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Address to the Anti-Racist Day Meeting of the Greater London Council by O. R. Tambo, London, 21 March 1984
… 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…
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… were Chief Shikoane Kekana II of Zebediela and the Rev Molomo, chair of NANO who, prior to 1973, had already …
ArticleCall for submissions: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa Conference
Conference: THE POLITICS OF ARMED STRUGGLE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA Conference Date: 23-25 November 2016 Venue: University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) …
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter X - Triumph of disunity (2)
… missionaries had been among the first to penetrate. The Rev. W. Edwards, one of the very first batch of missionaries … the Tlhaping had received him in a…
ArticleThe Founding of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… and strikes across the country. After the Marikana Massacre, Shivambu, Magaqa, and Anda Bici met with …
UCT Summer School 2020
… 2020 UCT Summer School. Local and South African History MASSACRE ON THE FRONTIERS DURING THE REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD: … course will look at the causes, course…
EventCall for a stay-away in Black townships
… by setting up roadblocks at the entrance of Sebokeng, Sharpeville, and Boipatong, and buses are sent under police …
EventResolute Treurnicht rejects waiving language policy
… enforcing Afrikaans in schools would result in another Sharpeville shooting incident, if the issues were not dealt …
The child who was shot dead by soldiers at Nyanga by Ingrid Jonker
… dead neither at Langa nor at Nyanga nor at Orlando nor at Sharpeville nor at the police station in Philippi where he …
Introduction - The anti-Apartheid Movements: a 40-year perspective
… and Vella Pillay of South Africa and the redoubtable Rev. Michael Scott; Trevor Huddleston was in the Chair. 'It …
Address by the reverend John Langalibalele Dube after his election as president of the South African Native National Congress
… natives Mr. Dube’s Address Our friend and neighbour, the Rev. John L. Dube, Principal of the Ohlange Native Industrial …
PlaceStellenbosch, Western Cape
… located in Stellenbosch, Western Cape. Founded in 1874 by Rev. JH Neethling, Prof. NJ Hofmeyr and Prof. J. Murray, it … Street building, today known as the…
Passive Resistance in South Africa by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "Southern Africa in Transition by Davis, John A. and James K. Baker"(Pall Mall Press), London, 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…
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… and sold this land at low prices to white farmers. From 1960 to 1994, more than 3.5-million people were deliberately … the first group of 166 students was…
International Boycott of Apartheid Sport by Mary Corrigall
… Games Governing Council asking to be admitted to the 1960 Games. There were also moves within rugby clubs to form … 1960, when a state of emergency was…
OR Tambo Memorial Lecture delivered by President Jacob Zuma, 25 October 2015, Port Elizabeth
… molweni, good evening, goeie naand, A few days after the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960, the ANCdispatched its Deputy President, Comrade Oliver …
ArchiveAppendix 2 The Political Landscape of Cape Town, by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… disintegrated and degenerated into a friendly society. The Sharpeville massacre and the smaller scale incident at Langa on 21st March 1960 was the decisive…
ArchiveApartheid Super Spy, Craig Williamson’s Trails of Death and Destruction: The Scandinavian Connection, (Responses to recent exposures in Jyllands Posten) by Prithiraj Dullay
… new to Williamson. Although just about 11 years old in 1960, he could not have missed the news of the terrible massacre of 69 unarmed black protesters at…
ArticleGrade 5 term 1 timeline: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
… and gathering plant food in the Kalahari Desert in Namibia 1960 The Department of Nature Conservation began to …
State of the nation address by the President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela
… the wretched and the despised. In the aftermath of the massacre at the anti-pass demonstration in Sharpeville she wrote that: "The child is not dead... the ……
PlaceShell House, Johannesburg
… after its Unbanning in 1990, and was the site of a 1994 Massacre that threatened to undo preparations for the first …
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… of use on a mass scale. Partial SOEs have been declared in 1960 and 1985 and National SOEs declared in 1986,1987,1988 … been widely practiced by the…
ArticlePan-Africanism
Pan-Africanism is the belief that people of African descent have common interests and should be unified. Historically, Pan-Africanism has often taken the shape…
BiographyRick Turner
Rick Turner [Richard Albert David Turner] was a charismatic political philosopher and theorist who was also an activist and educationist. He was highly…
Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , “South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home”, International Socialism, 5, Summer 1961
… Socialism, 5, Summer 1961 [....] In March and April 1960, the African population staged a series of … month of action that followed the shootings at Langa…
Biography of Lindiwe Mabuza by Kayla Johansen
… Africa but did not receive it. This was just after the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, after which previously multi-racial universities were …
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… causing tensions between the two organisations. After the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960, the ANC and SACP jointly formed uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) …
Federation of Amateur Theatrical Societies of South Africa (FATSSA)
The Federation of Amateur Theatrical Societies of South Africa was founded in 1938 in Krugersdorp by the representatives of 20 amateur dramatic societies in…
EventThe Cato Manor riots begin due to the ‘beer issue’ and looming forced removals
… Cato Manor riots of June 1959, and six months later, the massacre of nine policemen. However, there was another reason …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.7 No.1 1988
… by Nicolette Thesen; Highway Blues by Wally Mondlane; Our Sharpeville by Ingrid de Kok; The Blood of our Silence by …