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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 …
ArticleCensus in South Africa
… Census surveys were conducted in 1911; 1921; 1936; 1951; 1960; 1970; 1980; 1985, 1991, 1996 and 2001. However, …
68. Passive resistance 1946-1947
… resistance campaign. Among them are Europeans such as the Rev. Michael Scott, Mrs. Mary Barr and Rev. Satchell (all of whom went to jail to oppose the Ghetto…
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, …
Behind the Narrative of the Abuse of State Power was a Larger Goal by Thabo Mbeki, 8 February 2016
… Lalla, NDPP Pikoli, DSO Head McCarthy, the Presidency DG, Rev Frank Chikane, and myself. Having discussed the urgent … meeting at Mahlamba Ndlopfu, I then…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… unless they had special permission from the state. 1960 21 March, The PAC campaign against pass laws, in which … in Sharpville, killing 69 protesters. In the…
"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 …
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…
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…
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- …
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…
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. …
ArticleCosatu timeline
… about 78 wounded in what becomes known as the “Marikana massacre”. NUM's refusal to support, and in one instance …
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…
EventPhambili Ka Ntloko, national organiser of AZAPO, is born
… Phambili Ka Ntloko was born on 18 April 1960 in Queenstown, Eastern Cape. As a high school student, …
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 …
Post-detention weapons
… penalty under renewed public scrutiny was that of the 'Sharpeville Six', who were convicted of the killing in September 1984 of the deputy mayor of…