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The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… wing, the Seoposengwe Youth Association (Soya). When the Soweto Uprising took place in 1976, a wave of student … mounted every year, especially Sharpeville…
BiographyDaniel Kunene
… publications. Kunene is particularly noted for his poem Soweto, which the Dutch composer Barnard van Buerden …
BiographyProfessor Carel Boshoff
… a missionary for the Dutch Reformed Church in Lebowa and Soweto. While working as a missionary he completed his MA …
BiographyPaul Ramotsoane Mosaka
… caused by overcrowding in Orlando, the first township of Soweto. By October 1946, the ADP was facing its demise. In …
BiographyJustice Sfiso Mkame
… was produced between 1986 and 1987, a decade after the Soweto uprisings and a time when the country was under a …
BiographyGreg Marinovich
… him towards covering them. And in August 1990, he went to Soweto's Nancefield hostel, where a battle between African …
BiographyRita Alice Ndzanga
… Township at George Goch, after which the couple moved to Soweto . Her husband earned his living by collecting clothing …
BiographyBenjamin John Peter Tyamzashe
… in 1975. Tyamzashe died at Frere Hospital, East London on June 04, 1978 at the age of 87 and was buried at Zinyoka …
Alex Moumbaris
… landings. He was sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment in June 1973, which he would serve in the Pretoria Local Prison. …
The armed struggle and state repression of the 1960s
… many people were killed. The first act by MK took place on 16 December 1961, and during the next 18 months the group … Fischer was the defence lawyer. Eight…
BiographyImam Abdullah Haron
… others, he established the progressive Claremont Muslim Youth Association (CMYA) in 1958. The CMYA went on to publish … (under the 180 days Act) in…
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… Town. Source: The Drum Archive / african.pictures The 1976 Soweto riots ushered in an era of increased confrontation … to establish a core of internal MK…
BiographyTlou Matlala
… Tlou Matlala was banished on 11 June 1952 from Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, …
BiographyHerbert Mabuza
… an emerging cattle farmer. Herbert Mabuza passed away on 2 June 2019 in Johannesburg, Gauteng. … online. Accessed on 4 June 2019. …
BiographyOliver Tambo
… education, moved them to the Ludeke Methodist School, some 16 kilometres away from the homestead. Occasionally his … into the beginnings of the African…
BiographyErnest Mamashila
… Mr Ernest Mamashila, aged 35,was detained on 16 November 1976 under section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act.His …
BiographyInkosi Sigananda Shezi
… to the changed circumstances of prison and he died in June 1906 in the Inkandla jail. …
BiographyReverend Walker Stanley Gawe
… in Zwelitsha, near King Williamstown, and passed away on 16 October 1980. In August 2005, his wife Regina celebrated …
BiographyHugh Lewin
… Rights Book Award jury two years later. Hugh Lewin died on 16 January 2019 at his home in Killarney, Johannesburg, …
BiographyWinston Field
… Winston Field was born on 6 June 1904, in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire in the United … promises of independence during his visits to London in June 1963 and…
BiographyJeremiah Rakoko Mabe
… order without prior notice to the person concerned.’ A new June 1956 banishment order noted that ‘Ministers are still of … Farm Vryburg District, Cape of…
BiographyMuntu Myeza
… ban on the rallies. In defiance to the ban, on 25 June 1974 Myeza led a crowd of about 10 000 people at the … he was rushed to the hospital where he passed…
BiographyDawid Kruiper
… died in an Upington hospital at the age of 71 on 13 June 2012. Secretary General of the Khoi San Gauteng and … and South Africa. An official state funeral…
BiographyRev. Aldin Grout
… Bailey and the couple returned to South Africa in June 1840. In his absence, Grout’s mission station at Ginani … over most of Natal in 1843. A few months…
BiographyBrian Percy Bunting
… strike, but the charges against him were dropped.In June 1946 the Communist Party asked Bunting to go to Cape … Moses Kotane award. Bunting passed away in…
EventThe Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.
… In the aftermath of the 16 June 1976 Uprising, in Soweto, Johannesburg, the apartheid government banned all the …
BiographyEsther Barsel
… end of her life. She remained committed to informing the youth about the struggle for democracy and workers’ rights … she borrowed from Hashomer Hatzair (the…
ArchivePolisiemanne trap toe so amper op terroriste in donker bosse, by Frik Badenhorst, Rapport, 16 Augustus 1981
… terroriste in donker bosse, by Frik Badenhorst, Rapport, 16 Augustus 1981 …
Sunny Venkatruthnam, University Of Durban-Westville, Documentation Centre, Oral History Project, “Voices of Resistance”, 16 July 2002
… Centre, Oral History Project, “Voices of Resistance”, 16 July 2002 …