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ArticleThe Freedom Charter Campaign
The adoption of the Freedom Charter by the Congress of the People was widely recognised both in South Africa and internationally as an event of major political…
ArticleThe Founding of the SANNC
After actively petitioning the National Convention and being ignored during 1910 and 1911, delegates to the South African Native Convention (SANC) decided to…
ArchiveCourt Transcript of statement from the Dock of Nelson Mandela, Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964
… to send Saracens, armed vehicles, and soldiers into the townships in a massive show of force designed to intimidate … there was hope again. Things were…
ArchiveChapter 4 Political activity 1950-1963 by Denis Goldberg
… down and forced people to move into big locations or townships where pass officials and police could control the … against the pass laws at Sharpeville and…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… 30 000 and 50 000 Africans from surrounding African townships march into the centre of Cape Town led by Phillip …
EventSouth Africa abandons the Gold Standard, sparking a period of economic expansion
As the Great Depression set in, many countries (including Great Britain) abandoned their gold standard and devaluated their currencies. South Africa, however, …
PlaceMorgan Bay-Gxarha
The Eastern Cape Wild Coast runs along a rugged coast of untouched shorelines, Shipwrecks and traditional Xhosa Culture. From marine safari activities to local…
PlaceAl-Azhar Mosque, Cape Town
… of what once was. Worse still they renamed the new townships on the Cape flats after road names of the former …
PlaceGrassy Park, Cape Town
Grassy Park is one of the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town set on the Cape flats, just east of the M5 and the Princess Vlei, and closest to the suburbs of Ottery…
Post-detention weapons
… a renewed upsurge of political resistance in the black townships, a partial State of Emergency was declared in terms … on hunger strikes. Many were unable to…
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
… Control over Africans within the reserves and the townships could thus be strengthened. To top it all, a tidy …
PlaceSharpeville, Gauteng
Sharpeville Township holds many sad memories and is Home to the Memorial at the 'Human Rights Precinct'. Sharpeville is situated +/-14 km from Vereeniging.In…
Chapter V - Acts of conscience
… parts of South Africa, in black schools, universities and townships. White South Africa, as usual, reacted by parading … of dead, 400 had been shot by the…
ArchiveGlenmore to boost local businesses
Newspaper article about business opportunities that would result from the development of Glenmore Township
Refusal to relocate from Klipfontein to Glenmore
Affidavit signed by Sandi Johnson Yose refusing to relocate from Klipfontein to Glenmore Township
Lecture by the President of the ANC, President Jacob Zuma, on the occasion of celebrating the life and times of the tenth President of the ANC President Nelson Mandela, 10 July 2012, Limpopo
… people hidden somewhere far away in the Bantustans and townships. The time had come to implement The assertions in … regime mounted a brutal low intensity…
ArchiveDialogue
Multicoloured poster. Photograph of a child speaking into a microphone in a township. UNICEF South Africa poster and logo.
ArchiveSoldiers of fortune
Black and white poster. Photograph of township children standing in the sand. Poem by W.H. Auden.
ArchiveRepresentations on the Glenmore removals
Report on the forced removals of Black families from Klipfontein and Kenton-on-Sea to Glenmore Township.
ArchiveGlenmore to boost local business
Press cutting relating to the benefits that would arise for local businesses by the development of Glenmore Township
ArchiveGuguletu Langa
White poster with black and white image of township and people with army tank and soldier in foreground.
ArchiveEulogy at funeral of Dr Mantombazana Tshabalala-Msimang, by Jacob Zuma, 22 December 2009, The Cathedral of Sacred Heart, Pretoria
… of the health department, many remote rural areas and townships have clinics that did not exist before 1994. Our …
Address by Deputy President Jacob Zuma at the 40th Anniversary of the Execution of Vuyisile Mini and five others, 6 November 2004
… the apartheid state-sponsored violence that engulfed our townships during the period of the state of emergency until …
Eulogy by President Jacob Zuma at the funeral of Mme Ruth Mompati, Vryburg, North-West Province 23 May 2015
… reign of terror through state sponsored violence in the townships and that freedom had not yet dawned in South …
ArchiveThe Congress of the people
… and so on. They went around to all the houses in the townships near Kliptown, and they told the 'people about the …
ArchiveGive Glenmore water plea
Press article relating to the urgent need for the planning of an adequate water supply system for Glenmore Township
Challenge to the church: A Theological Comment on the Political Crisis in South Africa | The Kairos Document, 1985
… death by the day, and as the apartheid army moved into the townships to rule by the barrel of the gun, a number of … the continued military repression of the…
PlaceAngus, a Railway Station near Johannesburg
Railway station about 0,8 km west of Tokoza, a Township South of Johannesburg. Thought to be named after Angus country, in Eastern Scotland.
ArchiveReject SAIC... Reject Aparthate
Hand-draw cartoon poster in on white; picture of people throwing SAIC, township councils and homelands off cliff; text: Reject SAIC... Reject Aparthate
ArchiveHands off our crossroads: No apartheid war
End Conscription Campaign poster. White with red strip at bottom with white lettering. Black and white images of army firing guns in a township.