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ArticleWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa by Cait Chapman
… Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa Abstract: Black, Coloured and Indian women faced harsh oppressions in … 1930s, shops were closing and the once…
PlaceKuils River
Long before European ships arrived, the land around modern Kuils River already carried the footprints of indigenous people. Fossils recorded by Charles Bell,…
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… began to establish “ Native Locations ” for exclusive Black settlement. On 8 March Umlazi, south of Durban, and … to accommodate the establishment of…
ArticleThe Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910
… that they are easily supplied, and like most men, White or Black, they will not work when they have no want." (Bundy, C. … gave rise to increasing social…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
… get the vote. This means in effect that the weight of the black vote is decreased from 3.1% to 1.4%. The first restrictions against the urbanisation of black…
Freedom for Namibia by Toivo Herman Ja Toivo (1968)
… to sabotage against their own fatherland. I volunteered to face German bullets, and as a guard of military … suppressed. This convinced me that we were too…
ArchiveBiography of Mariama Bâ by Lauren Daugherty
… did not address the issues African women in Senegal face. Once Senghor took office, resistance to the French … in regards to these norms. In an article…
Archive1995 - President Mandela: State of the Nation Address, 24 February 1995 (after National Elections)
… bear testimony to the seriousness of the problems we face; concerns that you, as elected representatives, bring … the people of South Africa. But far as we…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… economic depression after the war and dissatisfaction from Black South Africans and other extra-parliamentary groups … made the SAP's rule more difficult…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa: Movement towards Republic
… Nationalists to counter the challenge posed by a growing Black political consciousness. This was done by systematically disenfranchising Black voters…
ArticleThe Zulu kingdom and the colony of Natal
… them. The Natal Native Contingent showed reluctance to face the Zulus, some of whom were armed with rifles. In an … The British lost 52 officers, 727 white…
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
… formidable list of censorship provisions on the “creative black writer” were only some of the many impediments on … of apartheid in the 1950s onwards. These…
Memorial lecture on the 26th Anniversary of the Lowveld Massacre presented by Comrade Jackson Mthembu ANC National Spokesperson, 15 March 2012
… recognition of the pain, the hurt and the indignity that Black people, particularly Africans, in the whole of South … Blacks was also taken away through…
Document 136 - “Report on the Relationship of the Party to other Workers’ Organisations in South Africa”, Freedom 5, 4 August 1946
… other countries, the South African Communist Party has to face the difference between its policy and attitude to the … likely to remain in extra…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the inauguration of the National Council of Traditional Leaders Cape Town, 18 April 1997
… What then, dear leaders, are the concrete challenges we face? Indeed, because we are meant to be leaders of the … challenges cannot be different from those…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the 5th National Congress of COSATU 7 September 1994
… the end of this month.) Among the many urgent tasks that face this Council is the question of industrial restructuring … society. Comrade Chairperson, The…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of Heritage Day, Cape Town
… hard to suppose that a lovelier place then existed on the face of the earth, or that there was anything more … present a united front against all the…
ArticleThe National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)
… as both federations were to some degree influenced by the Black Consciousness Movement, and - while agreeing on … - insisted that the leadership of the…
Ndibhala Intando Yam: A Converstation on Translating "I Write What I Like" by Steve Biko
… is finally speaking isiXhosa - in the community where Black thought has always lived. For decades, I Write What I Like shaped Black political thought -…
Archive2002 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 8 February 2002
… is starting to bear fruit. The masses of our people, both black and white, both resident at home and abroad, are, like … questions of social equity. This…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… significant for thee role played by women, particularly black women. Black men in the Cape Colony still had the vote (although a black man could not become a…
ArchivePetrus Mashishi
… artisans on condition that they only be allowed to work in black residential or bantustan areas. His specialisation was … Bantu Administration Boards in…
ArticleEvents leading to the Bambatha Rebellion
… labour. Rather than work for the white farmers, the black workforce was increasingly attracted to the gold mines … an attempt to increase the supply of…
EventGovernment's final consolidation of 'homelands'
… form of apartheid separate development and a way to strip Black South Africans of their South African citizenship. The … the point of view of the Apartheid…
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
… of the prison with a row of singularly bleak cells with black stone floors and high walls that were unusually lacking … moments of the day. We set out…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the occasion of the eighth anniversary of the Triumph of the Sandinista Revolution, 01 July 1987, Managua
… racist military occupation, from children and youth who face the army and police in the streets, from militant …
Chief Albert Luthuli and the ‘gospel of service’ by Raymond Suttner (Daily Maverick), 12 March 2014, South Africa
… they had not prepared themselves for what it meant to face prison or other repression. Both Luthuli and Nelson …
Burundi: The ambiguous coup by Simon Allison (Daily Maverick), 14 May 2015
… its promise of a swift return to democracy can be taken at face value – is actually safeguarding Burundi’s …
2004 New Year’s Eve Broadcast, 30 December 2003
… as infectious diseases. To make matters worse, we still face the challenge of high levels of criminal violence, which …
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… saw a steady growth of the population. Year Whites Black, Indians, Coloureds Total 1929 2757 2650 5888 1932 2757 … siren reminded all and sundry that the…