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EventO. R. Tambo leaves South Africa for exile
… Tambo left South Africa shortly after the Sharpeville massacre , on the instruction of the African National … sympathised with South Africa in the aftermath…
EventSouth African Defence Force (SADF) raid Maseru in an effort to kill suspected members of the African National Congress
… charges and denounced the invasion as a "cold-blooded massacre." Charging that the ANC members killed were … was not yet ready for such an approach, and the …
EventPass laws are suspended in South Africa
… normality had been restored, following the Sharpeville Massacre. The Police Commissioner said that the pass laws … anti-pass campaign that resulted in the…
EventTwenty die in an armed assault in a mosque in Khartoum, Sudan
… In a massacre on 4 February 1994 Abbas al-Bager Abbas opened fire … Mosque . Police arrested 65 members of the sect after the massacre. The tension between…
BiographySindiso Mfenyana
… also a dangerous one. On 21 March 1960, the Sharpeville Massacre occurred in which 5000 people gathered outside of …
EventA two-day All-in African Conference starts in Pietermaritzburg, Natal
… four days after the first anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre, where 69 people were killed and scores left injured in what has come to be known as the…
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
… Mabona in her first public testimony about the Sharpeville massacre at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). 20 … of peace in Tom Lodge’s book,…
PlacekwaMakhutha Township
… significance including the infamous 1987, KwaMakhutha Massacre involving state-sponsored violence during apartheid … at KwaMakhutha near Amanzimtoti. This…
PlaceBisho, Capital of the Eastern Cape
… of the University of Fort Hare ; Bisho Hospital ; Bisho Massacre Memorial (as per: the PLACE IMAGE); Bisho Stadium … Peddie. Each year during the Month of…
ArticleConference: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa
… of MK . A performance by Mozambican dance group Massacre de Mueda will close the conference on the final …
ArticleSouth Africa’s electoral history timeline 1910-2009
… 1961 The referendum that followed the Sharpeville massacre and whose outcome made South Africa a republic. 1966 …
PlaceWeenan
… to what would be forever remembered as the: 'Weenen Massacre'. Two months post this sorrowful event, plots were laid out at the very site of the massacre and…
ArticleDefeat of the Liberation struggle
… Following the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre, the Government declared a State of Emergency (SOE), …
Grade 4 term 2 Timeline: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… and marries Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela 1960 Sharpeville Massacre A State of Emergency is imposed and Mandela is among …
EventScores of people, including a Chief, are killed in Lari, Kenya, following an attack by Mau Mau freedom fighters
… an operation which left thousands of Kikuyu dead.The massacre followed the eruption of violence on 20 October 1952 … and five of his comrades. Many Kenyan…
ArticleEskom Energy Crisis: Will there be a “just transition” to renewable energy? by Kyla Jade Mc Nulty
… March, we remembered the fallen victims of the Sharpeville Massacre and celebrated Human Rights Day because now we live … It is this very same rainbow nation…
BiographyChristopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu
… mine workers who sustained injuries during the Marikana massacre , together with the families of those who were shot …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Timeline
… Adoption of the Freedom Charter 1960 March, Sharpeville massacre 1975 Mozambique and Angola gain independence 1980 … 1992 17 March, Whites-only referendum 17…
ArchiveMayibuye, mayibuye, mayibuye
… Pamphlet commemorating Sharpeville massacre …
EventA United Nations team finally arrives in Mbandaka, Congo, to investigate alleged massacres of refugees
… reported that the rebel forces were responsible for the massacre of these refugees. In the city of Mbandaka alone, … revealed that the rebels were indeed…
Sharpeville Day: commemoration meeting
… to publicise a meeting commemorating the Sharpeville massacre which took place on 21 March 1960 …
ArchiveSWAPO: babies of a colonial war
… Sam Nujoma, holding a baby, survivor of the Cassinga massacre. SWAPO logo. …
EventSA Special Forces accused of train violence
… been involved in train violence, particularly the Benrose massacre on 13 September 1990. He also named a Zimbabwean who … Eastern Transvaal) operation at the…
ArchiveThe Uitenhage Experience: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1988
… housing, forced removals, schools boycotts, Langa massacre, community councils, urbanisation. …
ArticleSouth African General Timeline 1976
… ANC commemorates the 16th anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre. 21 March,Timothy Peter Jenkin a South African …
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO): An Organisational Timeline
… The protest turns violent and South African police massacre a number of protesters. This event signals a turn …
ArticleSouth African Defence Force (SADF)
… Rebellion ), during states of emergency (such as after the massacre at an anti-apartheid protest in Sharpeville ), and …
ArticleNdebele
… lived in Botswana. The cave of Gwasa or the Makapansgat massacre In September 1854, 28 Boers were killed in what … “murders” of Boers in this version are…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
… June, The ANC releases a press statement on the Boipatong Massacre. This was after armed attackers killed more than 40 … to break the stalemate, resulting…
BiographyDr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
… the three decades she spent in exile after the Sharpeville Massacre were likely filled with uncertainty and instability, …