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ArchiveStudent walkouts have changed history before. In South Africa, one helped end apartheid by DeNeen L. Brown (The Washington Post), 14 March 2018
… to protest gun violence in the aftermath of the school massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, …
ANC Press Statement by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 16 August 1985
… he reflected so faithfully. He who is responsible for the massacre of so many people throughout southern Africa had the …
Chapter 1 - The House at Lower Seoli
… the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 The Last …
Statement of the African National Congress by Oliver Tambo, 18 March 1980
… to place exclusive reliance on the "brave" police of Sharpeville, Soweto and Silverton fame, or on the …
Forward to a People's Government by O. R. Tambo - Statement of the ANC, 18 March 1980
… to place exclusive reliance on the "brave" police of Sharpeville, Soweto and Silverton fame, or on the …
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…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 72th Anniversary of the ANC - 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…
EventThe Missing Persons Task Team (MPTT) to Investigate Apartheid Missing Persons Cases
… the graves of those who went missing between March 1, 1960 and May 10, 1994. Due to the large amount of people who …
EventHistory of December 16
December 16 looms large in the history of South Africa; it is celebrated as the Day of Reconciliation. First celebrated as ‘Dingane’s Day,’ when the…
SASO Newsletter, 1970 - 1976
By the late 1960s many black students increasingly began to feel the frustration and disillusionment similar to that which had led to the Fort Hare SRC to…
PlaceKommetjie, Cape Town
Kommetjie was established in 1902 when a consortium of Cape Town businessmen purchased the farm Kommetjie from its owner, J Albertyn, and developed it as a…
EventMercenaries from South Africa led by Colonel “Mad Mike” Hoare, attempt an unsuccessful coup in Seychelles
The armed mercenaries entered the Seychelles disguised as a beer-drinking tourist party, "The Ancient Order of Froth-Blowers." Hoare's objective was to return…
EventHarry Frederick Oppenheimer is born in Kimberley
Harry Frederick Oppenheimer was born in Kimberley on 28 October 1908 to Ernest Oppenheimer and Mary Lina Pollock. Oppenheimer completed his primary education…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of 1956 Women’s March: Union Buildings, Tshwane, 9 August 2006
… by such brutal massacres as those that took place in Sharpeville, Soweto, Boipatong, Shobashobane and elsewhere in … We were discharged. "I was arrested…
ArticleOrganisation of African Unity (OAU)
… a series of conferences hosted in Accra between 1958 and 1960 with the aims of assisting countries still under …
ArticleOvercoming Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid by Bennett Gwynn
… crackdown legislation of the apartheid government. In 1960 the South African government passed legislation that …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Religion and Churches
… Congress leaders have been ministers of religion, e.g., Rev. Mr. Dube,”Š 45 ”‰Rev. Mr. Mahabane"”Š 46 ”‰and many others. Even today, in our …
The Heritage Museum at Villa Zain by Joline Young
“People who come here say how alive this place is. They say they actually feel the vibration of the rich history that fills these walls. I have given 19 years…
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… of Free African Trade Unions (FFATU) disintegrated in the 1960's. Strikes Fattis and Monis Strike 1979 In the Western …
ArticleDr G M 'Monty' Naicker - Timeline
… arrested for treason. The trial continued for three years. 1960 - Dr Naicker played a key role in planning a mass civil …
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
The period 1860-1923 is characterised firstly by the introduction of indentured Indian labourers into Natal and of the "passenger" Indians who came to trade,…
Acceptance speech of the President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, at the Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony Oslo, Norway, 10 December 1993
… late African- American statesman and internationalist, the Rev Martin Luther King Jr. He, too, grappled with and died in …
PlaceNairobi National Museum, East Africa
… of independence in 1963, it was re-named NMK. Since the 1960's, NMK has expanded its services and assets to include …
EventGwala and Mothopeng are released from Robben Island
… political activities. After the banning of the ANC in 1960 under the Unlawful Organisations Act, Gwala became …
Chapter 3 - SASO: The Ideology and Politics of Black Consciousness
… liberation. Following the banning of the ANC and PAC in 1960, the African Students Association (ASA) and the African … of course, an exception. When the…
PlaceLiliesleaf Farm, Rivonia- Johannesburg
… allowed to do. From 1948 through the 1950's and into the 1960's the racial discrimination intensified and the … for the protesters and then more…
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
During the early 1960s, civil society was disempowered and social movements were repressed. Although the capacity for social movements to impose change…
PlaceGallery 101
In 1961, the Swiss Fernand Francis Haenggi (b. 1934, Dijon, France) and his mother Mrs F.M.L. Haenggi founded Gallery 101 to showcase modern South African art…
ANC Gauteng Province pays tribute to Comrade Lawrance Phokanoka,15 July 2005
… in Wankie and Spolilo in the then Rhodesia in the late 1960’s. These battles were aimed at opening the route to …
PlaceDemocratic Republic of the Congo
… ( Brazzaville ). Congo gained independence from Belgium in 1960. From 1971 to 1997 the country was officially the … Congo gained independence from Belgium in…