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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 …
Chapter 6 - Reform, Repression and Mass Resistance
… The uprising of 1976-77 marked a watershed in political relations between the … that white minority rule, shaken, but still secure in 1976-77, would begin to…
Launch of the Luthuli Volunteer Corps, 12 June 2013
… of June this year ushers in the 37 Anniversary of 16 June 1976 when the young people of our country raised against the … development rather than oppressive…
ArchivePostscript Ante by Howard Barrell
… closer colleagues in Robben Island prison between 1964 and 1976, between 1978 and 1983 the head in exile of the ANC's … their age: African National Congress…
An interview with Dorothy Molefi: Hector was ‘always smiling’
… child was Hector Pieterson. As a 12-year-old victim of the 1976 Soweto Uprising, Hector Pieterson was immortalised by … not simply a symbol. She told us her…
ArchiveA critical look at the role of the Muslim Judicial Council in the struggle for liberation in South Africa from 1960 to 1994
… Africa emphasising highly politicised events such as the 1976 Uprising, 1985-1986 Mass Mobilisation, 1989-1990 …
EventArchbishop Owen Cardinal McCann becomes South Africa’s first cardinal.
… Catholic Church began campaigning against Apartheid. In 1976, in an open letter to the Government, he made a …
EventMac Maharaj, Laloo Chiba, Raymond Nyanda and Andrew Masondo arrive on Robben Island prison
… from Robben Island. Maharaj and Masondo were released in 1976. Chiba was released in December 1982. …
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Timeline 1961-1990
… were hostile to the anti apartheid struggle. After the 1976 Uprising hundreds of young people who fled to exile … invites MK to train its cadres on Angolan…
ArticleFootball in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012
… is again suspended in 1964. It is expelled from FIFA in 1976. 1964 FASA's (Football Association of South Africa) … next congress, during the Olympic Games in…
The Detention Weapon
… for the purposes of interrogation in solitary confinement. 1976. The Internal Security Amendment Act, No. 79 was … Terrorism Act (same as Terrorism Act, No…
ArticleFietas: Pageview timeline 1880-1988
… Plaza is established, but stands virtually empty until 1976 when unwilling traders are forcibly removed from their shops in Pageview. 1976 Major removals in…
EventThe Azanian People’s Organisation is formed
… 1977 for their role in the resistance and the 16 June 1976 uprisings. The organisation sought to apply the …
EventSipho Malaza allegedly dies in detention
… His death was the twenty-first in detention since March 1976. An entry in Deaths in Detention gives his details as …
EventDanie Malan, SA athlete, sets a new world record in the 1 000m event in Munich
… internationally. However, Malan was invited to Zurich in 1976 nevertheless, where he also set the world record for the …
EventPolice increase their presence in Soweto
… Following the 16 June 1976 Soweto protest and the killing and injuring of student …
PlaceCrossroads Township
… all the way from the homelands (predominantly Ciskei and Transkei ) to visit their husbands in Cape Town. The removals …
ArticleAfrikaner Jewry in South Africa
… ↵ [xiii] Mendelsohn & Shain, (2008:215) ↵ [xiv] Berger, (1976: 115) ↵ [xv] ibid. p.117 ↵ [xvi] ibid. ↵ [xvii] ibid. …
The armed struggle and state repression of the 1960s
… The government's strategy was quite effective, until 1976 when mass resistance began again. You should now know …
The people armed, 1984-1990
… grew into a nationwide uprising surpassing that of 1976. Students boycotted schools. Communities organised … the country and facing the tenth anniversary of…
Concluding Remarks
… revealed is that "protest" took root in events prior to 1976. In several recent books, by contrast, the impression is … art is a phenomenon of the Eighties,…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… born in Cape Town. Tennyson Xola Makiwane is born in the Transkei . Eric Ngcobo is born near Melmoth, Zululand. The … Zaniewe Winnifred Mandela is born at…
Chapter 4 - Poor, yet generous Lesotho
… its total repression of human rights activists, after June 1976, arrived in Lesotho in droves. By 1977 it was around … to be properly English.) Which borders…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Segregation Fallacy
… argument into four sections East Griqualand, Pondoland, Transkei proper. The first three average more than a quarter … inhabited must be left out of…
ArchiveNote on sources and footnoting by Howard Barrell
… and members of the ANC who were in exile in the 1976-1986 period; with leaders and members of the pro-ANC … of my research. These documents were dated,…
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… completely false. Shortly after the Soweto uprising in 1976, I was in Canada and agreed to the use of some of my … yes there was an element there of…
PlaceFort Wynyard
… It remained operational until August 15, 1945. On 14 May 1976 Fort Wynyard was proclaimed as a national monument. In …
EventSA artist, Lionel Davis, is born
… restricted under a banning order and house arrest until 1976. In 1978 Davis joined the Cape Arts Project (CAP). The …