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ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… The Hector Pieterson Museum opens on Maseko Street in Soweto . The museum is named after one of the first casualties of the march through Soweto on 16 June…
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… aimed to effect the removal of Africans from Sophiatown to Soweto, southwest of Johannesburg. Riotous Assemblies and … (E&A). Commission of Inquiry, 1979,…
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… oversight of the action was confined to a safe house in Soweto. Unfortunately the strike was called off after the … for the move towards guerrilla warfare. A…
Whither Palestine? by Ronnie Kasrils, 19 May 2015, London
… immigration saw its historic apogee in the 1936-39 Arab uprising which commenced with a six month strike. The length … who died in a British ambush. In fact…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959
… South African Congress of Trade Unions meet in Kliptown, Soweto at the Congress of the People (COP). The South … the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC)…
Apartheid power in crisis
… repressive response of the state. In the second part we extract a segment from a document written in May 1990 in …
Interview with Oliver Tambo to New African, 05 January 1980, London
… regime, the same regime that massacred the children of Soweto. The so-called reforms that it has brought about are …
Unity in Action Decisive - O. R. Tambo Interviewed to New African, London, 1980
… regime, the same regime that massacred the children of Soweto. The so-called reforms that it has brought about are …
Message to the People of South Africa on the 67th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1979
… who murdered, not just 300, but nearly 1,000 children in Soweto alone in 1976. The people of Mozambique, Zambia, …
James Stewart - the ANC fighter who spoke truth to power by Martin Plaut, 1 February 2016
… front was composed of people from the Dube area. [of Soweto] (friends at home) i.e. …even the Army Commander (Joe …
PlaceJohannesburg, Gauteng Province
… 2013 , as well as major football matches like the popular Soweto Derby that involves two South African Premier Soccer …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Foreword
… is correct to point out that many people regard the 1976 Soweto Rising as the beginning of the liberation struggle and …
Address of the President of the Republic Of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Youth Day celebrations: Absa Stadium, Buffalo City Municipality
… generation of young men and women took to the streets of Soweto and many of our townships in a show of defiance to the …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 67th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1979
… who murdered, not just 300, but nearly 1,000 children in Soweto alone in 1976. The people of Mozambique, Zambia, 4 …
The fight against passes continues
… First we went to Johannesburg and we slept the night in Soweto, and then the next day, it was August 9th, we went to …
The National Question in Post 1994 South Africa. A discussion paper in preparation for the ANC`s 50th National Conference by Z. Pallo Jordan
… the tragedy are symbolised by two figures central to the uprising. On the one hand was S`gananda, an old man in his … Rebellion was an instance of secondary…
The diary of Maria Tholo - December 16 - 1 January 1977 by Carol Hermer
… railways more than six months ago, before the troubles in Soweto had started, let alone in Cape Town. So they let them … didn't everyone go. But people had…
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… in Cape Town and areas such as KwaMashu in Durban and Soweto in Gauteng). The board that administered the Group …
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… He is forced to move to Orlando, which is later part of Soweto. Conditions are far from the promises made by the …
ArticleSouth African Constitutional Development Timeline 1902 - 1997
… Conference of African Leaders is held in Orlando, Soweto. This Conference makes a call to all African people to …
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… eventually escaping South Africa during the June 1976 Soweto uprisings at the direction of the ANC. He settled in …
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) met in Kliptown, Soweto at the Congress of the People (COP). It was at this …
ArchiveSoldiers without reward- Africans in South Africa's wars
… Medal (MM) by Major-General F H Theron. The following extract is appropriate here: (15) 'The King has been … late Mr B S Khumalo (b 1920), ex-serviceman,…
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
… African trickster. And from interviews we conducted in Soweto and Brakpan in the East Rand, with Boetie’s family and …
Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Lecture by President Jacob Zuma, 7 September 2012, Kimberley, Northern Cape
… women`s march to the Union Buildings in 1956, the Peasant Uprising in Lehurutse in 1957 and another in Sekhukhuneland. …
PlaceCameroon
… founders were trade unionists [lvi] . After a failed uprising in 1955, the party began an armed struggle against …
Document 121 - A. Mon (M. N. Averbach), “The Colour Bar and the National Struggle for Full Democratic Rights”, Workers’ Voice, 1, 2, November 1944
… long period we see almost no form of social protest, no uprising, no political, national or cultural movement in …
Chapter 12 - Blind alley of guerrillaism
… the success of Castro in Cuba and the other was the Pondo uprising which made a number of SACP leaders feel that the …
ArticleAfrica Timeline
… of various anti-colonial campaigns, such as the Mau-Mau Uprising, Kenya gained its independence from Britain. …
Last kicks of a dying horse July 1992 - June 1993
… no signs of improvement. By contrast the situation in Soweto and Alexandra has improved greatly and towards the end … factor in the abatement of violence…