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PlaceCameroon
… when it gained independence from France [iv] . In 1961 the Federal Republic of Cameroon was formed when the … they would be part of Cameroon or Nigeria. In…
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
… schools were to become state schools. A week later, on 12 September, Steve Biko was murdered. In October all Black … of the students in Standards 7, 8 and 10…
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… well as to promote and protect human rights in general. On 16 August 2012, democratic South Africa witnessed what is now … was the 2012 Marikana protest by…
EventBritain refuses Uganda’s request for independence
… counter the dominance of the Baganda were also created. By 1961, Baganda separatism as well as Baganda dominance in … a highly volatile political situation…
ArticleBritain takes control of the Cape
… the Great Trek, an emigration North and Northeast of about 12 000 discontented Afrikaner farmers, or Boers. These … subsequently defeated at the famous…
Sechaba
… Congress, banned in South Africa during the period 1961 to 1990, forged its struggle for freedom, justice and …
EventBotha announces third naval base
… under the ruling National Party (NP). Later, in August 1961, Verwoed endorsed Botha for the cabinet position of …
EventChoirmaster and composer Kumalo dies
… as amongst the best of Zulu choral music. He retired in 1961, but was even after that date at times commissioned to …
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… workers to apartheid capitalism. Soweto Uprising June 16 uprisings and the youth struggle in the 20th Century … that planned the fateful demonstration which…
ArchiveBiography of Flora Nwapa by Emily Coolidge
… mindedness, superstition, malevolence, greed, and fear” (12). Nwapa’s narrative in fact shows that no matter what each … their culture, and to write and…
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
… and eventually dividing the accused into two groups. In 1961 the last remaining 30 were found not guilty. The Treason …
ArticleHistory of Africa Day - 25 May
… 1960 in Tunisia followed by another one in Egypt in March 1961. As more African countries became independent, the need …
ArticleCOVID-19 Timeline 2019-2020
… and 124 deaths. 8 March- Italy issues a lockdown of around 16 million people in the country’s Lombardy region, in an … cases jump dramatically from 24 to 262…
EventThe International Labour Organisation calls for South Africa’s withdrawal at the Geneva Conference
… On 29 June 1961, during its plenary conference in Geneva, the …
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
… these mine workers were on strike against poverty wages. 12 were killed and 38 were wounded. In 1969 about 1 000 … These strikes swept throughout the…
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
… of 342 indentured labourers arrived in Durban, Natal on 16 November 1860. From their arrival Indian workers were … from £500 to £660. The monthly repayment…
Chapter 2 - Jewish Trade Unions in Cape Town 1903-1907: A Socio-Historical Study
… together in the oppressive, stupefying atmosphere." 12 Many of those destitute artisans constituted the Jewish … revolutionary or trade union movement such…
EventThe New English Bible is published.
… version was published as The New English Bible on 14 March 1961. The new English version was revised yet again in 1989 …
EventNigeria imposes sanctions on South Africa, and implements a total trade boycott
… On 11 April 1961, Nigeria imposed a trade boycott on South Africa, due to …
EventInaugural Conference of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… SACTU was until the banning of political organisations in 1961 the leading non-racial trade union co-ordinating body …
PlaceBoschhoek Farm, uMzinyathi,-a District in kwaZulu-Natal
… claim for their land. Their claim was declined on 12 September 1994 because the Advisory Committee and Land … to Inkosi Didumndeni‘s death, re-lodged the…
PlaceNigeria
… government finally held a presidential election on June 12, 1993. Most observers deemed the 1993 election as … to reveal a timeframe. Following the annulment…
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
… in demonstrations that culminated in the infamous June 16 uprising . 1976 - June 16 and Youth Politics in South Africa The 1970s period was a … a number of…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1910 - 1919
… are refused admission into the Transvaal. September 12, The Transvaal British Indian Association, under the … of existing licences and businesses owned by…
ArticleA Luta Continua Dialogues, Episode 2: Policing and Resistance
… The Marikana Massacre The Marikana Massacre took place on 16 August 2012, in the town of Marikana in the North West … for workers. In December 2016, Napoleon…
Liberal Opinion/Reality
… Liberal Opinion (1961-1968) was published by the Liberal Party of South Africa …
PlaceChurch Square,Spin Street- Cape Town
… National Monument under old NMC legislation on 17 February 1961. …
EventANC leader, Walter Sisulu is arrested for not being in possession of a reference book.
… to his house for 5 years. Before his banishment in June 1961 Sisulu, Joe Slovo, Nelson Mandela and Govan Mbeki … O’Malley P. ‘1961’ , from Nelson Mandela…
EventFierce fighting erupts between pro-Patrice Lumumba troops and UN forces
… Elizabethville, Katanga, where he was murdered in January, 1961. In an official broadcast just days before he was … at www.answers.com (Accessed: 14 January…
EventGhanaian President Kwame Nkrumah calls on world leaders to impose “total economic and political sanctions” on South Africa
… African Unity (OAU) and its first president. On 22 March 1961, Nkrumah called on world leaders to impose sanctions on …