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Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss
… their work at the Open Art Fair in Joubert Park. Circa 1960, Dumile was introduced to Madame Haenggi, who invited … (ANC) and the recipient of the Nobel…
Liberation organisations
UDF The United Democratic Front (UDF) was a non-racial alliance of about 400 national, regional and local organisations. It was launched in Cape Town in 1983,…
PlaceLinden, Johannesburg
Nestled in the foothills of Northcliff Hill, Linden is one of the prettiest and oldest suburbs of Johannesburg, lying to the North-West of the city centre…
EventRonald Harwood , Oscar winning screenwriter, is born in Cape Town, South Africa
… in his play The Dresser. and write a biography. In 1960, he began a prolific new career as a writer, penning …
PlaceSophiatown
… and the destruction of Sophiatown took place from 1955 to 1960. People’s homes and other properties were destroyed. …
ArticleThe Destruction of Sophiatown
… once Africans were resettled in Soweto between 1955 and 1960, the NRB acted as a local authority in respect of the …
ArticleBlack Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
After the government crackdown on political organizations in the early 1960s, new organizations emerged to fill the political vacuum. A movement based on the…
ArticleMessage of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, delivered by Mr. Tambo, at the funeral of Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo
… Following the ban of the African National Congress in 1960 and the increased onslaught of the regime on the …
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
In January 1986, the UDF met the African National Congress (ANC) for talks in Stockholm. It was at these talks that the position and future role of the UDF…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
The Transvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC) was formed in Transvaal (now Gauteng) as the youth wing of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) in 1945. Its…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the 25th Anniversary of the formation of Umkhonto We Sizwe, 16 December 1986
… They drowned our efforts in blood and brutality. The Sharpeville massacre of March 1960 epitomised this reality. The formation of Umkhonto we …
"Umkhonto we Sizwe - Born of the People": Statement of the National Executive Comittee of the ANC on the 25th Anniversary of the Formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1986
… They drowned our efforts in blood and brutality. The Sharpeville massacre of March 1960 epitomised this reality. The formation of Umkhonto …
PlaceGood Hope Centre, Cape Town
… considered a remarkable example of Italian design from the 1960's and 1970's. Its shape was at the same time, modern and …
PlaceRwanda
… usher in the coming “social revolution” [cxxiii] . The 1960 and 1961 legislative elections saw a massive win for … thousands of Tutsi people fled the country…
Article1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
… comprised A. I. Kajee, Dr. Y. M. Dadoo, A. M. Moola, Rev. B. L. E. Sigamoney and P. R. Pather. M. D. Naidoo, Joint … of the 6th and 7th batches of resisters…
Input by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the Farewell service for former President Nelson Mandela, Waterkloof Airforce Base, 14 December 2013
… house-arrest some, and finally banning the organisation in 1960. When the organisation was banned in 1960, after a period of persuasion to the regime for a…
The diary of Maria Tholo - October 18 - November 1 by Carol Hermer
… the auntie what she was waiting for. She had come to ask Rev. Z. to pray for her. There is a belief that certain … are not allowed to mix, everything has to…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt photographie les zones grises sud-africaines by Le Monde, 15 June 2017
… fureur, David Goldblatt s’est appliqué depuis les années 1960 à photographier les structures du pouvoir, disséquant …
Message to Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, President, Anti-Apartheid Movement, on the 25th Anniversary of its Founding by O. R. Tambo, 26 June 1984
… June 26, 1959. It was renamed Anti-Apartheid Movement in 1960. This message was sent by Mr. Tambo on June 23, 1984. …
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Bibliography
… in Natal. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 1960 Lodge, T., Black Politics in South Africa to 1945. …
ArchiveThe world's only privately owned Catholic Church
… did not change the Catholic denomination of the church. In 1960 ownership of the church passed onto Charles West-Thomas. …
PlaceThe Mead and Meadway, Pinelands-Cape Town
The land was granted to the Garden Cities Trust in 1919 and was capitalised in part by a member of the trust, namely Richard Stuttaford of Stuttaford’s fame…
EventSteve Tshwete is born
… school at East London's Welsh High, which he attended in 1960 and 1961, he joined the African Students' Association …
PlaceSprings
The Town of Springs, East of Johannesburg, is on the East Rand, or what is now known as the Metropolitan area of Ekurhuleni, in the Gauteng Province. It was…
PlaceSlave Lodge, Cape Colony
… South African Defence Force. The Building was restored in 1960, for use as a Cultural History Museum. The Slave Lodge, …
PlacePilanesberg Game Reserve
… of the park were then bought by the Government during the 1960’s under the Apartheid Regime . The Bakubung tribe …
ArchiveResisting apartheid through pen and paper by Richard Rive, 05 March 2018
… recognition in the following years (Viljoen 2006). The Sharpeville massacre and the Langa incident in the early sixties inspired … into three parts that…
Africa and Freedom, 1961
… with arms, some without. In my own country, in the year 1960 for which this Award is given, there was a state of emergency for many months. At Sharpeville, a…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: The SACP and Early Socialist Traditions. Convenor: Natasha Erlank
… of God: Enoch Mgijima, the Israelites and the Bulhoek Massacre in South Africa (2018), Africa’s Cause Must Triumph: …
Statement by Nzo Mnumzana in the plenary meeting of the General Assembly, 20 November 1984
… characterization of the killings of blacks as a massacre. For the bereaved families and friends of the … many defenceless blacks must be killed before the…