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BiographyMizream Maseko
… leather, one of which is Man smoking a Xhosa-style pipe (1960). The use of pronouncedly blue tones as highlights on …
BiographyFihla Christmas Tinto
… in 1951. He was elected its chief volunteer in 1954. In 1960 he joined the organised march of 30 000 people of the …
BiographyGertrud Theiler
… Scott Medal of the South African Biological Society in 1960 and the Elsdon Dew Medal of the Parasitological Society …
Louis Charles George 'Loet' Douwes-Dekker
Louis Charles George Douwes-Dekker was born on 22 October in 1936,Indonesia Asia.His parents were scientists,he spent four years in a Japanese concentration…
BiographyZolile Malindi
… involved in the Anti-Pass Campaigns of the 1950 and early 1960’s.Through his involvement with the Communist Party, … for democracy. At the time of the ANC’s…
BiographyMankopodi Sekhukhune
… a permit, from banishment on 8 October 1958 until 31 March 1960.Their permit was then extended until 31 March 1961. …
Bathandwa Ndondo
… of the authorities by organising a commemoration of the Sharpeville massacre. He was suspended, because, according to the …
Vella Pillay
… had already declared a state of emergency following the Sharpeville massacre of young student demonstrators, and sought to detain …
ArticleSouth African Defence Force (SADF)
… Rebellion ), during states of emergency (such as after the massacre at an anti-apartheid protest in Sharpeville ), and during the Soweto Uprising and the ……
Testimony of Professor D. D. T. Jabavu, Walter Rubusana, and the Rev. Abner Mtimkulu of the Cape Native Voters’ Convention and Meshach Pelem of the Bantu Union, before the Select Committee on Subject of Native Bills, May 30, 1927 [Extracts]
… of Professor D. D. T. Jabavu, Walter Rubusana, and the Rev. Abner Mtimkulu of the Cape Native Voters’ Convention and …
EventHuman Rights Day is celebrated for the first time in South Africa
… It shares the day with the anniversary of the infamous Sharpeville Massacre, which occurred in 1960. This gross violation of human life happened when a …
EventThe Security Council begins deliberations on the situation in South Africa
… by the Security Council followed the event of 21 March, 1960, where the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) staged an anti-pass demonstration outside Sharpeville…
EventNigeria imposes sanctions on South Africa, and implements a total trade boycott
… against South Africa's apartheid policy. In early 1960, Nigeria had decided to ban all imports from South … in the international community - especially after…
Event1 575 people are detained under a state of emergency
… The events which led to mass detentions in April 1960 were the following: A state of emergency was called after anti-pass demonstrations at Sharpeville,…
BiographyMaggie Resha
… Women's League branch. The state was determined that the 1960's should not be marked by the resistance witnessed in … prepared to use brute force to achieve…
BiographyRowley Israel Arenstein
… who ran the underground SACP and, through it, the ANC. In 1960 with the Pondoland insurrection against the … the magisterial district of Durban on 1st of…
BiographyMagdaline ‘Maggie’ Resha
… League (ANCWL) branch. The state was determined that the 1960's should not be marked by the resistance witnessed in … prepared to use brute force to achieve…
BiographyTennyson Xola Makiwane
… African National Congress (ANC) representative in Ghana in 1960, he participated in the short-lived United Front with …
BiographyGibson Magwaza
… of the protests that occurred in Tokazi in November 1960 in which 24 huts were burnt down and two people were …
BiographyLaurent Kabila
… tribe in the Katanga Province in the Belgian Congo. In 1960 Kabila became a leader of a youth wing of an alliance …
BiographyRicardo Rangel
Ricardo Rangel was born on 15 February 1924 in Lourenço Marques, now Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. His mother was a black Mozambiquan and his father was a…
BiographyDr. Oshadi Maphefo Jane Mangena
Dr Oshadi Mangena was born in a toilet on 12 June 1931 when her father’s employer refused to allow her mother to wait for an ambulance inside her home, as she…
Ruth Gosschalk
… activities, Gosschalk was detained by the police in 1960. Then in 1964 she was banned for five years. She was …
BiographyMargaret Nash
… a PhD in Theology at the University of Cape Town. In 1960, Nash joined the Liberal Party of South Africa (LPSA). …
BiographySorabjee Rustomjee
… Sorabji Rustomjee passed away in Durban on 22 February 1960. …
BiographySelloane Ethel Leisa
… for their children. Even when the ANC was banned in April 1960, Leisa refused to be intimidated and continued to help …
BiographyJohn Marinus Ferus
… for the first time since the organisation was banned in 1960. …
BiographyWilliam Mosehle Sekhukhune
… spent two years in jail and was then banished in 1960 toHlabisa District, Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal]. His …
BiographyAlfred Toto Metele
Alfred Toto Metele was born to farmworker parents,in the farming area of Qumhra, Eastern Cape. He attended school at Mooiplaas, outside East London, where he…
BiographySheila Weinberg
… event. When the State of Emergency was declared in 1960, both of Weinberg’s parents were banned and her father … and SACP activities after the organisations…