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EventSouth African black activist and poet Benjamin Moloise is hanged for allegedly killing a police officer
Black upholsterer and poet, Benjamin Moloise was executed by apartheid government on 18 October 1985. Moloise was accused of murdering a black police officer…
EventTalks between the government and ANC on negotiations proceed
The Groote Schuur talks between the South African government and the African National Congress (ANC) were held on 2, 3 and 4 May 1990. These talks took place…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the1940s by Mohamed Adhikari
… at Benoni and elsewhere. (4) Police Raid at Western Native Township, Johannesburg on the 22nd June. (5) Alleged assault …
PlaceWindhoek, Capital City of Namibia
… outside of the city centre, in the suburbs and in township areas. During South African occupation the city was …
ArchiveWhat lost photos of Blue Notes say about South Africa’s jazz history by Lindelwa Dalamba , 14 October 2019
… African Jazz Pioneer. Another component is an album called Township Bop that was released in 2002. The compilation was …
ArchiveBoycott the Can
A2 red, yellow, black litho on white; graphic people demonstrating; crossed out soft drinks tin; text: Boycott the Can; The management of Metal Box retrenched…
ArchiveA survey of race relations in South Africa: 1954-1955
A survey of race relations in South Africa in 1954 and 1955 and includes chapters on: Policies and attitudes; The role of the SA Institute of Race Relations;…
EventSADF’s 31 Battallion is disbanded
The South African Defence Force's (SADF) 31st Battalion was disbanded at a public ceremony in the Cape Province. This Battalion was composed primarily of the…
EventTutu and Mkhatshwa join solidarity fast
Bishop Desmond Tutu of the Anglican Church, and Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa of the Catholic Church, held a morning-to-sunset hunger strike to support the…
ArchiveSoldiers without reward- Africans in South Africa's wars
… 1952 and was buried with borrowed money in the Payneville Township Cemetery in Springs. To honour this unassuming hero, … of KwaThema near Springs has a…
ArchiveNew Deal? South Africa 1983
On 20th August 1983, the United Democratic Front was launched at the Rockland Civic Centre in Cape Town. It was a broad coalition of anti apartheid…
EventJazz musician Victor Ntoni dies at the Helen Joseph Hospital in Johannesburg
On 28 January 2013 Victor Mhleli Ntoni died of heart attack, after he was admitted to hospital on Thursday due to persistent cough. The famous jazz bass player…
ArchiveUnomsa for African Renaissance by Thobeka Sinxo
… Geographic • and E.S.R.I.’s Development Plans in our Township . The first assignment involved comparing China’s …
Address by Nelson Mandela to the closing session of the 50th National Conference of the ANC Mafikeng, 20 December 1997
… the confines of this hall to every home in the village, township and suburb, you were echoing the will of the …
ArticleA History of Official Government HIV/AIDS Policy in South Africa
… a comprehensive ARV treatment plan. Patients in Langa Township, Capetown receiving ARVs, January 2004. …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… the order and speaks at a public meeting in Alexandra Township. He is arrested the next day. 26 June, The Defiance …
ArticleConvict Stations & Labour in the Cape Colony
… in 1860 he purchased the camp and laid it out as a formal township, which made provision for a school, a hotel and …
EventANC Consultative Conference comes to an end
The African National Congress (ANC) Consultative Conference, which was held in Johannesburg following the Organisation's unbanning, came to conclusion. It was…
EventANC and IFP to meet over violence
The African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) announced that they would hold a meeting of the two parties in Durban, in an attempt to end…
EventState of Emergency enters 100th day
Location: back to this day in history search archive The state of emergency entered its 100th day after it was announced on July 20. P W Botha in an attempt…
EventSoweto High School under siege
South African Defence Force soldiers, travelling in a convoy of more than ten armoured vehicles, surrounded the Thaba-Juluba high school in Soweto and arrested…
EventNP holds federal congress
Following its withdrawal from the African National Congress (ANC)-led Government of National Unity, the National Party held its federal congress (1 - 3 August)…
EventNational Day of Prayer is observed peacefully
A National Day of Prayer was peacefully observed, despite fears of violence between youth and security forces in Soweto and other major townships. Called by…
EventEducationist George Molefe is born
Mbanga James George Benjamin Molefe, clergyman and headmaster, was born in Mbulwana, Ladysmith, Natal. Molefe was one of the first black Presbyterian ministers…
Chapter 7 - 1957-58: The Movement in a Crucial Phase
… the pavements. Over the rise that obscures Alexandra Township from the main road came the eruption of workers in … broadening out the struggle. A meeting in…
Historical Overview of Black Resistance, 1932-1952 - The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign by Ismail Vadi, New Delhi, 1995
… which took the form of bus boycotts in Alexandra Township and squatter movements in Orlando. These have been … in which they were prominent were Orlando and…
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
Patric Tariq Mellet was born and grew up in the working class districts of old Cape Town – Salt River, Woodstock and District Six. His family were poor working…
EventA consumer boycott is called in Boksburg
The town councils of Vosloorus and Reiger Park staged a consumer boycott in Boksburg on the East Rand (now Ekurhuleni municipality, Gauteng). The boycott, by…
Freedom Part to Host Ken Oosterbroek Legacy Exhibition
Many South Africans have heard of the ‘Bang Bang Club,’ a nickname given to four South African photographers who captured the dying years of apartheid through…
EventAfrican bus boycott lasting ten weeks is initiated in Johannesburg and Pretoria.
When the Public Utility Transport Corporation (PUTCO) increased the bus fare in 1957, it was met with resistance from the public. More than 80 percent of the…