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EventWinnie Mandela is dismissed from government
… president Nelson Mandela eventually expelled her from the position of deputy minister of Arts, Culture, … Mandela Out of Cabinet For Defying Presidential…
EventESCOM announces its decision to order two nuclear power reactors from France
… On 29 May 1976, the South African Electricity Supply Commission (ESKOM) … announced its decision to order two nuclear power reactors from France. These…
EventKwame Nkrumah is released from jail
… Nkrumah was deposed in a military coup in 1966. He died from skin cancer in 1972. … REUTERS, GOLD COAST: Kwame Nkrumah released from jail following election…
EventSouth Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth
… formal notice that South Africa was going to change from a monarchy to a republic, and at the same time to … Africa, South Africa Becomes a Republic and…
BiographyJohannes (Jan) de Klerk
… van Rooy. De Klerk went to school at Potchefstroom and from 1923 to 1926 studied at the Potchefstroom University … Diploma. He was actively involved in…
BiographyGill Marcus
… worked for the party’s Department of Information and by 1976 she had become the editor of the ANC’s weekly bulletin, … for the ANC and discussing radical…
ArchiveFrom conscience politics to the battlefield
… in the public eye in inauspicious circumstances. From 1960, Party leaders attracted increasing government … From conscience politics to the battlefield …
BiographyFrans “Ting Ting” Masango
… had a good academic record which was interrupted by the 1976 student uprising . He played an active role in the …
Congo gains its independence from Belgium
… could not be ignored, and Belgium took over the region from 1908-1960 with a highly paternal state of governance. … Congo gains its independence from Belgium…
BiographyFranco Frescura
… on 28 September 1946. Both his parents originally came from Fiume, today known as Rijeka, in present-day Croatia. … of cartoons which purportedly accused…
BiographyVusamazulu Credo Mutwa
… about it. After several failed attempts to find money from banks and donor organisations, he finally succeeded in … accused him of "glamorising the Soweto…
BiographyMadi Gray
… and went to university. Her parents were immigrants from Germany, who came to South Africa during the inter-war … cultural group, called Amandla to…
The Anglican Bishop of Lesotho, the Rev. Desmond Tutu, announces that he is giving up his current post to become Secretary-Gene
… Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood … The Anglican Bishop of Lesotho, the Rev. Desmond…
A service in Cape Town’s St George’s Cathedral marks the retirement of the Most Rev. Desmond Tutu as Archbishop of Cape Town an
… Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood … Cathedral marks the retirement of the Most Rev…
Archbishop Tutu confers with State President P.W. Botha in an attempt to move him to commute the death sentences imposed on the
… Archbishop Tutu confers with State President P.W. Botha in an attempt to …
Bishop Desmond Tutu is consecrated as Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa. He is the first Black head of South Africa’s Angli
… Bishop Desmond Tutu is consecrated as Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa. …
Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls for the abolition of the death penalty and for amnesty for all people presently on death row, inc
… Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls for the abolition of the death penalty and for …
BiographyPaul Michael Sibisi
… he taught art at Appelsbosch Training College, Oswatini from 1969 to 1971. Between 1973 and 1974, he was funded by a … at the NSA Gallery, Durban, with…
BiographyDr James Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe
… one of the first two Africans to graduate in medicine from the University of the Witwatersrand. While a student in … he was issued banning orders requiring…
BiographyAnderson Khumani Ganyile
… the full length of the post-Sharpville state of emergency from April to August 1960,then return to Pondoland. In early … to Basutoland but after Transkeian …
BiographyElize Botha
… Preller medal for Literary Theory and Literary Criticism from the SA Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns 1982 The Order for … Exceptional Academic Merit 1989 The…
Thousands of Blacks stay-away to commemorate the anniversary of the outbreak of the 1976 Soweto upheavals.
… to commemorate the anniversary of the outbreak of the 1976 Soweto upheavals. …
ArchiveResolutions of the Eight National Conference of the South African Council of Churches, July 27-29, 1976
… of the South African Council of Churches, July 27-29, 1976 …
Chief Kaiser Matanzima announces in Umtata that the Transkei will become fully independent on 26 October 1976.
… Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. … the Transkei will become fully independent on…
Extract from a speech made at Koffiefontein on 11 August 1967
… and in a certain sense also an interesting speech. Adv. Vorster took this opportunity to reply to numerous questions … now that this is the sheerest nonsense…
BiographyMapetla Frank Mohapi
… Town and Zwelitsha. A month after the start of the 1976 Soweto uprising, in a swoop of Black Consciousness … without charge on 16 July. Twenty days later,…
Aaron Khoza
… Mr Aaron Khoza,aged 35,from Kagiso was detained on 9 December 1976 in Krugersdorp in terms of section 6(1) of the Terrorism … death or distress as a result…
ArchiveReport on Conditions Prevailing in the Winterveld- A Summary of a Series of Articles Prepared for the Pretoria News by Neil Jacobsohn Presented at National Conference 1976
… Jacobsohn Presented at National Conference on 17 March 1976 discussing migrant labour, overpopulation, disease, cost … News by Neil Jacobsohn Presented at…
BiographyKaiser Daliwonga Matanzima
… the South African government for independence, and in 1976 Transkei was the first Black homeland to become … the Transkei remained reliant on finances and…
Nikiwe Deborah Matshoba
… upon her father’s death, Matshoba’s mother was prevented from assuming this role because of her gender. During the … Students’ Organization (SASO). After…