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EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years' imprisonment
… march to Orlando police station in Soweto on 21 March 1960, the same day a similar protest took place in Sharpeville, to hand over their passes to police…
EventMandela signs SA Constitution into law
… signed the final draft of the constitution into law at Sharpeville, Vereeniging on 10 December 1996. The date on … that laid the foundation for apartheid. On…
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… attempt to enter South Africa. When the ANC was banned in 1960, Oliver Reginald Tambo , a member of the National … a new and powerful development in the…
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) after the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960 – a series of struggles that ultimately toppled the …
BiographyJohn Langalibalele Dube
… Africa (the first-born son), William and Thupana. Rev James Dube (who died in 1877) was also one of the minor …
ArticleCODESA 2 Timeline
… a nationwide stay away. 17 June 1992: The Boipatong Massacre takes place, with the death toll later to stand at 45. 18 June 1992: Claims of police…
The Role of Women in the Struggle against Apartheid, 15 July 1980
… Resistance and demonstrations continued, but by March 1960, 3,020,281 women, or about 75 per cent of the adult … disperse, Mr. Sobukwe said, they should do…
Isitwalandwe / Seaparankoe the Highest Award of Honour, 1955 - 2014
… 1955 Moses Mauane Kotane 1975 Govan Mbeki 1980 Bishop Ambrose Reeves 1980 Lilian Ngoyi 1982 Oliver Reginald Tambo …
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad 1906 - 1990
… provide psychiatric help to those cadres stationed there. 1960 the banned SACP starts writing a journal called the … distribute it both in London and…
ArchiveAfrican Communist, 1959 - 1994
… declared by the government after the police massacres of Sharpeville and Langa in 1960. The delay had been due to fears amongst some in the …
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is released
… Congress leader, Robert Sobukwe, was arrested after the Sharpeville anti-pass campaign of 1960 and harshly sentenced to three years in prison. At the …
Pridekit - Enoch Sontonga
… It was first sung in public in 1899 at the ordination of Rev Boweni, a Shangaan Methodist Minister. Sontonga's choir … complete. He studied the site plan for…
BiographyPoonoosamy 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…
EventThomas Titus Nkobi is born
… undertaken during state of emergency declared after the Sharpeville Massacre resulted in arrest by the security police. He was …
Africa South
… who crossed the South African border into exile in 1960 with the African National Congress leader, Oliver Tambo. … events such as the bus boycotts, political…
EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment
… march to Orlando police station in Soweto on 21 March 1960, the same day a similar protest took place in Sharpeville, to hand over their passes to police…
Chapter 5 - Basotho - Their Last Supper
… the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 Into this … to know that demon dompass. The final…
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… and other jazz styles during the repression following the Sharpeville Massacre. The 1960s and 1970s were a difficult period for …
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… goal of liberation and embrace the reformist ends. 1959 - 1960 Durban South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) … strikes in response to banning of the…
BiographyVivian Fitzsimons
… Snakes of Southern Africa, first published by Collins in 1960. He was appointed director of the Transvaal Museum in …
EventBanned PAC Leader, Robert Sobukwe, is refused an exit permit to leave SA
… of Kimberley. Robert Sobukwe was arrested after the Sharpeville anti-pass campaign of 1960 and sentenced to three years in prison. At the end of …
Biographical contribution on Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge
… at a young age. She was only seven years old when the Sharpeville Massacre occurred in 1960. Having to comprehend the violent massacre of sixty-nine …
EventNamibia gains Independence
… Force (SADF) soldiers. One such incident was the Kassinga massacre, a Namibian refugee camp in Angola on 4 May 1978. …
EventHilda Bernstein passes away
… Defiance Campaign, the 1955 Freedom Charter Campaign and 1960 Sharpeville Campaign. Bernstein was arrested and issued with …
Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
… especially since the ANC had been banned since 1960 and was prohibited in any form inside the country. The … and Afrikaner and other media since its banning…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… of protesters. For the first time since the 1921 Bulhoek Massacre the police opened fire on the protesters killing 18 … were prominent ANC leaders . Move to…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Le Monde, Addis Ababa, 08 June 1983
… fallen, from triumphing. Each murder, each hanging, each massacre merely feeds the desire for revenge and mobilises … 30 years of apartheid? Thousands. The…
PlaceSt Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Odendal Street, Germiston
… Church, Germiston”. The Past Ministers include: The Rev. George Young Robey- 1890 – 1895; The Rev. William McIntosh- 1896 – 1899; Major Rev. Thomas Murray-…
Durban Historical & community
… Isaacs, Nathaniel James, Henry William Joyce, Robert Kay, Rev Stephen King, Lieutenant James Saunders King, Richard …
PlacePacaltsdorp
… 1818, its name was changed to Pacaltsdorp in honour of the Rev Carl Pacalt, the first missionary to serve there. John … Director of the LMS, who was…