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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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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. …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Rejuvenation of the ANC and intensification of the struggle 1940s
… was unanimously adopted by the ANC's annual conference on 16 December 1943. This statement of the aspirations of the …
EventSA artist Anthony Nkotsi is born
… Dumile Feni. His involvement in the student uprisings of 1976 saw him being detained. On his release he attended art …
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed TRC chairperson
Anti-apartheid activist and Nobel laureate Archbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu, the first Black archbishop of Cape Town rose to fame in the 1980’s. After the1976…
EventJean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of Central African Empire, crowns himself.
… Central African Republic from 1 January 1966 to 4 December 1976. After eleven years as president he dissolved the …
EventGeneral Idi Amin overthrows Ugandan President Milton Obote
… to become the army's chief of staff. Amin became famous in 1976 when he provided a safe refuge for hostage-holding … Available at www.africanhistory.about…
EventANC member and UDF-leader Christmas Tinto, is born in Mqanduli in the Transkei
… the poor food conditions at the college. During the 1976 students uprising, Tinto was detained in Pollsmoor …
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…
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…
ArticleNatal Indian Association (NIA)
… Ibid, p5 [13] Ibid, p5-6 [14] Ibid, p6 [15] Ibid, p6-7 [16] Ibid, p8 [17] Ibid, p8 [18] Ibid, p8 [19] Ibid, p8 [20] …