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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EventLast remaining SA troops have been withdrawn from Namibia
The Citizen reported that the remaining 1 500 South African troops in South West Africa (Namibia) had been withdrawn during November.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 …
PlaceUniversity of Stellenbosch
… and was considered the heart of Die Vlakte. On 30 October 1969 learners of the Lückhoff School had to carry their desks …
PlacePosthuys
… and in turn sold it to the Anglo American Corporation in 1969. It was recognized as a heritage site n the 1970's and …
Mandela and his three wives - Evelyn, Winnie and Graca by Sapa-AFP, 6 December 2013
… as the police hounded her in a bid to demoralise him. In 1969, she was held in solitary confinement for 13 months on …
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
America, Spanish conquest
… were only interested in the gold. Cortes came with 16 horses (which the Aztecs had never seen before), 14 …
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… to establish a core of internal MK cadres. The impact of 16 June 1976 The events of 16 June 1976 in Soweto, and elsewhere in the country, provide … which 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…
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,…
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…
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 …
EventThe National President of the Black People’s Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness
… June 1976, almost two weeks after the Soweto Uprising on 16 June, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, the National President of the …
EventA resolution against the use of Afrikaans is taken during SASM conference in Roodepoort
… to consolidate strategies regarding the planned march on 16 June 1976 …
EventSecurity Council examines violence in South Africa
… the United Nations the Security Council convened on 15 and 16 July to examine concerns about violence in South Africa …
EventSusanna Kok, SA medical missionary whose work led to the effective diagnosis and treatment of leprosy, dies
… care, she went to Nigeria to work with a leper colony of 16 000 people. During her time here, she discovered a skin …
EventSir Benjamin D’Urban, for whom the city Durban was named, assumes office as Governor of the Cape of Good Hope
… of Antigua in 1819, as well as British Guiana in 1831. On 16 January 1834, D'Urban assumed office as Governor of the …
EventThe first missionary in Southern Africa, Gonçalo da Silveira, is murdered
… strangled to death in his hut, by order of the chief, on 16 March 1561. The expedition sent to avenge da Silveira …
EventSipho Gumede, South African jazz legend, dies
… a homemade guitar. He joined his first band at the age of 16 and soon became a known and sought after bass player. In …
EventThe first Comrades Marathon takes place
… in 1921. In recent years the race had been held on June 16, but after complaints had been received that the race …
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…