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EventThe trial of eleven Soweto students charged under the Terrorism Act begins
… conspired to commit sedition and terrorism between May 1976 and October 1977. On 11 May, 1979they were convicted of …
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Desmond Tutu
… the letter to Prime Minister John Vorster dated May 6th 1976, written by Tutu Interviews On forging equality in South …
EventMinister introduces free and compulsory education
… This was the fifth concession to Black demands since the 1976 Soweto Uprising. The government had also reversed the …
EventPupils refuse to return to school before Soweto Uprisings
… This marks a turning point and leads to the 16 June 1976 event of the Soweto Uprising. As the boycott spread to …
ArchiveCHAPTER 4 - A turn to masses by Howard Barrell
… the Strategic Review A number of developments between 1976 and 1978 challenged ANC strategic policy and practice. The uprisings in Soweto and elsewhere in…
EventSA to be admitted to the African Games provided that competitions in SA are held without racial discrimination.
… are held without racial discrimination. Eight years later (1976), Tanzania refused to go when the International Olympic … 18 September 2012)| NDTV , (2012), …
EventDeputy Minister of Bantu Education,Treurnicht is warned about deteriorating conditions in Soweto
… situation in the Black township as the events of 16 June 1976 bore testimony. …
EventJoint call for June 16 Stay away
… Black and White, in commemoration of the Youth of 1976, who were killed in the streets of Soweto while …
EventLucas Seage is born
… Botswana and then Damelin College in Johannesburg in 1976. In that same year he also attended Mofolo Arts Centre …
EventJournalist Percy Qoboza is released from detention
… other Black leaders seized in security raids in October 1976. Qoboza was freed as result of an international campaign …
EventPupils boycott classes in defiance of the use of Afrikaans in their schools
… occurrences until the ultimate breaking point on 16 June 1976, when the Soweto uprising took place that caused uproar …
PlaceDurban Main Post Office
… a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 25 June 1976. …
New tactics in the revolt
… during the months to come, but was always present in 1976. It also stressed a continuity with the stay-at-homes in … 26 October to expose the farce of …
PlaceMarket Theatre
… The Market Theatre was founded in 1976 in Johannesburg by Mannie Manim and Barney Simon. Now … performed their first formal production on the 21st June, 1976…
EventFormer ANC President, Oliver 'OR' Tambo, is born
… National Congress (ANC) President, was born at Bizana, Transkei (now known as Eastern Cape). During the 1940s, he …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: Pre-1500
… as far as Mpame, in the region later to be known as the Transkei . c. AD 600 Beginnings of the Late Iron Age in the …
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… situation and ‘decolonization in South Africa’. In the Transkei a form of self- government was granted in 1963. The …
PlaceCora Terrace Houses (1,3,5,7,9,11), Port Elizabeth
… a National Monument under old NMC legislation in 1975 and 1976 respectively. Not often will you have the opportunity …
EventBeyers Naude refuses to testify before the Schlebusch Commission
… was fined R50, 00 or one month in prison. On 28 October 1976, he was arrested for refusing to pay the fine. …
EventBotswana accuses South Africa of kidnapping a former Soweto student leader, Peter Lengene
… Billy Masetlha, led the Soweto youth uprising on 16 June 1976. Many of those who led the protest were later harassed …
EventHumphrey Ndlovu, veteran IFP leader dies
… Liberation Movement, now Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), in 1976. He was the Party’s West Rand Regional Chairperson from …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education
… William Makgoba Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event by Phil Bonner Chapter 3 - …
ArticleThe Angolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Brief History
… as the only truly representative party of Angola, and in 1976 the MPLA was formally recognised by the OAU as the … of independent Angola. The period between…
EventNyanga school Principal's office burnt
… On 24 June 1976 the Principal's office in Hlengisi Primary, Nyanga, … burnt down. The broader context of this is that on 16 June 1976 school children in…
EventEthiopia requests OAU to stop Somali intervention in the Ogaden Province
… African countries started long before the Ogaden War. In 1976, Ethiopia distributed a 39 page memorandum titled “War …
EventFather Smangaliso Mkhatshwa served with restriction order
… A year after the 1976 Soweto Student Uprising, the former Secretary of the …
Event2000 Students march through Cape Town
… The students at the Cape were influenced by the 16 June 1976 uprising of Soweto school children to take action …
EventLindiwe Sisulu is detained
… On 13 June 1976, Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu was detained for her involvement …
ArchiveBlack consciousness: a reactionary tendency
… This article is a reprint, and first appeared in June 1976 in The Educational Journal of March-May issue. The …
PlaceDutywa, Eastern Cape
… and was made a municipality in 1913, formerly part of the Transkei bantustan. It is the birthplace of Thabo Mbeki, who …