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Thupelo (1985)
… Union of Black Arts (FUBA) and FUNDA community college in Soweto. The workshops provided an opportunity for artists to …
Independent Electoral Commission
… INDEPENDENT ELECTORAL COMMISSION IEC) Residents of Soweto queue up to cast their votes in South Africa's third …
Lerato Maduna
… Lerato Maduna was born in Soweto in 1985. Studied various courses in photography at The …
EventSecurity police arrest SSRC leader Dan Montsitsi
… Almost a year after the June 16 Soweto Student Uprising, Security Police announced the arrest of Soweto Students' Representative Council (SSRC) leader Dan ……
BiographyDr. Neville Edward Alexander
… Movement was confronting the ravages of apartheid and the Soweto student revolts while trying to co-ordinate …
EventResolute Treurnicht rejects waiving language policy
… Despite the indications of African unrest at Soweto schools being noticed by government authorities on 4 … Andries Treurnicht, rejected the applications by…
EventSouth African Political activist, James Sofasonke Mpanza dies
… and founder of the Sofasonke Party in Orlando Township, Soweto , passed away at his Orlando East home in Soweto. He was given a rousing civic funeral service…
EventSouth African Students Movement leaders meet to plan protest action against the implementation of Afrikaans
… a meeting, which was attended by representatives of all Soweto high schools, at which it was decided that protests … in Black schools. The students decided…
ArchiveInterview with Sibongile Mthembu Mkhabela
… nee Sibongile Susan Mthembu, was a leader in the Soweto Students Representative Council at the time of the 1976 Soweto uprising. She subsequently was a…
EventSA artist, Dumisani Mabaso is born
… Dumisani Abraham Mabaso, South African artist, was born in Soweto. From childhood until 1974 he received art education … also for 2 years studied art at the…
ArchiveStudent walkouts have changed history before. In South Africa, one helped end apartheid by DeNeen L. Brown (The Washington Post), 14 March 2018
… 16, 1976, more than 10,000 black high school students in Soweto marched out of school, protesting an apartheid … officials, none of them will be risking…
EventDemonstrators strip to deter bulldozers
… by authorities to demolish their homes at Dobsonville in Soweto. The women's protests were ignored and the demolitions went ahead. This was not the first…
EventProtests against Afrikaans language in Black schools
… 30 April 1976, students at Orlando West Junior School in Soweto went on strike and boycotted classes. The student … Secondary was among many student protests…
EventThe Erasmus Commission’s report implicates Rhoodie, Mulder and van den Bergh in SA’s infamous ‘Information Scandal’
… . Condemnation of South Africa escalated following the Soweto Revolt in 1976. The Department of Information was also … by students who had fled the country…
Biography of Lindiwe Mabuza by Kayla Johansen
… she had? [4] Eventually, Mabuza moved from her hometown to Soweto, pursuing her education in Johannesburg, Transvaal … Mabuza soon wrote a poem in 1976 in…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… that Security Police have arrested the leader of the Soweto Students’ Representative Council (SSRC), Dan S. Montsitsi in connection with plans to commemorate…
EventAnti apartheid activist Dr. Richard Turner is assassinated
… of cooperation with black students following the Soweto Revolt two years earlier. This, evidently, is what Turner had advocated for. In April 1977 NUSAS and…
ArchiveSAAWU Annual National Conference
… Notice of SAAWU Annual National Conference at Soweto in 1984. SAAWU in white letters on black background. … background. White poster with image of black…
ArchiveSpeech made by Mrs Winnie Mandela to mark the
… Immediately following the "childrens revolt" in Soweto in June 1976 and the massacre and repression with … Winnie Mandela made an impassioned plea at a…
ArticleSouth African Youth Congress (SAYCO)
… women, the local UDF and defence committees. The Soweto Youth Congress (SOYCO) was the third youth congress to … It transformed the nature of Black…
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… do something” about South Africa was intensified after the Soweto riots in 1976, particularly following the death of … SASO, the South African Students’…
ArchiveMinutes of a Meeting between the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, Mr. M. C. Botha, officials of the Department of Bantu Administration and Development .... held in the Bantu Administration Building, Pretoria on 19 June 1976
… of the Urban Council, School Board and Teachers of Soweto in which issues such as the actions of pupils during the Soweto riots and the problem of using…
ArticleA Brief History of Pageview
… were given eviction notices. The 'Africans' were moved to Soweto, the 'Coloureds' to the Western Areas and Indians to …
ArticleEconomic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… Fighters (EFF) announced its formation on 27 July, 2013 in Soweto. The party was formed by former ANC Youth League …
ArticlePan Africanist Congress (PAC)
… April 1959 the PAC was formed at Orlando Community Hall in Soweto. Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe , an ardent Africanist, who …
EventArtist and boxer Ephraim Ngatane dies
… boxer, died of tuberculosis at the Barangwanath Hospital, Soweto. Ngatane used water colours and oil for his paintings … singer. Ngatane was buried at…
EventMandela and De Klerk hold emergency talks
… emergency talks in Pretoria about increasing violence in Soweto. Fighting in Soweto started when Zulu migrant workers armed with axes and …
EventCommittee of Ten wants election of a new community board
… The 'Committee of 10' formed by prominent Soweto residents, issued a programme for the election of a new community board to have total autonomy in Soweto,…
ArchiveInterview with Lybon Tiyani Mabasa
… in 1952 and graduated from Sekano-Ntoane High School in Soweto in 1971. He studied at the University of the North, … In 1976 he began teaching at Meadowlands…
EventThe Natives Resettlement Act, Act No 19 of 1954 is passed
… residents were forcefully removed to Meadowlands in Soweto . In January 1955 the government deployed security … on to trucks with their goods and forced to…