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ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
… In 1976 the boycott received overwhelming support as township residents refrained from the usual frenetic …
ArticleA Culture of Survival
… and arrests for illegal beer-brewing were common among township women. In addition to a very high fine or jail if …
ArticlePublic Protest in Democratic South Africa
… in government services in Gugulethu, an impoverished township near Cape Town, in August 2012. Source: AFP/Rodger …
Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws
… was obviÂously very old at that time, and living in the township. Her advice to us was: 'Unity begets bravery and … the country. However, right at home, in…
Polokwane the Segregated city
… Development in 1963 set aside land to establish a Black township, Moletse, in order to resettle the people of New … children to attend schools in the area as…
ArticleNegotiations and the transition
… in Observatory and the murder of Amy Biehl in Gugulethu township. St James Massacre On Sunday 25 July 1993 an … Biehl was driving along the NY1 Road in the…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
… bomb explosion in an administrative building in the Batho township of Bloemfontein injures 79 Black people who were … Front (UDF) was launched in Mitchell's…
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
… 1920 The decade sees residents of Bethlehem removed to the township of Tlhabane, some 5km from the centre of town. The …
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
… in the area were burnt down, 38 people were killed and township councillors flee for their lives. 28 August, as …
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… between police, army, Azapo and the ANC in Bekkersdal township, 1994 African Media Online During 1981 tensions …
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… university residence and must sleep in the neighbouring township. Black and white members of NUSAS are furious. The … townships throughout the country…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… rights for all is held. Police open fire in the Alexandra Township and other areas on the Reef, killing 18 and wounding … officiates at a meeting held in…
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… of South African fiction. Set in a village and a township near Pretoria, the text records the resilience of … Writers. He used a vibrant mix of rap-styled…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… MK cache and ANC leaflets were discovered by police in a township near Springs on the East Rand. Later in the same … province, clashes between axe-wielding…
ArticleInsurrections Ensemble
… and guitarist in the jazz-influenced South African township style. He has composed music for documentary …
Zulu Community
… residents knew they would not qualify for residence in a township and would be repatriated to their ‘place of origin’ …
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… 69 when the police opened fire on demonstrators in the township of Sharpeville protesting against the government’s …
ArticleThe Politics Behind Water
South Africa battles water scarcity as it is one of the thirty driest regions in the world. On average the country receives 500 mm rainfall in a year. [1] As…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… in Cape Town. Florence Mophosho is born in Alexander Township, Johannesburg. Jo Thorpe is born in Fishoek in Cape … of property in white areas. Anti-Indian…
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… of instruction at their schools. They marched from Naledi Township, at the south western end of Soweto, collecting … the schoolchildren retreated and fanned…
ArticleThe Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
… brutally murdered, and an armed raid on the KwaZulu-Natal township of Mpophomeni the following morning results in the …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
… Kunene was shot to death on June 30 in the Alexandra Township. 25 July , Senior ANC member, Sathyandranath ‘Mac’ … a list of police officers believed to have…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… and found accommodation in 46 Seventh Avenue in Alexandra Township. Mandela convinced the regent that he was going to … stayed in "Dark City", the poorest…
ArticleColonial history of Nelspruit
… of South Africa in 1910, Nelspruit passed from colonial township into the segregated order of the new state. The …
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
… A number of people are killed in the nearby African township thereafter 1953 The National Party consolidates …
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… had occupied a Group Area designated for another race. Township residents tried to rebuild their lives despite … to move along with many others to a vast…
Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… Africa in 1991. Caiphus Semenya was born in the Alexandra township of South Africa, on August 19, 1939. By the age of …
Biography of Johnny ‘Mbizo’ Dyani by Brandon Norman
… to have been born on 30 November 1945 in Duncan Village, a township in the city of East London in South Africa. This … him for the first part of his life in…
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… This legislation contributed to the establishment of Langa township and de-proclamation of the Ndabeni location in order …
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… Cape Town 1900-1959 1901 Outbreak of plague at Cape Town Township of Uitvlugt established at Ndabeni City Hall … naval escalation in the Indian Ocean 17…