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BiographyAbdool Karrim Essak
Abdool Karrim Essak was born in 1925 in India. He was the third child of Fathima and Ishaq Hashim. His father was an adventurer and left his family to seek…
BiographyHorst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt
… of the liberation movements that were outlawed between 1960 and 1965 and go underground? In November 1977, …
EventDesmond Tutu is elected Archbishop
… The Most Rev. Desmond Mpilo Tutu was elected Bishop of Cape Town, …
Brief Detention Diary by Michael Hathorn (an excerpt)
… Michael Hathorn was detained in Durban Central Prison in 1960, for his role in the struggle. Recorded below is an … 21 March 1960 We heard on the radio today…
EventScores of people are killed in Boipatong, Vaal
… of Johannesburg. In what has become known as the Boipatong massacre, township residents were butchered and assaulted in … and children lost their lives and…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… but neither is elected to the NRC. The ANC’s candidates of Rev. John Dube , A.W.G. Champion and Professor Z.K. Matthews … Declaration to the Nations of the…
EventThe Stellenbosch Gymnasium is founded
… initiative of Proff. John Murray and N.J. Hofmeyr, and the Rev. J.H. Neethling. The institution aimed to give …
ArticleUnited Nations and Apartheid Timeline 1946-1994
… year, except thatit expressed "deep regret and concern". 1960 21 March, Police shooting at peaceful demonstrators in Sharpeville against pass laws for…
PlaceSt Thomas’ Church, Ridge Road, Berea, Durban
… It was inaugurated by the Archbishop of Cape Town, the Rev Robert Gray on 28 June 1864. This Structure was in use … St. Thomas Church, on Musgrave Rd. They…
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… Church, a thatched wattle-and-daub structure erected by Rev J Archbell, was opened for worship. In 1850 this was … by a more substantial building, designed…
Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event
… uprising? Policy shift to grand apartheid Between 1954 and 1960 over 50 000 houses were built for Africans in Soweto. … policy on housing changed for…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event by Phil Bonner
… uprising? Policy shift to grand apartheid Between 1954 and 1960 over 50 000 houses were built for Africans in Soweto. … policy on housing changed for…
EventSA joins World War II
… Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed., Pretoria: Academica, p. 442. …
EventUDF is launched
… the apartheid government and attended the national launch. Rev Frank Chikane, who was the first major speaker was shot …
EventAdriaan Vlok applies for amnesty
… the director general in the office of the presidency, the Rev Frank Chikane, knelt down and washed his feet to show his …
Chief Albert Luthuli Memorial Lecture by President Jacob Zuma at Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, 24 November 2010, Durban
… and the destruction of dipping tanks by women. The Sharpeville Massacre of 21 March 1960, in which 69 people were killed and scores were injured. …
PlaceKeetmanshoop
… hope”) after him. This was the first Church was built by Rev. Tobias Fenchel . It was situated near the original … materials were transported from Lüderitz,…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter IV - Divide and Rule
… missionaries in succession to reside near him. Then the Rev. Williams brought the chief another massage of … the missionaries, for he had refused to allow…
PlaceLeliefontein
… ), it was the site of the devastating 1902: ' Leliefontein Massacre '. From the 1960s until 2016, Leliefontein was a …
EventInkatha Freedom Party is formed
… Other prominent founding members of Inkatha were the late Rev. Bishop Dr. A.H. Zulu and Dr. Frank .T. Mdlalose. On 14 …
ArticleSouth African Constitutional Development Timeline 1902 - 1997
… pleading for the establishment of a non-racial convention. 1960 16 December, The Consultative Conference of African … Act' as the transitional constitution…
ArchiveElizabeth van der Heyden by Allison Drew
… to attend CPSU meetings, but she never joined. [7] The Sharpeville-Langa massacres Following the March 1960 Sharpeville and Langa massacres , the Unlawful…
ArticleBlack Community Programmes (BCP)
… with the aims of the BCM, and using funds raised by Rev. Beyers Naude from European churches, BCP was launched …
EventSouth African Defence Force (SADF) raid Maseru in an effort to kill suspected members of the African National Congress
… charges and denounced the invasion as a "cold-blooded massacre." Charging that the ANC members killed were … was not yet ready for such an approach, and the …
ArchiveThe Little Acknowledged Legacy of Steve Biko by Prithiraj Dullay, (Daily News), 08 Sept 2008
… message to Black South Africa! We were on our own. Sharpeville in 1960 and Soweto in 1976 demonstrated the extent to which … could be applied. The ANC and…
Indian Community in Lenasia
… had rejected the Group Areas Act. Mahommed Jajbhay, Rev Sigamoney, Mahommed Abed, Ebrahim Dadabhai and Advocate … The first church, The Church of the…
EventVaal Triangle erupts in violence
… Boipatong, Bophelong, Evaton, Sebokeng and Sharpeville, five Black townships in the area known as the … men and one woman who become internationally known as…
EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested
… march (one of many) against the death sentence of the 'Sharpeville Six'. Tutu was freed a few hours later. Reginald … Francis Mokhesi were convicted for the…
PlacekwaMakhutha Township
… significance including the infamous 1987, KwaMakhutha Massacre involving state-sponsored violence during apartheid … at KwaMakhutha near Amanzimtoti. This…
EventTwenty die in an armed assault in a mosque in Khartoum, Sudan
… In a massacre on 4 February 1994 Abbas al-Bager Abbas opened fire … Mosque . Police arrested 65 members of the sect after the massacre. The tension between…