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EventJomo Kenyatta, believed to be Mau Mau leader, is convicted
… army post. Kenyatta’s arrest came shortly after the Lari massacre that happened on 26 March 1953 where close to 100 …
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…
Le Rona Re Batho by Phyllis Naidoo - Introduction
… the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 After the … me saying," Thank God you're alive, Ma…
ArticleFederation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU)
… of Free African Trade Unions (FFATU) disintegrated in the 1960's. It had 12 partners representing 45 000 workers. The …
Checkmate for apartheid? July 199 1 - June 1992
… closed on a disastrous note, that of the appalling massacre in Boipatong (June 1992), which precipitated the … which the HRC has classified as major…
ArchiveCuito Cuanavale, Angola 25th Anniversary of a Historic African Battle by Ronnie Kasrils (Monthly Review), Africa, Angola
… been established in South Africa in 1912 and, until the Sharpeville massacre of 1960, had followed a path of non-violent struggle. The …
Passive resistance in South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 2 June 1966
… of emergency. The reaction of the ANC to its banning in 1960 was to announce that it would conduct the liberation … degree of world interest in South Africa…
ArticleCape Schools Join the Revolt
… were some incidents within a week of the first Soweto massacre: on 24 June the principal's office at Hiargisi … were involved. Many of the adults remembered…
EventEleven people are killed in eSikhawini township
… by unknown killers armed with pump action shotguns. The massacre took place a few hours after approximately one …
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
Though first publicized as a respected medium for the liberation struggle in 1967, poetry and literary expression had been popularized throughout the 1950s and…
BiographyAhmed Timol
… as a clerk at a bookkeeper’s office in Johannesburg, in 1960, to augment the family income. Eventually, Timol …
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… at a consultative gathering of African leaders in December 1960. It charted the way forward following the ANC and PAC’s … have convened a national convention…
Statement Issued by Joint Meeting of African and Indian Leaders for Closer Co-operation, February 6, 1949
… Indian and African leaders. Professor D. D. T. Jabavu. Rev. Z. R. Mahabane of the Orange Free State. N. Mkele, …
Document 46. “Statement Issued by Joint Meeting of African and Indian Leaders” [For Closer Co-operation], February 6, 1949
… Indian and African leaders. Professor D. D. T. Jabavu. Rev. Z. R. Mahabane of the Orange Free State. N. Mkele, …
EventSamora Machel pledges solidarity with the people of South Africa
… with the South African people, in reaction to the massacre on 30 January 1981, where more than 14 uMkhonto …
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat
This is a list is part of the The ANC and the turn to the armed struggle: UMkhonto we Sizwe, MK Feature. Unknown |1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s …
ArticleIndian women workers, Durban’s clothing industry and the GWIU
… started to enter the industry in significant numbers from 1960 while the number of Indian men employed in clothing …
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO)
… South West Africa (presently Namibia) on 19 April 1960 by Herman Toivo ja Toivo. The party was originally …
ArticleGrade 12 - Civil Resistance in South Africa 1970s to 1980
What was the nature of the civil society resistance after the 1960s? During the 1960s and the 1980s South Africa was ruled by the National Party. The NP…
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
In 1924 the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) was founded aimed at representing and promoting the interests of university and college students…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Timeline 1961-1990
… and took place on the eve of the anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre. No one was injured. 12 May, A powerful bomb damages …
EventEleven people are killed at Donnybrook, Kwazulu
… in an overnight attack in Donnybrook. Hours before the massacre, former President Mandela had opened the ANC's …
EventA Second Plenary session of Multi Party negotiations for a transition to democracy in South Africa reconvene
… suspending all talks with the Government in the wake of a massacre in Boipatong on 17 June when more than 40 were …
EventRecord of Understanding is agreed to by the SA government and the ANC
… came shortly after the funeral of victims of the Bisho Massacre where scores of people were killed by the Ciskei …
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… the first African to be honored by the Nobel Committee (1960 Peace Prize). Interestingly, however, Luthuli was a … " Not everyone at Adams supported this…
PlaceMarikana, Bojanala Platinum District Municipality
… of South Africa. In this Area, is where the 'Marikana Massacre' occurred on August 16 2012, the South African … the North West Province of South Africa. This…
BiographyJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
… Chambers in central Durban. He spent three years, from 1960 to 1963, attending political education classes there. … Arrest and Imprisonment The banning of…
ArticleBizana and the Pondoland Revolt 1946 - 1962
… some homelands, in arson, violence and murder. On 6 June, 1960, at Nguza Kop in Pondo-land, the police fired on a …
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… Dube. 1958 The Mentz "Watch-Dog" Committee is appointed. 1960 Minister De Wet Nel agrees to retain Pimville as a Black suburb. 21 March, Some 69 residents of…
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the anti-racist day meeting of the Greater London Council, 21 March 1984, London
… Twenty-four years ago today, March 21st, 1960, 69 Africans were brutally murdered in the black township of Sharpeville, South Africa, when police fired on…