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The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… 53 In response to the public relations disaster of the Soweto uprising of 1976, the government expanded its censorship … 69 The crackdown on individual…
ArticleDevelopments leading to the New Dispensation
… late 1970s, and especially as a result of the June 1976 uprising , the Apartheid government was forced to consider …
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 ……
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 ……
Kutlwano Moagi
… Photographer and an aspiring Jazz Upright Bassist. Born in soweto, 14 April 1983. Completed a photography learnership at …
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…
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
Andrew Tshabangu
… Born: Soweto, 1966. Tshabangu has studied at a number of …
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 …
Grade 4 Term 2 Timeline: Mahatma Gandhi
… stretcher-bearer corps that serves during the Zulu uprising Gandhi introduces the non-violent protest philosophy …
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?…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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. …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
The adoption of the Freedom Charter
… of the 1940s. UDF meeting, mid 1980's, probably Soweto. Photograph by Paul Weinberg © South Photographs …