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8. Pillay and others petition the Viceroy of India
… to five acres, in the immediate vicinity of the following townships of Pietermaritzburg, Durban Verulam, Pinetown, and …
Class, Consciousness and Organisation: Conclusion by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
EventFormer Vaal policeman Gerhardus Peens admits his role in the Boipatong Massacre
Former Vaal policeman, Sergeant Gerhardus "Pedro" Peens admitted that he was in the Vaal Triangle (now Gauteng) township of Boipatong on 17 June 1992 when…
Address of the President of the Republic Of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Youth Day celebrations: Absa Stadium, Buffalo City Municipality
… and women took to the streets of Soweto and many of our townships in a show of defiance to the apartheid system. …
PlaceSada
Sada (Xhosa word meaning “at last”), a Township about 30km North of Seymour and 3km South of Whittlesea, was first established in 1964 as a “dumping ground” or…
EventSoweto Town council asks SADF troops to stay
In June 1986, there were many necklacing incidents in Soweto, Johannesburg with people being brutally killed. The Soweto Civic Association demanded that the…
ArticleA brief history of domestic service in South Africa
… African domestic workers and African employers in the townships of Soweto. [xv] Cock, J. 1980. Maids & madams: A … African domestic workers and African…
EventPolice found burnt body near KTC squatter camp, Cape Town
On 2 June 1986, the South African police services found the burnt body of a man near the KTC squatter camp in Nyanga East. A Police spokesman reported that he…
EventGoldstone report on police shootings in Sebokeng is released
The report of the inquiry, led by Justice Richard Goldstone, into the shooting by the police of anti-Apartheid protesters in the township of Sebokeng on 26…
Archive2015 - President Zuma, Response to the State of the Nation Address, 19 February 2015
… particular the development of small towns, rural towns and townships which are home to 50 percent of the population.The …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… in the East and West Rand as well as in the Alexandra townships and the rest of the country. 18 July, The …
ArticleOvercoming Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid by Bennett Gwynn
… property of their employer or in the government sanctioned townships created by the group areas act of 1950 (Group Areas …
EventThe Boipotong massacre takes place
During the period of transition and negotiation in South Africa, the core area of the conflict in the late 1980s was in the KwaZulu-Natal area where battles…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bound to strike back by Emilia Potenza
… and for South Africans as a whole. In the compound, in the townships. in the labour bureaus, in the reserves, the …
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… for it provided them with unprecedented powers over townships. The lifting of restrictions imposed by the Group … unban organizations like the ANC, withdraw…
ArticleGertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… Africans were not allowed to live in the cities. These townships and reserves, built on dirt roads, lacked basic …
EventFourteen are killed in Phola Park violence
Phola Park, East Rand: As township warfare spreads, a woman grieves over her husbands death, following a night attack by residents of nearby Zulu hostel. She…
EventYouth rage follows the funeral of Victoria Mxenge
Political violence by the youth began after the funeral of assassinated Victoria Mxenge, a civil rights lawyer, who was respected and liked by the Congress of…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 1 - The Transition in Context by Christopher Saunders
… was a time characterised by the military occupation of townships, mass detentions, assassinations and the widespread … most would probably place the mass…
Acceptance speech by President Jacob Zuma on the occasion of being awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters in recognition of his contribution to education at Texas Southern University Houston, Texas, 23 September 2011
… our youth to demonstrate that people from the ghettoes and townships can ensure that their background does not enslave …
Albert Luthuli`s speech to ceremony for presenting him the Christopher Gell Memorial Award, 21 October 1961, Port Elizabeth
… in the hurly-burly of political activity in the townships." 2. The Republic was proclaimed on May 31, 1961, …
Remembering the enslaved in Cape Town by Sam North
… their homes to remote and dangerous racially-exclusive townships under apartheid. This trauma has overshadowed …
EventScores of people are killed in Boipatong, Vaal
One of the most gruesome attacks on township residents was carried out by armed men from Kwa Madala Hostel in Sebokeng, south of Johannesburg. In what has…
PlaceNewcastle
Deeply involved in the Anglo-Boer War, Newcastle today is the largest town in northern KwaZulu Natal and shares its name with a further 27 sister Newcastle's…
PlaceMotswedi Alexandra Art Centre, Wynberg Sandton
Bill Ainslie’s School extended beyond the Art Foundation. The Alexandra Arts Centre was established in 1986 in Alexandra, Johannesburg. Bill helped start FUBA …
EventAmy Biehl is murdered in Cape Town
In 1993, an American Fulbright post-graduate, Amy Elizabeth Biehl (who was 26 years old), was dragged from her car by a 100-strong mob of youths in Gugulethu,…
EventStompie Seipei’s murderer goes to jail
The Rand Supreme Court sentences Jerry Richardson to death for the murder 14-year-old Stompie Seipei. Stompie Seipei was a child activist and member of the…
Forward to Mass Action for People's Power! Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 77th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1989
… political force for the liberation of our motherland. The townships and the workplace, the schools and universities, … in any way. We also live with the…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 77th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1989
… political force for the liberation of our motherland. The townships and the workplace, the schools and universities, … in any way. We also live with the…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… Ian McRae had headed the plan to expand electricity into townships, particularly regarding the rolling out of prepaid …