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ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… principles was SASO, and it held its first conference in 1969. These black students were studying under very difficult … of this organisation until her…
Panel Proposal for the 17th Triennial Symposium on African Art
… sustainability. Deadline for 250-word abstracts: January 16,2017. Contact: Courtnay Micots at …
Frances Baard Launch of the ANC Volunteer Corps, 11 July 2013
The African National Congress in the Frances Baard Region will be launching the Luthuli Volunteer Corps on Sunday 14 July 2013. The Programme will include a…
Pietie Norval was born on this day
Pieter ‘Pietie’ Norval was born on 7 April 1970 in Belleville.[i] He began playing tennis at the age of 7 years old, and turned professional at 18.[ii] Norval…
PlaceAloes Railway Station, Port Elizabeth
… Railway Station between Swartkops and Coega, 16 km North of Port Elizabeth on route to Alicedale. Takes …
Denis Goldberg: Freedom Fighter and Humanist
… Chapter 15 Denis Goldberg - a Face of Africa Chapter 16 More than a Hero - a Paragon Chapter 17 Contemporary …
EventShaun Thomson*, world surfing title winner, is born in Durban
… the world title in Hawaii in 1977, and remained in the top 16 until 1989. During this time he relocated to California, …
EventSouth Africa and Mozambique sign a non-aggression pact
… pact, on the border between the two countries. On 16 March 1984, South Africa and Mozambique entered into a …
EventTwelve ANC supporters are killed in eSikhawini
… in the Esikhaweni location in KwaZulu Natal in 1992. On 16 February the IFP called its supporters from all over the …
EventLast remaining SA troops have been withdrawn from Namibia
The Citizen reported that the remaining 1 500 South African troops in South West Africa (Namibia) had been withdrawn during November. While the Namibian…
EventRain Queen Makobo Modjadji VI, dies after a sudden illness
On 12 June 2005, Rain Queen Makobo Modjadji VI died in a hospital in Polokwane, Limpopo Province. Rain Queen Modjadji VI is a direct descendent of one of the…
EventWits attains full university status
… to 6 275 in 1963, 10 600 in 1975 and by 1985 there were 16 400 students. …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2. The British Colonial Office appoints a Ladies Commission to investigate the concentration camps in South Africa.
… On 16 July 1901, the Ladies commission was appointed. The …
Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… in inspiring protests, which led to the Soweto Uprising on 16 June 1976 . What is Black Consciousness? In 1959, when … in a public holiday called Youth Day…
Chapter 6 - ‘Direct Action’ on the Shop-Floor: The Denver Engineering Strike, 1919 - 1920
… the workers' committee and their respective trade unions. 16 All of them were white, skilled workers. Approximately 110 … The Revolutionary Movement in…
ArticlePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… your documentation, the record...the historical record." [16] Anton Kaes, writing about the influence of film in … (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973…
ArticleTimeline — Land Dispossession and Restitution in South Africa - 1995-2013
… people had no historical claim to 40% of the country. 16 February, President Jacob Zuma responds to Pieter Mulder … policy on land redistribution. 16 April,…
ArticleLiberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)
… Africa (IDAF) and the Anti-Apartheid Movement . In 1969 Vigne became a founder member of the Friends of Namibia, …
ArchiveCHAPTER 8 - Leading from behind Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 by Howard Barrell
… ‘South African Suicide Squad’ claimed responsibility for 16 of them. 16 During the campaign against the ‘coloured’ and … . The Revolutionary Moment The ANC…
The Life and Politics of Steve Biko by Yunus Momoniat, November 2014
… excelling in Maths and English. In 1962, at the age of 16, Steve and Larry completed their Junior Certificate. Steve … was one of many students later…
Chapter 4 - ‘SASO on the Attack’ : Organisation, Mobilisation and Collective Action
… maintained strong control over student activities. During 1969 SRCs existed at the University of Natal Medical School … only two months prior to the formal…
ArchiveCHAPTER TWO: Class, Consiousness and Organisation inthe Political Development of Indian South Africans, 1860 - 1979 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Address by President Jacob Zuma to the 12th International meeting of the Communist and Workers Parties, 3 December 2010, Centurion, Pretoria
… communists in the past. Speaking, in Moscow on June 16, 1969 as part of his final contribution and delivered as …
PlaceFree State Province
… and face closure in the near future. A total of 16 gold mines are still active in the Free State gold field. … or poetry. FICKSBERG CHERRY FESTIVAL- First…
PlaceAdams Mission, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… in the country. Adams died at the Adams Mission on 16 September 1847; his funeral was attended by many prominent …
EventThe SS Mendi began its journey from Cape Town to Plymouth
In 1916, the South African government agreed to recruit Black people to assist the British in World War 1 by providing labour. There were to be 10 000 people…
EventSS Mendi sinks in the English Channel on the way to France
… rammed the SS Mendi. The SS Mendi sailed from Cape Town on 16 January 1917 en route to La Havre in France, carrying the …
EventThe Cato Manor riots begin due to the ‘beer issue’ and looming forced removals
… note that some sources claim that the riots began on the 16 or on the 18 June 1959. …
EventThe South African security police bombed two houses in Manzini, Swaziland
… 1981. They attacked and destroyed three houses and killed 16 South Africans and a Portuguese national, Jose Ramos, who …
EventThe apartheid government agrees to eliminate racial segregation in theatres but not in cinemas
… abolished by President F.W. de Klerk on November 16, 1989, a few months before the unbanning of political …