TIC consciously promoted the idea of …
Submissions by the McGill University students 2012
… Ben Forstate Ben Forstate is a U3 Student at McGill University studying Political Science and … studied at McGill University as a third year exchange student…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
… Award. 3 June, The Johannesburg Star newspaper reported a student campaign at the University of the Witwatersrand to … breaks out in Soweto. When police open…
ArticleNational Youth Uprising
… into their fold. Not only would this make it the largest student organisation in the country, but it would also bring into the liberal ''old all student…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Source-based Questions
Based on the 2012 Grade 10 NSC Exemplar Paper: Grade 10 Past Exam Paper Grade 10 Source Addendum Grade 10 Past Exam Memo Level 1 & 2…
ArchiveCHAPTER 5 - Armed Propaganda and Non-Colaborattion, Rationalising weakness, August 1979 - December 1980 by Howard Barell
… president of the now-outlawed Saso, the black university student's organisation, and Jackie Selebi, a member of the … at this time of the Congress of South…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Essay Questions
Impact of Slave Trade and Colonisation on Indigenous Societies at the Cape Based on the 2012 Grade 10 NSC Exemplar Paper: Grade 10 Past Exam Paper …
Goodluck Mbhele
… parties with a small canon film camera. Currently a senior student at Vaal University of Technology. …
ArticleThe formation of SASO and the Black People’s Convention
… system arose. In the period 1967-68, Biko, now a medical student at Natal University, was one of the students who … medical school for Blacks, Biko was…
EventAnton Fransch, ANC guerrilla, killed by the special forces of the apartheid regime
… 7 siblings. He attended Modderdam High School and joined Cosas (Congress of South African Students). This was during …
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… career began at the age of 17 when she was a high school student. The Indian community suffered the enactment of the … and raise funds for the Passive…
BiographyMattheus Uys Krige
… French culture first-hand was awakened. During his student years, he also published in Die Stellenbosse Student and Die Nuwe Brandwag. Although he graduated…
BiographyIsaac Williams Wauchope
… good at mathematics and won a prize for the best junior student in geometry. He was also an active member of the … In 1888, Isaac left PE to go to Lovedale…
ArticleHarriet Bolton and the Garment Workers Industrial Union
… take on National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) student volunteers facilitated initial contact with African … Her contact with activist academic…
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
… by the rulers of the nation. Participating in the student press union, Solidarity News Service, Medu, and the … WORDS Heinz Klug, Durban, Group Areas Act,…
Document 36 - The first hearing on certification: a summary of the judgment of the Constitutional Court
… of the press 3. Social Equity The EXCO agreed that affiliates should continue to discuss and popularise the document. Affiliates will also approach the 58…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… 6 June, Dr. Renfrew Christie, an academic and former student leader from the University of Cape Town (UCT), is … August, The UDF, the Congress of South…
BiographyWalter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela
… to some of the founding members of the South African Student Organisation (SASO) , which was a Black Consciousness …
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… in the 1970s' (Walker 1991:275). New resistance stirs: Student activism and Black Consciousness in the 1960s In the … the initiative. They were angered by a…
The South African History Online (SAHO) Graduate Internship Programme
… skills. Aidan Erasmus Aidan Erasmus is currently a MA student in the History Department at the University of the … of Cape Town, and University of…
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… and support came from a wide range of sources, including student bodies, unions, various newspapers, writers and … federation to support the AAM. In 1971, 14…
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… apparent, security police detained Biko, the outspoken student leader, on 18 August 1977. He was thirty years old … This was seen as added proof that the…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
Introduction In 1948 the National government was voted into power and instituted apartheid. This lead to an increase in the number of people being…
ArticleCommemoration, remembering and memorialising June 16 Soweto uprising
… different ways and forms through which the June 16 1976 student uprisings have been commemorated. The Soweto student uprisings have also inspired the…
ArticlePeter Magubane Timeline 1932-
… with the Rand Daily Mail . 1976 Magubane covered the Student Uprising as a photographer for the Rand Daily Mail . … 1985 Magubane was shot 17 times below the…