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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…
PlacekwaMakhutha Township
… significance including the infamous 1987, KwaMakhutha Massacre involving state-sponsored violence during apartheid … at KwaMakhutha near Amanzimtoti. This…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
BiographySindiso Mfenyana
… also a dangerous one. On 21 March 1960, the Sharpeville Massacre occurred in which 5000 people gathered outside 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…
ArchiveMayibuye, mayibuye, mayibuye
… Pamphlet commemorating Sharpeville massacre …
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…
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. …
ArchiveThe Uitenhage Experience: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1988
… housing, forced removals, schools boycotts, Langa massacre, community councils, urbanisation. …
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…
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 …
ArchiveSpeech made by Mrs Winnie Mandela to mark the
… the "childrens revolt" in Soweto in June 1976 and the massacre and repression with which the apartheid regime …
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…
ArchiveLetter from Sipho Buthelezi, Secretary General of the Black Peoples Convention, to Brothers/Sisters
… to Black South Africans to commemorate the Sharpeville massacre of the 21st March 1963 when 69 Blacks were shot dead …
BiographyChristopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu
… mine workers who sustained injuries during the Marikana massacre , together with the families of those who were shot …