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ArchiveWe want to die here say aged
Newspaper article in which elders from Black communities express their opposition to being evicted from their homes and forced to move to Glenmore Township
Archive30 000 in KwaThema funeral march
Fifteen coffins were carried in a mass procession of over 30 000 people to the graveyard in the Springs township of KwaThema on July 23.
ArchiveSlum clearance of the portion of Dassiekraal known as slum Case No. S. 577
City of Port Elizabeth Departmental Circular No. 54 of 1954 announcing the relocation of forty seven families from the Dassiekraal slum area to New Brighton…
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…
ArchivePlants at Glenmore kill cattle daily
Newspaper article about cattle belonging to residents of Glenmore township dying from poisoning caused by eating the deadly tulp plant a week after being…
EventNew Soweto Council is inaugurated
The new Apartheid established Soweto township Council, under the Chairmanship of David Thebehali is given considerable powers. Its decisions have to be…
PlacePampierstad
Pampierstad (now Thuso a Sotho or Tswana word meaning Help/Assistance) was established in the former homeland of Bophuthatswana in the late 1960's. It was…
ArchiveAlexandra: Paper Presented at National Conference 1986
Alexandra: Paper Presented at National Conference on 14 March 1986 discussing housing conditions, violence, protests, police violence, State of Emergency,…
ArchiveUmeluleki omhle : inkosi yoxolo
White poster with green lettering. Black and white drawing of a modern day manger scene in township shack behind barbed wire and soldier, star in sky. Issued…
The diary of Maria Tholo - November 2 - December 1 by Carol Hermer
… and something - six! Most of those six don't stay in the townships. They sleep in where they work so what happens here … massive police presence was…
Twelve people are killed in Mamelodi, Pretoria, when the police open fire on a crowd gathered in protest.
Twelve people are killed in Mamelodi, Pretoria, when the police open fire on a crowd gathered to protest the army's presence in the township, high rents and…
ArchiveVukani Makhosikazi: South African women speak
Grey, red and white poster. Red diamond border. Title in black. Artwork of an African woman with a baby on her hip in the foreground. Thatched huts, township…
My Body Was Dying by Edwin Cameron (The Con), 10 March 2016
… in Vereeniging, a riverside town near the famous Vaal townships of Sharpeville and Sebokeng. It added hours to the … Simon was not only an anti-apartheid…
ArchiveBriefing document on KTC situation
Briefing document on KTC situation that contains the history, the latest peace initiative, ANC statement, the positions of national organisations, the…
ArticleDistrict Six is Declared a ‘White Area’
“District Six is a blot which the government has cleaned up and will continue to clear up.”[i] - P.W Botha The memory of District Six, also known as…
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO): An Organisational Timeline
1952The African National Congress’ (ANC) Defiance Campaign against the South African Apartheid Regime, which in the following years inspires the establishment…
ArticleThe Congress of the People, Kliptown 1955
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…
ArticlePartial State of Emergency, July 1985
On 20 July 1985 the government declared a State of Emergency in 36 magisterial districts in the Eastern Cape and PWV (now Gauteng) areas. This was the first…
ArticleSouth African Defence Force (SADF)
Early years The history of the South African Defence Force (SADF) can be traced to the 1660s. When Jan van Riebeeck landed at the Cape in 1652, he had with…
ArchiveThirty years later: we say no to high prices, forced removals, passes
Black and white poster with artwork of a woman from Khayelitsha township, with her her hand in chains. Notice of an anniversary rally to be held by 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…
EventWinnie Mandela receives a 6 months’ sentence
Winnie Mandela (now Winnie Madikizela-Mandela), restricted to a Black township at Brandfort, Orange Free State, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment …
ArchiveHuhudi Youth Organisation
Red and white, with artwork of a house with the name of the township Pudumong on; and a person standin in front, with his ribs looking undernourished from…
ArchiveWhile the rich get richer
White poster with black lettering. Artwork of barbed wire border. Two photographs, one with large house with large car, the other with a man setting up a tent…
PlaceAgincourt, Mpumalanga
Township some 6 km North of Cunning Moor. Presumably named after the Village in France, where Henry V, of England, defeated French forces by employing archers…
EventThe State of Emergency is declared in thirty six magisterial districts.
The increasing popular resistance and violent township protests amid the 1980s forced the South African government to declare a State of Emergency. On 20 July…
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. …
EventGana Makabeni dies
Gana Makabeni, trade union leader and member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress (ANC) in the 1940s, died in the Western…
PlaceAkasia- a Complex of Suburbs, of Pretoria
Town in the Wonderboom district, 3 km from North of Pretoria North, now known as Tshwane. It obtained Municipal status on the 1 October 1984. Akasia is…