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ArticleCensus in South Africa
… Census surveys were conducted in 1911; 1921; 1936; 1951; 1960; 1970; 1980; 1985, 1991, 1996 and 2001. However, …
Document 5 - Programme of the Communist Party of South Africa adopted at the seventh annual conference of the Party
… know whether it was abrupt. It came in... the wake of Sharpeville, when people had protested peacefully and... … more belligerent and intransigent. Of course…
Chapter XII - Can we be free?
… been hard to bear ”” the defection of the Pan Africanists, Sharpeville, the long months of detention when leadership was … by the very organisation, which…
Chapter 6 - No more suppers for my comrades
… the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 The raid into … body politic. It was the banning…
Chapter 9 - People’s Education and People’s Power: Mobilisation and Collective Action
… mobilisation and collective action.. Events such as the massacre of anti-pass demonstrators at Sharpeville in 1960, the ANC's Defiance Campaign of 1952, the…
EventInternational Labour Organisation excludes South Africa from its two-day meeting
… goods were boycotted by some western countries and in 1960 African countries called for sanctions against the …
EventPatrice Emery Lumumba, first Prime Minister of an independent Congo, is born
… Lumumba helped win Congo’s independence from Belgium in 1960. He was elected Prime Minister of the Republic of the …
EventFidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba
… only communist state in the Western Hemisphere. On 7 May 1960 Castro re-established formal diplomatic ties with the …
EventThe TRC is set up by parliament
… 1995, investigated what happened under apartheid between 1960 and 1994. The conflict during this period resulted in …
EventAndré Phillipus Brink, well-known SA author, is born
South African novelist, Andre Phillipus Brink was born on 29 May 1935. Brink obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature at the University of…
EventWalter Sisulu secretly attends a meeting at the house of George Xorile with F. Van Rensburg
… Act. All “illegal organisations” were on 7 April 1960 banned. Six months later, Sisulu and members of the …
ArchiveThe Moral Problem of Winnie Mandela by Paul Trewhela (Dailymaverick.com), 6 April 2018, South Africa
… the last century, Winnie Mandela also publicly accused the Rev Paul Verryn, whose parish was in Soweto, of homosexual …
An interview with Mr. A.W.G. Champion
… the Minister of Labour of the ANC at the time when the Rev. Z. Mahabane, J. Gumede and Dr. Xuma were the presidents. …
2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup is a tribute to Africa - ANC, 21 May 2010
… of the Matola raid in Botswana, victims of the Lesotho Massacre, victims of bomb attacks in Mozambique, the late …
Statement by Oliver Tambo on death sentences passed on three members of ANC and Umkhonto We Sizwe, 20 August 1981
… sordid record features such ghastly crimes as the Soweto massacre, the assassination of detainees such as Steve Biko, …
"Our struggle is for progress": Statement by Albert Luthuli, 15 June 1962
… draw inspiration from our more recent martyrs who fell at Sharpeville and Langa, at Pondoland and Cato Manor, at …
ArticleCosatu timeline
… about 78 wounded in what becomes known as the “Marikana massacre”. NUM's refusal to support, and in one instance …
EventMiriam Makeba returns to South Africa
… when the apartheid government revoked her passport in 1960. During her exile she built an international career, …
ArchiveThe Pan African Congress venture in retrospect: a Non-European Unity Movement pamphlet
… is some discussion on the Sherpeville incident on 21 March 1960; the rivalry between the British and the Boers and the …
EventThe UN Security Council to lay down rules which would allow UN forces to enter Congo
… On 6 August 1960, the United Nations (UN) Secretary General, Mr. Dag … The Star, (6 August 1960), Dag wants troops in Katanga “without upsetting Congo” …
EventAhmadou Kourouma, Ivorian novelist dies in France
… for France. When CÁ´te d'Ivoire gained independence in 1960, he returned to his home country. Unhappy with his post- …
ArchiveCelebrating 200 years of the South African Astronomical Observatory by Karel van der Vyver (Daily Maverick), 16 October 2020
… but in 1829, led by a promising young astronomer, the Rev Fearon Fallows, the building was complete. Construction …
EventLadysmith Black Mambazo, male choral group, win a Grammy Award
… The group, which is led by Joseph Shabalala was formed in 1960 and released their first album in 1973. It was …
EventAlbert Luthuli accepts the Nobel Peace Prize
… Congress (ANC), was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1960 for advocating non-violent resistance to racial …
Event13 year-old South African Native mineworker is published in a newspaper
… On 7 March 1960, a photograph of a 13 year-old Native boy in a torn vest … Anon, (1960), 'Picture of "boy miner" used to smear S. Africa' from …
EventPalaeontologist Mary Leakey discovers one of the oldest hominid skulls in Tanzania
… a line of hominin footprints preserved in volcanic ash. In 1960, Leaky became head of excavation at Olduvai, and after …
EventMilton Obote (81), Uganda’s former dictator, dies in a South African hospital
… Uganda from 1957, founded the Uganda People's Congress in 1960. Obote became Uganda's Prime Minister after independence …
EventCongo Free State becomes the Belgian Congo
… became known as the Belgian Congo. After independence in 1960 it was renamed Zaire and is now called the Democratic …
EventHelen Nontando Jabavu, author and periodical editor in London, is born in Middeldrift, SA
… two autobiographical works; the other is Drawn in Colour (1960). Both were written early in her literary career and …
EventBenjamin Mzimkulu Macala, SA artist, is born
Benjamin Mzimkulu (Ben) Macala was born in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State). As a young boy he tended cattle on a farm in the Free State and…