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BiographyJacob “Dancing Shoes” Morake
… 8 December 1955, and grew up in Central Western Jabavu in Soweto near Johannesburg. He was 10 years old when, one …
BiographyMakhosi “Tholi” Nyoka
… of terror in South Africa to coincide with the so called Soweto day anniversary.’ [1] The South African Broadcasting …
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1970 - 1979
… Communist Party. June, Dadoo speaking on the June 16 uprising , says, "The tide of indignation and protest among … people of South Africa set off by the…
BiographyDr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
… more than six hundred South Africans were killed in the Soweto Township Uprising, the ANC was able to broadcast the information …
EventNaledi High School is founded
… and burned their car. The first sign of Black unrest in Soweto schools was noticed by government authorities on 4 … Tsietsi Mashinini led the peaceful…
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… an African movement. This standpoint is supported by an extract from Sobukwe's inaugural speech which was given when … to expel him from the PAC. Increased…
ArchiveHow a slave from Mauritius led a rebellion in Cape Town by Nigel Worden (Ground Up), 30 March 2016
… to ‘hoist the bloody flag and fight themselves free.’ The uprising was short-lived. On reaching Salt River, the slaves … Within 36 hours it was all over…
ArticleDr. Abu Baker Asvat timeline 1943 - 2012
… He begins working at a clinic in the Chicken Farm area of Soweto. At the clinic he installs public toilets, opens a … June, Asvat’s clinic catches on fire…
EventThe Roman Catholic Church decides, in principle, to open its 192 all-white schools to black pupils
… Three months later, more than 20 000 learners from Soweto marched against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in Black secondary schools. The…
EventThree ANC members are sentenced to death
… attacks at the Moroka and Orlando Police stations in Soweto and the Wonderboom Police station in Pretoria in which … guilty and cited police brutality during…
EventMinister introduces free and compulsory education
… was the fifth concession to Black demands since the 1976 Soweto Uprising. The government had also reversed the introduction …
EventThe National President of the Black People's Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness
… On 27 June 1976, almost two weeks after the Soweto Uprising on 16 June, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, the National … had ushered in a new era of political…
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…
EventPupils boycott classes in defiance of the use of Afrikaans in their schools
… the ultimate breaking point on 16 June 1976, when the Soweto uprising took place that caused uproar in South Africa and …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.2 No.1 March 1979
… Content and Contributors Soweto Speaking,Nhlanhla Paul Maake's Conversation Piece, Joe … story . Ingoapele Madingoane (Klipspruit), black trial, an extract…
ArticlePoqo
… Poqo's aim of destabilising the country and inspiring an uprising, organisation targeted Paarl on 22 November 1962. … the African political organisations. In…
EventFather Smangaliso Mkhatshwa served with restriction order
… A year after the 1976 Soweto Student Uprising, the former Secretary of the South African Catholic …
Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… not a place that offered a future for him or his wife. The Soweto Uprising a decade later only confirmed the Semenya’s fears, … [Accessed October 27, 2016]…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… supported by a wide variety of tendencies, including the Soweto Committee of Ten , Azanian People's Organisation … of the West Rand Administration Board in…
EventAfrikaans is used for the first time in an international document with the signing of the Convention of Mozambique in Pretoria
… as a medium of education in 1976, which led to the Soweto’s student uprising. …
EventRobert Kennedy, American politician, speaks at the University of Cape Town about the racial inequality of apartheid
… exactly a decade later on 16 June 1976, when students in Soweto protested against Afrikaans as a compulsory medium of instruction in schools. This protest is…
EventCourt go-ahead for United Democratic Front meetings
… any political meetings in commemoration of the June 16 Soweto uprising.The UDF were informed that the police would only …
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed TRC chairperson
… of Cape Town rose to fame in the 1980’s. After the1976 Soweto Uprising, Tutu supported an economic boycott of South Africa. …
EventThe Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.
… In the aftermath of the 16 June 1976 Uprising, in Soweto, Johannesburg, the apartheid government … banner. The BCM organisations were the forces behind the…
BiographyPravin Jamnadas Gordhan
… NATO's military intervention in Libya during the rebel uprising in 2011. The United States of America’s Secretary of …
PlaceOrlando Stadium
… This was the site of the first stadium in Soweto , officially opened in 1959. For almost 50 years this … and remembrance in South Africa’s history! The 1976…
BiographyChristopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu
… movements such as the anti-apartheid movement and the Soweto Uprising organised by the ANC in 1976 when he was in standard …
EventLegendary photographer Sam Nzima dies
… for taking the picture of Hector Pieterson during the 1976 Soweto uprising . Hector Pieterson was shot by the apartheid police in 1976 when students in…
BiographyHemant Kumar Waghmarae
… organisation or persons that opposed Apartheid. The 1976 Soweto Riots triggered his anger against Apartheid into …