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EventBrenda Fassie, South African singer and diva, dies in her sleep at Sunninghill Hospital
… Koloi Lebona heard about Brenda and brought her to Soweto to live with his family. She soon joined the group Joy …
Lecture by President Thabo Mbeki delivered on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the death of Stephen Bantu Biko, 12 September 2007, Cape Town
… decade of the 1970s in our country, which included the Soweto Uprising of 1976, took the lives of many fighters for our … is like a vehicle without an engine…
EventNyanga school Principal's office burnt
… context of this is that on 16 June 1976 school children in Soweto, near Johannesburg, rose in protest against the …
What the lives of two South African music giants tell us about culture under apartheid by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 13 July 2017
… for my book on music and politics in South Africa, Soweto Blues, regularly asserted: I’m not a politician. How … and music. The metropolitan pull of…
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… to prolong the people's revolt. In 1976 - 1977, the uprising had not managed to sustain itself, and had given in …
ArticleMessage of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, delivered by Mr. Tambo, at the funeral of Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo
… all our people...which is a prerequisite for a nationwide uprising and victory along the lines of the Freedom Charter." …
ArticleRole of Black people in the South African War
… attempt at invasion by the Boers or to suppress any Boer uprising. The Boer occupation of Kuruman was initially …
From Segregation to Apartheid
… illustrated in a number of rural struggles. The Pondoland uprising was dominated by migrants retrenched from the sugar …
The South African History Online (SAHO) Graduate Internship Programme
… of violence and historiography in relation to a Poqo uprising in the town of Paarl, South Africa, in 1962. …
EventJacob Matlala, SA junior flyweight, wins the WBO world champion title
… Jacob "Baby Jake" Matlala was born on 8 January 1962 in Soweto, Johannesburg. He began his professional boxing career …
EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment
… led a peaceful Black march to Orlando police station in Soweto on 21 March 1960, the same day a similar protest took …
EventThe PAC is formed
… within a year, especially in the southern Vaal townships (Soweto and Sharpeville, near Vereeniging) and in the Western …
EventSolomon Kalushi Mahlangu is born
… students commemorate the 1976 demonstrations. On route to Soweto, his group was accosted by the police and a gunfight …
ArchiveAn Interview With F.W. De Klerk, the Last Apartheid President of South Africa by Nicolas Rossier
… a role but it wasn’t the major role. People march in Soweto, South Africa Saturday, June 16, 2001, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Soweto uprising…
ArchiveCHAPTER 5 - Armed Propaganda and Non-Colaborattion, Rationalising weakness, August 1979 - December 1980 by Howard Barell
… Footnote Another was Curtis Nkondo, who had chaired the Soweto Teachers' Action Committee during the 1976 uprisings … in both. Footnote Popo Molefe, Footnote…
The Road to Durban: Workers’ struggles, student movements, and the resurgence of resistance politics in Namibia and South Africa by Heike Becker
… mobilisation in Southern Africa. By the time of the Durban uprising, protest and labour action had already erupted in …
PlaceBotshabelo, Motheo Region near Bloemfontein
… refuge', is the largest Township in the Free State , after Soweto which is the largest in the South Africa. Botshabelo … is the largest township in the Free…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… that gold is rather scarce.It's quite hard to find and extract in large quantities with pre-industrial technology. … massive agglomeration of townships that…
EventFake tickets lead to stampede in Johannesburg
… Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates at FNB stadium in Soweto , Johannesburg. Stadium Management South Africa …
EventANC's Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe rally support against Urban Bantu Councils Act
… Sisulu and Duma Nokwe went from house to house in Orlando, Soweto near Johannesburg rallying support amongst community …
ArchiveInterview with Absolom Zithulele Cindi
… in 1950, he attended Orlando West High School in Soweto in the late 1960s. In 1972 he joined the Black …
Communique of the Second National Consultative Conference of the ANC, presented by O. R. Tambo at a Press Conference, Lusaka 25 June, 1985
… It opened on June 16th, the ninth anniversary of the Soweto uprising of 1976 and closed on the 23rd. We had originally …
Second National Consultative Conference Communiqué, 25 June 1985
… It opened on June 16th, the ninth anniversary of the Soweto Uprising of 1976 and closed on the 23rd. We had originally …
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa
… boy, Siphiwe Mahori, during an alleged robbery in Soweto Township. The boy was shot in the neck and died within … Zola, Meadowlands, Slovoville, Kagiso,…
EventSongwriter, film producer and actor Joe Mafela dies
… actor Joe Mafela passed away on his way home from Soweto, after he was involved in a car accident in …
EventGertrude Shope, former president of the ANC Women's League, is born
… was trained as a teacher and went on to teach in Natal and Soweto. When she was 29 years old she decided to join the …
Chapter 2 - From Crisis to Stability to Crisis
… action during the early 1970s which culminated in the Soweto uprising of 1976-77. Three issues in relation to black higher … conditions of African schooling,…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Essay Questions
Explain to what extent Stalin succeeded in transforming Russia into a superpower by 1939. Stalin came to power on the back of Lenin’s death in 1925, after…
Biography of Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana by Nick Mencia
… Struggle, and the Struggle for Jazz” out of her 2005 work Soweto Blues: Jazz, Popular Music, and Politics in South … Blues: Township Jazz in the ’60s and …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… government responded with unrestrained brutality. Across Soweto 18 Black people were killed and Mandela stayed in a … wants to effect the removal of Africans…