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ArchiveSouth Africa in World War One, 31 October 2018
… of Wight in February 1917. Oral history records that the Rev Isaac Wauchope comforted the men aboard the sinking ship …
PlaceErmelo
… , and it also experienced forced removals during the 1960's. But the surrounding region is also brimming with … of thousands of people was razed to the…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising, 16 June 1986
… Gugulethu and other areas rose united in response to a massacre unprecedented in its nature and scale. On the …
"The Count-Down has Started": Statement on the Tenth Anniversary of the Soweto Uprising by O. R. Tambo, 16 June 1986
… Gugulethu and other areas rose united in response to a massacre unprecedented in its nature and scale. On the …
PlaceMilnerton
… produces over 800 000 candelas. It was completed in March 1960 and therefore boasts a long history. Interestingly, this …
PlaceRustenburg House, together with its Summer House, Main Road, Rondebosch.
… under old NMC legislation on 22 August 1941, and 3 June 1960 respectively. …
Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
The landscape of Black political activity in the 1960s was a very different one from that of the previous decade. The apartheid government had shattered the…
EventThe Pondoland Revolts
… the government declared a state of emergency in November 1960. Thousands of people were detained without being charged …
EventFirst Fietas Festival to celebrate the legacy of the community
… experienced, particularly at its height between 1945 and 1960. It was a place not unlike District Six and Sophiatown. …
Arthur Chaskalson Chief: Justice Emeritus, Constitutional Court of South Africa
… movements in several major political trials between 1960 and 1994, including the Rivonia Trial in 1963/1964 at …
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… political protest, the ANC and PAC were also banned in 1960. The formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) the subsequent …
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and May Day – Some Key Moments
… p.160. [9] For this account of the May Day protests, massacre and Mandela’s relationship to the CPSA, see: Gauger, …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
… was stormed, a revolutionary Commune initiated the massacre of 1200 ‘counter-revolutionaries’. On the 20th of …
Albert Luthuli’s Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize, Oslo, December 10, 1961
… the view that I did not deserve the Nobel Peace Prize for 1960. Such is the magic of a peace prize, that it has even … to know, by the very nature of the…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Red Lives. Convenor: Arianna Lissoni
… trialist (1956) , arrested under the State of Emergency in 1960 , and thereafter banned. He also toured (illegally), … neighbouring states. In later years,…
ArticleGrey Street Complex timeline 1800-1999
… has nearly 300 stalls selling from curios to foodstuffs. 1960 15 January, TUC decision welcomed by Congress The … analysis of the main events that crowded…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Conclusion - By Riashnee Pather
… - by Riashnee Pather Conclusion The events of the 1960's made the decline of the Indian Congresses quite … This involvement increased from the beginning…
A Brief History of Mali by US Department of State updated 01 October 2015
… fully independent within the French Community on 20 June 1960. The federation collapsed on 20 August 1960, when Senegal seceded. On 22 September Soudan…
EventThe Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) disbands
The Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) was the underground military wing of the Pan African Congress (PAC). APLA was formed in the 1960s, after the…
Funeral arrangements afoot for Mama Dideka Mhlaba, 20 January 2010
Funeral arrangements are afoot in the Eastern Cape in preparation for the funeral of African National Congress (ANC) veteran, Mama Dideka Mhlaba (85) - wife of…
Call for Papers ‘Rethinking “Apartheid’s Golden Age”: South Africa, c1966-1979’, Colloquium to be held at the University of Pretoria, 20 June 2016
On 20 June 2016, the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies at the University of Pretoria will host a colloquium on South Africa’s ‘long 1970s’, defined…
PlaceGabon
… On 17 August 1960, Gabon, a country in west central Africa, astride the … 17 August 1960, Gabon gains independence from France …
The Final Prize by Norman Levy book review by Chris Saunders, 1 June 2014
… African Communist Party (SACP). Detained without trial in 1960, he was arrested again in July 1964, and suffered …
EventSeretse Khama is asked to renounce chieftaincy
Seretse Khama was the chief of the Bama-Ngwato tribe, Bechuanaland (now Botswana). Khama's problems with the British started when he married an English woman,…
EventDue to insufficient evidence South African police are cleared of charges with regards to the death of Steve Biko
… set up to investigate political atrocities between 1960 and 1994, denied amnesty to the former security …
EventMiriam Makeba, South African singer, dies
… to her stay in exile in London. When her mother died in 1960 she could not return to her funeral because her passport …
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - NOSIPHO MAJEKE: A Biographical Note
… South Africa until, at the height of the repression in the 1960's, she and her family were forced to flee the country. …
Press Conference in Lusaka: Oliver Tambo, 25 June 1985
… It happened two days before we started our conference - a massacre in Gaborone. We did not complain that soft targets … ourselves to intensify our struggle…
Press Conference by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 25 June 1985
… It happened two days before we started our conference - a massacre in Gaborone. We did not complain that soft targets … ourselves to intensify our struggle…
Dream of Total Liberation of Africa is in Sight - Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 72nd Anniversary of ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1984
… of government, beyond a challenge to its legitimacy. In 1960, our people in Pondoland destroyed the regime's … Africa. For some time now, especially since…