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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 …
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. …
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." …
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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 …
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,…
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 …
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…
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 …
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 …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.9 No.2 1990
… The Only House with a Gate, Senzo Malinga; Rainy Night in Soweto, Mabuse A. Letlhage; Dissent, Etienne de la Harpe; …
EventStompie Seipei’s murderer goes to jail
… and three other boys near the Methodist Church (Manse), Soweto and took him to Winnie Mandela's home. Richardson …
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
… and anti-apartheid student political activity. After the Soweto Uprising on 16 June 1976, hundreds of young people left the …