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EventVaal Uprising Begins as Sharpeville Residents Resist Rent Increases
… while offering no real political representation. The uprising resulted in the deaths of several community … and other symbols of Apartheid administration…
EventPrime Minister Botha visits Soweto
… became the first South African prime minister to visit Soweto. His visit included talks with the Soweto Community Council during which he promised that…
BiographyJayaseelen Naidoo
… joined SASO. His studies however, were interrupted by the Soweto Uprising of 1976 . Across South Africa, police surveillance …
South Africa chromatic portraits extract Omar Badsha HD
… South Africa chromatic portraits extract Omar Badsha HD …
Extract from a speech made at Bethlehem on 2 September
… Extract from a speech made at Bethlehem on 2 September …
ArchiveExtract from Minutes of State Security Council Meeting
… Extract from Minutes of State Security Council Meeting …
ArchiveA sober assessment - extract from the Rivonia Trial Statement
… A sober assessment - extract from the Rivonia Trial Statement …
PlaceRegina Mundi, Catholic Church, Soweto
… Regina Mundi Catholic Church is located in the Township of Soweto, in the Suburb of Moroka. The Church forms part of the rich History of Soweto and is the…
ArchiveExtract from Minutes of State Security Council Meeting, 11 February 1980
… a State Security Council Meeting in which problem areas in Soweto, the situation in Zimbabwe, national radio propaganda … Extract from Minutes of State…
BiographyMapetla Frank Mohapi
… Town and Zwelitsha. A month after the start of the 1976 Soweto uprising, in a swoop of Black Consciousness activists, …
BiographyRichard Barney Lekgotla Molokoane
… Lekgotla Molokoane was born on 27 August 1957 in Tladi, Soweto. Molokoane became politically active during the student uprising of 1976, and like many of…
EventNew Soweto Council is inaugurated
… The new Apartheid established Soweto township Council, under the Chairmanship of David … [Accessed on 14 June 2013]| South Africa Info Soweto, heartbeat of…
BiographyVesta Smith
… a designated Coloured area geographically adjoining Soweto. Smith was eighteen years old. She became a member of … of the ANC in 1990. In June 1976 Smith…
EventPupils refuse to return to school before Soweto Uprisings
… Soweto pupils rejected the Orlando Diepkloof School board's … a turning point and leads to the 16 June 1976 event of the Soweto Uprising. As the boycott…
ArchiveSoweto: a brief history
… Soweto: a brief history …
ArchiveLessons of Soweto
… Lessons of Soweto …
ArchiveSoweto: A Peoples Response
… Soweto: A Peoples Response …
ArchiveThe Soweto eleven
… The Soweto eleven …
ArchiveSoweto Day 1987
… Soweto Day 1987 …
EventSoweto High School under siege
… vehicles, surrounded the Thaba-Juluba high school in Soweto and arrested 200 students during a clampdown on school … Soweto High School under siege …
BiographyHarold Wolpe
… registered the impact and aftermath of the student-led Soweto uprising of 1976, another definitive moment of the struggle … of the student militants who fled…
BiographyTeboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… was born on 27 January 1957 in Central Western Jabavu, Soweto. Mashinini was the second son of Ramothibi, a lay … from Matric to university. On 13th June…
EventPolice increase their presence in Soweto
… Following the 16 June 1976 Soweto protest and the killing and injuring of student … response was to rushed in a large force of policemen into Soweto. About 1…
BiographyKenneth Hlaku Rachidi
… of the organisation. On 27 June 1976, following the Soweto Uprising , Rachidi declared that the riots had ushered in a …
BiographyMichael Sedgwick
… Engel. He was detained in the 1976 crackdown on the uprising following the events in Soweto, and was held for a number of months in terms of the …
BiographyManfred Zylla
… South Africa in 1970. A series of woodcuts about the 1976 Soweto uprising, and the creation of large-scale drawings, prints …
Belgians suppress uprising of Arab slaveholders in Upper Congo.
… Belgians suppress uprising of Arab slaveholders in Upper Congo. …
Statement of the President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, on the the 17th anniversary of the 1976 students uprising Orlando Stadium, Soweto, 16 June 1993
… Mandela, on the the 17th anniversary of the 1976 students uprising Orlando Stadium, Soweto, 16 June 1993 …
ArchiveInterview with Soweto high school students
… Interview with Soweto high school students. Soweto has 52 high schools since the reopening of school … Interview with Soweto high school students …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984 by Noor Nieftagodien
… numbers to end their oppression. It was this mass uprising that eventually made the apartheid system unworkable … Two weeks later a less successful stayaway…