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EventPaarl Riots report submitted
… effort to destabilise South Africa and spark a general uprising. The rioters attacked a police station, burned …
EventAthlete Mathews Motshwareteu enters the annals of the country’s athletics history after only five weeks of track athletics
… Mathews Motshwareteu was born on 2 November 1958 in Soweto, Johannesburg. His talent for athletics became … primary school years, which he spent at Isaacson…
EventArtist, Thomas Trevor Motswai , award-winning South African artist is born
… international acclaim. Motswai was born on 27 May 1963, in Soweto, South of Johannesburg. Although he was born deaf, he … on buses, talking and singing in…
ArchiveHamba kahle Jennifer Davis 1933-2019
… movement that expanded dramatically following the Soweto Uprising. In her speeches and teaching, she linked the South …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
… 21 May. 25-27 May, There are several sabotage attacks - in Soweto, on the Natal coast, East London and in Durban - for … to P W Botha's offer of freedom at…
EventThirteen residents of Mofolo die in IFP attack
… people were killed and eighteen injured in an attack on Soweto residents after an Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) rally … rally in Jabulani Stadium as well as…
EventSlachter’s Nek rebels are hanged
… Hans, and his neighbour Hendrik Prinsloo, organised an uprising against the British colonial power. The rebellion …
EventBambatha Rebellion
… destroying European-made tools, Whites realised that an uprising was imminent. After the murder of two policemen, …
EventPAC’s leader, Potlako Leballo confirms that Poqo is the organisation’s military wing
… council was planning the timing and manner of an uprising to be launched in South Africa in 1963. At the time …
Exhibition: Durban, 1973: Strike against cheap labour by David Hemson
… on multinational companies such as Leyland, Natal Tanning Extract, Smith and Nephew etc. It works give character to …
Albertina Sisulu, Freedom Fighter
… A daughter, Lindiwe, was detained for 11 months during the Soweto Uprising of 1976 and is now in exile. Her youngest son, …
New tactics in the revolt
… say, "We shall overcome", but I say we shall overcome. In Soweto the Urban Bantu Council was busy organising vigilante … largely isolated from the more…
ArticleSilverton Siege
… detachment, a generation of MK recruits thrown up by the Soweto Revolt of 1976. …
EventMass Democratic Movement (MDM) begins their Defiance Campaign
… boycotts amongst its members. A year later, the Township Uprising broke out, resulting in a partial state of emergency …
EventThe Slagtersnek rebels are tried in the Uithenhage landdros court
… death. Hans and his neighbor Hendrik Prinsloo planned an uprising against the British colonial government as they …
EventA German gunboat, the Panther, reaches Morocco, increasing tensions between European powers
… Morocco against the Sultan, Abdelhafid. In response to the uprising, the French in April 1911 dispatched troops to prop …
Message to the People of South Africa by O. R. Tambo, August 1976
… of domination. Demonstrations and acts of resistance in Soweto and other parts of the country are therefore not riots … three-day strike by the militant…
EventMlungisi Sisulu dies.
… the age of five, Lungi came to South Africa and settled in Soweto with his grandmothers, Greta Ncapayi and Albertina … (COSAS) and also became chairman of…
ArticleStaffrider magazine (1978-1993)
… for example, met with the Bayajula writing group. The Soweto writers similarly visited a group in Gugulethu in Cape … expressed concern that the large number…
ArticlePrevention/Treatment
… deaths per day were attributed to AIDS. This text is an extract taken from http://www.aids.org.za/ - please visit …
ArticleDrum Magazine
… about it, buying the magazine: The African Drum.' - extract from 'South African Drumbeats', TIME Magazine, 1952 …
PlaceKenya
… the dawn of a rebellion against British rule Although this uprising was unsuccessful, it propelled the nation on a path … people, and the KAU played a key…
PlaceBurkina Faso
… on to rule for 27 years before being ousted in a popular uprising in 2014. …
EventMilitary coup is executed in Lesotho
… pressure on Lesotho to institute a democratic regime. The uprising against the General's rule began on 29 April, when …
EventThe South African Air Force is established
… 1922, when it helped to crush the Rand Revolt , an armed uprising by white mineworkers. The SAAF bombed targets around …
PlaceThe Queen’s Fort Military Museum, Bloemfontein
… of the South African Constabulary, and following the armed uprising of 1914-15, its leader, General CR de Wet, as well …
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… relations, schooling and land ownership’. [19] The 1976 Soweto protests against Afrikaans as a forced medium of … in forcing Afrikaans upon its populace led…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.3 No.1 Feb 1980
… Groups: ZAMANI ARTS ASSOCIATION, Dobsonville, ALLAHPOETS, Soweto CYA, Diepkloof, eSkom ARTS, Soweto PEYARTA, Port Elizabeth, GUYO BOOK CLUB, Sibasa MADI …
EventRichard Maponya, one of South Africa's richest businessmen, is born
… into business, first by opening small grocery shops in Soweto with his wife. He then went on to bigger ventures such … group Zenprop in the construction of a…
PlaceChris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Johannesburg
… treated in the Maternity Hospital . The hospital is in the Soweto area of Johannesburg , South Africa. (Soweto was a separate municipality from 1983 to 2002,…