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ArchiveUrban crisis and the apartheid state response: South African housing policy in the 1980s
A dissertation presented in partial fulfilment of the MSc in Urban Planning (Housing in Development), submitted to the University College, London (Development…
EventThe Liquor Laws Amendment Bill comes into effect
Location: back to this day in history search archive The Liquor Act, which was passed on 23 June 1927, prohibited Africans and Indians from serving liquor,…
EventNelson Mandela is free
On this day, Nelson Mandela was released unconditionally from prison after 27 years. Accompanied by his then-wife Winnie, he left the Victor Verster prison …
EventSipho Gumede, South African jazz legend, dies
Born in the predominantly Indian community of Cato Manor near Durban, Sipho Gumede started playing music on a homemade guitar. He joined his first band at the…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
The United Democratic Front (UDF) was an anti-apartheid body that incorporated many anti-apartheid organisations. It was launched in 1983, in Mitchells Plain…
ArticleJune 16 Soweto Youth Uprising timeline: 1976-1986
1976 According to the government-appointed Cillie Commission of Enquiry 575 people died. Police action resulted in 451 deaths. 3 907 people were injured…
ArchiveCHAPTER THREE: The Emergence Of Grassroots Politics, 1979-1981 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
EventAn ANC car bomb directed at the headquarters of the Wits Command, Johannesburg, kills one person and injures 68
On 30 July 1987, a car bomb was detonated outside the headquarters of Witwatersrand Command army base in Quartz Street, Johannesburg. The attack was executed…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… group of Poqo operatives attack a police vehicle in Langa Township killing one African policeman, Moyi and injuring … axes, pangas and other self made…
Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "No Easy Walk to Freedom: Articles, Speeches and Trial Addresses of Nelson Mandela edited by Ruth First", 1965.
… with the lot of the urban African in a teeming African township: overcrowding, incessant raids for passes, arrests, …
This item by Oliver Tambo was published as the introduction to the book "No Easy Walk to Freedom" by Ruth First, 01 June 1965
… with the lot of the urban African in a teeming African township: overcrowding, incessant raids for passes, arrests, …
PlaceHangberg, Hout Bay
… relating to the Harbour. It was historically the township designated for people categorized as Coloured during …
ArchivePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… realities. I live ten minutes drive from Alexandra Township, but the smoke and thunder of the violence there …
Speech by Nelson Mandela at the Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference Moria, 20th April 1992
… battle cries of armed men, sweeping through a township like a swarm of locusts in a maize field, ring in …
Nelson Mandela by Oliver Tambo
… with the lot of the urban African in a teeming African township: overcrowding, incessant raids for passes, arrests, …
Chapter VII - The 1980’s
… transport and as a white I could not go into any African township without a permit. At least we knew that when the … The "fortunate" blacks still live in the…
EventMinister announces compulsory education for Black children
The minister of (Black) education and training, Dr Ferdinand Hartzenberg, announced that compulsory education for Black children would be introduced in stages,…
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces withdrawal of Internal Stability Units (ISU)
On 1 February 1994 President F.W. de Klerk announced the withdrawal of the Internal Stability Units (ISU) from the East Rand townships of Kathlehong and…
To All Fathers and Mothers, Brothers and Sisters, Friends and Workers, in All Cities, Towns and Villages in the Republic of South Africa. Flyer in English and Sesotho by the Soweto Students’ Representative Council, 15 October 1976
Youth P SSRC 1 back to resources > "To All Fathers and Mothers, Brothers and Sisters, Friends and Workers, in All Cities, Towns and Villages in the…
Ahmed Timol: Three Documents by Politicsweb, 27 June 2017
… to fool us with. If we work cleverly and carefully, every township can become a mountain of resistance in which the …
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… the people's army, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK). As alternative township structures, street committees, and people's courts …
Interview with Harry Gwala conducted by Tony Karonat, January 1989, Dambuza Pietermaritzburg
… He had got to travel a long distance home to go to the township. And under what conditions were those townships put …
BiographyIsaac Williams Wauchope
The esteemed teacher and journalist, Samuel E.K. Mqhayi described Isaac Williams Wauchope: “Rev Isaac Wauchope was truly handsome in appearance, a broad-faced…
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
Contents 1910-1950 Apartheid ideology and implementation from 1950 Conclusion 1910-1950 By 1950, the population of New Brighton had grown from 3,650 in…
PlaceGauteng Province
The Area of Gauteng Province is small; stretching from Pretoria in the North to Vereeniging in the South. Gauteng in Sotho means: 'for place of gold'…
Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk, 26 June 1992
… July 1990 and April 1992 there have been 261 attacks on township residents by hostel inmates, which led to 1,207 …
EventTrojan Horse Massacre Memorial unveiled
On 24 September 2005, Heritage Day, the Trojan Horse Memorial was unveiled in Athlone as a remembrance of the three victims who were killed by the security…
Document 62 - Minutes of the meeting of the Workers’ Party of South Africa. Johannesburg Branch, held at 90 President Street, Johannesburg, 3 April 1936 at 8.20 p.m.
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 62 - Minutes of the meeting of the Workers'…
ArticleAbram Fischer Timeline 1908-1975
… Party, Bram gives support to the bus boycott of Alexandra Township residents protesting the one-penny increase in bus …
ArticleIndian South Africans: 1924-1948 Legislation and Segregation
… focused on limiting Indian trade and business. In 1924 the Township Franchise Ordinance was passed in Natal. This …