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The Centenary Celebration of the February Revolution 8-12 March 2017
… regiment of the Imperial Guard mutinied in protest of the massacre carried out by their training squad. Most of the …
ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
… Their actions during events like the Sharpeville Massacre and Soweto Uprisings are testament to their campaign …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… laws from Monday, the 21st March. March 21, The bloodiest massacre in the history of South Africa takes place at … mobilising mass action in response to the…
ArticleThe South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO)
… gained even greater momentum due to the Sharpeville massacre and the banning of the ANC. Several of its prominent …
Biography of Hugh Masekela by Fardin Rahman
… March, 1960. This event is remembered as the Sharpeville Massacre e and marked the start of an era of strict apartheid … declared a State of Emergency…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… the apathy that had set in following the Sharpeville massacre. And during the next decade and a half, the … the North organised a march to commemorate the…
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) after the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960 – a series of struggles that ultimately … the armed wing of the ANC. International…
ArticleCosatu timeline
… about 78 wounded in what becomes known as the “Marikana massacre”. NUM's refusal to support, and in one instance …
ArticleTimeline of the German and Herero, Nama War and Genocide
… of whom are women and children. The battle turns into a massacre. In fear and desperation the Herero turn away from …
ArticleHighlights for 2013
… people are killed in Cairo, Egypt. Cairo July 8 2013 Egypt massacre Jockey, Smanga Khumalo makes history at the Durban …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
… and supported. The march in Sharpeville ended in a massacre, leaving 69 demonstrators dead after being shot, …
ArticleThe Women of Marikana
… 17 August 2012, women gathered next to the site of the massacre in protest against police brutality, mine … wives rage at South African police brutality…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… (1956 to 1988). 1960s In the wake of the Sharpeville Massacre and the declaration of the State of Emergency when …
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… of protesters. For the first time since the 1921 Bulhoek Massacre the police opened fire on the protesters killing 18 …
ArticleUniversity Christian Movement (UCM)
… of political resistance to apartheid after the Sharpeville massacre and the subsequent crackdown on political activity. …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… the Transvaal Native Mine Clerks Association. The Bulhoek Massacre takes place outside Queenstown. Dorothy Shanley is … and 129 wounded. The incident became…
ArticleSouth African Constitutional Development Timeline 1902 - 1997
… Act' as the transitional constitution. 17 June, A massacre of more than forty people occurs at Boipatong. 23 … an emergency meeting to discuss the…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 European Societies
Important events and systems in European Societies during the 1600’s Robb Schultz, “Europe leading into the 17th century (1600’s)”Image Source The…
Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… deaths. Forced removals and events such as the Sharpeville Massacre convinced Semenya that South Africa was not a place …
ArticleWomen’s Role in the Negotiations by Nicole Dellaportas
… in the Negotiations of the 1990’s After the Sharpeville Massacre, people were scared and traumatized by the actions … 2014]|South African History Online …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
… was stormed, a revolutionary Commune initiated the massacre of 1200 ‘counter-revolutionaries’. On the 20th of …
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and May Day – Some Key Moments
… p.160. [9] For this account of the May Day protests, massacre and Mandela’s relationship to the CPSA, see: Gauger, …
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… of the apartheid regime. British newspapers splashed the massacre on their front pages, and for almost a week hundreds … While the call for boycotts had been…
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
… over 200 injured. The incident becomes known as the Bisho Massacre . 1993 SACP leader Chris Hani. Source: …
ArticleState of Emergency - 1985
… responses include the 25 th anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre , where 17 people were killed during a commemoration …
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… popular forms of politics, particularly after the Marikana Massacre in 2012, that are rooted in political and historical …
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… incidents of anti-Black violence such as the Marikana Massacre amongst others, as consistent within the historical … from 1978. His latest book is …
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
… the North organised a commemoration march for Sharpville Massacre and a march against the removal of the Makgatho …
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
… occurred at Ngoye in September 1983. During the Ngoye massacre, six students were brutally murdered by armed men …
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
… the benefit of white workers. But after the Sharpeville Massacre the AHI urged the government to ease the pass laws …