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ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
… Opinion reduced in size for financial reasons. January 6, Rev. Charles Phillips and J C. Gibson had an interview with … reception at Cantonese Club,…
Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa
For more than 95% of the last 100 000 years, most people all over the world followed a hunting and gathering way of life. Until recently, people living by…
ArticleTruth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
… investigated human rights abuses that took place between 1960 and 1994. Reparation and Rehabilitation (R&R) Committee …
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
… their official photographer and layout artist in 1951). 1960 Albert Newall receives a grant from the Cape … was the first photographer to arrive and…
ArchiveThe 1957 Alexandra Bus Boycott and its unsung heroes by Roseinnes Phahle, June 2019
… ANC, to seek intervention by the Bishop of Johannesburg, Ambrose Reeves. Berman duly asked the Bishop to approach the … the “Save Alexandra” campaign…
Whither Palestine? by Ronnie Kasrils, 19 May 2015, London
… but increasingly militant forms of struggle until the Sharpeville massacre in 1960. [ix] On being outlawed and finding all avenues to …
EventMemorandum on housing conditions in Fietas, Johannesburg
… of Paul Kruger in 1893. In its heyday between 1945 and 1960, Fietas was an integrated community not unlike District …
EventFirst president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah (62), dies in Bucharest.
… Coast) gained its independence and became a republic in 1960. Nkrumah was a founder of the Convention People’s Party. … by Nkrumah’s announcement to ban…
Esau Mokhethi reburial speech by AZAPO President Cde. Koti Dikobo
… Pastors who are present; Pastor Letshelega, Prof. Masango, Rev. Raboroko and Rev. Vilakazi The family of Comrade Esau Tshehlo Mokhethi, …
EventCongolese activist,Patrice Lumumba is briefly arrested
… Congo’s independence, which it gained from Belgium in June 1960, a series of events that led to his death unfolded. In October 1960 Lumumba was placed under…
EventThe League of Nations hands over German colonies
… respectively. The Togo colony became independent in 1960 while Togoland became part of Ghana in 1957. The German … French as Cameroun (which eventually…
Pedi
[baPedi – People and sePedi – Language] The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho-Tswana, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda…
Article50 Facts on Africa
In the modern-day world the view people are given of Africa is often a narrow one. In this piece we present 50 facts about this continent that people may not…
PlaceSenegal
… late 19th Century. It remained a colony of France until 1960, when, under the leadership of the writer and statesman … The Mali federation gained…
EventJoseph Kasavubu, first president of the Democratic Republic of Congo dies
… of the Congo (now Democratic Republic of Congo) from 1960 to 1965 died. He assumed the office when the Congo became independent from Belgium on 30 June,…
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
Music Music was a central feature of the urban culture that developed in Johannesburg and in Sophiatown in particular. It was here that the most important…
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… that they hoped would address increasing criticism. In 1960 they started taking steps towards economic and … the Nobel Prize. Picture: New History of South…
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… by the Wiehan Commission at the end of the 1970s. 1960-1973 Labour formations in South Africa were seen as an …
ArchiveA death warrant for Afrikaans by Hermann Giliomee, 11 November 2019
… extremes to ensure its survival that Cillié in the mid-1960’s described it as the ‘polecat of the world’. It was a … press during the second half of the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the interfaith commissioning service for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Cape Town, 13 February 1996
… The Right Honourable Rev. Desmond Tutu, Chairperson of the Truth and …
Grade 12 - Topic 4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
… Independence in the Congo Independence was granted in 1960, and the country was named the Republic of the Congo. … at the time as a threat to the West. On 5…
ArticleFederation of South African Women by Skylar Jayes
This article was written by Skylar Jayes and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership projectAbstractThe Federation of South…
PlaceSahlumbe
… and Mashunka were former white Farms acquired in the mid-1960's for purposes of relocating people evicted from elsewhere. From the late 1960's onwards, their…
ArticleEOAN Group
The EOAN Group was founded by Helen Southern-Holt in 1933. EOAN Group was a social and educational centre and cultural association that offered music…
ArticleHIV/Aids Origins
When? The first recognised cases of AIDS occurred in the USA in the early 1980s (see timeline) and the origin of Aids and HIV has puzzled scientists ever…
The Mountain Committee
… movement of resistance arose amongst the people in March 1960, and although meetings were illegal, they were held just …
ArticleResponse to the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising by organisations in exile
… South Africa. This is the day the country reflects on the massacre of school children during the Soweto Uprising of …
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… areas automatically lost their South African citizenship. 1960 Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli, President-General of … Prize, the first African to win any…
EventTwo psychiatrists give evidence on the proceedings of David Beresford Pratt’s case
… On 13 September 1960, during the trial of David Beresford Pratt, two … at the Milner Park Showgrounds in Johannesburg. On 9 April 1960, Dr Verwoerd opened…
EventThe Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland collapses
… them, Dr Hastings Banda , were detained without trial. In 1960, following his release, Banda fled to London, where with … continued to campaign for an end to…