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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…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
… attempts to oust Indian merchants under Gold Law and Townships Act. August 21, Forwarded to Registrar of Asiatics … Indian merchants resolved to fight…
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…
PlaceChatsworth, Suburb of Durban
The origin of Chatsworth Chatsworth is a historically Indian township located in Durban some 14km south-west of the City centre, in the Umhlatuzana River…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
After coming to power in 1948, the National Party-led government began implementing apartheid by passing a series of racist laws, notably the Population…
ArchiveCHAPTER 6 - Towards a Broad Front and Other Desirable Accidents, January 1981 - January 1983 by Howard Barrell
… believed the formation of civic organisations in African townships might remedy this. But the process needed to be … control over residential resources in…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 106th Anniversary of the African National Congress presented by ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa, 13 January 2018
… township and rural economies. Our rural areas and townships were designed as labour dormitories. It is pleasing … the creation of a conducive regulatory…
Event11 die when the South African Defence Force (SADF) opens fire on negotiators in Sebokeng
The unbanning of the South African liberation movements on 2 February 1990 was an important milestone, which signalled a shift from being covert underground…
EventWinnie Madikizela-Mandela’s bodyguards arrested in connection with the death of Stompie Seipei
On this day in history, 4 of Winnie Mandela's (now Madikizela-Mandela) bodyguards, including Jerry Richardson and Jabu Sithole (coach of the Mandela United…
EventJohn Koenakeefe Mohl , SA artist and founder member of Artists Under the Sun, dies in Soweto
John Koenakeefe Mohl was born in Zeerust in the Noth West province. He began drawing at a very young age and would often get in trouble in school for not…
EventSmiso Zwane, South African hip hop artist is born
Smiso Zwane, stage name Okmalumkoolkat was born in the Umlazi township of Durban on 27 July 1985. [i] Along ZamaniXolo stage name DoktaSpiZee, two forms the…
ArchiveFirst Mafika Gwala Lecture: The Arts of Resistance - Mafika Gwala and South African Poetry by Ari Sitas
At first I thought that a reading and a republishing of my Traditions of Poetry in Natal2 which attempted to situate Mafika Pascal Gwala’s work in the late…
ArchiveInterview with Absolom Zithulele Cindi
Interview with Absolom Zithulele Cindi who was an activist in the black consciousness movement and later in the Azanian People's Organization and the trade…
EventState of emergency declared after Sharpeville Massacre
This was the first such declaration of a State of Emergency by the Apartheid state. During these periods, the government had free reign to suspend civil…
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
The apartheid era was characterised by different resistances such as the Sharpeville massacre, Vaal and the East Rand in 1985 and Soweto uprising of 1976. The…
SAHO Timeline and Milestones
… Cape Flats Details - Life and Popular Art in Cape Town’s Townships By Chris Ledochowski (publication, exhibition & web … Cape Flats Details - Life and…
Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk, 26 June 1992
… persists in attributing the carnage in the black townships to black political rivalry. 6. In this regard the …
Biography of George Hallett by Hunter Kolon
… human life and communities discriminated against—from the townships in South Africa to the “farthest corners of the …
ArticleBureau of State Security (BOSS)
… Security police began to eliminate ANC sympathisers inside townships rather than taking part in the lengthy process of …
ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
… to try to obtain employment in urban areas. Urban black townships were becoming more seriously overcrowded as the … the new influx of work seekers as…
PlaceThe Wilds Park, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg
In 1925 the Township owners of Houghton Estate, the Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company Ltd. Donated the original portion of The Wilds to the…
Political Overview By The ANC Gauteng Provincial Chairperson, Comrade Paul Mashatile On The Occasion Of The Special Provincial General Council, Turffontein Racecourse, Johannesburg, 24 February 2013
… provide much needed social and economic infrastructure in townships, including the tarring of roads, upgrading of … new schools and upgrade old schools,…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, 09 November 1982, New York
… intermittent paramilitary roadblocks outside black townships, brutal and oppressive raids on black people`s …
Opening Address to the ANC National Consultative Conference by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 14 December 1990
… with the same tenacity as before. The massacres in the townships and elsewhere are a painful reminder that apartheid …
Address by His Excellency President Jacob Zuma on the celebration of Freedom Day, 27 April 2011, Union Buildings, Pretoria
… only live there after receiving special permission. Urban townships were established to provide a readily available …
Address by Oliver Tambo to the joint session of Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago, Port-of-Spain, 2 July 1987
… the military clampdown and occupation of the townships there are more frequent reports of armed clashes …
Closing Address of Comrade Nelson R Mandela, Deputy President of the ANC 16 December 1990
… by the community leaders on what was happening in the townships. He came over with a number of top police …
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee
… owned by non-Africans and in areas outside African Townships. Since 1944 the Authorities did not implement the …