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Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Foreword
… is correct to point out that many people regard the 1976 Soweto Rising as the beginning of the liberation struggle and …
Address of the President of the Republic Of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Youth Day celebrations: Absa Stadium, Buffalo City Municipality
… generation of young men and women took to the streets of Soweto and many of our townships in a show of defiance to the …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 67th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1979
… who murdered, not just 300, but nearly 1,000 children in Soweto alone in 1976. The people of Mozambique, Zambia, 4 …
The fight against passes continues
… First we went to Johannesburg and we slept the night in Soweto, and then the next day, it was August 9th, we went to …
PlaceJohannesburg, Gauteng Province
… 2013 , as well as major football matches like the popular Soweto Derby that involves two South African Premier Soccer …
ArticleDebating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
… as well as racism and oppression. [19] This led to the Soweto Uprisings where banners were displayed stating “To …
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 2 (2001-2022)
… ballooning debt (the largest proportion of which was in Soweto), she suggests that the company failed to deal with …
The diary of Maria Tholo - December 16 - 1 January 1977 by Carol Hermer
… railways more than six months ago, before the troubles in Soweto had started, let alone in Cape Town. So they let them … didn't everyone go. But people had…
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… He is forced to move to Orlando, which is later part of Soweto. Conditions are far from the promises made by the …
ArticleSouth African Constitutional Development Timeline 1902 - 1997
… Conference of African Leaders is held in Orlando, Soweto. This Conference makes a call to all African people to …
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… massive agglomeration of townships that became known as Soweto (South Western Townships). New freeways encouraged …
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… in Cape Town and areas such as KwaMashu in Durban and Soweto in Gauteng). The board that administered the Group …
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… eventually escaping South Africa during the June 1976 Soweto uprisings at the direction of the ANC. He settled in …
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… and by the Ndebele National Organisation, based in Soweto. On 5 October 1967 members of various Ndebele …
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) met in Kliptown, Soweto at the Congress of the People (COP). It was at this …
65th Anniversary of the South Africa Communist Party - Joe Slovo
… of the political struggle. The 10th anniversary of the Soweto Uprising in 1976 reminds us of the emergence of … the mounting repression reached its climax in…
Concluding Remarks
… that protest art is a phenomenon of the Eighties, or that Soweto 1976 heralded the first wave of overt political … art institutions. Not unexpectedly, the…
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
… African trickster. And from interviews we conducted in Soweto and Brakpan in the East Rand, with Boetie’s family and …
Last kicks of a dying horse July 1992 - June 1993
… no signs of improvement. By contrast the situation in Soweto and Alexandra has improved greatly and towards the end … factor in the abatement of violence…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… independent states. June 16 1976 Student uprising in Soweto. The immediate cause was the introduction of Afrikaans …
ArchiveWomen Freedom Fighters tell of Sexual Abuse in Camps by Carl Collison (Mail and Guardian), 27 October 2017
… years after the day she left her mother’s house in Soweto to go into exile as a freedom fighter, only now is she …
Statement submitted to the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, on the occasion of the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners, 11 October 1979
… to house the white male security prisoners. Since the Soweto revolt, the authorities have been especially severe in …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of 1956 Women’s March: Union Buildings, Tshwane, 9 August 2006
… brutal massacres as those that took place in Sharpeville, Soweto, Boipatong, Shobashobane and elsewhere in our country …
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… became the victim of a parcel bomb. Women in the 1970s - Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state ↵ The Day … the 1970s, and particularly in the…
Polokwane the Segregated city
… politics. A decade of Turbulence, 1976-86 The unrest in Soweto in June 1976 also had its effects in Pietersburg. Many … Terrorism Act, resulting in the Saso…
Statement at the Eighth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries by O. R. Tambo, Harare, 1 - 6 September 1986
… the Pretoria regime carried out yet another massacre in Soweto. This latest crime was the racists' continuing … countries, will draw the right lessons from…
ArchiveBibliography by Howard Barrell
… Press, 1987). Hirson, B., Year of Fire, Year of Ash; The Soweto Revolt: Roots of a Revolution? (London: Zed Books, … Turning Back (London: Macmillan, 1988)…
Chapter VI - A strange kind of goal bird
… Side by Side by Helen Joseph The first anniversary of the Soweto shooting, 16 June 1977, was to be commemorated at St … campus lawns that morning in…
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… area), Nancefield and Klipriviersoog (Coloured area) and Soweto Township (South African Institute for Race Relations, … the number of people that will be…
ArchiveDeborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo
… movement because of the group’s public demonstrations in Soweto. The protests led to intense government backlash that …