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ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… , Vaal and the East Rand in 1985 and Soweto uprising of 1976 . The apartheid era ended in 1994, and people hoped that … protesting against the government’s…
EventA resolution against the use of Afrikaans is taken during SASM conference in Roodepoort
… On 28 May 1976, the South African Student Movement (SASM) held a … the racially separated education system. After the May 1976 conference, SASM contacted…
ArticleThe Early History of Rugby in South Africa
… Black South Africans from playing the game together until 1976, when the apartheid regime took its reluctant first … steps toward sporting reform. Even after…
EventSA Prime Minister completes a tour of homelands in the Northern Transvaal
… identity. The ten homelands created included Vendaland, Transkei, Kwa-Zulu, Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, Qwaqwa, KaNgwane, …
EventXhosa author Samuel Mqhayi dies
… educator, died at Ntab'ozuko, near King William's Town, Transkei. His first collection of poems, Imihobe nemiBongo …
PlaceMthatha, Eastern Cape- previously known as Umtata
… Mthatha, founded in 1879, was declared the Capital of the Transkei, the homeland of the Xhosa during the Apartheid era. The former Transkei is now part of…
Polokwane the Segregated city
… City, 1910-1948 The Apartheid City A decade of Turbulence, 1976-86 Ructions within Afrikaner Politics Forced removals in … 1910 - 1948, The Apartheid City, A…
Roelf Meyer and Bantu Holomisa confer
… met with Bantu Holomisa, former leader of the Transkei Military Government and later deputy minister of …
EventThe first indications of protest over Afrikaans in Soweto schools
… The roots of the student uprising of 1976 can be traced in part to the cutbacks by the Apartheid … created the conditions that would later erupt as the 1976…
EventChief Mangosuthu Buthelezi meets President Kaizer Matanzima in Tongaat
… Buthelezi of Kwa Zulu met President Kaizer Matanzima of Transkei in Tongaat, north of Durban, where they declared …
EventSol Kerzner admits to the Harms Commission, that he has paid R2m for the personal benefit of Chief George Matanzima
… in order to ensure exclusive casino rights in the Transkei Province. On 17 January 1989, after two years of …
PlaceJunction Avenue Theatre
… The Junction Avenue theatre was formed in 1976, and it was organised and conceptualised by a group of … The Fantastical History of a Useless Man. Inspired by…
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
… the National Association of Youth Organisations (NAYO). In 1976 through to 1978 large numbers of young people left the … responsible for the Soweto uprising…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Introduction
… insights into what led to the major revolt in Soweto in 1976 ”” an uprising of students that inspired the oppressed … his message to the people of Soweto. An…
The Cillie Commission of Inquiry into the Soweto uprisings, holds its first public hearing
… of Inquiry into the uprisings in Soweto on 16 June, 1976, held its first public hearing in Johannesburg. Evidence … people were injured during the uprisings…
EventClarence Makwetu Passes Away
… Makwetu was born on the 6th of December 1928 in the Transkei, as the 2nd of five children of Minah and Gqongo …
ArticleThe World and South Africa when Nelson Mandela was born
… 18 July, the day Mandela was born in the village of Mvezo, Transkei, the Allies, strengthened by American …
EventWalter Sisulu celebrates 90th birthday
… born in Qutubeni Village in the district of Engcobo in the Transkei on 18 May 1912. His mother, Alice Manse Sisulu, … Alexander on the national question. By…
ArticleDevelopments leading to the New Dispensation
… By the late 1970s, and especially as a result of the June 1976 uprising , the Apartheid government was forced to …
ArticleKey People in the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising
… were involved in the historic turning point that 16 June 1976 became. These South African students, parents, …
EventThe participants at the multi-party forum negotiations agreed on both new structures of the police and defence force
… which would comprise the old SADF, defence forces from Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei (TBVC states), and …
EventHolomisa on corruption
… Sol Kerzner. In May 1996, Bantu Holomisa, former ruler of Transkei and Deputy Minister of Environmental Affairs, …
EventAir France A-300B Airbus hijacked from Athens arrives at Entebbe, Uganda
… On 27June 1976, Air France Flight 139, en route from Tel Aviv to Paris … to gain the admiration of the Arab states. On the 29 June 1976, the aircraft arrived…
PlaceGugulethu Township
… the many migrant workers who moved to Cape Town from rural Transkei or the homelands in the Eastern Cape Province. The … the only Black residential area for…
PlaceSoweto, Johannesburg
… became the largest Black City in South Africa, but until 1976 its population could have status only as temporary … during the Apartheid regime. There were…
EventChris Hani is born
… village of Sabalele, in the Cofimvaba region of the former Transkei. He was the sixth of seven children of Gilbert and …
EventANC makes demands changes to facilitate democratic elections
… the reincorporation of all the homelands, including the Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei. At a later news …
EventMarais Steyn dies
… career as ambassador to the United Kingdom and later Transkei before he retired in 1986. …
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… in exile. 16 October, Gwebindlala Gqoboza a headman in the Transkei is killed by Poqo operatives. The war against … in Monrovia, Liberia which would be held…
ArticleA tribute to a great struggle stalwart Paul David by Siva Naidoo
… Task Group which examined the future of the TBVC States—Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda, and Ciskei. Paul’s …