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ArticleAlbertina Sisulu Timeline 1918 - 2011
… was removed, but she was prohibited to leave her own township of Orlando and she had to continue to report the …
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… a permit. He is found guilty of entering the Coloured township of Heatherdale without a permit and fined ten …
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA)
… to Biko. Variava had been active in Lenasia, the Indian township outside Johannesburg, and had been a member of the …
Ramifications of South Africa’s Dop System by Alexandra Larkin
… The Pebbles Project works with wine farm workers and township communities and the many children whose lives are …
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
… fired on protestors, was murdered in Pabalello, a Black township in Upington. In April 1988, after a two-year trial, …
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
The United Democratic Front (UDF) was an anti-apartheid body that incorporated many anti-apartheid organisations. It was launched in 1983, in Mitchells Plain…
ArticleJune 16 Soweto Youth Uprising timeline: 1976-1986
1976 According to the government-appointed Cillie Commission of Enquiry 575 people died. Police action resulted in 451 deaths. 3 907 people were injured…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… group of Poqo operatives attack a police vehicle in Langa Township killing one African policeman, Moyi and injuring … axes, pangas and other self made…
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
Contents 1910-1950 Apartheid ideology and implementation from 1950 Conclusion 1910-1950 By 1950, the population of New Brighton had grown from 3,650 in…
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… the people's army, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK). As alternative township structures, street committees, and people's courts …
ArticleAbram Fischer Timeline 1908-1975
… Party, Bram gives support to the bus boycott of Alexandra Township residents protesting the one-penny increase in bus …
ArticleIndian South Africans: 1924-1948 Legislation and Segregation
… focused on limiting Indian trade and business. In 1924 the Township Franchise Ordinance was passed in Natal. This …
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1920-1929
… opposition. The Provincial Council of Natal approves the Township Franchise Ordinance , which will deprive Indians of …
Art lost in a time of struggle by Mary Corrigall
Thami Mnyele and Medu Art Ensemble Retrospective During the past few years the Johannesburg Art Gallery has focused attention on black artists who were…
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
… home as no transport ran between Paarl and Huguenot, a township several kilometres away (Berger, 1992). Working …
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… who apparently defied a school boycott in the Eastern Cape township of Sterkstroom called by anti-apartheid activists. …
ArticleCOVID-19 Timeline 2019-2020
DECEMBER 2019 31 December – Wuhan, in the Hubei province of China, informs its regional World Health Organization (WHO) office of a pneumonia outbreak, the…
ArticleThe Nelson Mandela Presidency - 1994 to 1999
In 1991, Nelson Mandela was elected the president of the African National Congress (ANC), and his friend and colleague, Oliver Tambo, was elected the ANC’s…
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
Race and ethnicity have been and still is at the heart of South African history, politics, society and economy since the European colonisation. South Africa…
ArticleReactions to Silverton Siege 1980
Verdict Protests The Silverton and Soekmekaar verdict prompted a wave of protests against the death penalty and particularly the death sentences of Johnson…
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
IntroductionDecember 16 looms large in the history of South Africa. Today in the new South African it is celebrated as the Day of Reconciliation between Blacks…
ArticleSouth African National Students Congress (SANSCO)
Background to the formation of the South African National Students Congress (SANSCO) The emergence of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) and the adoption…
ArticleA history of prison labour in South Africa
Prison labour has a particularly debatable history in South Africa. Historically, South Africa operated on the understanding that prisons were places of…
ArticleA history of Apartheid in South Africa
Background and policy of apartheidBefore we can look at the history of the apartheid period it is necessary to understand what apartheid was and how it…
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
In the wake of the urban revolt of 1976 and with prospects of a national revolution becoming apparent, security police detained Biko, the outspoken student…
ArticleList of uMkhonto weSizwe Operations
… damage 19/12/83 Government Buildings: KwaMashu, Durban township offices - explosion causes R60 thousand damage 1984 … no injuries 12/04/88 Skirmishes with…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… ranks of the ANC, speaks at a public meeting in Alexandra Township. The next day he is arrested. 25 June The Defiance … arrested under the Urban Areas Act…
Biography of Arthur Nortje by Kangkang Yang
… cell and secret police interrogation rooms” as well as “township landlords, gaol warders, political refugees and …
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… land were sold at Umbilo, subsequently known as Prospect Township. 30 January, Dr John William Colenso arrived on the … May. May, Lieutenant-Governor…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
In 1948, the National Party (NP), representing Afrikaners, won the national election on a platform of racism and segregation under the slogan of 'apartheid’…