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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 …
Chapter XIV - End of an era
… even more despotic. The new Act really perpetuated the 1960 State of Emergency; there would be no need for the … the Illegal Organisations Act, passed at the…
From Segregation to Apartheid
… from White farming areas. It is estimated that between 1960 and 1983 approximately 1.1 million people were removed … retrenched from the sugar plantations in…
ArticlePoqo
… armed wing to the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) during the 1960's and was known for its aggressively violent sabotage … Transkei. Arguably the largest…
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
An Invaluable Historical Source The literature on "life in Sophiatown" by a generation of prose writers, novelists, playwrights and poets is recognized as…
ArticleRobert Mcbride timeline
… Mattera, Jakes Gerwel, Basil February and his own uncle, Rev. Clive McBride. Discussions that Robert has with his …
ArticleThe 1992 Whites only referendum ‘For’ or ‘Against’ a negotiated constitution
… the secretary of the South African Council of Churches, Rev Frank Chikane , among others, warned of the implications …
EventAmy Biehl is murdered in Cape Town
… death occurred exactly a month after the St. James church massacre, where the Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA), … South African History Online , ‘St…
EventInkatha Freedom Party is concerned about stability
… its proximity to Shoshobane, the site of the Christmas day massacre of 1995, the killing of Xolo threatened the fragile …
EventSmuts becomes Prime Minister
… His stern measures to quell revolts in 1921 (Bulhoek massacre), 1922 (Rand Revolt) and May 1922 … Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa ; 3rd rev. ed…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at funeral in Maseru, 05 December 1982
… us because, your Majesty, your people responded to this massacre with the courage that is part of their tradition and … ally Smith were defeated and when…
Evidence before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the house of commons: Oliver Tambo, 29 October 1985, London
… its struggle to embrace violence. When it was banned, in 1960, its policy was deliberately nonviolent. During the last … against us was mounting throughout…
Chapter IV - A meaningful life
… the ANC. the long years of the treason trial, the scar of Sharpeville. The 1960s, the decade of repression, forced us … removals, but he had left South…
ArticleCurries Fountain events timeline
1870s-1880s Discovery of a reliable water source. "To the present generation Currie's Fountain is but a name which marks the recreation grounds below Botanic…
ArticleNational Youth Uprising
… recounted... read on The NUSAS Issue Throughout the 1960's black students campaigned for the right to affiliate …
Nelson Mandela Family Tree
… Mandela Zenani Dlamini (born 1959) Zindzi Mandela (born 1960) Grandchildren Ndileka Mandela (1965””Thembi) Nandi …
ArticleJohn Maxwell Coetzee timeline 1940-2003
1940 Born in Cape Town. 1960s Graduates from the University of Cape Town with Mathematics and English. 1972 Earns a PhD in literature from the…
ArticleWestern Cape Civic Association (WCCA)
Civic organisation also experienced problems in organising across the racial divide. Initially the emerging civic organisation in African township and coloured…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… of the Rosslyn industrial area. Laudium Established in 1960, Laudium, which is situated 12 km south-west of Church … killing 13 in what became known as the…
Chapter 2 - From Crisis to Stability to Crisis
… came to characterise black higher education during the 1960 to 1976-77 period and, though increasingly contested, … The Political Economy of Black Higher…
"Racial Crisis in South Africa" . Address to meeting of Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, March 2, 1961
… on 21 March last year. That is the date of the Sharpeville massacre in which African men, women and children protesting … and there were killings in other…
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… justification was that of sanitation (Dison and Mohamed, 1960: 24). 1894 The Glen Gray Act, passed by Cecil Rhodes in … areas (South African Institute for…
ArticleLiberation history 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…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 3 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… meetings that were being held in the townships. Then, in 1960, a terrible thing happened. On the 21st March there were … in those protests. I don't know why…
EventApartheid becomes official policy
… (1981) Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed. Pretoria: Academica, p. 462, 467. Reader's Digest. …
19. Lawrence asks for exemption from discriminatory laws
… clerk. 5. Your petitioner was married by the Very Rev. Father W. P. Murray O.M.I. in St. Joseph's Church, West …
ArticleThe National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)
… of a major increase in membership since the 2012 Marikana massacre. After AMCU, the three largest affiliates are in the …
ArticleMoses Kotane Timeline
… would be the basis of all ANC actions until its banning in 1960. 1950 June, Kotane moves from Cape Town back to … treason brought against Kotane are dropped…
ArticleThe Daily Dispatch
… were used. After many staff and management changes, 1960 has been marked as the beginning of an era of … Wales and Canada and returned to the Daily Dispatch…
Centenary of the 1913 Land Act By Colin Bundy, 18 April 2013
… the history of a hundred-year old law? Surely the Marikana massacre and farm-workers' strikes are more urgent? In fact, … the farms were poorly paid farm…