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Address by Nelson Mandela on behalf of the ANC delegation to the Conference of the Pan-African Freedom Movement of East and Central Africa Addis Ababa, January 1962
… every African household in South Africa knows about the massacre of our people at Bulhoek, in the Queenstown … striking peacefully for higher wages. The…
ArticleThe Strikes and Popular and Political Support
… of the strikes was the most significant development since Sharpeville and the turn to armed struggle. The striking …
Baroness Castle of Blackburn opened an exhibition on the history of the Anti-Apartheid Movement at the opening session of the Symposium
… out a black sash demonstration outside Lancaster House. Sharpeville and Langa's massacres had shocked the British … We used to stand, four of us, with our…
Indian passive resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948 by E. S. Reddy
… prison for their beliefs as Gandhi had." After the May Day massacre of peaceful African demonstrators in Johannesburg in … as a common platform. When the ANC…
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… incidents of anti-Black violence such as the Marikana Massacre amongst others, as consistent within the historical … University where he worked from 1978. …
ArticlePrehistory of the Bloemfontein area
… leader of a Griqua group. In about 1823, the missionary Rev Burchell hired armed Griqua to protect BaThlaping living …
PlaceJohannesburg, Gauteng Province
… Ronnie Kasrils : the anti-apartheid activist who after the Sharpeville Massacre and its aftermath drew him closer to the African … Potchefstroom University…
BiographyZanemvula Kizito Mda
Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda (Zakes), was born in Herschel, Eastern Cape, South Africa, in 1948 to Rose Nompumelelo, a nurse, and Ashbey Peter Solomzi Mda, a…
BiographySydney Kumalo
… Skotnes as senior art instructor, a post he held from 1960 to 1964. His contribution to the shaping of a new art in …
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… reflected the apathy that had set in following the Sharpeville massacre. And during the next decade and a half, the … the North organised a march to…
BiographyZuleikha Mayat
Zuleikha Mayat was born in 1926 in Potchefstroom, Transvaal (now North West Province). Her father, Mohamed Bismilla, was a prominent business person who first…
ArchiveThe 16th of December in South Africa by Wolfram Kistner
… [white] Pietermaritzburg Dutch Reformed minister Rev P. Huet submitted to his church-council a petition which … to ascertain exactly the considerations which…
ArchiveRadio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio by Chris A. Smith
… during the first wave of mass resistance to apartheid. In 1960, police opened fire on a crowd of nonviolent protestors … in a township south of Johannesburg,…
The strangulation of activity
… Amendment also tightened the restrictions on the media. 1960 The Unlawful Organisations Act, promulgated on 28 March … in a spate of restrictive legislation…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… the Transvaal Native Mine Clerks Association. The Bulhoek Massacre takes place outside Queenstown. Dorothy Shanley is … of Europeans and Blacks in major…
The people armed, 1984-1990
… the new constitution was promulgated by the Government; Sharpeville embarked on a local rent boycott. The rent … of the Vaal which included the townships of…
Freedom In Our Life Time - African National Congress Activities
… 28 June 1947. In the last issue of the "Bantu World," Rev. H. G. Mpitso deprecated the Congress resolutions to … of the A.N.C.and even in local branch…
Mission Stations - N-S
… available NTEMBENI , King William's Town, Cape: Begun by Rev Ludwig Liefeldt in about 1864. No other data available. … by Dr John Ross, the station stood at…
ArticleThe Founding of the SANNC
… should have nothing to do with White institutions. Rev. John Dube was elected the SANNC’s first president at the …
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter VI - The Wesleyans take a hand
… chain of mission stations among the Bantu tribes. The Rev. William Shaw first established Wesleyville beside the … Ndlambe; then followed Butterworth, which…
Chapter IX - Treason - South African style 2
… We reached the third part of the treason saga in January 1960, the reports of our "treason" or "violent" or … of the ANC. His evidence ended on 21 March, the…
PlaceParsonage House Museum, Port Elizabeth
… oldest surviving house in Port Elizabeth and was built by Rev Francis McClelland of the Church of England, who arrived … The two storey house was originally…
PUBLIC RESPONSE TO SAHO WEBSITE
… - Is it Sobukwe or Mandela?. - The other thing is the Sharpeville Day you mentioned that it was started by … The search tool/method is dysfunctional. When I…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… South African government. 17 June, Following the Boipatong massacre massacre, Mandela indicated that negotiations with the … Mandela signed the new South…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… Sisulu to set up safe houses in the Lobatse area. Between 1960 and 1962, he worked closely with Joe Modise in … players. Holidays on the Revolutionary…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter VII - “The Missionary Charter”
… and interpreter was young Theophilus Shepstone, son of the Rev. Shepstone and Resident-Agent with Chief Phatho. Captain … seem to have shown their hand too…
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
… measures for the benefit of white workers. But after the Sharpeville Massacre the AHI urged the government to ease the pass laws …
BiographyRaymond Ackerman
Please note: This biography is a modified extract from the following source: Bell, P. (1999) “Raymond Ackerman” from They Shaped our Century: The Most…
BiographyBessie Amelia Head
… Congress (PAC) during the Anti-Pass Laws Campaign in 1960, and although her role in party politics was peripheral …
BiographyMadi Gray
Madi Gray was born in Cape Town, where she grew up, attended school and went to university. Her parents were immigrants from Germany, who came to South Africa…