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ArchiveElizabeth van der Heyden by Allison Drew
… enroll at historically white universities like UCT, but in 1959 Parliament passed the Extension of University Education … and later at South Peninsula High…
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… will be held at Pinetown. 1955 22 April, Sisulu holds an interview with prominent members of the ANC over the … an ANC meeting in the Congress Offices in…
Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement
… are asked, through their spineless leaders," wrote Robert Sobukwe in The Africanist (December 1957), "not to … are all of them bourgeois!" ( The Africanist ,…
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
… he oversaw the Extension of University Education Act of 1959, which enforced separate universities for the different … was designed first of all to deal with…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… opens their case in the Treason Trial . 16 March, Robert Sobukwe writes to the commissioner of police, Major General … announces that 132 members of the PAC,…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
… of the ANCYL. A group of “youth leaguers”, led by Robert Sobukwe and Ashley Peter Mda condemned the Freedom Charter as … implicated in the Treason Trial that…
Article1960-1966: The genesis of the armed struggle
… leaders and organisations Cato Manor Protests, Natal. 1959-1960. © Private Collection, Franco Frescura. The … (“Pure” or “Alone”) , formed in February 1960…
Gertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… was extended to universities and colleges under the 1959 Extension of University Education Act . The apartheid … She is a role model for women’s rights…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
… centre of Cape Town led by Phillip Kgosana and demand an interview with the Minister of Justice. The Chief of Security … of the formation of the MK. << ANC…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… organisations had to consider new tactics. In 1958 and 1959 key ANC and South African Communist Party (SACP) leaders … a British Conservative Member of…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on January 1976 in reply to a motion of no confidence in the Government by the Leader of the Opposition
… of the Black people in South Africa are Mandela 16 and Sobukwe. 17 One will first have to clear up and argue out the … Tolbert of Liberia. He addressed a…
PUBLIC RESPONSE TO SAHO WEBSITE
… Who is the longest serving political prisoner - Is it Sobukwe or Mandela?. - The other thing is the Sharpeville … future. You have my permission to make use…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Introduction
… from the ANC to form the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) in 1959. The Africanists also held Lembede memorials and used … 2. Letters from Sister Bernadette…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… Gold Coast) under the chairmanship of Kwame Nkrumah. 1959 6 April, Robert Sobukwe and others break away from the African National … by organising itself…
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… arrested along with 155 others on charges of high treason 1959 Heads the ANC’s Constitutional Commission 1960s 1960 … (EEC as it was then known) in Ireland…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… He announces that 132 members of the PAC, including Robert Sobukwe, are being held in Johannesburg and are to be charged … townships march into the centre of…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… to a split within the ANC by those members like Robert Sobukwe who espoused the Pan-Africanist view of “Africa for …
ArticleGertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… was extended to universities and colleges under the 1959 Extension of University Education Act . The apartheid … She is a role model for women’s rights…
Biko’s legacy lives on in our nation’s history and culture by Nkosinathi Biko, 12 September 2012, South Africa
… years now; and with the University of Fort Hare the Robert Sobukwe Memorial Lecture for six years. At a community level, …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… members of the Pan Africanist Congress, including Robert Sobukwe , are being held in Johannesburg and are to be charged with sedition. March 23, Robert…
ArticleLife Timeline of Jacob Zuma
… through its youth structure the ANC Youth League (ANCYL). 1959 Zuma joins the South African Congress of Trade Unions … his most enthusiastic supporters…
BiographyStephen Bantu Biko
… not understand their lessons. Steve passed Standard Six in 1959 and in 1960 he went on to Forbes Grant, a school through … among them. Steve met with banned…
The search for Peter Johnson’s story
… former leader of the Pan African Congress (PAC), Robert Sobukwe . In order to begin an enquiry, the first thing …
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… and fighting the apartheid government was needed. In 1959 a group of Africanists led by Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe broke away from the ANC and formed the Pan…
Chief Albert Luthuli Memorial Lecture by President Jacob Zuma at Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, 24 November 2010, Durban
… The Cato Manor march in Durban where rioting broke out in 1959 in protest against the city`s beerhalls or eMatsheni, … decision of the ANC. Chief Luthuli…
ArchiveObituary: Eddie Webster’s influence over generations of students extended to the country and beyond its borders by Andries Bezuidenhout (Mail and Guardian), 6 March 2024
… discussed the significance of the fallout between Robert Sobukwe and his mentor at Healdtown and how we, as South …
Brief Detention Diary by Michael Hathorn (an excerpt)
… had apparently flown to Durban from Pretoria in order to interview Norman Phillips. A message came through to A Block … Colonel McLachlan, that Norman was to…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… printed in Afrikaans, Nama/Damara and Otjiherero. [15] 1959 Omahodhi gaavali by H.D. Namuhuja is published by … non-religious book by a black Namibian to be…
ArchiveThe Little Acknowledged Legacy of Steve Biko by Prithiraj Dullay, (Daily News), 08 Sept 2008
… PAC were banned already in 1960. Nelson Mandela and Robert Sobukwe were on Robben Island, with most of the leadership of …
II - The Life of Steve Biko
… imprisoned for life on Robben Island; the late Robert Sobukwe , leader of the Pan Africanist Congress, living under …