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ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1800-1899
… a territory that eventually became known as the Transkei. The historical record shows Xhosa lived on the … and Xhosa communities in what came to be known as…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
… youth hatred for the apartheid system. As early as March 1976 students began passive resistance against Afrikaans. The outbreak of Soweto Uprising on 16 June…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… struggle preceded the student uprising of June 16, 1976. Before the establishment of the African National … played active roles in the Durban strikes of 1973…
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat
… ? ? Jama Z Chilwane Jama Z Chilwane (approx 1991) ? ? Transkei Handwritten at end: Ebrahim Radebe ? ? ? Piet …
Participants in CODESA (1,2, Working Groups and Administration)
… Daily Management Committee) Major-General B Holomisa [Transkei Government, CODESA 1 and 2] Francois Junod … CODESA 2] MS Helen Suzman [DP, CODESA 1] MR Z…
Mandela and his three wives - Evelyn, Winnie and Graca by Sapa-AFP, 6 December 2013
… from politics. Like him, Evelyn Wase hailed from the rural Transkei and had come to Johannesburg in the early 1940s to … behind their two youngest children…
ArticleThe Influenza epidemic
… from the Cape, reached the Northern Cape, Ciskei and Transkei. This second wave is regarded as the one that came … migrant workers in the Ciskei. In the…
ArticleCommemoration, remembering and memorialising June 16 Soweto uprising
… been different ways and forms through which the June 16 1976 student uprisings have been commemorated. The Soweto … were involved in the Soweto Student…
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… communities in what is to become the regions of the Transkei and Natal, and also with seSotho speakers in the … making are established such as the Ciskei and…
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… them to the nominally self-governing homelands of the Transkei and Ciskei, now both part of the Eastern Cape … introduced homelands or Bantustans , and two…
ArticleResponse to the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising by organisations in exile
… massacre of school children during the Soweto Uprising of 1976. The response of the organisations in exile can be … oppressor. It was against this background…
BiographyPieter Willem Botha
… Pers Ltd. Botha was leader of the House of Assembly from 1976 until 1978. He was appointed Minister of Defence on 5 …
BiographyJoyce Sikhakhane-Rankin
… when Joyce wrote Window on Soweto. She could predict June 1976, because people were very angry. The police were running …
BiographyRonald “Ron” Press
… The Special Branch murdered Lawrence in detention in 1976. In 1960, the police shootings at Sharpeville and the …
BiographyDulcie Evonne September
… Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa in London. In 1976 she joined the full time staff of the ANC where she …
BiographyHorst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt
… After Kleinschmidt’s escape from South Africa in 1976 he was appointed Overseas Representative of the …
ArchiveThe Mandela I knew by Saths Cooper, 6 December 2013
… to resolve. The source of tension was the post-June 1976 aftermath which resulted in the largest influx of … impending meeting with George Matanzima and…
'The People Accept the Challenge of the Nationalists' Statement issued by the National Executive of the A.N.C., April 6, 1963
… Sharpeville and Langa are still fresh in our memories; the Transkei and Paarl incidents still dominate our present-day … can have the gravest consequences…
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… as a medium of instruction, which resulted in the June 1976 uprising . The significance of the June 16 Uprising is … the role of SASM in launching the…
Political deaths in police custody 1984 - 1989
… 24 September Ndondo, Batandwa (22) SRC- University of Transkei Cala, Transkei Allegedly shot several times by police on the …
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948
… laws that were implemented by the government; the June 1976 student uprisings were against the introduction of the … mood was more festive than belligerent" …
BiographyFranco Frescura
… of southern Africa’s rural architecture between 1976 and 1989 remains the last concerted attempt to record an …
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
… The student protest that broke out on 16 June 1976 was organised and directed by the Soweto Students … years of planning and organisation, beginning in…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
… It was due to these problems that, at the end of May 1976, student leaders in Soweto travelled secretively from … eventually culminated in the Soweto riots…
ArticleXhosa
… established a chain of Methodist stations throughout the Transkei. Other denominations followed suit. Education and … introduced homelands or Bantustans, and…
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… The Day Our Kids Lost Faith. 1976. © Bailey's African History Archives During the 1970s, … in the late 1970s after the Soweto uprising of 1976, there was…
BiographyDr. Mantombazana ‘Manto’ Tshabalala-Msimang
… the globe in countries such as Lusaka and Zambia . In 1976, Tshabalala-Msimang accepted a job as head of the Health …
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
… In the rural areas of Lebowa , Northern Transvaal, Transkei and Ciskei , school riots turned violent when … opposed this instruction. From the…
EventPresident de Klerk warns General Bantu Holomisa
… a stern warning to General Bantu Holomisa, leader of the Transkei homeland, who was accused of aiding the activities … According to the report APLA's high…
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
… nationwide student unrest that broke out in Soweto in June 1976. Recognising that secondary schools and universities … political mobilisation. Soweto, the…