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ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… to co-operate in the defence of the Cape Sea Route. 1976 11 August-12 August, Violence spreads to Cape Town,to … in the violence in the Cape Town townships…
EventB.J Vorster steps down as Prime Minster
… in detention was officially opened. In the wake of the 1976 student uprising, Vorster deployed troops and police … of several youth and student activities…
Biography of George Hallett by Hunter Kolon
… from perpetrators [25] . Resistance photography 1946-1976 In order to understand Hallett’s development as a … cle/resistance-photography-and-mobilization…
PlaceCiskei
… citizenship. The Ciskei remained with its neighbour, Transkei , among the most neglected areas of South Africa. …
EventWalter Sisulu, co-founder of the ANCYL and Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born
… Walter Ulyate Sisulu was born in the Engcobo area in the Transkei on 18 May 1912. Sisulu worked as a miner, baker's …
EventThe S. A government seizes the passport of Bishop Desmond Tutu
… Between 1976 and 1978 Desmond Tutu served as Bishop of the Anglican …
EventNotorious ‘SOWETO’ policeman dies
… police to shoot at protesting school children in 16 June 1976. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 1998 …
EventFormer Tennis player, Kevin Curren, is born in Durban
… In 1976, a year after passing matric (now Grade 10), Kevin …
EventWhite sympathisers join evicted Black squatters in a protest
… informal settlements where Black people lived. In 1976 and 1977 massive evictions and destruction of …
Address of the President of the Republic Of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Youth Day celebrations: Absa Stadium, Buffalo City Municipality
… our national calendar the National Youth Day. On June 16, 1976, multitudes of South African youth emerged from township … that era we can, with hindsight,…
Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Fatima Meer
… our friendship was at a great cost to her. During the 1976 uprising by schoolchildren in Soweto, the government … them almost daily. I was eventually…
PlaceCala, Eastern Cape
… Batandwa Ndondo was expelled from the University of Transkei where he played a leading role in the Student …
EventJazz musician Victor Ntoni dies at the Helen Joseph Hospital in Johannesburg
… to study at the Berkley School of Music in Boston in 1976. Ntoni was a composer and arranger for the likes of Hugh …
EventAfrikaans is used for the first time in an international document with the signing of the Convention of Mozambique in Pretoria
… people rejected the language as a medium of education in 1976, which led to the Soweto’s student uprising. …
ArticleANC January 8th Statements
… January 8th, 1977 - No statement issued January 8th, 1976 - No statement issued January 8th, 1975 - No statement …
Black Peoples Convention - National Leadership
… Luke Mazwambe - 3 September 1970 Mapetla Mohapi - 5 August 1976 Mthuli kaShezi Muntu Myeza - 4 July 1991 Onkgopotse …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Bibliography
… The Rocky Rioter Teargas Show: The Inside Story of the 1976 Soweto Uprising . Cape Town, Zebra, 2001. Karis Tom. and … Mxolisi. The Soweto Uprisings: Counter…
Chapter 2 - From Crisis to Stability to Crisis
… the early 1970s which culminated in the Soweto uprising of 1976-77. Three issues in relation to black higher education … to characterise black higher…
EventSA artist Anthony Nkotsi is born
… Dumile Feni. His involvement in the student uprisings of 1976 saw him being detained. On his release he attended art …
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed TRC chairperson
Anti-apartheid activist and Nobel laureate Archbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu, the first Black archbishop of Cape Town rose to fame in the 1980’s. After the1976…
EventProtests against Afrikaans language in Black schools
… oppressor. It was against this background that on 30 April 1976, students at Orlando West Junior School in Soweto went …
EventTwo former Soweto student leaders, Khotso Seathlolo and Mary Loate are given long term sentences
… The two were convicted for events related to the 16 June 1976 uprising. On this day, more than 20 000 learners marched …
EventJean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of Central African Empire, crowns himself.
… Central African Republic from 1 January 1966 to 4 December 1976. After eleven years as president he dissolved the …
EventGeneral Idi Amin overthrows Ugandan President Milton Obote
… to become the army's chief of staff. Amin became famous in 1976 when he provided a safe refuge for hostage-holding …
EventLegendary photographer Sam Nzima dies
… for taking the picture of Hector Pieterson during the 1976 Soweto uprising . Hector Pieterson was shot by the apartheid police in 1976 when students in…
History of Muslims in South Africa: Bibliography by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Durban, September 14, 1979. 103. South African Statistics 1976, Pretoria, Department of Statistics, 1976, p 1.34 104. Brochure: An Introduction to the Muslim…
EventThe Soweto Uprising leaves 174 blacks and two whites dead following 10 days of rioting
… The student-led protests in Soweto in 1976 known as the Soweto Uprising claimed many lives and left … Boddy-Evans A. 16 June 1976 Student Uprising in Soweto…
Lionel Davis, SA artist, is born in Cape Town. He was a political prisoner on Robben Island between 1964 and 1971, where he c
… under a banning order and kept under house arrest until 1976. In 1978 and 1979 he worked at the Community Arts …
EventThe Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.
… In the aftermath of the 16 June 1976 Uprising, in Soweto, Johannesburg, the apartheid …
II - The Life of Steve Biko
… He became Secretary-General of the Zimele Trust Fund in 1976, and in that year, at the congress of the Black People's … following the police massacre of…