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UCT Summer School 2020
… onset of apartheid Prof Howard Phillips 3. The student sit-in of 1968 Prof Howard Phillips 4. …
ArticleOvercoming Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid by Bennett Gwynn
… South African community and conflict was inevitable. Student protests helped fuel the fire of anti-apartheid fervor, specifically the Soweto student…
PlaceUniversity of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN)
… was for Indians on Salisbury Island in the Bay of Durban . Student numbers throughout the 1960's were low as a result of … Apartheid Institutions into: …
EventPresident Cyril Ramaphosa appears before protesters against gender- based violence in South Africa
On 5 September 2019, students from different institutions went to parliament to protest against gender-based violence and demanded to see the president…
ArchiveRecollections of the Resurrection of Women’s Day, 40 Years Ago by Julie Wells
… ten years earlier in June, 1970, as an undergraduate student, mostly looking for a travel experience. I chose South Africa because my high school had an…
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… on Salisbury Island in Durban Bay in the early 1960s. Student numbers grew rapidly and in 1971 full university …
ArticleEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC)
… Town lawyer Mike Evans, who co-founded the ECC as a UCT student, was helping another objector, Brett Myrdal, with his …
EventCI and SACC offices are raided
On 27 November 1976 the offices of the Christian Institute (CI) and the South African Council of Churches (SACC), two religious formations considered to have…
EventFormer ANC President, Oliver 'OR' Tambo, is born
… active in politics. Tambo was among those who led the student boycott at Fort Hare, calling for the formation of a democratically elected Student's…
Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… classes. Dr Mamphela Ramphele started her career as a student activist in the Black Consciousness Movement. She was … one of the languages of instruction at…
PlaceOrlando Stadium
This was the site of the first stadium in Soweto, officially opened in 1959. For almost 50 years this was a famous home of soccer, associated with a host of…
EventEducation Minister, Sibusiso Bengu warns Stellenbosch University that it can’t to be exclusively Afrikaans-speaking
… Stellenbosch University had maintained a white Afrikaner student body through the use of the Afrikaans language as the …
EventEducation Minister, Sibusiso Bengu warns Stellenbosch University that it can't to be exclusively Afrikaans-speaking
… Stellenbosch University had maintained a white Afrikaner student body through the use of the Afrikaans language as the …
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA)
… already members of the Congress of South African Students (COSAS). And once they arrived in Botswana, it was the ANC …
PlaceCala, Eastern Cape
… of Transkei where he played a leading role in the Student Representative Council, organising a commemoration of …
ArchiveJohnny Clegg: South Africa’s universal man of uncommon passion by David Coplan, 25 July 2019
… duty. I met Jonathan Clegg in 1975. I was still a graduate student in ethnomusicology at Indiana University and was on … was a devotee of African music and…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… struggle. It embraced a network of organisations including student bodies, trade unions, the Communist Party and … as a teenager, when one of his older…
ArchiveOttilie Abrahams: An Honest and Upright Person by Harry Boesak (Pambazuka News), 14 July 2018
… this club for a while. In 1953, Ottilie was a member of a student organization called the South West African Student Body, which eventually became South West…
A tribute to Indres Naidoo by Glen Moss
… political prisoners as a prelude to national negotiations. Student leadership had discussed this campaign with Indres … for the release of prisoners. This…
PlaceUniversity of Pretoria
… (today ' Vergeet-my-nie ') was constructed. Many student activities originated in the founding Years. The first Student Council was founded in 1909…
ANC statement on the death of Adelaide Tambo, 31 January 2007
… branches of the Youth League in the Transvaal. Later, as a student nurse at Pretoria General Hospital, she started a …
Duties as Minister of the Interior, Resettlement, Township Administration, Inkatha and KwaZulu politics
… be exact 00:00 - 00:84 - Personal details 00:84 - 02:80 - Student activities at Fort Hare 02:80 - 05:53 - Need for ANC …
PlaceCredo Mutwa Cultural Village
… was undertaken under the guidance of Musa Ntanzi, a student of Mutwa. Although renovated, the village remains in …
EventMurder trial of “Sharpeville Six” opens
… at stewards and Lloyds, Ramashamole a waitress, Khumalo a student at Sebokeng Teachers Training College and Mokhesi a …
![Letter from Steve Biko to Colin [Collins] re follow-up discussion on financial assistance to SASO from UCM, Aug 15, 1969.](/sites/default/files/styles/saho_medium/public/archive-files2/let19690815.032.009.743.thumb.gif?itok=6M3u975_)
ArchiveLetter from Steve Biko to Colin [Collins] re follow-up discussion on financial assistance to SASO from UCM, Aug 15, 1969.
A request for financial assistance from the University Christian Movement by the President of the the South African Students Organisation Steve Biko
ArchivePhotography pundit David Goldblatt takes ex-offender portrait series to British jails by Matsepo, 2 June 2017
… taken at the University of Cape Town during the recent student uprisings over housing, tuition and racial …
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the murder of Griffiths Mxenge, 01 November 1981
… National Congress since the mid-1950s when he was a student at the University College of Fort Hare and, later, …
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Sindile Moya
… a team candidate for Maxwell Dingane in elections. Dear Student Movements of 2016 My name is Sindile Moya and as a …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.11 No.1, No.2, No.3 and No.4 1993
… Dede Kamkondo; Don't Dehorn Rhinos, Rade Apani; Dairy of a Student Teacher, Isaac Zita; Rosa and the Pots, Cynthia …
EventRonald Harwood , Oscar winning screenwriter, is born in Cape Town, South Africa
… based on his experiences in the theater. Harwood is also a student of WWII, as evidenced by the films Operation …