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’UNITE! MOBILISE! FIGHT ON! BETWEEN THE ANVIL OF UNITED MASS ACTION AND THE HAMMER OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE WE SHALL CRUSH APARTHEID!’
… that veil. Spread across the face of our country, in black townships, the racist army and police have been pouring a …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the National Day of Safety and Security Vosloorus, 15 October 1994
… this crisis, that the project to rebuild and repair your townships was made one of the President's Projects, a …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… Licensing Ordinance - limited the right of appeal. ii) The Townships Franchise Ordinance - Indians lose municipal …
ArchiveCHAPTER 3 - Unprepared by Howard Barrell
… possible to ‘aim at eventually transforming the [black] townships into [a] special sort of "no go" area for the … employ restraint in counter-insurgency…
Chapter 3: The Role of the Police and the Government in Vigilante Activities
… its ugly head again in KwaMakhutha and several other townships in and around Durban. During this time, 16-year-old … on our hands, p. 32; F. Meer (ed.),…
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
… put into place as a response to the ungovernability of the townships as the MK structures and front organizations, …
ArticleMetal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU)
The Metal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU) was established in April 1973 in with the assistance of the General Factory Workers Benefit Fund (GFWBF). It was…
The Military Defeat of the South Africans in Angola by Horace Campbell (Monthly Review), Africa, Angola
… ruling class can no longer rule by normal means. In the townships, there are 39,000 troops that enforce the … the generation that was maturing in the South…
EventMass funeral for those killed at Sharpeville commemoration
Eighty thousand Blacks attended a mass funeral in KwaNobuhle township for the twenty-eight people killed by police during a demonstration in Langa on 21 March…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - In the city by Emilia Potenza
… Municipality. Others were moved to the tiny houses in the townships that were starting to develop, such as Orlando the … in compounds and hostels went to…
PlaceBalfour, near Johannesburg
Whilst Balfour made recent headlines when Jacob Zuma visited the town in the midst of service delivery protests from locals in the Siyathemba township, and his…
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
1799 2 March, British government lands troops in Algoa Bay. Construction begins on the building of Fort Frederick. 1803 Founding of Bethelsdorp. 1804 …
ArticleVlakplaas and the History of Apartheid's Death Squad
Vlakplaas is the name of an undercover counterinsurgency division of the apartheid police that operated in the 1980s. Vlakplaas is also referred to as C, C1…
ArticleSharpeville
On 19 March 1960, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) called on Black South Africans to leave their pass books at home and thereafter gather peacefully at police…
ArchiveRemovals west of the Ciskei
Forced removals of black people in certain areas of Port Elizabeth. Areas affected include: Walmer township, Zwide, New Brighton, Addo, KwaMagxaki, KwaDwesi,…
Women in the apartheid society by Fatima Meer
… proclamations bar all whites from entering affected townships. In August 1984 the Coloured and the Indian … of members, self-confidence and security. In the…
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… rents and other services became commonplace in the townships. There were various other women's groupings both … social movements to organise against…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… bus boycotts in the Transvaal, nor the many eruptions in townships over lodger's permits, victimisations, rentals, and … were centred in the African trade…
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe was born on 19 July 1949 at the Boksburg-Benoni Hospital. He grew up in Alexandra, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). His parents,…
ArchiveCHAPTER ONE: A Conceptual Overview by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
EventEleven protesters are killed in Sebokeng
The police opened fire on a crowd of Sebokeng township residents who sought to march on the local offices of the ruling National Party (NP). The incident…
ArticleFootball in South Africa
On 15 May 2004 in Zurich, Switzerland, Joseph (Sepp) Blatter, president of FIFA, world soccer's governing body, made an historic announcement: South Africa…
"Attack, Advance, Give the Enemy No Quarter!" by O. R. Tambo, Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 74th Anniversary of the ANC, 8 January 1986
… itself in power at all costs, has sent into our townships white soldiers and police, as well as black … and the withdrawal of all troops and police from the…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 74th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1986
… itself in power at all costs, has sent into our townships white soldiers and police, as well as black … and the withdrawal of all troops and police from the…
ArticlePeter Magubane Timeline 1932-
1932 Born in Vrededorp, South Africa. Matriculates from Western Native Township High School. 1954 Worked as a photojournalist for Drum Magazine, South…
Mobilise Our Black Power - Statement to the People of South Africa on the Tenth Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1971
… the villages and farms; in the factories and mines; in the townships and slums; in the detention camps and jails. Resist …
The Johannesburg Biennale by Bisi Silva (Artnet), 1998
… of life in Johannesburg, Cape Town and the surrounding townships. Despite the progress of recent years, the majority …
Speech to the ANC Rally at Soccer City by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 16 December 1990
… upon all those involved in the carnage taking place in the townships and elsewhere, to stop the mayhem forthwith. …
II - The Life of Steve Biko
… without experience of the terrible conditions in the black townships or of the system of Bantu education'. Together with …