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South Africa's freedom struggle by E.S. Reddy
… a clandestine organisation. And since going into exile in 1960, he played a key role in promoting underground and armed … of the underground South African…
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…
ArticlePAC’s African Women’s Organisation
… call for the release of Theresa Ramashamola, one of the Sharpeville Six. The organisation sees national oppression …
BiographyChief Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk
… that he had no choice but to become politically active. In 1960, Van Wyk married Joanna M. Jacobs. The couple had seven …
ArticleJohn Langalibalele Dube Timeline 1940-1950
… station of the American Zulu Mission (AZM), in Natal to Rev James Dube and his wife Elizabeth. 1877 Rev James Dube, the father of John Dube dies 1887-1888…
Biography of Miriam Makeba by Narcy Negrete
… activist. After she was exiled from South Africa in 1960, she used her success to shine a light on the ugly … Africa, which was released in 1959 in South…
Durban Mayors and other city officials
… (1924 - 26) HL Buzzard (1926 - 28) A Eaton (1928 - 29) Rev. A Lamont (1929 - 32) Oliver Lea (1932 - 33 ) Percy …
Chapter 4 - Poor, yet generous Lesotho
… the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 Exiles who … from banishment. With the emergency…
ArchiveJock Strachan: Artist, guerilla, fighter pilot, bomb maker, fisherman, humourist, writer, hero
… who died this month aged 94 – prevented a probable second massacre of black demonstrators outside Central Prison in … police pointing Sten guns, only days…
Oliver Tambo, 1 October 1987 - Reproduced in Oliver Tambo and the Struggle against Apartheid, edited by E. S. Reddy
… the African National Congress, who has been in exile since 1960, and Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu who have been in … persuaded to undertake the…
Oliver Tambo, October 1987
… the African National Congress, who has been in exile since 1960, and Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu who have been in … persuaded to undertake the…
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
IntroductionNontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu (née Nontsikelelo Thethiwe) was one of the prominent anti-apartheid South African leaders, widely referred to as the …
ArchiveMemorandum delivered to De Klerk
… Memorandum delivered to President De Klerk by Rev Chikane, Rev Boesak and Archbishop Tutu outlining six points that they …
ArchiveInterview with Frank Chikane
… Oral interview with Rev Frank Chikane, This interview was conducted just after Rev. Chikane's appointment as General Secretary of the South …
EventAmy Biehl’s murderers receive amnesty from TRC
… attending the hearing. Vusumzi Samuel Ntamo, Ntombeki Ambrose Peni, Mzikhona Eazi Nofemela and Mongesi Christopher …
ArticleConclusion: Black Consciousness Movement
… one created by the banning of the ANC and the PAC after Sharpeville. On the positive side, many youths had reached a …
ArticleA Luta Continua Dialogues, Episode 2: Policing and Resistance
… in Lekki, Nigeria. This has come to be known as The Lekki Massacre and the government has refused to take … continue to advocate for accountability for The…
Freedom movement in South Africa: Its International impact by E.S Reddy
… of ANC in 1958 for a boycott of South Africa and the Sharpeville massacre of 1960, millions of people around the world have been moved to …
BiographySolomon Kalushi Mahlangu
… protests commemorating the June 16 Uprising and the police massacre that followed. They travelled through Mozambique to …
BiographyJames la Guma
… emergency that followed the Sharpevillle shootings in 1960 and was detained for three months. la Guma's health …
ArticleSouth Africa and the United Nations, 1946-1990
… to South Africa to change its policies year after year. In 1960 the worldwide view changed as a result of the Sharpeville Incident. As from this point many…
PlaceKilnerton Training Institution
… came to Gauteng and Limpopo Provinces. In 1880 the Rev. Owen Watkins started a “Trial Mission” in the Transvaal … before the arrival of the Missionaries…
ArticleA history of prison labour in South Africa
… political unrest. However, this soon changed in the post- Sharpeville period of the early 1960s, when the imprisonment …
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… as an international “problem” by the Western powers after Sharpeville in 1960. It was also kept on the agenda through sustained …
PlaceDutch Reformed Church Hall, Uitenhage
… presentation of the magistrate approved by the governor. Rev. Cornelis Mol who was an Afrikaner from birth. In 1823, however Rev. Mol, for some reason…
BiographyDieter 'Felix' Gerhardt
Born on 1 November 1935, in Berlin, Germany, Gerhardt joined the South African Navy after his father successfully persuaded naval chief Hugo Biermann to take…
BiographyAdam Small
… Fort Hare in Transkei (now Eastern Cape) in 1959, and in 1960, at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) – of which …
Community histories of Rustenburg
… of the Cape. The final break came with the appointment of Rev. Dirk van der Hoff (1814-1881) from Holland in 1853 as … spectrum of Transvaal nationalism. On…
Indian education in Natal
… Present were the Protector of Indian Immigrants, the Rev Ralph Stott and Mr Heury Binns, a planter. Not all … School Board, Verulam, Isipingo, Avoca,…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… to South Africa to change its policies year after year. In 1960 the worldwide view changed as a result of the Sharpeville Incident. As from this point many…