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EventGrant Baker, SA surfer, wins the Mavericks Surf Contest at Santa Cruz
… legend Brock Little, long-time Mavericks standouts Matt Ambrose and Grant Washburn and Southern Californian Evan … to the semi-finals along with Danilo Couto…
BiographyElizabeth "Rocky" Mafekeng
… [in The Mafekeng Affair. Africa South 4(3) April – June 1960, p 40]: Two policemen and Mr Johannes Le Roux, the Paarl …
BiographyHelen Newton Thompson
… people of colour from white areas. [13] During the 1960’s, the NP actively tried to suppress political …
BiographyJob Shimankana Tabane
… restricted to students in higher grades. At the end of 1960, Tabane completed his junior certificate, but his life …
BiographyDiana Ferrus
Internationally renowned South African poet, writer, and activist for marginalised groups, Diana Ferrus, was born on 29 August 1953 in Worcester, Cape Province…
BiographyArthur Nuthall Fula
… 1956), Finnish as Kultaa ja Kurjuutta (Gold and Misery, 1960) and English as The Golden Magnet (1984) which was …
BiographyHarriet Ngubane
… Ngubane’s notable books include Urban Bantu Housing (1960), Body and Mind in Zulu Medicine (1977) and Zulus of …
BiographyBaldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane
… matriculated at St Francis College, Mariannhill, Natal, in 1960 and went on to graduate with an MB ChB in 1971 from the …
BiographyBongani Mnguni
… in Soweto . His interest in photography began in the early 1960's. Bongani started out as a freelance photographer in …
BiographyTerry Bell
Terence Albert Bell (Terry Bell) was born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa on 12 September 1942. He married his fellow exile, Barbara,…
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… suburb of Triomf built in its place. In the wake of the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960 and the subsequent State of Emergency and mass arrests, …
Malcolm Phafane
… I was born and bred in Sharpeville. As if that is not enough I am enrolled at VUT a tertiary institution which is only 30 minutes away from Sharpeville. As a…
BiographyStephen Bantu Biko
… their lessons. Steve passed Standard Six in 1959 and in 1960 he went on to Forbes Grant, a school through which many … was elected to drive the organisation…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… The ANC awards Isithwalandwe to Govan Mbeki and Bishop Ambrose Reeves . 28 November, Nelson Mandela receives the … and took place on the eve of the…
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
… The ANC sets up a branch in Phokeng. 1991 12 February, Rev Kevin Dowling is summoned to appear before Mangope and … at 2am, hours before a proposed ANC…
Mapping Sites of Memory: The Sobukwe Letters
… On the eve of Sharpeville Massacre Day, Mapping Sites of Memory: The Sobukwe Letters …
ArticleEskom Energy Crisis: Will there be a “just transition” to renewable energy? by Kyla Jade Mc Nulty
… the 21st of March, we remembered the fallen victims of the Sharpeville Massacre and celebrated Human Rights Day because now we live … It is this very same…
ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
… mass eviction of Coloured communities from these areas in 1960. SACPO engaged in another protest against the Separate … National Day of Protest called by the…
Bibliography: Missionary settlement in southern Africa
… and Kraals. Kilmarnock, Scotland: John Ritchie. APPLEYARD, Rev. JW. 1971. The War of the Axe and the Xhosa Bible. Cape … Tract Society. CHAMPION, George…
Images That Preserve History, and Make It : ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography by Holland Cotter (The New York Times), 20 September 2012
… of Gandhian nonviolence. This was not to last. In 1960, at a demonstration against the law requiring blacks to … killed 69 unarmed black protesters in the…
BiographySefako Mapogo Makgatho
… Makgatho’s role in the ANC during his successor the Rev. ZR Mahabane’s presidency is not accounted for. However, …
ArticleYouth Politics in South Africa in the 1970s
… of the North organised a march to commemorate the Sharpeville Massacre and protest against the forced removal of the …
BiographyAdelaine Florence Hain
Anti-apartheid activist Adelaine Hain who was successively jailed, banned and exiled to Britain in Pretoria in the early 1960s died peacefully on 8 September,…
BiographyShirish Nanabhai
… campaigns. When the State of Emergency was declared in 1960 and many comrades were detained, Shirish remembered the …
BiographyWilliam Cock
… Franklin Source: Africana Notes and News, September, 1960 Vol 15, No 3, Africana Society In 1826, William Cock … St. Aubyn' Source: Africana Notes and News…
ArticleNegotiations and the transition
… in 1993. Three events that stand out were the St James Massacre in Kenilworth, Heidelberg Pub Bombing in Observatory … the murder of Amy Biehl in Gugulethu…
BiographyJomo Kenyatta
… the Kenya African National Union or KANU, on 11 June 1960. The Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU) was formed in … he didn't run for public office…
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather (PR) was born in Mauritius in 1895. His grandfather settled in that country after emigrating from Tanjore in India in the 1840s. PR…
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
… came in the wake of momentous events in the country: the Sharpeville Massacre had taken place in March the previous year, and the … sharply. South Africa’s…
Biography of Hugh Masekela by Fardin Rahman
… Africans being shot dead by the police in 21 March, 1960. This event is remembered as the Sharpeville Massacre e and marked the start of an era of strict…