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BiographySantu Mofokeng
… the hotbeds of the violently suppressed Soweto uprising in 1976. While still a teenager, he began his career as a street …
BiographyHendrik Frensch Verwoerd
… South Africa lay in shreds after the uprisings of 1976 and then 1986. Today, H.F. Verwoerd’s name is …
BiographyNana Sita
… the Soweto massacre of African schoolchildren on June 16, 1976, failed to intimidate the people. Thousands of young …
BiographySunny Girja Singh
… into exile in Mozambique. He left on Christmas morning, 1976, with the assistance of an ANC underground operative who …
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… protests have unsurprisingly drawn comparison with the 1976 protests against Afrikaans : both movements resisted … [20] The well-known photograph of murdered…
BiographyDieter 'Felix' Gerhardt
… while his wife travelled with him twice in 1972 and 1976. He was reportedly paid 800,000 Swiss Francs by the GRU …
BiographyWalter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela
… his brutal murder. Ironically, he was killed on 16 June 1976 . Through MAWAFO, he was invited to the board of the …
BiographyViolet Weinberg
… caused Violet Weinberg to leave the country. [32] In 1976 Eli Weinberg left South Africa for Tanzania , as the …
PlaceFourteen Streams
… to the Cape on 6 May 1900 when Boer troops under Gen SP du Toit retreated before a British force led by Maj-Gen …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1970-1979
… Committee meeting discusses plans to re-launch MK. 1976 24 May, Soweto pupils reject the Orland Diepkloof School … fire on marching students, killing…
Bibliography: Missionary settlement in southern Africa
… The Paris Evangelical Missions Society. ENGELBRECHT, SP. 1942. Eeufees-Album van die Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk … to the South-Eastern Bantu. Lovedale:…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
… youth hatred for the apartheid system. As early as March 1976 students began passive resistance against Afrikaans. The outbreak of Soweto Uprising on 16 June…
Address at the National Youth Day Celebrations, 16 June 2002
… efforts. On this day, we salute them, the children of 1976, who gave their lives so that we and future generations … of struggle, the selfsame struggle of…
BiographyPieter Willem Botha
… Pers Ltd. Botha was leader of the House of Assembly from 1976 until 1978. He was appointed Minister of Defence on 5 …
BiographyJoyce Sikhakhane-Rankin
… when Joyce wrote Window on Soweto. She could predict June 1976, because people were very angry. The police were running …
BiographyRonald “Ron” Press
… The Special Branch murdered Lawrence in detention in 1976. In 1960, the police shootings at Sharpeville and the …
BiographyDulcie Evonne September
… Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa in London. In 1976 she joined the full time staff of the ANC where she …
BiographyHorst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt
… After Kleinschmidt’s escape from South Africa in 1976 he was appointed Overseas Representative of the …
BiographyWalter Ulyate Sisulu
… was co-opted on a rotational basis. By the time the post-1976 generation arrived on Robben Island, Walter's informal …
From Protest to Challenge: Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964 Volume 1
… and to the workers of Rhodesia and the Congo. Comrade SP Bunting, opening the proceedings as chairman, spoke on the … were elected as follows: - Chairman and…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… Afrikaans as a medium of instruction exploded on 16 June 1976 in Soweto and spread to others parts of the country. The … the expulsion of a ‘conspiratorial…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948
… laws that were implemented by the government; the June 1976 student uprisings were against the introduction of the … mood was more festive than belligerent" …
BiographyFranco Frescura
… of southern Africa’s rural architecture between 1976 and 1989 remains the last concerted attempt to record an …
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
… The student protest that broke out on 16 June 1976 was organised and directed by the Soweto Students … years of planning and organisation, beginning in…
Early struggles, contact and conflict in the Cape Colony
… European traders. Coree was kidnapped by the crew of the Hector in 1613 and taken to England. The British wanted to …
KwaMsiza - A Ndebele village: References/Bibliography
… Economic Revues for Bophuthatswana, 1975, and Lebowa, 1976. Pretoria: BENBO. BATTISS, JUNOD, FRANZ and GROSSERT . … Economic Revues for Bophuthatswana, 1975,…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
… It was due to these problems that, at the end of May 1976, student leaders in Soweto travelled secretively from … eventually culminated in the Soweto riots…
Names of Slaves and Free Blacks
… may be wrong - it is around 1772 in order in the book) Hector of the Coast (1673) - i.e. Coromandel Michiel of …
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… The Day Our Kids Lost Faith. 1976. © Bailey's African History Archives During the 1970s, … in the late 1970s after the Soweto uprising of 1976, there was…
BiographyDr. Mantombazana ‘Manto’ Tshabalala-Msimang
… the globe in countries such as Lusaka and Zambia . In 1976, Tshabalala-Msimang accepted a job as head of the Health …