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ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… vast new black township southwest of Johannesburg, called Soweto. In 1955, army trucks and armed police removed 60,000 … Many people moved to Orlando East…
Newspaper article taken from the City Press in 2002: Student Politics under Apartheid
… black opposition politics and helped ignite the Soweto uprising before it was banned in 1977. AZASO, … students and youth. SASO was one of the catalysts of…
ArticleA brief history of domestic service in South Africa
… domestic workers and African employers in the townships of Soweto. [xv] Cock, J. 1980. Maids & madams: A study in the … domestic workers and African…
PlaceKhayelitsha Township
… is the second biggest Black township in South Africa after Soweto in Johannesburg . The government envisaged …
ArchiveReminiscences of the Arrest of Fikile Bam & Marcus Solomon in 1963 by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
… struggle: Following the June 16, 1976 uprisings in Soweto, Professor Mohamed urged the Black staff (at UWC) to … speaking at student rallies at the…
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… was published. Oswald Joseph Mbuyiseni Mtshali: Poems: The Soweto I Love (1977), was published. 1978 Mongane (Wally) … banned, then unbanned. Mbulelo Mzamane…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott
… from Candi Staton indicating that she had never heard of Soweto and was under the impression that Blacks and Whites …
ArticleSouth African Student Organisation (SASO)
… removed its effective leadership. After the June 16 , 1976 Soweto and Western Cape school uprisings SASO leaders were …
ArchiveFrom the Archive of Steve Bantu Biko by Mafika Gwala, 23 May 2019
… by apartheid. He was closely associated with the Soweto poets, Mongane Wally Serote, Mbuyiseni Mtshali, James … class tried to channel its natural directions…
ArchiveRoseinnes Daniel Phahle by Allison Drew
… Later, living in London, and shortly after the 1976 Soweto Uprising, Phahle linked up with the black … School of Information and Communication Technology in…
New Generation Sculpture
… for his own community, was commissioned by a sangoma in Soweto to carve a ' nyamusoro' doll and now also works in … need for carved figures, 'nyamusoro dolls…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… Mandela speaks for an hour and a half at a big meeting in Soweto. His speech is recorded inaccurately by a policeman, … wants to effect the removal of…
4. The ANC underground between Rivonia and 1976
… it was that the ANC became the primary beneficiary of the Soweto uprising of 1976–7. Before marshalling the evidence to … Sisulu was probably involved in…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
… in the resistance of the 1980s had their roots in the Soweto uprising. The first shot fired on June 16 was “the … Rocky Rioter Teargas Show: The Inside Story…
The Pioneers
… South African art, who lived and worked in Sophiatown and Soweto from the 1940s until the 1980s, also sold work to … 1950s is to be found in numerous private…
The Detention Weapon
… Security Amendment Act, No. 79 was introduced during the Soweto Uprising for the purpose of withdrawing political … heavy incidence of detentions in the year…
ANNOUNCEMENT OF ANC CANDIDATE PREMIERS, 23 April 1999
… in Phokeng, Rustenburg. He schooled at Naledi High in Soweto, where in 1973 his political involvement began through … Popo participated in the pro-Frelimo…
Chapter VIII - Treason - South African style 1
… miles from Johannesburg city and almost fifty miles from Soweto where almost all the African accused lived; even those … bus, which picked up its treason…
ArticleBlack Community Programmes (BCP)
… at high schools, the most famous of these being the Soweto SRC, which organised the June 1976 uprising. Ramphele …
Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Fatima Meer
… cost to her. During the 1976 uprising by schoolchildren in Soweto, the government looked to blame me. The regime knew …
Remembering Nadine Gordimer (The Conversation), 15 July 2014
… articles about politics — about censorship, and the 1976 Soweto Uprising, and the chaos and apparently looming …
ArchiveThe Way History is taught in South Africa is ahistorical, – and that’s a problem by Natasha Robinson (theconversation.com), 7 June 2018
… apartheid: the Sharpeville massacre, the Langa march, the Soweto uprising, and the release of Nelson Mandela. The …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress On The Occasion Of the 105th Anniversary of the African National Congress Presented By President Jacob Zuma
… 8 January 2017, Orlando, Soweto His Excellency President Brahim Ghali, President of … corps, Comrades, Compatriots and Friends, Mphakathi wase-Soweto…
ArchiveThe Black Consciousness Movement and Steve Biko By Jonathan Ansumana
… Consciousness movement as a threat. In the year 1976, the Soweto Uprising was a major demonstration of Black … unfair educational system. “When high- school…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… Mandela speaks for an hour and a half at a big meeting in Soweto. His speech is recorded inaccurately by a policeman, … wants to effect the removal of…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at the World Conference on Sanctions Against Racist South Africa: Victory is within our grasp, 16 June 1986, Unesco House, Paris
… Africa We meet on the day of the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising, which is today South Africa Youth Day. To … important day in our history, the…
Victory is Within our Grasp: Statement at the World Conference on Sanctions against Racist South Africa by O. R. Tambo, UNESCO House, Paris, 16 June 1986
… We meet on the day of the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising, which is today South Africa Youth Day. To … important day in our history, the tenth…
Closing Address of Comrade Nelson R Mandela, Deputy President of the ANC 16 December 1990
… at about seven in the evening and found the place fun of Soweto community leaders. They then briefed me on the events … I immediately telephoned Mr. Vlok and…
Robert Sobukwe: What a sense of mission! By Sibonginkosi Mazibuko, 19 February 2015, South Africa
… around the pan-African world. Sobukwe was arrested in Soweto, Johannesburg, in 1960 and subsequently imprisoned for … poverty all in the name of an…
ArticleNelson Mandela Awards 1960s - 2000s
… 6 December, Senegal's President Abdou Diouf inaugurates Soweto Square and Nelson Mandela Avenue in the centre of … The Nelson Mandela National Museum is…