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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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
Last kicks of a dying horse July 1992 - June 1993
… at least 1980 when resistance emerged to incorporation of townships within the homeland of KwaZulu and educational and … 20 000 injured have been the…
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…
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…
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, …
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…
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…
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 …
PlaceQueenstown, now known as Komani.
Queenstown was founded in 1853. It was intended to be a Military Outpost designed to protect the British subjects from attack during the time of the Frontier…
PlaceLenasia, Soweto
Hundreds of people braved the cold weather to attend the Eidgah. The Eidgah was hosted next to the Mohammadiyya Qadriyya Majid at the Nirvana Drive, open field…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Forward to Socialism/Socialist Futures (Panel 1). Convenor: Janet Cherry
… renewable energy and food production in working class townships, in and around Nelson Mandela Bay. …
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
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.