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Article on the pass law deputation in July 25, 1889
… the Native Pass Bill give an account of their stewardship. Rev. Elijah Makiwane having, at some length related the … an old man, who was the first to speak…
Opening Address to the ANC’s 48th National Conference by O. R. Tambo, Durban, 2 July 1991
… Comrade Matlou left before me. I left the country in 1960, a week after the Sharpeville massacre and just before the ANC and the PAC were banned. …
BiographyTim Bruwer
Odd one out Over the years many people have asked me how it came about that I, amongst all the Afrikaners that I grew up with or knew, as a young man in the…
EventSA Special Forces accused of train violence
… been involved in train violence, particularly the Benrose massacre on 13 September 1990. He also named a Zimbabwean who … Eastern Transvaal) operation at the…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… unrest. Three townships south of Johannesburg –Sebokeng, Sharpeville and Boipatong – were sealed off by a force of … for a National Day of Action on the…
EventTshifiwa Muofhe, a Lutheran Church elder suspected of complicity in the Sibasa Police Station bomb blast, dies in police custody
… him as they did Moufhe. Another Lutheran minister, the Rev Mbulaheni Phosiwa, was arrested and detained several …
EventSADF seals off Vaal townships
… (SAP) sealed off the Vaal Triangle townships of Sebokeng, Sharpeville and Boipatong. They carried out house-to-house …
PlaceQueenstown, now known as Komani.
… Ezibeleni was a Town established near Queenstown in the 1960's as part of a master plan to move all Black people to … and now comprises of commercial outlets…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 2
… Committee Meeting – 15 June 1992 Mass action and Boipatong Massacre on 17 June Rumours of Police Involvement and ANC … agreement at the second plenary of…
PlaceUgie, Eastern Cape
… man. Griquas from Inxu Drift came by ox wagon to fetch Rev. Murray at Hankey. They arrived back at Inxu Drift on 8 …
ArchiveInterview with Potlako Kitchener Leballo
… he was responsible for much of the PAC's success before Sharpeville, as well as for most of its failings in the …
EventFormer SADF Chief Tienie Groenewald is acquitted
… Court on all charges related to the 1987 KwaMakhutha Massacre. The KwaMakutha attack, in which thirteen people, … Dixon, Norm, (1996), Anger as massacre…
EventGen. Magnus Malan appears in court
… murder and attempted murder. The charges related to a massacre of thirteen people in KwaMakhuta township south of …
EventCalvin Thusago is stabbed to death
… youths as he and a colleague were on their way back from Sharpeville where they had filmed the desecration of Black …
Afrikaner
… celebrated with festivals such as the Union Festival in 1960 and the Republic Festival in 1966 when the Republic of … that promoted the Afrikaans language,…
III - Black Consciousness
… from the organisations that the government banned in 1960, following the police massacre of peaceful demonstrators at Sharpeville””the African National…
EventKenyan men arrested as part of the continuing crackdown by British authorities
… attacked the area. The attack came to be known as Lari massacre. Among the casualties was chief Luka from Lari, who … (Accessed: 13 February 2013)| Bilow, A…
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
… similarly motivated Unlawful Organizations Act, No. 34 of 1960. A prisoner would not have the right to visitors and … 1973, Nkutsoeu Matsau and six others…
EventWaddington report on Boipatong is released
… to make an independent inquiry into the Boipatong massacre on 17 June 1992, presented his report in which he …
EventZimbabwe's interior minister Joshua Nkomo is dismissed
Joshua Nkomo, long time friend of Robert Mugabe, was dismissed as minister of the interior on the accusation of plotting a coup in Zimbabwe. This triggered…
ArticleThe “Wind of Change” speech
… - Harold Macmillan, British Prime Minister, 3 February 1960; to the South African Parliament, Cape Town. …
EventANC attacks Koeberg nuclear power station
… including those that were buried as a result of the Maseru massacre, following a raid by the South African Defence Force …
EventMandela and de Klerk agree to restart talks
… the country. This had been soon after the Boipatong massacre when Mandela, leader of the African National …
EventTripartite Alliance plans mass action
… Trade Centre in Kempton Park broke down after Boipatong massacre in 1992. COSATU played a pivotal role in the …
EventInaugural Conference of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… trade union wing of the ANC led Congress Alliance. After Sharpeville most of the office bearers of SACTU went into …
EventNew SA Constitution takes effect
… 4 December 1996 and signed by President Nelson Mandela in Sharpeville, Gauteng on 10 December 1996. Among the laws …
ArticleObituary: Sheila Weinberg
… the most relaxed situations. When the ANC was banned in 1960, many people looked for reference points, people who …
ArticleBantu education and the racist compartmentalizing of education
… years, cultural clubs operated as informal schools, but by 1960 they had closed down. The Extension of University …
ArticleThe Transkei
… in the Pondo revolt which broke into the open early in 1960. At first the government pretended that nothing untoward … in progress. Emergency Proclamation…
ArchiveChapter 4 Political activity 1950-1963 by Denis Goldberg
… people and by us he was always recognised as “Chief”. In 1960 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace, the first … not impressed by their attitude. To…