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ArticleSouth Africa before and in the build up to 1899
… itself directly in Transvaal affairs. Rhodes planned an uprising of Uitlanders in Johannesburg. The uprising was timed to coincide with an invasion of the ……
ArticleSecond Anglo-Boer War - 1899 - 1902
… itself directly in Transvaal affairs. Rhodes planned an uprising of Uitlanders in Johannesburg. The uprising was timed to coincide with an invasion of the ……
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
… points of political resistance during the 1970s was the uprising that began on 16 June 1976. Police opened fire on … in the resistance of the 1980s had their…
Kutlwano Moagi
… Photographer and an aspiring Jazz Upright Bassist. Born in soweto, 14 April 1983. Completed a photography learnership at …
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… of Angola by South African Troops 1976 Following the Soweto student rebellion, Tambo approaches the international … in Ireland February Gives an interview…
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
… a bleeding Hector Peterson who was slain in the student uprising in Soweto in 1976. [50] The image was widely published despite … Hector Peterson who was…
EventAfrican National Congress Youth League is founded
… implemented by James Moroka and Walter Sisulu. Below is an extract from the official ANCYL website: "Many more people …
ArticleThe formation of SASO and the Black People’s Convention
… scathingly critical of white liberals who “could skilfully extract what [suited] them from the exclusive pool of white …
Robert Sobukwe: What a sense of mission! By Sibonginkosi Mazibuko, 19 February 2015, South Africa
… around the pan-African world. Sobukwe was arrested in Soweto, Johannesburg, in 1960 and subsequently imprisoned for … poverty all in the name of an…
EventThe first detainees are held under the apartheid regime’s 90-day Law
… give the Special Branch the authority to interrogate and extract information from subjects. When detained under this …
EventOne-fifth of SA’s military infected with HIV virus, so HIV positive people are no longer accepted into their ranks
… accepting HIV positive people into their ranks'. Below, an extract from article 'HIV/AIDS: Policies and programmes for …
EventMadagascar adopts its second constitution
… Malagasy had started to demand independence. A national uprising took place in 1947, but was crushed by the French … Malagasy deaths were reported during the…
Grade 12 - Topic 4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
… answer the questions that follow. SOURCE A The following extract is adapted from In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz: Living … responded to Gorbachev's decision?…
Andrew Tshabangu
… Born: Soweto, 1966. Tshabangu has studied at a number of …
ArchiveRadio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio by Chris A. Smith
… country. By 1963, though, it was clear that the hoped-for uprising wasn’t coming anytime soon. Mandela had been … is on fire.” Radio Freedom worker G.Mqwebu…
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
… May, Hani begins his journey into exile first traveling to Soweto where he stays with a family sympathetic to the … chief representative. June, In the…
Grade 4 Term 2 Timeline: Mahatma Gandhi
… stretcher-bearer corps that serves during the Zulu uprising Gandhi introduces the non-violent protest philosophy …
EventNigerian women occupy ChevronTexaco oil terminal
On this day, approximately 600 Itsekiri women began a peaceful occupation of ChevronTexaco's Escravos oil terminal in the Niger Delta, demanding jobs for their…
ArticleThe Sedition Trial 1946 - 1948
… Trial was covered by newspapers as far as Australia. An extract of The Courier Mail, 26 February 1946 A few days …
ArticleBoeremag Treason Trial Timeline
… after midnight on 30 October 2002 eight bomb blasts rocked Soweto. Seven of the blasts occurred on main commuter railway … the armed forces and police could…
ArchiveBiography of Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin by Victoria Sedeno
… grew up with the Mandela and Sisulu children in Soweto . Growing up there, she was greatly influenced by the … Sikhakhane-Rankin went back to her mother’s…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… 21 May. 25-27 May, There are several sabotage attacks - in Soweto, on the Natal coast, East London and in Durban - for … claims responsibility. 16 June, On…
ArticleCape Schools Join the Revolt
… in Cape Town reacted to the news they heard of events in Soweto. A teacher at one of the Coloured schools was later to … write: 'We haven't done much by way…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… South African Communist Party (SACP) is re-launched at the Soweto Stadium with a crowd of 50 000 - in the following … hold emergency talks in Pretoria as…
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
… magazine in the early 80s. 1976 Bongani Mnugni covers the Soweto Uprising on the 16th of June. Sam Nzima photographs the … alongside her brother's body. …
Excerpts from Priscilla Jana’s book 'Fighting for Mandela' that relate to Solomon Mahlangu
… It shocked the world. By June 1977, a year after the Soweto uprising, a virtual onslaught against anti-apartheid … belongings as they were climbing into a…
EventBhambatha becomes chief
… was held responsible for the Impi Yamakhanda (poll tax) uprising that was popularly known as the Bambatha rebellion … and examination of the impi yamakhanda …
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of her majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands Pretoria, 30 September 1996
… TESTIMONY ABOUT THE LAUNCH OF THE CAMPAIGN This is an extract from evidence he gave at the Commission. All these … extracts from his speeches and quotations…
The adoption of the Freedom Charter
… of the 1940s. UDF meeting, mid 1980's, probably Soweto. Photograph by Paul Weinberg © South Photographs …
Community Arts Project (CAP)
… committee. It was founded as a response to the 1976 Youth Uprising , as well as to the need for accommodation and …