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EventRetired soccer player and founder of Kaizer Chiefs FC, Kaizer Motaung, is born in Soweto
Kaizer Motaung was born on 16 October 1944 in Orlando East, Soweto, a township South West of Johannesburg. Motaung began playing soccer at a young age and…
EventWinnie Mandela charged with kidnapping
Winnie Mandela was formally charged with four counts of kidnapping and of assault, and will stand trial with seven others for the events surrounding the murder…
EventProtests against Afrikaans language in Black schools
Afrikaans as a medium for education was deeply unpopular since Afrikaans was regarded by some as the language of the oppressor. It was against this background…
ArchiveJohnny Clegg: South Africa’s universal man of uncommon passion by David Coplan, 25 July 2019
Universal Man: Jonathan Clegg “Sikeyi” (1953-2019). “Sikeyi” is a Zulu dance praise name: “The peg through a yoke that secures oxen in position, from Afrikaans…
PlaceWitwatersrand, Johannesburg (Gauteng)
Witwatersrand, ridge of gold-bearing rock mostly in Gauteng Province, South Africa. Its name means “Ridge of White Waters, in Afrikaans.” The highland, which…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… are currently in force on all funerals in over 70 black townships, while specific restriction orders are constantly …
EventJacob Thabo Lengane is murdered in Soweto
On 21 October 1986 Jacob Thabo Lengane, the father of Jefferson Lengane and Kabelo Lengane, who were well known for their involvement in political activities…
PlaceKwaDukuza
In July 1825, King Shaka, son of Senzangakhona and Nandi, who was the king of the Zulus from 1816, established a royal settlement as a halfway station between…
EventBanned PAC leader Sobukwe is admitted as attorney
Robert Sobukwe, former leader of the banned Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC), although still under a banning order, was admitted to practice as an attorney in…
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the anti-racist day meeting of the Greater London Council, 21 March 1984, London
… of defenceless children in Soweto and other South African townships provided confirmation, if such were needed, that …
Address to the Anti-Racist Day Meeting of the Greater London Council by O. R. Tambo, London, 21 March 1984
… of defenceless children in Soweto and other South African townships provided confirmation, if such were needed, that …
ArchiveThe Black Consciousness Movement and Steve Biko By Jonathan Ansumana
… mines in the cities, leaving behind their families in the townships (Class Notes). Apartheid laws following in the …
Nelson Mandela’s address to rally in Durban 25 February 1990
… of the 1983 campaign against rent increases in Durban townships. …
EventTwo ANC members convicted of terrorism training
Two members of the African National Congress, Mr Mzimasi Isaac Giwu and Mr Sivuyile Botwe Qegu were convicted in the Supreme Court in Bisho for terrorism…
ArchiveKwaZakele - the politics of transition in South Africa: an Eastern Cape study
A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of Rhodes University. Abstract: This thesis examines the transition…
PlaceCato Manor Heritage Centre, Durban
This interactive Museum is a tribute to the spirit of defiance against the Durban System, which led to evictions, riots and dissent in the Cato Manor area for…
EventThe Sebokeng Massacre of mourners leaves more than 30 dead and 40 more injured
On the night of 12 January, 1991, more than 30 people were killed while attending an all-night vigil held in a tent in Sebokeng, in the Vaal region, where…
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… of SRCs, as were football groups and gangs ( tsotsis ) in townships, who resorted to violence against members of ASM. …
Biography of Barry Gilder by Sofia Pullen
… such as Sophiatown , were being forcefully relocated to townships. Black students were denied proper education. Most …
EventReconciliation talks between F.W de Klerk and Nelson Mandela are rescheduled due to violence in Sebokeng
On 5 April 1990, at an informal meeting in Cape Town, President F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela agreed to reschedule formal talks between the Government and…
EventJohnny Clegg, South African musician is born
Johnny Clegg was born in England in 1953 to an English father and a Zimbabwean mother. He left England for Zimbabwe where he lived until the age of seven. He…
EventPolice increase their presence in Soweto
Following the 16 June 1976 Soweto protest and the killing and injuring of student protesters by the indiscriminate use of firearms by the police, the…
ArchiveChapter 7 - Planning for people's war `Blow on the embers and it will catch alight', January 1983 - March 1984 by Howard Barrell
… black local authorities and community councils in African townships in November and December - was a success. There … and popular organisation generally in…
PlaceFraserburg
The division of Fraserburg was originally part of the district of Worcester and was proclaimed a separate division on 12 December 1853. In about January 1890…
PlaceRoodepoort Town School, Rex Street
The Roodepoort Town School was established in the 1890s and its premises, including a School Building and a Hall, were opened on 8 October 1913. In 1914 the…
EventTwo actors, Athol Fugard and Zakes Mokae arrive in Cape Town to stage a play on the ‘Colour-bar’
On 11 February 1962, two actors, Athol Fugard, 29, from Port Elizabeth, author of the two - man play "The Blood knot" and his co-actor Zakes Mokae, 27, from…
EventGeorge Msimang, artist, is born
Artist George Msimang was born on 26 October 1948 in Durban. Msimang's interest in art began at school although art was not offered as a subject. He left…
EventBrenda Fassie, South African singer and diva, dies in her sleep at Sunninghill Hospital
Brenda Nokuzola Fassie was born in 1964 in Langa, a township near Cape Town. She was named after the American country singer Brenda Lee. The daughter of a…
EventEllen Kuzwayo becomes the first Black woman to receive an honorary degree from Wits University
Nnoseng Ellen Kate Kuzwayo made history when she became the first Black woman to receive an honorary degree from the University of the Witwatersrand on 2…
PlaceWaaihoek Farm
Waaihoek is a remote Farm situated near Ladysmith in Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). The first rent paying Tenants were 47 families who arrived in November 1984…