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EventIconic musician, John Lennon, was shot dead outside his New York apartment
At approximately 11:00 PM, John Lennon was shot 4 times in the back as he entered his luxury apartment building on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The Lennon's…
EventPortuguese navigator Bartholomew Dias erects the first stone cross on the South African coast
… of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg for safe-keeping. In 1960, a statue of Dias was unveiled in Cape Town. …
Belonging - A History of Indian South Africans
Time: 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Across oceans and centuries, this sweeping narrative shuttles between the corridors of the Colonial Office in London, the contested…
The Durban Strikes and the making of the Political Struggles in South Africa by Vuyisile Msila
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference When the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU) was formed in…
Event90-Days Act commences
… unlawful those organisations existing since 7 April 1960, and enables authorities to align Umkhonto We Sizwe with …
EventJohn Thomas Baines is born
… in South Africa were published in two volumes in the 1960's. Baine's greatest contribution was his ability to …
ArticleJune 16 Youth Uprising casualties
… Jan Lloyd 35 18.6.76 Gunshot wound to chest Nabuka, Ambrose Soweto 26.12.76 Nare, Michael Mamelodi 31.12.76 …
Lecture by President Thabo Mbeki delivered on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the death of Stephen Bantu Biko, 12 September 2007, Cape Town
… liberation concentrated in the ANC until it was banned in 1960, and the time in 1969, when he and Steve Biko … is that this period of extreme reaction…
Olof Palme and the liberation of Southern Africa by Oliver Tambo, 01 March 1988
… of South African products. This was immediately after the Sharpeville massacre in 1960. By 1963 the Government had imposed a voluntary arms …
40 years after: Understanding the Soweto Uprising by Motsoko Pheko (Pambazuka News), 30 June 2016
… 16 June 1976 was Hector Pieterson. According to the late Rev. Benjamin Rajuili who was a minister of religion in the … who loved their country immensely. It…
BiographyGeorge Gangen Ponnen
… Vera and George doing the cooking for the delegates. In 1960, during the state of emergency when many trade unionists …
ArchiveJakes Gerwel: The epitome of integrity and courage by Niren Tolsi, 30 November 2012
Professor Gert Johannes "Jakes" Gerwel, who died of complications following heart surgery on Wednesday, was a quiet South African, but one who thought and…
Beerhalls in Soweto from Soweto Heritage Survey Final Report compiled by Steven Lebelo and Elsabe Brink for the National Monuments Council, Northern Region
Beerhalls have always been at the centre of the waves of political turmoil in Johannesburg's African townships. The Johannesburg City Council JCC) opened a…
Bibliographical note and further reading
… D. W. Kruger's South African Parties and Policies, 1910-1960 (Cape Town, 1960) sketch the background to white politics. For the …
EventWalter Sisulu celebrates 90th birthday
… from 1956-61. From armed struggle to Rivonia After the Sharpeville massacre in March 1960, the banning of the ANC and the PAC all avenues of legal …
Joint Statement by Chief Albert Lutuli, Dr. G.M. Naicker and Peter Brown appealing to the British People to Boycott South Africa, 5 December 1959
… In May, 1960, the Union of South Africa will be 50 years old. The …
ANC statement on the death of Adelaide Tambo, 31 January 2007
… Tambo were asked by the ANC to leave the country in 1960 and to carry on the work of the organisation outside …
PlaceKroondal, Rustenburg
… and sons followed fathers into the business. By 1960, the Ottermann family owned the Rustenburg Produce and …
EventB.J Vorster steps down as Prime Minster
On 29 September 1978, Balthazar Johannes Vorster stepped down as Prime Minster of South Africa after the holding office since 1966. John Vorster, as he became…
EventDaniel Toroitich arap Moi arap Moi wins the first multi
… and spokesman for the Kalenjin, an ethnic minority. In 1960 he helped found the Kenya African Democratic Union …
Chapter XI - Witness for freedom
… violence by the government and the police, which followed Sharpeville. I did not foresee the spiral of violence, which … the victims of the proclaimed State…
Extract from a speech at the conclusion of the Republic Festival on 31 May 1971 at Goodwood, Cape
… at school 866 900 White children, 155 000 more than in 1960, 515000 Coloured children, 210 000 more than in 1960, 163 000 Indian children, 35 000 more than…
The diary of Maria Tholo - August 11 - 15 by Carol Hermer
… is why you don't go to church and can't think straight. In 1960 when you wanted freedom they gave you beer; they gave … gallon wine containers (Afrikaans)…
AAM and UN: partners in the international campaign against apartheid
… West European countries; lobbying the Commonwealth in 1960-61 and the International Olympic Committee in 1962; …
PlaceImbali Township, Pietermaritzburg
“Imbali” is the IsiZulu word for: “Flower”. Imbali Township was established in 1958 and built in the mid-1960s to settle the City workers and employment…
Place"When Woodstock had a Beach"
Before the clash of concrete and commerce, before the hum of machinery overtook the gentle sound of waves, the Woodstock coastline thrived as a vibrant beach…
EventKaunda calls for Thatcher's exclusion from talks on South African sanctions
In protest of the system of apartheid, economic sanctions against South Africa had been advocated from the 1960s onwards. However, it was only in the 1980s…
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
… over 200 injured. The incident becomes known as the Bisho Massacre . 1993 SACP leader Chris Hani. Source: …
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1900-1947
… Israelites are killed in what became known as the Bullhoek Massacre . 1922 The Stallard Commission is established …
Sierra Leone’s Pre-colonial and Colonial era military and security forces
… the Royal Sierra Leone Military Force [35] on 2 August 1960, and Sierra Leone became independent of Britain a few …