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EventThe Soweto Uprising leaves 174 blacks and two whites dead following 10 days of rioting
… The student-led protests in Soweto in 1976 known as the Soweto … Boddy-Evans A. 16 June 1976 Student Uprising in Soweto from About African History …
EventManto Tshabalala - Msimang, controversial minister of health, is born
… Thabo Mbeki was one of them. Tshabalala-Msimang and her student associates were exiled in Tanzania (then Tanganyika). …
EventSASO leader, Abram Tiro is assassinated
… through the University of South Africa (Unisa) when a student known only as Lawrence handed him a parcel supposedly … Azapo, Onkgopotse Tiro -the BC Student…
EventPhambili Ka Ntloko, national organiser of AZAPO, is born
… April 1960 in Queenstown, Eastern Cape. As a high school student, Ntloko became involved in the South African …
ANNOUNCEMENT OF ANC CANDIDATE PREMIERS, 23 April 1999
… became SASCO and was part of the collective that formed COSAS. Following pressure and pursuit by apartheid … at the University, Ngoako continued his…
ArticleCode Name Rae book launch soon
Rajaluxmi Pillay (also known as Rajes) was born in 1944 in Pietermaritzburg and grew up in Kimberley. She studied in Britain between 1963 and 1966, before…
EventBenjamin Magson Kies, political activist & lawyer, is born
… served for many years on the APO Executive’. Kies was a student at Trafalgar High School, the foremost school for … from the beginning in 1937 when he would…
EventThe father of Rosalind Ballingall joins the search for his missing daughter
… Rosalind Ballingall was a student at the University of Cape Town (UCT) who reportedly …
EventStanley Bongani Nkosi, SA artist, is born in Newcastle, Natal
… Junior Certificate. He also studied sculpture as a private student with Peter Hayden. Nkosi moved to Johannesburg in …
Biography of Arthur Nortje by Kangkang Yang
… Nortje’s few friends. He described Nortje as a very quiet student who was very interested in the liberation movement. … a complete collapse. In Canada,…
ArchiveChristian principles and race problems by Jan H. Hofmeyr
… delivered by Jan H. Hofmeyr, who was subsequently a student of Professor Hoernle at the South African College …
ArchiveChristian principles and race problems
… delivered by Jan H. Hofmeyr, who was subsequently a student of Professor Hoernle at the South African College …
PlaceOld Arts Building, University of Pretoria
… The designer of the Old Arts Building was Percy Eagle, a student of Sir Herbert Baker, the architect of the Union …
EventSipho Malaza allegedly dies in detention
… A Black high school student, Sipho Malaza, presumably died on this day thirty …
EventNaledi High School is founded
… High School, the site where historic anti-Bantu Education student uprisings were first felt, commemorated 50th …
EventConservative Party leader, Dr Andries Treurnicht, dies in Cape Town.
… of Stellenbosch where he became the member of the Student Representative Council (SRC) and chairman of the …
References and links: Local History
… - Teachers transform history: a text for teachers and student teachers Heydenrych, H. & Swiegers, A., (1999), …
ArticleThe Inquest into Biko’s Death and his funeral
… Commission (TRC) to request amnesty for the death of the student leader. However, they only claimed responsibility for …
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… liberation struggle by writers, academics, educators and student activists. Afrikaans and the liberation struggle, in … also resisted White Afrikaner…
EventChumani Maxwele ignites the #RhodesMustFall Movement at UCT
… Rugby Road. This action became a catalyst for heightening student activism and movements throughout universities in the …
EventStudents at Durban
… between the Azanian Students' Movement (AZASM) and the Student Representative Council (SRC), whose membership was …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the opening of the Congress of the South African Agricultural Union (SAAU) Cape Town, 18 October 1994
… that the South African Agricultural Union and its affiliates, with the co-operation and help of the newer …
ArticleCOVID-19: The Whens and Whats of the Deadly Virus
COVID-19 versus the Corona virus: What is COVID-19 Exactly? COVID-19 is an infectious respiratory disease that developed from a type of Corona virus. [1…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… and many women volunteered. Zainab Asvat, a young medical student was one of the women among the group who set up camp … While the UDF was non-aligned, most…
Political Overview by the Gauteng ANC Chairperson, Paul Mashatile, at the Provincial General Council, 8 June 2012, St George`s Hotel, Tshwane
… of the formation of Congress of South African Students (COSAS). COSAS has a proud history of fighting for People`s Education. Going forward, we must continue…
EventSolomon Kalushi Mahlangu is born
… the ANC's military wing in exile in October 1976 after the student demonstrations of 1976. He received his military …
EventHugh Masekela, South African musician, is born
… who helped him to settle in the United States as a student. While in New York, Masekela composed and recorded …
EventThree ANC members are sentenced to death
… not guilty and cited police brutality during the 1976 student uprising as cause for their actions against the …
EventThe ANC Youth League is re-established at Orlando stadium in Soweto
… gaol the ANCYL established contacts with various youth and student organisations locally and abroad, embarked on …
EventThe first edition of the Graham’s Town Journal, mouthpiece of the Eastern Frontier settlers, is published
… community paper and not become a university mouthpiece or student newspaper. …