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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…
South Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, VolumeTwo 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew - Bibliographical note and further reading
… Mobilization and Racial Capitalism in South Africa, 1928-1960 " , Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles. Drew, … (1991), "The National Committee for…
Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk, 26 June 1992
… measures aimed at curbing the violence. 2. The Boipatong massacre on the 17th June 1992 is but a tragic culmination of … force such as the SAP to arrest…
EventThe last French troops pull out of Rwanda
… both groups were severely affected. The most well-know massacre, the 1994 (Tutsi) Genocide, took place against the …
EventThe first Prime Minister of the DRC, Patrice Lumumba, declares martial law in Katanga
… after DR Congo gained independence from Belgium on 30 June 1960. On 4 July 1960 soldiers rebelled against the DRC government. Lumumba … Lumumba and he in…
Last kicks of a dying horse July 1992 - June 1993
… 1992 with the memory of the previous month's Boipatong massacre still fresh and negotiations having broken down. An … or inherited, began to manifest itself…
ArchiveChapter 6 Underground in Joburg by Denis Goldberg
… In the early 1960s, following the sharpeville massacre and the state of emergency , there were more than …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Essay Questions
… in many states, e.g., New South Wales and Victoria. In 1960 the Racial Hygiene Association, based in Sydney, became … and Property Law in Early Australia."…
EventFormer Minister of Defence and others are charged with murder
… the end of apartheid. They were also charged with the 1987 massacre of thirteen people in KwaZulu-Natal's Kwamakutha …
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
… population from 35,000 persons in 1951 to 97,000 in 1960. As a result KwaZakele was established in 1956, and …
EventUN peace-keeping troops deployed to the Republic of Congo
… Belgian Congo, the Republic of Congo was established in 1960. The fight for independence was initially led by Patrice … Movement (NCM). Independence Day was…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1930-1939
… of Natives Bill and the Native Trust and the Land Bill. Rev. Z. R. Mahabane ’s national convention statement appears … new South Africa, is born in Yeoville,…
ArticleHarriet Bolton and the Garment Workers Industrial Union
By the 1950s, Harriet Bolton began to help with organising work in the unions. From the late 1960s Harriet Bolton was an executive committee member of TUCSA. …
Document 87 - “Lessons of the All-Bantu Convention”, The Spark, 2, 2, February 1936
… it is easy to understand the sudden outburst from the Rev. J. L. Dube , one of the "leaders", and a member of the … the "leaders" have fallen out among…
EventDemocratic Republic of Somali is formed
… On 1 July 1960, the independent Somali Democratic Republic, commonly … internal autonomy which evolved into independence in 1960. The same development took…
ArticleHistory of Slavery and early colonisation in SA timeline 1602-1841
… Pass. The London Missionary Society sponsored missionary, Rev Charles Pacalt who established this small mission station …
”ASINAMALI”, WE HAVE NO MONEY
… a set of £1-a-Day lectures written for educational use. In 1960, the fruits of the previous year's organizing work were … declared State of Emergency…
Doing Oral History
… 3: The impact of apartheid on peoples' lives - 1948-1960 Phase : General Education Certificate(GET) - Grade 9 … the National Party coming to power in 1948 up…
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, to the OAU Ad Hoc Committee for Southern Africa Arusha, 28 April 1992
… the "Third Force"what has become known as the Trust Feed Massacre, which occurred in 1988, is instructive. The South … any catalogue of the horrors of this…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at a press conference in London, 21 March 1984
… for arranging this press conference. We owe this day to a massacre that took place in Sharpeville, South Africa, many years ago now. It shocked the … regime…
Press Conference In London by O. R. Tambo, 21 March 1984
… for arranging this press conference. We owe this day to a massacre that took place in Sharpeville, South Africa, many years ago now. It shocked the … regime…
Everyone must take responsibility, 21 August, 2012 - Sahra Ryklief
… actions that could emerge. The first lesson of the massacre is this – the time of celebrating past … dismally in this respect. Then there are the police…
We are the soldiers of Sisulu by Thabo Mbeki 2003
… during the 30-year period of extreme repression from 1960 to 1990. This period gradually built up during the 1950s … began the period of extreme repression…
ArchiveAppendix 7 South Africa, the transition to democracy and the banning of torture, by Denis Goldberg
… I used were not as polite as that, however. As early as 1960, during the State of Emergency called by the apartheid government after the Sharpeville massacre…
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
The NIC (Natal Indian Congress) was the first of the Indian Congresses to be formed. It was established in 1894 by Mahatma Gandhi to fight discrimination…
Evidence before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons by O. R. Tambo, London, 29 October 1985
… its struggle to embrace violence. When it was banned, in 1960, its policy was deliberately nonviolent. During the last … against us was mounting throughout…
PlaceRorke's Drift, KZN
Rorke's Drift, situated 46 km South East of Dundee, on the Battlefields Route. Is the site of one of the most famous battles of the Anglo-Zulu War. Years later…
ArchiveCHAPTER TWO: Class, Consiousness and Organisation inthe Political Development of Indian South Africans, 1860 - 1979 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… (and its ancillary movements) before it was banned in 1960 and socialists in the exile movement. More recently the … attended by a small number of delegates…
Biography of Bessie Emery by Elizabeth Venditti
… political and journalistic circles in the first half of 1960… the arrest and conviction of her friend and PAC leader … dismissal on obscure charges, and a…