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ArchiveCHAPTER THREE: The Emergence Of Grassroots Politics, 1979-1981 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… crippled CNETU. In the following year CNETU lost 22 affiliates. Secondly, there were internal structural problems …
EventAZAPO is re-launched in Roodepoort
… Roodepoort for the second time. After the outbreak of the Student Uprising in 1976, the government responded by detaining several members of the South…
BiographySindiso Mfenyana
… chemistry, zoology, botany, and philosophy. Sindiso’s student career at Fort Hare took place at a complicated time …
EventProtests against Afrikaans language in Black schools
… School in Soweto went on strike and boycotted classes. The student protest by Orlando Junior Secondary was among many student protests that erupted in Soweto…
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
… was dangerous and university authorities became hostile to student political groups. 22 March 1960 – Prime Minister … with incitement to riot. Phillip…
ArticleResponse to the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising by organisations in exile
… spread to other schools in Soweto. Incidentally, the student-organised mass rally on this date turned violent, as … South Africa, which claimed more lives…
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
… students at the University of the North and the historic student uprising in Soweto on 16 June 1976 were inspired by … In 1972 he terminated his studies and…
EventLadybrand Four story told at the TRC
In December 1986, uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) cadres Joyce ‘Betty Boom’ Koekanyetswe, Nomasonto Mashiya and Tax Sejaname were abducted by members of the Orange Free…
EventPhotographer, Abdul Shariff, is murdered in Katlehong
… apartheid from an early age. He was involved in the student political movement at high school where he became a … school boycotts. From his early documentary…
Address by President Mandela on receiving the freedom of Boksburg Boksburg, 26 June 1997
… dealt with within the confines of the law. The launch by Cosas of Operation Fundani is a positive development. The …
ArchiveHamba kahle Jennifer Davis 1933-2019
Jennifer Davis, stalwart champion of majority rule in South Africa and leader in the anti-apartheid movement in the United States, died on October 15 in…
EventPolice increase their presence in Soweto
… June 1976 Soweto protest and the killing and injuring of student protesters by the indiscriminate use of firearms by … African Defence Force army was also on…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Thembinkosi Khumalo
… Thembinkosi Khumalo is a student activist at the University of Pretoria. He is an active PASMA member. PASMA is a student division of PAC. Khumalo is also…
PlaceRhodes University, Grahamstown
… provision, and to the commitment of Rhodes staff to student development and success. Of our more than 8000 … and Education'. With the most favourable…
EventResolute Treurnicht rejects waiving language policy
… committee was set up under auspices of the South African Student Movement (SASM), which later evolved into the formation of the Soweto Student…
EventThe first indications of protest over Afrikaans in Soweto schools
… The roots of the student uprising of 1976 can be traced in part to the … created the conditions that would later erupt as the 1976 student uprising. Initial…
Museums, Heritage & Meaning Making Conference
Iziko Museums of South Africa is proud to host this landmark conference from 21–24 October 2025 at the Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town — marking 200…
EventFormer ANC President, Oliver ‘OR’ Tambo, is born
… active in politics. Tambo was among those who led the student boycott at Fort Hare, calling for the formation of a democratically elected Student's…
ArticleList of SADF raids into Neigbouring Countries
… captured Bomb attacks 1974 Botswana; parcel bomb kills student leader Abraham Tiro Zambia; parcel bomb kills …
ArticleDefeat of the Liberation struggle
… and unrest grew after Steve Biko , a South African Student Organisation (SASO) leader was killed in detention. …
Grade 4 term 2 Timeline: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… of Fort Hare. 1940 He is expelled for participating in a student strike 1942 He completes a BA degree through the …
ArchiveThe Arthur Chaskalson I knew by George Bizos, 5 December 2012
… in the Law Faculty. Unlike me he was not involved in student politics. He was a brilliant student, a keen cricket player and an agile goalkeeper of the ……
Document 15 - ‘A document to create a climate of understanding’; Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk
… SASO, July 1969 For the first time after 1959, Non-White student leaders met at Stutterheim in July 1968. A need for … to this general feeling of…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… is hazardous, and university authorities are hostile to student political groups. Non-cooperation between peers in different student political groupings…
EventA resolution against the use of Afrikaans is taken during SASM conference in Roodepoort
… On 28 May 1976, the South African Student Movement (SASM) held a conference in Roodepoort. … Consciousness, in which he raised the issue of Afrikaans…
Document 20 - Advance to national democracy: guidelines on strategy and tactics of the ANC
… administration company as well as the establishment by affiliates of industry wide funds where these do not exist. • …
ArchiveDeborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo
… eventually became literacy director at the South African Student Organization , where she ran a literacy campaign …
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace by Charley-Ann Pearson
… are best highlighted through his relationship with his student, Melanie Isaacs. David translates her name as ‘the … to have sex with her, whereas pursuing a…
ArticleSALDRU Newspaper Clippings Archive 1974 - 2000
… Africa, the collection grew daily as Saldru staff, student interns and visiting scholars helped to mark and clip …