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Robert Sobukwe: What a sense of mission! By Sibonginkosi Mazibuko, 19 February 2015, South Africa
… regime massacre of people at Sharpeville and Langa townships of present-day Gauteng and Western Cape …
Archive”I am Albertina Sisulu”, Interview from Blue Portraits
… our work on district. We used to visit our patients in the townships with difficulties, because we used to do that on …
PlaceWynberg, Southern Suburbs
… greater Cape Town area, including a large percentage of townships and traditionally disadvantaged areas and also …
PlaceAlbertynhof, Kimberley
Suburb of Kimberley to the South of the Big Hole and North-West of New Park. It was established when the Newton Township, was cleared of slums, and named after…
EventFree, compulsory education for Black children
The government announces that its aim, is to provide all Black children with free and compulsory education as soon as possible. Teachers and scholars rejected…
PlaceKwaMuhle Museum, 130 Ordnance Road, Durban
KwaMuhle Museum depicts Durban as an African city searching for identity within a new political context. This museum shows a history experienced by the…
PlaceMaphikela House
In 1912, prominent black leaders gathered here and forged the foundations of what would eventually become the ruling party of the country. The house was…
EventMass Democratic Movement (MDM) begins their Defiance Campaign
The United Democratic Front (UDF) was a non-racial coalition group that was initially formed in protest to the Tricameral Parliament. It was one of the most…
PlaceWarden, Thabo Mofutsanyana Municipality
The N3 passes right through Warden on the route between: Johannesburg and Durban, just North of Harrismith. It falls under the jurisdiction of the Thabo…
PlaceRed Location Museum
The Red Location Museum is situated within the Black Township of New Brighton, of Port Elizabeth (now called Gqeberha). Surrounded by the colourful homes of…
4. The ANC underground between Rivonia and 1976
… from the Island gradually started to surface in various townships and rural areas, although they were closely watched … The reach of this group extended…
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
Introduction MK Sabotage. This photograph was part of a sequence shot by a Rand Daily Mail photographer, two of which were published in the and Daily Mail of…
ArchiveCHAPTER SEVEN: Resistance Politics In Retreat: Cablism, The ANC Underground And Gandhi, 1985-1989 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
EventNamibian artist, John Ndevasia Muafangejo, dies
On 27 November 1987, Namibian artist John Ndevasia Muafangejo died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in Katutura Township, Windhoek. He was 44 years old…
Evidence before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the house of commons: Oliver Tambo, 29 October 1985, London
… on our television screens the real problems in some of the townships. Do you support and encourage that attitude - that … sought to stamp out by deploying…
ArchiveCHAPTER 4 - A turn to masses by Howard Barrell
… an immediate insurrectionary potential in the urban black townships. It suggested that this insurrectionary potential … of the insurrectionary potential in…
PlaceCenturion, Gauteng
Centurion is an area with 236,580 inhabitants situated between Pretoria and Johannesburg. The area’s proximity to Midrand and Pretoria makes it a popular…
PlaceAmandelboom, Town in Northern Cape
Original name being 'Willston', Afrikaans name for 'Almond tree'. These trees were found near the Rhenish Mission Station from which the Town developed. The…
EventRiky Rick, one of the most esteemed South African hip hop artists is born
Rikhado Makhado, stage name Riky Rick, was born in the KwaMashu township of northern Durban, KwaZulu Natal on 20 July 1987.[i] He is a South African musician,…
EventSouth African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang, Club Kevin Carter, commits suicide
Kevin Carter, a South African photojournalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, committed suicide just three months after winning the Pulitzer Award for feature…
EventFormer Minister of Defence and others are charged with murder
Location: back to this day in history search archive Former South African Defence Force Minister, General Magnus Malan and 19 other former senior military…
EventSA national soccer team, Bafana Bafana, win the SA’s first ever FIFA sanctioned match.
South Africa had been suspended by FIFA in 1961 and formally expelled in 1976 because apartheid law forbade mixed-race sport. For three decades, generations of…
The defiance campaign by M. P. Naicker
… had been imprisoned. All over the country, in the African townships, in the rural reserves, in Indian and Coloured …
PlaceBotshabelo
Missionaries Alexander Merensky and Heinrich Grützner started work in the north eastern part of the South African Republic in 1860. There were unsuccessful…
EventANC celebrates its 79th anniversary in Durban
The African National Congress (ANC) celebrated its 79th anniversary in Durban on 8 January 1991 for the first time as a legal organisation. At the time of the…
EventBoeremag bomb blasts rock Soweto and Bronkhorstspruit
Just after midnight on 30 October 2002 eight bomb blasts rocked Soweto. Seven of the blasts occurred on main commuter railway lines running through the…
EventAmy Biehl’s murderers receive amnesty from TRC
The four murderers of Amy Biehl, American Fullbright exchange student, are granted amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). They appealed to…
PlaceRobert Sobukwe Town, was called Graaf-Reinet
The oldest town in the Eastern Cape, the fourth oldest in South Africa and certainly one of the most atmospheric, Graaff-Reinet lies enclosed by a bend in the…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
1940 Mandela was elected to the Student Representative Council (SRC) at Fort Hare. After he became embroiled in general student dissatisfaction with boarding…
ArticleColonial history of Nelspruit
Nelspruit lies in the Lowveld, in the valley of the Crocodile River just below the great eastern escarpment of the Transvaal. Long before it acquired a…