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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…
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…
PlaceImizamo Yethu, Hout Bay
The Township of Imizamo Yethu is situated in the picturesque seaside Suburb of Hout Bay in Cape Town. Hout Bay is like a microcosm of South Africa, with a…
PlacePreller-Rondawels, Pelindaba
These buildings were declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 2 March 1973. The farm, Welgegund was awarded to Swart Martiens Pretorius a…
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…
EventAfrican National Congress guerilla is shot and killed in Orange Free State.
African National Congress guerilla was shot and killed by police in a township called Ficksburg in Orange Free State on 2nd June 1986.The South African Police…
ArchiveThe Alexandra bus boycott
This pamphlet discusses the bus boycott by the people of Alexandra Township against a penny increase in fares. But, the oppressed are using this bus boycott to…
PlaceAmajuba, a Mountain in Natal
Mountain 14 km South-West of Volksrust and 32 km North of Newcastle. The scene of a Historic Battle in the First Anglo-Boer War. The name is derived from Zulu…
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
… only 150 volunteers, and in Johannesburg and surrounding townships, the response was “negligible”.68 The PAC call was … Eastern Cape and in Durban. This was…
Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers’ party
… was one of ferment not only in the workplaces, but in the townships - with bus boycotts, squatters' movements, and a … was one of ferment not only in the…
The small matter of a horse: The life of 'Nongoloza' Mathebula, 1867-1948 by Charles van Onselen, 04 January 2012 (libcom.org)
… into a decline within the compounds, slums, and black townships along the Witwatersrand. The Bambatha Rebellion … a marked increase in Ninevite organisation…
ArchiveReminiscences of the Arrest of Fikile Bam & Marcus Solomon in 1963 by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
… wealth out of operating fah-fee gambling syndicates in the townships of Bloemfontein, Kroonstad and Welkom in the Free … with unemployed black women, known…
ArchiveChanging focus: The art and activism of Omar by Bongani Kona (Mail and Guardian), 4 June 2015
… purposes, but they also trained young photographers in townships and staged exhibitions in black communities across …
Congress of the People - I was there
… were held everywhere - at factories at lunch-time, in the townships, villages and suburbs in the evenings and over …
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Opening of the Brickfields Housing Development, at the Newtown Cultural Precinct, Johannesburg, on 12 August 2005.
… best part of their lives could only access housing in the townships and rural areas. Clearly, we need more of these …
The diary of Maria Tholo - February 16 by Carol Hermer
… comrades. Only a very small militant group is still in the townships. Many of the older ones have gone across the border …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
… 30 000 and 50 000 Africans from surrounding African townships march into the centre of Cape Town led by Phillip …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… of implementÂing pass laws and administering African townships onto White municipalities; property rights are not …
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… the growing numbers, the government set up semi-urban townships for Black, Indian and Coloured population groups. …
ArchiveCHAPTER EIGHT: Indian Resistance Politics In Transition, 1990-1996 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Historical Overview of Black Resistance, 1932-1952 - The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign by Ismail Vadi, New Delhi, 1995
… took shape and form in the sprawling overcrowded African townships and in illegally occupied areas. During 1940-44 and … influence, which extended to almost…
EventSouth African pop queen, Brenda Fassie, is born
Brenda Nokuzola Fassie, South African Pop Queen, was born in 1964 in Langa, a township near Cape Town. She was named after the American country singer Brenda…
EventSouth African Political activist, James Sofasonke Mpanza dies
James Mpanza, a political activist and founder of the Sofasonke Party in Orlando Township, Soweto, passed away at his Orlando East home in Soweto. He was given…
EventTwelve people are killed in Daveyton
Twelve people, including a police officer and two children, were killed in the eastern Rand township of Daveyton, near Benoni. The incident, which was followed…
EventTsotsi wins Academy Award
On 6 March 2006, the South African film Tsotsi, starring young actors Presley Chweneyagae and Terry Pheto and directed by Gavin Woods, received the Oscar for…
EventGen. Magnus Malan appears in court
The trial of Gen. Magnus Malan former defence minister, and nineteen co-accused started in the Durban Supreme Court. They pleaded not guilty to thirteen…
ArticlePublic Protest in Democratic South Africa
Since South Africa’s advent to democracy in 1994, public protests either service delivery protest, protest against undemocratic laws or land distribution has…
EventAlexandra Action Committee member is shot dead in Johannesburg
On this day Mr Mahlomela Mabizela, a member of Alexandra Action Committee (AAC) and chairman of the Alexandra Student Congress (ASCO) was shot dead through the…
EventRobert Sobukwe, first PAC president, dies
Founder and first president of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe (54), passed away in the Kimberley General Hospital between midnight…
EventKen Oosterbroek is killed
Ken Oosterbroek, the Chief Photographer of The Star, was killed in bloody pre-election fighting in Thokoza township on the East Rand, just two weeks before…