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EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested
… march (one of many) against the death sentence of the 'Sharpeville Six'. Tutu was freed a few hours later. Reginald … Francis Mokhesi were convicted for the…
EventThe Security Council begins deliberations on the situation in South Africa
… Congress (PAC) staged an anti-pass demonstration outside Sharpeville police station near Vereeniging. They handed over … injuring close to 200 in what has…
EventPass laws are suspended in South Africa
… suspended until normality had been restored, following the Sharpeville Massacre. The Police Commissioner said that the … the country-wide anti-pass campaign…
EventA two-day All-in African Conference starts in Pietermaritzburg, Natal
… was held 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…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of her majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands Pretoria, 30 September 1996
… An anonymous Cape Town correspondent, The nineteen days (Sharpeville and the days after.before), this article has been … 'South Africa in exile' edited by R…
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… against the repressive apartheid state. Succeeding the Sharpeville incident, a meeting convened by the South African … and wave of radicalism sweeping the…
BiographySindiso Mfenyana
… time, but also a dangerous one. On 21 March 1960, the Sharpeville Massacre occurred in which 5000 people gathered …
ArticleSouth Africa’s electoral history timeline 1910-2009
… © Bailey's Archives. 1961 The referendum that followed the Sharpeville massacre and whose outcome made South Africa a …
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… Mass mobilization of the 1950s culminated in the Sharpeville massacre on 21 March 1960 . Soon thereafter the … PAC traditional strongholds. In Gauteng…
Event1 575 people are detained under a state of emergency
… of emergency was called after anti-pass demonstrations at Sharpeville, Langa and Nyanga, organised by the Pan … (PAC) on 21 March 1960, led to bloodshed and…
EventThe PAC is formed
… especially in the southern Vaal townships (Soweto and Sharpeville, near Vereeniging) and in the Western Cape. The … organisations, was banned in South Africa…
ArticleDefeat of the Liberation struggle
… Following the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre, the Government declared a State of …
Grade 4 term 2 Timeline: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… Evelyn Mase, and marries Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela 1960 Sharpeville Massacre A State of Emergency is imposed and …
PlaceVereeniging, a City in Gauteng
… by the British military in the Area. Nearby Vereeniging is Sharpeville . The Site of the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960. Although named after …
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… catalyst that led to the taking up of arms was the Sharpeville Massacre on 21 March 1960 , where the government … to the ANC and its allies. Therefore, in…
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
… the Group Areas Act. The massacre of unarmed protestors at Sharpeville, near Vereeniging in the province of Transvaal, … Molotsi crossed the border into…
ArchiveMayibuye, mayibuye, mayibuye
… Pamphlet commemorating Sharpeville massacre …
ArchiveTranskripsie van bandopnames
… Branch of a tape made of a Black Peoples Convention Sharpeville commemoration meeting held on 19 March 1972 …
ArchiveReport on meeting of members of Executive held in Dar es Salaam, 28th February 1968
… discuss the Pan Africanist Congress plans to commemorate Sharpeville day. …
ArchiveImmediate prospect for SACP
… Suppression of Communist Act of 1950, the Freedom Charter, Sharpeville 1966. …
EventMandela signs SA Constitution into law
… signed the final draft of the constitution into law at Sharpeville, Vereeniging on 10 December 1996. The date on … opened fire on a crowd demonstrating…
ArchiveNo British arms for South Africa
… March 17th. March from Portland Place to Trafalgar Square. Sharpeville Memorial Rally. List of speakers. …
ArticleSouth African General Timeline 1976
… 21 March, The ANC commemorates the 16th anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre. 21 March,Timothy Peter Jenkin a South …
ArticleSouth African Defence Force (SADF)
… as after the massacre at an anti-apartheid protest in Sharpeville ), and during the Soweto Uprising and the …
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… police panicked at the sight of thousands of protesters at Sharpeville and shot into the crowd. As a consequence 69 … killed and 180 were injured in what…
ArchiveLetter from Sipho Buthelezi, Secretary General of the Black Peoples Convention, to Brothers/Sisters
… as a reminder to Black South Africans to commemorate the Sharpeville massacre of the 21st March 1963 when 69 Blacks …
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… , soon became banned. 48 The negative press from the Sharpeville massacre of 1960 (where security forces killed … 63 Fear of objectionable imagery increased…
EventSADF seals off Vaal townships
… (SAP) sealed off the Vaal Triangle townships of Sebokeng, Sharpeville and Boipatong. They carried out house-to-house …
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
… liberation struggle shifted dramatically in 1960 with the Sharpeville massacre, and with that shift came new … 1965 issue of Drum . [43] The images that came…
Biography of Barry Gilder by Sofia Pullen
… Africans protested the pass laws at a police station in Sharpeville. The policemen, fearing a violent crowd, killed … injured one-hundred-eighty. [ii] This…