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2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location
… insult and antagonise black people. He ran roughshod over township residents, beating them with his sjambok , breaking … campaign eventually won them the…
PlacePhilippi
The settlement of Springfield was established sometime before December 1896, and in August 1898 its name was changed to Philippi. Philippi is one of Cape Town…
EventBrig. Ramushwana in NPKF admission
In a telephonic interview Brigadier Gabriel Ramushwana of the National Peacekeeping Force (NPKF), says that the way things were going, the NPKF would probably…
EventFirst Fietas Festival to celebrate the legacy of the community
The ex-residents and those who remember aim to reclaim their heritage, to restore themselves and the vital legacy of a community, through a festival that…
ArticleList of uMkhonto weSizwe Operations
… damage 19/12/83 Government Buildings: KwaMashu, Durban township offices - explosion causes R60 thousand damage 1984 … no injuries 12/04/88 Skirmishes with…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… ranks of the ANC, speaks at a public meeting in Alexandra Township. The next day he is arrested. 25 June The Defiance … arrested under the Urban Areas Act…
Biography of Arthur Nortje by Kangkang Yang
… cell and secret police interrogation rooms” as well as “township landlords, gaol warders, political refugees and …
EventViolence breaks out at the University of Zululand
Five people were killed and many others injured at the University of Zululand (Ongoye) after the outbreak of political violence at the institution on 29…
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… land were sold at Umbilo, subsequently known as Prospect Township. 30 January, Dr John William Colenso arrived on the … May. May, Lieutenant-Governor…
ArchiveLessons from Black Wednesday by Jerome Klaaste, 18 October 2019
… shoot and kill security guards in broad daylight in a township mall, when a so-called man of God can groom an …
Statement by Oliver Tambo at lunch hosted by the Foreign Minister of Venezuela, 13 July 1987, Caracas
We wish to express our sincere appreciation to the Government of Venezuela for receiving the delegation of the African National Congress. We must thank you for…
Statement at the Swedish People's Parliament Against Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, Stockholm, 21 February 1986
… of our people. As we stand here, our people in Alexandra Township in Johannesburg are still counting the number of …
Keynote address on the launch of Mafika Gwala’s Collected Poems Howard College, UKZN, 6 October 2016 by Mandla Langa
… tender, abrasive, protective poet who put the Mpumalanga township Hammarsdale on the national map - if he were here …
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the SA-USA Business and Finance Forum, Roosevelt Hotel, New York, 23 September 1999
… is the underdeveloped and weakly integrated rural and township infrastructure. The challenge now is to provide an …
Document 123 - Statement of Dr Y. M. Dadoo, Secretary, Non-European United Front (Transvaal), before the Court, 6 September 1940
… non-European areas, e.g., Sophiatown, Newclare, Alexandra Township and other locations are not streets at all, but …
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, submitted to the Annual Conference, December 15-17, 1950
… Uitenhage, Durban, Ladysmith, Evaton and Alexandra Township. Partial stoppage of work took place at the …
Chapter 5 - The Freedom Charter
… Charter called for the nationalisation, not of the little township shop, not of small private property, but of the …
The small matter of a horse: The life of 'Nongoloza' Mathebula, 1867-1948 by Charles van Onselen, 04 January 2012 (libcom.org)
… now reached out to embrace prison, mine compound and black township alike. 60 It was probably in an attempt to isolate … and of the fact that it embraced…
Chapter 4 - Removing the obstacles
… was tabled, at least twelve residents of Thabong, a township south-east of Johannesburg, were killed by police, shortly after similar killings in the…
Side By Side: The Autobiography of Helen Joseph
Helen Joseph is one of the most well-known South African women to campaign against apartheid. Her autobiography is being published on her 81st birthday and is…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
In 1948, the National Party (NP), representing Afrikaners, won the national election on a platform of racism and segregation under the slogan of 'apartheid’…
ArchiveCHAPTER EIGHT: Indian Resistance Politics In Transition, 1990-1996 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Chapter V - South Africa belongs to all who live in it
… would have relatives with whom they could stay in the township. When we had finished for the night, I used to drive …
Chapter I - Twenty thousand strong we marched
… increase in rentals for Soweto, the sprawling, spreading township housing the ill-paid workers and their families, the …
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
On 21 March, South Africa celebrates Human Rights Day. This day is a commemoration of the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre and how far the nation has come in the…
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
16 December 1959 - At the annual African National Congress (ANC) conference, Chief Albert Luthuli declared that 1960 would be the "Year of the Pass", with a…
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
Racial segregation and white supremacy had become central aspects of South African policy long before Apartheid started. The notorious 1913 Land Act, passed…
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
The Black People’s Convention (BPC) was an umbrella organisation of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). BCM had its origins in university campuses, mainly…
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
The late 1970s witnessed increased labour unrest in the region of the Western Cape. For instance, the Fattis and Monis strike and boycott, Saldanha Bay fish…
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament, 1983-1984
Introduction The Tricameral Parliament, a three-tiered assembly that presided over the last decade of Apartheid, was inaugurated to allow for parliamentary…