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EventAbolition of Internal Security Act
… legislation in the four nominally independent Bantustans, Transkei, Bopthuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei was just one of a …
EventForced removals at the Crossroads informal settlement
… The residents here, were originally from the Ciskei and Transkei homelands (Bantustans). The removals occurred on 25 …
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… explosion of student unrest inside South Africa in June 1976 and the heavy-handed response by the government, … leader from the Soweto uprising, who fled to…
Durban Mayors and other city officials
… Williams (1972 - 74) AD Adams (1974 - 76) Dr G J Hollis (1976 - 78) Haydn Bradfield (1978 - 80) Mrs S C Hotz (1980 - …
ArticleJames Sebe Moroka Timeline 1892 - 2012
… by Albert Luthuli as president general of the ANC. 1976 Moroka retires as a medical practitioner. 1985 10 …
ArticleEnuga Sreenivasulu Reddy Timeline 1924 - 2020
… Educational and Training Programme for Southern Africans. 1976 Reddy becomes the Director of the Centre against …
EventGovernment admits responsibility for Mdluli’s death
… Congress (ANC) member, Joseph Mdluli (50), on 19 March 1976 and agreed to pay damages to his family. A claim for … just a day after his arrest in connection…
ArchiveBibliography by Howard Barrell
… of Our Struggle', in The African Nationalist, Vol.1, No.2, 1976. *Nzo, A., `Statement by African National Congress … Legal Deposition Made to South African…
EventSolomon Kalushi Mahlangu is born
… to join the ANC's military wing in exile in October 1976 after the student demonstrations of 1976. He received his military training in Angola and … in 1977…
The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
… colonial rule which were finally broken in the southern Transkei during the 1850s as a result of the cattle killing …
ArticleThe Inquest into Biko’s Death and his funeral
… hours, speakers eulogised Biko. The Reverend Xundu, the Transkei Anglican priest, who presided over the funeral, …
EventDaily Dispatch editor, Donald Woods, arrives in Britain with his family
… escape. Woods was born at Hobeni, in the Mbashe area of Transkei in the Eastern Cape in 1933. While in he was in …
EventANC stalwart, Albertina Sisulu dies in Johannesburg
… was born on 21 October 1918 at Xolobeni, Tsomo in Transkei (now Eastern Cape). ). She and her husband Walter …
Chapter 7 - ‘We Are Also People’
… His friend telling me this, had tears in his eyes. In 1976 he was elected Chairperson. Some Dad, you had little … history of our country you will know that…
ArchiveThe end of an era - A tribute to Cde Govan Mbeki, by Jacob Zuma, 8 September 2001, Port Elizabeth
… in different organisations from organising peasants in the Transkei to organising teachers and workers in the urban centres. His extensive work among…
Apartheid - The early 1980s
… it under some measure of control. With leaders from the 1976 uprising either imprisoned or exiled, the liberation … in the face of opposition from the right…
Appeal for action against Apartheid - Statement issued jointly by Chief Albert Luthuli and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr,10 December 1962
… race separation by establishing the first Bantustan in the Transkei - with the aid of emergency police regulations; … police Before and during the two-year …
Chapter 6 - No more suppers for my comrades
… problems of the school boycott after the uprising in June 1976 and the senseless murder of children in Soweto and … evening: "I worked at the Labour…
ArticlePeter Magubane Timeline 1932-
… and Magubane resumed employment with the Rand Daily Mail . 1976 Magubane covered the Student Uprising as a photographer …
EventFormer ANC President, Oliver ‘OR’ Tambo, is born
… National Congress (ANC) President, was born at Bizana, Transkei (now known as Eastern Cape). During the 1940s, he …
EventSouth Africa’s first democratic elections end as counting begins
… 7 pm on 29 April in Venda, Gazankulu, Lebowa, KwaZulu, Transkei and Ciskei. The African National Congress(ANC) under …
ArchiveCHAPTER 3 - Unprepared by Howard Barrell
… - Soweto and All That, June 1976 - October 1978 Fifteen years after our commitment to … Introduction The uprisings in Soweto and elsewhere in June 1976…
Article by Oliver Tambo in World Marxist Review, 06 March 1980
… the efforts to assist the regime to meet its oil needs. In 1976 West German banks, many of them State-controlled, … as Chief Matanzima, the puppet head of…
Racism in Isolation by O. R. Tambo, World Marxist Review, March 1980
… the efforts to assist the regime to meet its oil needs. In 1976 West German banks, many of them State-controlled, … as Chief Matanzima, the puppet head of…
EventViolence erupts on the eve of Soweto uprising anniversary
… On the Eve of the Soweto Uprising, Soweto, 15 June 1976 By this day in 1976, the plan was already set. Days earlier, students had …
Political assassinations 1974 - 1994
… dead by 2 gunmen. Gaga, Nengeni / Negeni, 19 1965/5/7 Transkei Natural causes 1984 28 June Lubango, Angola … (17) All youths Killed by vigilantes. 24…
EventAngola becomes independent of Portuguese colonial rule
… Organization (SWAPO) established bases in Angola. In 1976 the African National Congress (ANC) set up the Central … with Angola to establish military bases,…
PlacePearson Conservatorium and Prince Alfred’s Guard Memorial, St Georges Park, Port Elizabeth
… of South African wars from 1877 to 1902.Including: the Transkei War, 1877 ; Basutoland War, 1880-1881; Bechuanaland …
EventSA President P.W Botha meets with leaders of independent homelands
… 'independent' homelands, namely; Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, Transkei, and Venda, attended a five-nation summit in …
EventNyanga school Principal’s office burnt
… On 24 June 1976 the Principal's office in Hlengisi Primary, Nyanga, … burnt down. The broader context of this is that on 16 June 1976 school children in…