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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, …
PlaceTokai Manor House, Tokai Road, Tokai.
… in 1883 and used it as a Reformatory, for a while. In the 1960's it under went massive Restoration and was declared a …
PlaceGugulethu Township
… This township was established along with Nyanga in the 1960's. The Group Areas Act (1950) reinforced the policy of … Lansdowne, located south-east of Athlone…
PlaceBabanango, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… tenants’ evictions predominantly in the 1950's and early 1960's. As a result, the following relocation sites were … During the later phase of Farm removals,…
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
Patric Tariq Mellet was born and grew up in the working class districts of old Cape Town – Salt River, Woodstock and District Six. His family were poor working…
Chapter X - Final word
… of the Freedom Charter and to live by it. That was before Sharpeville, before the grim 1960s, before the suppression by …
PlaceTogo
… within the French Union. Togo gained independence in 1960. The economy rests largely on agriculture, although the … 27 April 1960, Togo gains independence…
EventMac Maharaj, Laloo Chiba, Raymond Nyanda and Andrew Masondo arrive on Robben Island prison
On 5 January 1965, members of the African National Congress (ANC) Mac Maharaj, Laloo Chiba, Raymond Nyanda and Andrew Masondo arrived at Robben Island. They…
EventTanganyika becomes a member of the UN
… time Nyerere was a Prime Minister after winning the August 1960 elections by 70 seats out of 71 in the Tanganyika …
EventDutch Foreign Minister Luns is asked by the Johannesburg
… On 16 February 1960, the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs J.M.A.H Luns was … Anon, (1960), 'Immigrants tell Dutch: Stop Irresponsible Talks about …
EventLaurie Bloomfield takes picture of rioting in Cato Manor, Durban
… On 24 January 1960, Laurie Bloomfield, a photographer for the Daily News …
EventLuc Montagnier, virologist who discovered the human immunodeficiency virus, is born
… of sciences from the University of Paris in 1955. In 1960 he qualified for his doctorate in medicine at the same …
EventClarence Makwetu announces the PAC’s suspension of its armed struggle
The Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) president Clarence Makwetu announced the PAC's suspension of its armed struggle, thus opening the way for election…
EventDennis Brutus is born
… was classified as Coloured under apartheid laws. In the 1960’s he joined the Anti-Coloured Affairs Department …
EventHarold Macmillan begins his “winds of change” tour of Africa
… by Harold Macmillan, British Prime Minister on 3 February 1960 to the South African Parliament in Cape Town. In his …
EventJudith Mason, SA artist, is born in Pretoria.
… in Fine Arts at the University of the Wiwatersrand in 1960. By 1964 she had her own solo show. Her distinguished …
Event”Unknown” White man is hanged in Pretoria
… sentenced in the Queenstown Circuit Court on 11 February 1960. His name was kept a secret by Justice P. O’Hagan as he … The Star,(19, September 1960),’ …
EventEdgar D. Ngoyi, South African ANC leader who spent seventeen years on Robben Island, is born.
… Youth League in the 1950s. After the banning of the ANC in 1960, Ngoyi went underground where he established a network …
ArchiveChapter 5 Last resort: armed resistance by Denis Goldberg
… After the State of Emergency in 1960, when so many of us were locked up for four or five … force was used against them. In an ironic twist during the 1960…
Chapter 11
… Professor Jabavu (then President of the A.A.C.) to the Rev. Z. R. Mahabane (then President of the A.N.C.) the … line of attack was clearly discernible. For…
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
Colonial settlement Land wars The 'Frontier Wars' in the Eastern Cape Europeans who came to stay in South Africa first settled in and around Cape Town. As…
ArticleFietas: Pageview timeline 1880-1988
… removed to Orlando. The Group Areas Act is passed. 1950 - 1960 Transvaal Indian Congress initiates and implements the … ‘Coloureds' to the Western Areas and…
ArchiveFrom the margins to the mainstream: the anti-apartheid movement and the politics of agenda-setting in the United States
… United States policy relations with South Africa between 1960 and 1986. The research is based upon an analysis of an …
EventNigeria becomes the first Anglophone independent state in Africa to become an associate member of EEC
… country gained its independence from Britain in October 1960. The EEC came into being on 25 March, 1957, when West …
EventNigeria gained independence from the United Kingdom
… gained independence from the United Kingdom on 1 October 1960. And an Executive Council, made up entirely of …
EventSouth Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth
… On 5 October 1960 a referendum of White voters was held to decide whether … Five Hundred years: a history of South Africa; 3rd rev. ed ., Pretoria: Academica…
EventMartin Luther King, Junior, is born
Martin Luther King, Junior, an African-American clergyman who orchestrated social change through non-violent methods was born on 15 January 1929 in Atlanta,…
EventSouth African invention lands on the moon
… (PTY) and went on to invent Pratley Putty in the early 1960's. Pratley Putty was used by NASA in 1969 on Apollo XI's …
EventChief Albert Luthuli, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former President of the ANC, is killed in Groutville
… Congress (ANC) from 1952 until his death in 1967. In 1960, he received the Nobel Peace Prize and he was the most … June 2012)| Nobel Peace Prize.org , ‘The…
EventFive ANC leaders are released from prison
… headquarters after movement was banned in April 1960 under the Unlawful Organisation Act. During the raid …