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EventLanga, Uitenhage Massacre: 20 killed by police on Sharpeville Commemoration Day
… apartheid atrocities, such as those at Sharpeville and Soweto, it produced a tangible shift in the political …
EventCall for a stay-away in Black townships
… of most of the leaders of the labour unions in and around Soweto. …
EventBrenda Fassie, South African singer and diva, dies in her sleep at Sunninghill Hospital
… Koloi Lebona heard about Brenda and brought her to Soweto to live with his family. She soon joined the group Joy …
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of President Nujoma of Namibia Cape Town, 13 May 1996.
… than 20 000 pupils from the African township complex of Soweto began a protest march against a Bantu Education … medium controversy black schools,' it said. …
EventNyanga school Principal's office burnt
… context of this is that on 16 June 1976 school children in Soweto, near Johannesburg, rose in protest against the …
What the lives of two South African music giants tell us about culture under apartheid by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 13 July 2017
… for my book on music and politics in South Africa, Soweto Blues, regularly asserted: I’m not a politician. How … and music. The metropolitan pull of…
EventJacob Matlala, SA junior flyweight, wins the WBO world champion title
… Jacob "Baby Jake" Matlala was born on 8 January 1962 in Soweto, Johannesburg. He began his professional boxing career …
EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment
… led a peaceful Black march to Orlando police station in Soweto on 21 March 1960, the same day a similar protest took …
EventThe PAC is formed
… within a year, especially in the southern Vaal townships (Soweto and Sharpeville, near Vereeniging) and in the Western …
EventSolomon Kalushi Mahlangu is born
… students commemorate the 1976 demonstrations. On route to Soweto, his group was accosted by the police and a gunfight …
PlaceBotshabelo, Motheo Region near Bloemfontein
… refuge', is the largest Township in the Free State , after Soweto which is the largest in the South Africa. Botshabelo … is the largest township in the Free…
ArchiveSurvey shows ignorance about big moments in South Africa’s history – like the Sharpeville massacre (TheConversation.com)
… to knowledge of both the 1955 Freedom Charter and the 1976 Soweto Uprising. The Freedom Charter is the statement of core … of the People” in Kliptown,…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa
… boy, Siphiwe Mahori, during an alleged robbery in Soweto Township. The boy was shot in the neck and died within … Zola, Meadowlands, Slovoville, Kagiso,…
ArchiveInterview with Absolom Zithulele Cindi
… in 1950, he attended Orlando West High School in Soweto in the late 1960s. In 1972 he joined the Black …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Introduction
… particular insights into what led to the major revolt in Soweto in 1976 ”” an uprising of students that inspired the … his daughter Zinzi to read his message…
EventFake tickets lead to stampede in Johannesburg
… Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates at FNB stadium in Soweto , Johannesburg. Stadium Management South Africa …
EventANC's Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe rally support against Urban Bantu Councils Act
… Sisulu and Duma Nokwe went from house to house in Orlando, Soweto near Johannesburg rallying support amongst community …
EventSongwriter, film producer and actor Joe Mafela dies
… actor Joe Mafela passed away on his way home from Soweto, after he was involved in a car accident in …
EventGertrude Shope, former president of the ANC Women's League, is born
… was trained as a teacher and went on to teach in Natal and Soweto. When she was 29 years old she decided to join the …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… government responded with unrestrained brutality. Across Soweto 18 Black people were killed and Mandela stayed in a … wants to effect the removal of Africans…
Biography of Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana by Nick Mencia
… Struggle, and the Struggle for Jazz” out of her 2005 work Soweto Blues: Jazz, Popular Music, and Politics in South … Blues: Township Jazz in the ’60s and …
ArticleInsurrections Ensemble
Can you create music that can find a home on both sides of the Indian Ocean beyond the cliché of “fusion”? Are Indian forms compatible with their African…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.9 No.2 1990
… The Only House with a Gate, Senzo Malinga; Rainy Night in Soweto, Mabuse A. Letlhage; Dissent, Etienne de la Harpe; …
EventThe Bethal Treason Trial resumes
… role in fermenting revolution and for being behind the Soweto uprising. Other notable members of the defence were …
EventStompie Seipei’s murderer goes to jail
… and three other boys near the Methodist Church (Manse), Soweto and took him to Winnie Mandela's home. Richardson …
A Matter of ‘Principle’: Corporate America and the South African Worker in the Early 1970s by Mattie C. Webb
… Years Conference While much scholarship considers the 1976 Soweto uprising as the pivotal moment that bolstered the …
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 banned all the …
History lesson: When Vorster stuck the knife in Ian Smith's back by Jamie Miller (Rand Daily Mail), 17 September 2016
… earn his regime the goodwill needed to survive the recent Soweto upheaval, as well as the breathing space needed to … At the same time, the parties realized…
EventPercy Qoboza, editor of the Post, states that it is difficult to see how a credible newspaper for Blacks can be created in South Africa
… as editor of the World, he showed open support for the Soweto Uprising in 1976. As a result of this, the newspaper …
EventWiehahn Commission Report tabled in parliament
… by the government after the Durban strikes of 1973 and the Soweto uprisings of 1976 to look at industrial relations …