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ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… Paarl Riots is submitted to Parliament. It analyses the main causes of the riots. 26 June, Sisulu speaks on “Freedom … in the Rivonia Trial. 24 July, A time…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… As the 1950s gave way to the 1960s the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan … to be confined to house arrest. With the loss of its three main leaders…
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… background, and what the world was like in the 1960s. This will help us contextualise the Black … 'big picture') towards the end of the 1980s. During the…
The armed struggle and state repression of the 1960s
… point in the struggle against apartheid came about in the 1960s. This change was the result of combined elements, … and executing infiltration into South…
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
… Afrapix Chronology 1981-1991 …
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
… trade unions. In the army only white people could serve main roles like being a soldier, Black people were given … trade unions. In the army only white…
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
… the government introduced a number of security laws in the 1960s, including the General Laws Amendment Act (90 day … States of Emergency in South Africa: the…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… structures and networks of the ANC and the PAC. The 1960s were characterized by a shift in the terrain of … of underground networks in the first half of…
ArticleGrade 12 - Forms of civil society protest emerged from the 1960s to 1970s
… background, and what the world was like in the 1960s. This will help us contextualise the Black … ‘big picture’) towards the end of the 1980s. During the…
ArticlePoqo in the Western Cape and Transkei in the early 1960s
… in Moyi’s killing appeared in court a few months after the main trial. Veyusile Sharps Qoba was convicted for his part … 61 of the 101 people executed for…
ArticleA change to armed struggle and the state’s intensified repression 1960s
… to armed struggle and the state’s intensified repression 1960s …
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat, 1960s
… List of ANC and MK members killed in combat, 1960s …
ArticleHow uhuru was realised in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s
… How uhuru was realised in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s …
ArticleNelson Mandela Awards 1960s - 2000s
… Awards 1960s 1964 Elected Honorary President of the Students' … Nelson Mandela Awards 1960s - 2000s …
ArticleTimeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s
… Timeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s …
ArticleGrade 12 - The impact of the Cold War in forming the world as it was in the 1960s
… of the Cold War in forming the world as it was in the 1960s …
ArticleThe missionaries
… the Xhosas and Zulus. The missionaries became Faku’s main channel of communication with the Cape Colony, and later … Black women and men of South Africa in…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… the border in Morocco. Source: Pretoria News Library. The 1960s period marked an important watershed in South Africa’s … a month later. Aerial shot of…
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… and friendly socialist countries. The latter part of the 1960s witnessed attempts by the African National Congress … the ANC relocated its headquarters to…
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
… the Afrikaner Broederbond (AB). The organisation had one main aim: to further Afrikaner nationalism in South Africa - … policies. Although revelations in the…
ArticleThe African Students Association (ASA)
… forced many of ASA leaders to go to exile in the early 1960s. Once in exile, the ANC elders in London asked Mbeki to … with Mbeki as leader in Britain. The…
ArticleThe Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… The landscape of Black political activity in the 1960s was different that of the previous decade. The … Ironically, the seeds of Black resistance in the…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… the National Party, and to lay down its principles. The main aim was to direct the people’s ambitions and beliefs … groups made the SAP's rule more difficult…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… an underground military wing known as Poqo ('Pure') in the 1960s. This became the first black political organization in … spread. After the government…
ArticleTeachers League of South Africa (TLSA) conference in 1925
… a prominent member of the APO who played a key role as the main organiser of the TLSA’s founding Conference under the … 1940s membership of the TLSA began to…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… an effective and peaceful means of pressure. However, the main trading partners of South Africa continually voted … the policy, mandatory sanctions were…
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… to criticize the apartheid government throughout the 1960s. Through its newsletter, Unity, APDUSA offered regular … movement in the 1970s and 1980s. By the…
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… was a new source of resistance that had arisen in the late 1960s among students who formed the student body the South … National Indian Council set up by the…
A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group
… and patronised the bank. It began to diversify in the 1960s, setting up industrial and other enterprises, so that … as a result of the economic boom that…
ArticleDefeat of the Liberation struggle
… an exodus of political activists into exile. In the 1960s, the Government introduced a number of security laws, … MK bases in independent African countries…