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EventFatima Meer, South African anti-Apartheid activist is born
… In Durban, she became a political activist and organised a Student Passive Resistance Committee to support the Indian …
EventSouth African poet, writer and political activist, Mafika Pascal Gwala is born in Durban.
… Movement (BCM) and he was a member of Black South African Student Organisation, as well as Black Community Projects in …
EventRobert Kennedy, American politician, speaks at the University of Cape Town about the racial inequality of apartheid
… Kennedy visited UCT at the invitation of liberal student movement National Union of South African …
EventMass Democratic Movement (MDM) begins their Defiance Campaign
… movements, and comprised of 400 church, civic and student organisations- with a membership of close to 3 …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… hundred are detained by police. 1980 April - July, In student protests all over the country, more than a thousand … of Unions of South Africa (CUSA) was…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bound to strike back by Emilia Potenza
… take on the battle to win formal recognition for its affiliates. In other words, the unions that belonged to CNETU … most clearly during and after a strike…
81. The People’s Candidates Party and the Lenasia Management Committee
… people into the fold of the white laager as second-class affiliates; while simultaneously striving to obtain for our …
Cape Town Launch of A to Z of Amazing South African Women
… cleaner in London, a wall painter in Barcelona, a language student in Shanghai, a book researcher in New York, a teacher …
PlaceUniversity of the Orange Free State, Grey's College School
… in 2004. The University of the Free State now boasts a student body of more than 37 851 and seven faculties, …
EventStudents at Lovedale strike against new Code of Conduct
… Therefore, harsh measures were taken to deter further student action. For a while, these measures seemed to have …
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… and many other leading Communists. Kathrada, by now a student in Standard 7 (Grade 9), together with other young … Relief Fund. It is here that he meets…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… Xuma travels to Wisconsin to attend the Lake Geneva YMCA student conference. September: The University of Minnesota … address a Conference of the European…
Action Kommandant film review by Kabelo Kemp (www.kathradafoundation.org)
… age; in fact, some of his peers recall him being active in student councils since he was in primary school. Kriel is not … was so deeply involved in politics…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Matomela by Maximiliano Rubio
Her collegue in the anti-apartheid struggle, Hilda Bernstein, describes Florence Matomela as ‘a woman who gave out warmth and life like the African sun, full…
PlaceMowbray
… terraced homes on the banks of the Liesbeek River, and a student digs with a healthy mix of North Africans and refugee …
EventVlakplaas Commander testifies before Harms Commission about secret police killings in 1981
… Commission how he had watched his colleague murder the student activist Sizwe Khondile and the human rights lawyer …
ArticleJohn Langalibalele Dube Timeline 1940-1950
… odd jobs at Oberlin College. 1888-1890 Dube enrols as a student at Oberlin preparatory school to study the sciences, …
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
… Arts and Literature Institute). After 1976, the youth and student movements began to systematically incorporate oral …
PlaceLuckhoff High School
… etc.) and the community • Recognise and celebrate all student and staff accomplishments • Provide a safe and secure …
Art Matters by Suzanne P. Blier, 05 December 2014
… galleries—nor has there been one for over 35 years. Student engagement with the continent of Africa in this … the groundbreaking curator Paul Sachs…
PlaceDie Grootkerk in Bosmanstraat
… flourished. Arcadia and Harmonie campuses became hubs for student ministry and both churches were hives of activity for … flourished. Arcadia and Harmonie…
ArchiveThe Black Consciousness Movement and Steve Biko By Jonathan Ansumana
… Classrooms were overcrowded with ratios with the student to teacher range of 46:1 and 58:1 average (South … for black students to gain leadership roles. Biko…
EventIgnatius Iggy Mthebule remembered
… Ignatius ‘Iggy’ or ‘Gab’ Mthebule was a student activist and leader associated with the Azanian Student Organisation (AZASO) in 1975. Iggy’s brother, Samuel …
PlaceBotshabelo
… Güstav Trümpelmann, with the invaluable assistance of his student, Abraham Serote, translated the bible in Sepedi or …
PlaceSt Cyprian’s School, Gorge Road, Oranjezicht
… (RICA), drive daily conversations between teacher and student, colleagues, and at the peer to peer level. The …
EventDonald James Wood journalist and Anti apartheid activists is born
… was placed under increasing police surveillance. After the student uprising of 1976, the Black Consciousness Movement …
EventCarl Niehaus is sentenced to 15 years in prison for high treason for being a member of ANC underground
… his higher education at Rand Afrikaans University (RAU). A student of theology, Niehaus was months away from his final …
EventFather Michael Lapsley, an Anglican priest, is injured by a letter-bomb
… as well as for the support of students after the 1976 student uprising. Father Lapsley then moved to Lesotho and …
EventAmy Biehl’s murderers receive amnesty from TRC
… four murderers of Amy Biehl, American Fullbright exchange student, are granted amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation …
ArticleWomen in African Literature: Writing and Representation
… novel, Scarlett Songs (1986). Bâ, was a prominent law student during a time when women faced numerous obstacles in … Writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2014)…