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PlaceMofolo Arts Centre
… breakdown due to the government’s reaction to the 1976 boycotts. Currently the Centre offers sewing, pottery, …
Funeral of Sean MacBride: Oliver Tambo, 05 May 1988
… struggle for independence of his own people. From 1973 to 1976, as United Nations Commissioner, he distinguished …
Homeless Giving Tourists a Negative Perception - Fietas Museum by Wim Pretorius and Iavan Pijoos, (News24.com), 15 February 2016
… one of the few buildings that survived the destruction in 1976. Patel has been manager of the museum since 2013 and …
EventDonald James Wood journalist and Anti apartheid activists is born
… police surveillance. After the student uprising of 1976, the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) was banned and …
EventPetronella Nellie du Toit South African soprano singer is born
… and Art for her contribution to music in South Africa in 1976. In 1980 Nellie was engaged by the University of …
EventAZAPO is re-launched in Roodepoort
… second time. After the outbreak of the Student Uprising in 1976, the government responded by detaining several members …
EventAnti apartheid activist Dr. Richard Turner is assassinated
… activists in the period following the Soweto Revolt in 1976 and 1977. The assassination of Turner was therefore part …
EventZeph Mothopeng, President of the PAC dies
… political activities and as consequence was arrested in 1976 under the Terrorism Act and sentenced to 15 years in …
EventThabo Mbeki is elected 2nd President of a democratic South Africa
… inauguration coincided with the 23rd anniversary of the 1976 Soweto uprising, in which white police officers fired on …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… Council (NRC) at the AAC conference in Bloemfontein. 14-16 December, The ANC holds its annual conference. During his … and Bram Fischer , draft a new…
PlaceLanherne Building, Humewood Road, Port Elizabeth
… declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 16 March 1984, and the Norfolk pines next to the building …
EventCOSATU intensifies campaign against apartheid
… Unions (COSATU), held its third annual congress from 12-16 July 1989. The congress, attended by 1858 delegates …
EventMarks Maponyane, former Bafana Bafana striker, is born in Meadowlands, Soweto
… player and businessman born in Meadowlands, Soweto on 16 February 1962. Maponyane played professional football for …
1983, Volume 7 Dawn pages 1 and 2 Article: Editorial comment - Victory is Calling
… Editorial Comment VICTORY IS CALLING This December 16, 1983, marks the twentyaecond Anniversary of the founding …
ArticleThe Women of Marikana
… management refused to meet with the striking miners. On 16 August 2012 , 34 miners were killed and a further 78 … of Marikana before the confrontration…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and Mozambique
… migrant workers with Ruth in the Mozambican countryside. [16] Ruth First also recruited Dr Alpheus Manghezi, an … based in Luanda as the deputy chief of MK…
ArticleWomen in African Literature: Writing and Representation
… some of their most notable publications. Zukiswa Wanner (1976-) Writer. Feminist. African. Mother. Lover (Wanner, … play, A Kind of Marriage, was first…
ArticleStudent Protests at Tshwane University of Technology - Timeline
… will be placed under administration. August On Tuesday 16 August- two weeks after the controversial appointment of … Nelspruit, Polokwane, Arcadia and Arts…
EventCellist and music teacher Betty Pack is born
… was born in Nylstroom, Transvaal. At the age of 16, she gave her first public performance of the Dvorak cello …
EventSouth African Foreign Minister, ‘Pik’ Botha denies South African support for RENAMO
… Accord was signed by South Africa and Mozambique on 16 March 1984. The move followed talks between South African …
EventHaile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, abolishes slavery.
… Available at www.africanholocaust.net [Accessed: 16 April 2014]|Imperial Ethiopia, Reflections on Haile … Available at www.imperialethiopia.org [Accessed:…
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… of the House. At the ANC conference in Bloemfontein on 16 December 1940, Xuma was elected President of the African … plans for a strike quickly gained…
ArticlePrehistory of the Durban area
Prehistory of Southern Africa The Durban area is probably best known for the historic Zulu kingdom, dating to the early 19th century. To understand the…
ArticleWhat was the Great Depression and why did it start in the USA?
… stock market on "Black Thursday", October 24, 1929 when 16 million shares of stock were quickly sold by panicking …
European Societies in the Middle Ages
The Middle Ages in Europe, a feudal society Glossary Feudal Society: The stage of society that preceded capitalism, during which a small elite (the…
ArticleThe People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN)
… semi-liberated zones and striking further south. In 1975-1976 in Ovambo, PLAN mounted a major attack. In 1978-1979 …
ArticleBlack South African literature
… powerful novels of struggle, adaptation and survival. The 1976 Soweto uprising unleashed an immense flood of writing. …
Apartheid - A Crime Against Humanity: The Unfolding of Total Strategy 1948-1989
… argue), it was only subsequent to the Soweto Uprising of 1976 that the need for a total strategy was formally …
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
… Royal Society of Tasmania and placed on public display. In 1976, on the centenary of her death, her remains were finally …
ArticlePondoland revolt - 1950 - 1961
… Sigcau, the Paramount Chief of Eastern Pondoland (1939-1976), accepted the limitations placed on his power by the …