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Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Fatima Meer
… our friendship was at a great cost to her. During the 1976 uprising by schoolchildren in Soweto, the government … them almost daily. I was eventually…
EventJazz musician Victor Ntoni dies at the Helen Joseph Hospital in Johannesburg
… to study at the Berkley School of Music in Boston in 1976. Ntoni was a composer and arranger for the likes of Hugh …
EventAfrikaans is used for the first time in an international document with the signing of the Convention of Mozambique in Pretoria
… people rejected the language as a medium of education in 1976, which led to the Soweto’s student uprising. …
ArticleThe missionaries
… the Paramount Chief of Eastern Pondoland, Transkei in 1939-1976, promised labour recruiters that he will help with …
ArticleANC January 8th Statements
… January 8th, 1977 - No statement issued January 8th, 1976 - No statement issued January 8th, 1975 - No statement …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Bibliography
… The Rocky Rioter Teargas Show: The Inside Story of the 1976 Soweto Uprising . Cape Town, Zebra, 2001. Karis Tom. and … Mxolisi. The Soweto Uprisings: Counter…
Chapter 2 - From Crisis to Stability to Crisis
… the early 1970s which culminated in the Soweto uprising of 1976-77. Three issues in relation to black higher education … to characterise black higher…
EventSA artist Anthony Nkotsi is born
… Dumile Feni. His involvement in the student uprisings of 1976 saw him being detained. On his release he attended art …
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed TRC chairperson
Anti-apartheid activist and Nobel laureate Archbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu, the first Black archbishop of Cape Town rose to fame in the 1980’s. After the1976…
EventProtests against Afrikaans language in Black schools
… oppressor. It was against this background that on 30 April 1976, students at Orlando West Junior School in Soweto went …
EventJean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of Central African Empire, crowns himself.
… Central African Republic from 1 January 1966 to 4 December 1976. After eleven years as president he dissolved the …
EventGeneral Idi Amin overthrows Ugandan President Milton Obote
… to become the army's chief of staff. Amin became famous in 1976 when he provided a safe refuge for hostage-holding …
EventANC member and UDF-leader Christmas Tinto, is born in Mqanduli in the Transkei
… the poor food conditions at the college. During the 1976 students uprising, Tinto was detained in Pollsmoor …
ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
… - Prioritising armed struggle, January 1974 - June 1976 A struggle is made up of failures essentially. It’s … over the 30 months between January 1974 and…
History of Muslims in South Africa: Bibliography by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Durban, September 14, 1979. 103. South African Statistics 1976, Pretoria, Department of Statistics, 1976, p 1.34 104. Brochure: An Introduction to the Muslim…
EventThe Soweto Uprising leaves 174 blacks and two whites dead following 10 days of rioting
… The student-led protests in Soweto in 1976 known as the Soweto Uprising claimed many lives and left … Boddy-Evans A. 16 June 1976 Student Uprising in Soweto…
Lionel Davis, SA artist, is born in Cape Town. He was a political prisoner on Robben Island between 1964 and 1971, where he c
… under a banning order and kept under house arrest until 1976. In 1978 and 1979 he worked at the Community Arts …
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 …
II - The Life of Steve Biko
… He became Secretary-General of the Zimele Trust Fund in 1976, and in that year, at the congress of the Black People's … following the police massacre of…
ArchiveThoughts on Winnie Mandela by Enuga Reddy
… our friendship was at a great cost to her. During the 1976 uprising by schoolchildren in Soweto, the government … them almost daily. I was eventually…
Nelson Mandela Sending Photographs
… sixteen unless she comes to fetch me before then. 15 April 1976 TO ZENI: I got the three pictures you sent via Mum even … the fond attentions of such…
Launch of the Luthuli Volunteer Corps, 12 June 2013
… of June this year ushers in the 37 Anniversary of 16 June 1976 when the young people of our country raised against the … development rather than oppressive…
ArchivePostscript Ante by Howard Barrell
… closer colleagues in Robben Island prison between 1964 and 1976, between 1978 and 1983 the head in exile of the ANC's … their age: African National Congress…
ArchiveA critical look at the role of the Muslim Judicial Council in the struggle for liberation in South Africa from 1960 to 1994
… Africa emphasising highly politicised events such as the 1976 Uprising, 1985-1986 Mass Mobilisation, 1989-1990 …
EventArchbishop Owen Cardinal McCann becomes South Africa’s first cardinal.
… Catholic Church began campaigning against Apartheid. In 1976, in an open letter to the Government, he made a …
EventMac Maharaj, Laloo Chiba, Raymond Nyanda and Andrew Masondo arrive on Robben Island prison
… from Robben Island. Maharaj and Masondo were released in 1976. Chiba was released in December 1982. …
EventThe Azanian People’s Organisation is formed
… 1977 for their role in the resistance and the 16 June 1976 uprisings. The organisation sought to apply the …
EventSipho Malaza allegedly dies in detention
… His death was the twenty-first in detention since March 1976. An entry in Deaths in Detention gives his details as …
EventDanie Malan, SA athlete, sets a new world record in the 1 000m event in Munich
… internationally. However, Malan was invited to Zurich in 1976 nevertheless, where he also set the world record for the …
EventNqwiliso cedes land to Cape Government
… not as part of the Transkeian territories. However, in 1976 the SA government handed Port St Johns to Paramount …