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ArticleNational and Provincial Elections - 2024 - South Africa
… Ministers, creating two new ministries, and appointed 16 new cabinet ministers, 10 of which are from outside his …
EventEllen Johnson-Sirleaf, becomes the first woman to be Head of State in Africa
… historic inauguration as President of Liberia was on 16 January, 2006. She became the 24th President of Liberia. … she was re-elected in November 2011, and…
EventB.J Vorster steps down as Prime Minster
… in detention was officially opened. In the wake of the 1976 student uprising, Vorster deployed troops and police … of several youth and student activities…
ArchiveRemembering French Investments In Apartheid South Africa, 17 December 2013
… - even built the first South African nuclear plant! In 1976 France signed a contract for the construction of the … NGO Committee on Human Rights in Geneva in…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010
… a stroke. The ANC releases a press statement on his death. 16 January, Former President Nelson Mandela addresses peace … whether HIV or poverty is the true…
EventFormer Tennis player, Kevin Curren, is born in Durban
… In 1976, a year after passing matric (now Grade 10), Kevin …
EventWhite sympathisers join evicted Black squatters in a protest
… informal settlements where Black people lived. In 1976 and 1977 massive evictions and destruction of … , [online], Available at www.sahistory.org.za …
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… 8.2 million pounds of tobacco in 1929, which rose to 16 million pounds in 1944, and passed the 30-million pound … significance for the region's history: from…
Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Fatima Meer
… our friendship was at a great cost to her. During the 1976 uprising by schoolchildren in Soweto, the government … them almost daily. I was eventually…
ArticleThe missionaries
… the Paramount Chief of Eastern Pondoland, Transkei in 1939-1976, promised labour recruiters that he will help with …
ArticleANC January 8th Statements
… January 8th, 1977 - No statement issued January 8th, 1976 - No statement issued January 8th, 1975 - No statement …
EventCourt go-ahead for United Democratic Front meetings
… any political meetings in commemoration of the June 16 Soweto uprising.The UDF were informed that the police … only interfere with the meeting if they…
EventRetired soccer player and founder of Kaizer Chiefs FC, Kaizer Motaung, is born in Soweto
… Kaizer Motaung was born on 16 October 1944 in Orlando East, Soweto, a township South … at a young age and turned professional at the age of 16 when he joined…
EventUnrest breaks out at Naledi High School as Security police confront learners
… Eight days after unrest broke out at Naledi High School (16 June), Tsietsi Mashinini led the peaceful protest of learners in Soweto, in what became known as…
Chapter 4 - Poor, yet generous Lesotho
… its total repression of human rights activists, after June 1976, arrived in Lesotho in droves. By 1977 it was around … practice. With the repression that…
ArticleDemocratic Alliance (DA)
… the DA increased its national share of the vote to 16.3 %, and became the largest party in Cape Town. Helen … 51.5 percent of the provincial vote. The party…
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
… 16 December 1959 - At the annual African National Congress … 31 March - the anniversary of the 1919 Anti-Pass Campaign 16 March 1960 – At a press…
ArticlePassive Resistance Campaign Timeline
… The second round of negotiations with Smuts broke off. 16 August: Another mass meeting was held and registration … Public meeting in Newcastle held by Thambi…
EventJazz musician Victor Ntoni dies at the Helen Joseph Hospital in Johannesburg
… to study at the Berkley School of Music in Boston in 1976. Ntoni was a composer and arranger for the likes of Hugh …
EventAfrikaans is used for the first time in an international document with the signing of the Convention of Mozambique in Pretoria
… people rejected the language as a medium of education in 1976, which led to the Soweto’s student uprising. …
ArticleA History of Lückhoff High School, 1932-1969
… Meeting of the Stellenbosch School Board Minutes, 16 November 1932. ↵ [viii] CAD/SBS/1/1/12 Meeting of the … Meeting of the Stellenbosch School Board Minutes…
Citation for Saleem Badat by Professor Paul Maylam, 10 April 2015, Rhodes University
… an eighteen-year-old his political awakening came with the 1976 Soweto uprising – this developing into activism during … the number of permanent black…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Statistical analysis of Resisters
… 87 resisters 54 resisters 37 resisters 25 resisters 16 resisters 7 resisters 3 resisters 5 resisters Imprisonment … Men Women Indian Coloured African…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Bibliography
… The Rocky Rioter Teargas Show: The Inside Story of the 1976 Soweto Uprising . Cape Town, Zebra, 2001. Karis Tom. and … Mxolisi. The Soweto Uprisings: Counter…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… of student unrest and the crackdown by the government in 1976 further drove thousands of students into exile, among … of this organisation until her sudden…
EventLegendary photographer Sam Nzima dies
… for taking the picture of Hector Pieterson during the 1976 Soweto uprising . Hector Pieterson was shot by the apartheid police in 1976 when students in…
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
… Thabo Mbeki . They become the NEC's youngest-ever members. 1976 Hani, along with Lambert Moloi, is arrested in Maseru … America, Gavin Relly, and the ANC led…
ArticleBoeremag Treason Trial Timeline
… Isaacson School where the Soweto student riots started in 1976. Source: www.corbisimages.com 26 October, Self-confessed … van Rooyen and Rudolph Gouws) were…
ArticleSouth Africa and the United Nations, 1946-1990
… year, with a Centre Against Apartheid being established in 1976 and 1978-9 being declared International Anti-Apartheid … and the Security Council echoed this…
Last of The Gandhians in South Africa
… the Soweto massacre of African schoolchildren on June 16, 1976, failed to intimidate the people. Thousands of young …