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ArchiveJohannesburg Advice Office Annual Report to Black Sash National Conference 1978
… laws, Urban Areas Consolidation Act, Bophuthatswana and Transkei independence, Homelands citizenship, unemployment …
ArticleUnited Women’s Congress (UWCO)
… As a result of parent's reactions to the 1976 uprisings and their aftermath, ex-Federation of South …
BiographyAdrian Leftwich
… the white government for more than a decade, until Soweto 1976.” Harris was sentenced to death and executed in Pretoria …
EventThe Pondoland Revolts
… iKongo to reject tribal authorities and self-government of Transkei, initiated by the Bantu Authorities Act of 1951. … strengthened the local leadership. As…
ArchiveChallenge to the churches: report of a consultation on the church and the liberation of Southern Africa, held at Mindolo, Kitwe, Zambia
… situation in South Africa, the independence of the Transkei, Namibia,the role of students and the role of the …
Biography of Lefifi Tladi by Paul Linck
… poetry as a tool for Black Consciousness. He leaves in 1976, but SAHO says, “After 1976, the youth and student movements began to systematically … led him to…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… within months of its founding. The organisation banned in 1976. 1976 In the wake of the nationwide protests after the Soweto … Uprising. Detained without…
EventPoqo members kill a White family
… they camp on the Bashee River in the Engcobo area of the Transkei, not far from Nelson Mandela's birthplace. Forty …
EventMakhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi, trade unionist and community leader, dies
… died in Orlando West, Soweto. Butshingi was born in the Transkei in 1906, and moved to the Transvaal in 1925 to …
EventMinister of Public Works Stella Sigcau dies
… Former Transkei Prime Minister and Minister of Public Work Stella …
EventIEC extends election dates
… These included KwaZulu, Venda, Gazankulu, Lebowa, Transkei and Ciskei. This meant that voting in those affected …
The diary of Maria Tholo - February 16 by Carol Hermer
… Amahlubi boys who had been circumcised in Herschel in the Transkei - but they lived here in Guguletu, so their parents … sword - because look what Matanzima…
ArticleWorkshop ‘71
… it started becoming popular in the townships. Survival (1976) was their last show, and many of the cast remained in … Revolution and Concience: South African…
Article1970’s: Poetry Timeline
… the government gazette in Pretoria (Pretoria Bureau 1975). 1976 June 16 Soweto Uprising . 100 students shot dead by …
Nelson Mandela Family Tree
… Tukwini Mandela (1974””Makaziwe) Dumani Mandela(1976””Makaziwe) Kweku Mandela (1985””Makaziwe) Zaziwe Manaway …
ArticleJohn Maxwell Coetzee timeline 1940-2003
… fiction, and publishes two novellas titled Dusklands. 1976 Publishes In The Heart of The Country, which wins the …
ArticleCape Schools Join the Revolt
… Explanations of events as shattering as those of 1976, however, require more than a set of objective … a march of 500 students through the streets of Lady…
ArticleA Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
… Black rural South Africa in the hinterland of the former Transkei, Natal and Limpopo where there is still attachment … in 20th Century South Africa ,…
ArticlePrehistory of the Port Elizabeth area
… foothills and Nguni mixed-farmers lived throughout the Transkei. The names of some present-day groups, such as …
PlaceTsolo
… Government offered to extend its "protection" in the Transkei to amaMpondo territory and, as a result, Mhlonthlo … and within the year indigenous groups…
EventBantu Holomisa is dismissed
… a sum of R2 million from former Prime Minister of the Transkei, Stella Sigcau. He also alleged that the owner of …
EventANC leader Wilton Mkwayi born
… of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) was born in Middledrift in the Transkei . He was the eldest child in a family of thirteen. …
ArchiveThe migrant labour system
… Migrant labourers across Southern Africa, from the Transkei (modern day Mthatha) and Rhodesia (modern day …
ArchiveInterview with Ashby Peter Solomzi Mda
… (1916-1993) who grew up in the Herschel district of the Transkei. He was prominent among the founders of the ANC …
EventThe Ciskei homeland is established
… of the South African government. The Ciskei and the Transkei were two designated "states" for the Xhosa speaking …
EventXhosa poet Nontsizi Mgqwetho mourns the death of her mother
… she supposedly came from the rural area of Peddie in the Transkei and settled in Johannesburg. …
EventArchibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan is born
… Jordan, was born at Mbokothwana Mission, Tsolo district, Transkei. After several years as teacher and having obtained …
ArticleSASO till SASCO
… executive members were either banned or had been arrested. 1976 The SASO and BPC leaders are convicted and jailed on Robben Island (see above 1975 entry)…
ArticleStudent Politics: SASO till SANSCO
… executive members were either banned or had been arrested. 1976 The SASO and BPC leaders are convicted and jailed on Robben Island (see above 1975 entry)…
ArticleYouth Politics in South Africa in the 1970s
… initiated into the Congress tradition by Joe Gqabi. The 1976 uprising raised the political awareness of students and … body. The state’s response to the…