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EventP.W. Botha and Kenneth Kaunda in a historic meeting
… Prime Minister B.J. Vorster and Kaunda on 25-26 August 1976. The two leaders were together for nearly four hours and …
EventThe Convention on the International Maritime Satellite Organisation, plus Operating Agreement, is adopted in London.
… Organisation (Inmarsat) was adopted on 3 September 1976, along with an Operating Agreement. As defined by the …
EventResolute Treurnicht rejects waiving language policy
… of instruction. The mass protest was scheduled for 16 June 1976. …
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… from the Rhenish missionary printing press Karibib. 1976 The first volume of Namibian poetry in English was … self-published in Zambia and included thirteen…
What the lives of two South African music giants tell us about culture under apartheid by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 13 July 2017
… to play Newport: something they finally achieved in 1976, stalled three times previously by the refusal of the … to perform on the deck of a South African…
ArchiveStudent walkouts have changed history before. In South Africa, one helped end apartheid by DeNeen L. Brown (The Washington Post), 14 March 2018
… boy, was one of the first students to die. On June 16, 1976, more than 10,000 black high school students in Soweto … Hector Pieterson, a 12-year-old shot by…
BiographyChristopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu
… movement and the Soweto Uprising organised by the ANC in 1976 when he was in standard six (Grade eight). The highlight …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
… They were sometimes known as the TBVC states ”” Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda, Ciskei. The other six were … during the 1970s was the uprising that began on…
EventSouth African Students Movement leaders meet to plan protest action against the implementation of Afrikaans
… the protest march. During the early hours, on 16 June 1976, Tsietsi Mashinini led the peaceful protest of … About African History , ‘16 June 1976 Student…
PlaceGrey Institute/School, Port Elizabeth
… National Monument under old NMC legislation on 10 December 1976. …
Artist Bill Ainslie is born
… like the Federated Union of Black Arts (FUBA) in 1976; the Thupelo Art Project in 1985; and the Alexandra Art …
EventThree ANC members are sentenced to death
… pleaded not guilty and cited police brutality during the 1976 student uprising as cause for their actions against the …
EventEbola virus kills 153 people in Zaire
… was near the site of the first outbreak of the virus in 1976. It is thought that bats harbour the disease, and …
EventGwala and Mothopeng are released from Robben Island
… as KawaZulu Natal). After the workers strike in August 1976, Gwala was arrested again with scores of ANC members and … with his political activities and was…
The diary of Maria Tholo - September 20 - October 17 by Carol Hermer
… promised that if they could just wait until after the Transkei independence on October 26 5 it would be quite … to take place on the sixteenth all about so…
EventThe National President of the Black People’s Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness
… On 27 June 1976, almost two weeks after the Soweto Uprising on 16 June, …
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Roanne Moodley
… Dear Student Movements of 1976, (Dear ex-student behind the movement, who made personal … outworking of apartheid on your education and everyday in 1976…
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
… active in the anti-apartheid movement on campus in early 1976. [x] His active anti-apartheid friends in university … Representative Council to which he was…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… Durban strikes of 1973 and later the student uprising of 1976. The 1976 Uprisings led to the intensification of armed struggle … legislation include Section…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1930-1939
… ANC branches could be revived. Govan Mbeki publishes Transkei in the Making a work of political analysis which is … deeply critical of the system of local…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… Dadoo and Yusuf Cachalia are detained at Idutywa in the Transkei as they entered the area without the necessary … the resistance movement. Mandela briefly…
ArchiveUmkhonto we Sizwe - Structure, Training and Force Levels (1984 to 1994) by Tsepe Motumi , African Defence Review No 18, 1994
… South Africa in the wake of the Soweto uprisings in June 1976 and the violence that started in the Vaal Triangle in … unions. An attempt to infiltrate cadres…
PlaceKoeberg Nuclear Power Station, Cape Town
… Construction of Koeberg began in 1976 and Unit 1 was synchronized to the grid on 4 April 1984, … Construction of Koeberg began in 1976 and Unit 1 was…
ArticleUnion, Segregation, apartheid and Democracy: From Union to non racial democracy
… the realization of this objective was the passing of the Transkei Constitution Act of 1963 which provided for …
ArticleInkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
… viable homelands system had hopelessly faded. Even the Transkei, the most promising prospect, could meet only 10% of …
Nelspruit the Segregated city
… of them were granted independence: Bophuthatswana, Venda, Transkei and Ciskei. Kangwane was next in line for this …
Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
… subjugation of the Tembu, Pondo, Fingo and Xhosa in the Transkei. The Xhosa in particular fought nine wars spanning …
PlaceWindermere
… migrated to Cape Town from rural areas such as the Transkei and Ciskei in search of work. Though earlier … relocating to the Cape from rural areas such as…
’UNITE! MOBILISE! FIGHT ON! BETWEEN THE ANVIL OF UNITED MASS ACTION AND THE HAMMER OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE WE SHALL CRUSH APARTHEID!’
… message was Mandela's call after the Soweto uprising of 1976. It was published by the ANC on 10 June 1980, with an … and the rumbling of Hippo armoured…
Bibliographical note and further reading
… Indian South Africans, 1860-1946' (D.Phil., Oxford, 1976); P. S. Joshi, The Tyranny of Colour: A Study of the … British Self-Governing Colonies, 1830-1910 ,…