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Mar 31, 2011

Parliamentary Internal Security Commission Act No 67

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South African Students Movement (SASM)
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Mar 31, 2011

South African Students Movement (SASM)

The South African Students Movement (SASM) an organisation of mainly high school students was formed to represent studen...

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Black People’s Convention (BPC)
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Mar 31, 2011

Black People’s Convention (BPC)

The Black People’s Convention (BPC) was an umbrella organisation of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). BCM had its ...

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Mar 31, 2011

Nguni

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Mar 31, 2011

Internal Security Amendment Act No 79

This Act removed the requirement that internment be linked with states of emergency. It amended five other Security Act...

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Mar 31, 2011

June 18

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Mar 31, 2011

June 17

The second day... was marked by uncontrollable fury and burning hostility...Police also assumed another attitude. They s...

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Mar 31, 2011

Commission of Enquiry into Matters relating to the Coloured Population Group

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Mar 31, 2011

Defining Black Consciousness

" Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the Black man of the need to rally together with his brothers aro...

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Mar 31, 2011

Black Consciousness and June 16

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Archive
Mar 31, 2011

Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa

The landscape of Black political activity in the 1960s was a very different one from that of the previous decade. The ap...

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Mar 31, 2011

Beerhalls in Soweto from Soweto Heritage Survey Final Report compiled by Steven Lebelo and Elsabe Brink for the National Monuments Council, Northern Region

Beerhalls have always been at the centre of the waves of political turmoil in Johannesburg's African townships. The Joha...

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Mar 31, 2011

Defining the term 'Bantu'

The following article is based on an essay from Kees van der Waal’s chapter in “Critical Essays on Afrikaans Places of M...

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Bantu education and the racist compartmentalizing of education
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Mar 31, 2011

Bantu education and the racist compartmentalizing of education

In 1949 the government appointed the Eiselen Commission with the task of considering African education provision. The Co...

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Mar 31, 2011

Apartheid

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