AS WORLD CUP FEVER CONTINUES TO GRIP THE COUNTRY, LET’S REFLECT ON THIS DAY IN AFRICAN SOCCER HISTORY.
tiMachine is a recurring feature on the Bokamosa Ba Rona Blog. This is where we delve into the past and look back at events on this day in South African history.
tiMachine :: 18 June in African Soccer History
18 June 1995 :: A plane carrying the Angolan soccer team crashes in Luanda, killing 48 people.
18 June 1998 :: A game between the Bafana Bafana and Denmark ends in a draw (1-1).
tiMachine is a recurring feature on the Bokamosa Ba Rona Blog. This is where we delve into the past and look back at events on this day in South African history.
tiMachine :: Soweto Uprising & Hector Pieterson
The Soweto uprising or Soweto riots were a series of clashes in Soweto, South Africa on June 16, 1976 between black youths and the South African authorities. The riots grew out of protests against the policies of the National Party government and its apartheid regime. Black students in Soweto protested against the Afrikaans Medium Decree of 1974 which forced all black schools to use Afrikaans and English in a 50-50 mix as languages of instruction.
Hector Pieterson (1964 – 16 June 1976) became the iconic image of the 1976 Soweto uprising in apartheid South Africa when a news photograph by Sam Nzima of the dying Hector being carried by a fellow student, was published around the world. He was killed at the age of 12 when the police opened fire on protesting students. On June 16, 2002 the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum was opened near the place he was shot in Orlando West.
FOR YEARS, JUNE 16 STOOD AS A SYMBOL OF RESISTANCE TO THE BRUTALITY OF THE APARTHEID GOVERNMENT. TODAY, IT IS KNOWN AS NATIONAL YOUTH DAY — A DAY ON WHICH SOUTH AFRICANS HONOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND BRING ATTENTION TO THEIR NEEDS.
Wikipedia :: Soweto Uprising | Hector Pieterson
AHOY BOKA BUDDIES! WE’RE STILL MARCHING AND OUR NUMBERS ARE GROWING. LET’S PUT THE WORLD CUP INTO PERSPECTIVE AND REMEMBER YOUTH DAY THIS 16 JUNE. VIVA THE CLASS OF 1976!
tiMachine is a recurring feature on the Bokamosa Ba Rona Blog. This is where we delve into the past and look back at events on this day in South African history.
Youth Day
Youth Day on 16 June in South Africa commemorates the start of the Soweto riots of 1976, initially sparked by a government edict that all instruction in black schools would be held in Afrikaans. The iconic picture of Hector Pieterson, a black schoolchild shot by the police, brought home to many people within and outside South Africa the brutalities of the Apartheid regime. The mascot for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Zakumi, has his birthday on that day in 1994.
Wikipedia :: National Youth Day in South Africa
tiMachine is a recurring feature on the Bokamosa Ba Rona Blog. This is where we delve into the past and look back at events on this day in South African history.
12 March 1990 :: Tambo and Mandela Meet in Sweden for the First Time in 28 Years
Oliver Tambo, along with Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, was a founding member of the ANC Youth League in 1943, becoming its first National Secretary and later a member of the National Executive in 1948.
Wikipedia :: Oliver Tambo
tiMachine is a recurring feature on the Bokamosa Ba Rona Blog. This is where we delve into the past and look back at events on this day in South African history.
AHOY BOKA BUDDIES! THE COUNTDOWN CONTINUES TO PRESIDENT JACOB ZUMA’S 2010 STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS AT 7 O’CLOCK IN THE EVENING ON THURSDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2010! DON’T MISS IT! AS WE PREPARE FOR THE OCCASION, WE USE tiMACHINE TO REFLECT ON WHAT THIS DATE HAS MEANT TO SOUTH AFRICA IN THE PAST.
11 February 1990 :: Nelson Mandela is Released from Prison
On 2 February 1990, State President F.W. de Klerk reversed the ban on the ANC and other anti-apartheid organisations, and announced that Mandela would shortly be released from prison. Mandela was released from Victor Verster Prison in Paarl on 11 February 1990. The event was broadcast live all over the world. On the day of his release, Mandela made a speech to the nation. He declared his commitment to peace and reconciliation with the country’s white minority but made it clear that the ANC’s armed struggle was not yet over: “We express the hope that a climate conducive to a negotiated settlement would be created soon, so that there may no longer be the need for the armed struggle.” He also said his main focus was to bring peace to the black majority and give them the right to vote in both national and local elections.
Wikipedia :: Nelson Mandela
tiMachine is a recurring feature on the Bokamosa Ba Rona Blog. This is where we delve into the past and look back at events on this day in South African history.
AHOY BOKA BUDDIES! THE COUNTDOWN CONTINUES TO PRESIDENT JACOB ZUMA’S 2010 STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS AT 7 O’CLOCK IN THE EVENING ON THURSDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2010! DON’T MISS IT! AS WE PREPARE FOR THE OCCASION, WE USE tiMACHINE TO REFLECT ON WHAT THIS DATE HAS MEANT TO SOUTH AFRICA IN THE PAST.
11 February 1966 :: District Six Declared a “White Group Area” by the Government
District Six (Afrikaans Distrik Ses) is the name of a former inner-city residential area in Cape Town. On 11 February 1966, the government declared District Six a whites-only area under the Group Areas Act, with removals starting in 1968. By 1982, more than 60,000 people had been relocated to the sandy, bleak Cape Flats township complex some 25 kilometers away. The old houses were bulldozed. The only buildings left standing were places of worship.
Wikipedia :: District Six
tiMachine is a recurring feature on the Bokamosa Ba Rona Blog. This is where we delve into the past and look back at events on this day in South African history.
2 February 1990 :: FW’s Speech to Parliament
President FW de Klerk scraps apartheid and states that Nelson Mandela will be released. The African National Congress, Pan Africanist Congress and the Communist Party are unbanned.
De Klerk describes “the growing realisation by an increasing number of South Africans that only a negotiated understanding among the representative leaders of the entire population is able to ensure lasting peace.” Read the entire address here.
tiMachine is a recurring feature on the Bokamosa Ba Rona Blog. This is where we delve into the past and look back at events on this day in South African history.
February 1989 :: Trevor Manuel Released from Detention
Trevor Andrew Manuel (born 31 January 1956) is a South African politician, currently serving in the Cabinet of South Africa as Minister in the Presidency in charge of the National Planning Commission. Previously, he was the Minister of Finance from 1996 to 2009 during the presidencies of Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe. He was one of the country’s longest-serving finance ministers.
Wikipedia :: Trevor Manuel
tiMachine is a recurring feature on the Bokamosa Ba Rona Blog. This is where we delve into the past and look back at events on this day in South African history.
8 January 1912 :: Foundation of the ANC
The African National Congress (ANC) has been South Africa’s governing party since the establishment of non-racial democracy in April 1994. Members founded the organization as the South African Native National Congress (SANNC) on 8 January 1912 in Bloemfontein to increase the rights of the black South African population. The organization became the ANC in 1923 and formed a military wing, the Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation) in 1961.
Wikipedia :: African National Congress
tiMachine is a recurring feature on the Bokamosa Ba Rona Blog. This is where we delve into the past and look back at events on this day in South African history.
5 January 1976 :: SABC Begins uMzantsi’s First Television Service
In 1971, the SABC was finally allowed to introduce a television service. Initially, the proposal was for two television channels, one in English and Afrikaans, aimed at white audiences, and another, known as TV Bantu, aimed at black viewers, but when television was finally introduced, there was only one channel. Experimental broadcasts in the main cities began on 5 May 1975, before nationwide service commenced on 5 January 1976.
In 1981, a second channel was introduced, broadcasting in African languages such as Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho and Tswana. The main channel, then called TV1, was divided evenly between English and Afrikaans. Subtitling on TV was almost non-existent, the assumption being that people had no desire to watch programmes in languages they did not speak.
Wikipedia :: Television in South Africa
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