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ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… especially after the Rivonia Trial , saw a lull in anti-apartheid politics that only ended with the emergence of the … State wary of the new organisation’s…
ANC Gauteng Centenary Month to celebrate Oliver Tambo, 18 October 2012
… have created a partnership with the HIP alliance and the City of Reggio Emilia in Italy. During the Apartheid years, the City of Reggio Emilia provided…
EventPercy Qoboza, editor of the Post, states that it is difficult to see how a credible newspaper for Blacks can be created in South Africa
… Percy Qoboza was a journalist and outspoken critic of the apartheid regime. He initially studied in the field of … Africa with even greater determination to…
ArticleAfrikaans community, 1883-1899
… towns, railways, roads and harbours were built, and new urban markets opened up for locally produced food and … ac.za/news/latest-news/opinion/2024/2024-10…
Discovery of the Gold in 1884
… Wits (Knights), Meyer & Charlton, George Goch, Jumpers, City and Suburban, Geldenhuis Estates, Langlaagte, Robinson … drawback: the field was relatively…
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
… neither capital nor security of tenure in towns or peri-urban areas lived in structures of an impermanent character … right to make representations to the…
ArticlePondoland revolt - 1950 - 1961
… and to co-opt their Chiefs. Violence erupted around issues such as Chiefs who collaborated with the Apartheid state, the land reclamation programme, the…
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
… organisation. NUSAS started to be vocal and denounce apartheid and its legalisation. This in turn drew fierce … domination and its failure to act in a…
PlaceRed Location Museum
… and moved in 1900's, to Red Location, where the first urban Black families settled. It became a site of struggle during the years of Apartheid. Many…
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… Music Music was a central feature of the urban culture that developed in Johannesburg and in … took place. Early beginnings In the 1920s and 1930s the urban…
EventRiots erupt in East London, Eastern Cape
… Nelson Mandela, Yusuf Dadoo and Walter Sisulu defied Apartheid laws in Johannesburg and other major city centres. The period 1950 -1952 was marked by a …
EventWalter Sisulu, Raymond Mhlaba and Ahmed Kathrada address the public after 26 years
… from prison. The rally, which was held at the Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg, was attended by thousands of … prison and the rally marked the beginning…
Why protect worker’s rights?
… workers was a feature of life in South Africa for decades. Apartheid thrived on cheap labour: workers had to contend … they argued, the provisions were…
"Attack, Advance, Give the Enemy No Quarter!" by O. R. Tambo, Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 74th Anniversary of the ANC, 8 January 1986
… immense responsibility that rests on all of us to make the apartheid system of oppression and exploitation, repression … system of local government. For…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 74th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1986
… immense responsibility that rests on all of us to make the apartheid system of oppression and exploitation, repression … whole system of local government…
The New Generation
… as diligently as possible to effect change towards a post apartheid society. It urges artists to refuse participation … the implicit political forces that…
ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
… prior to the introduction and institutionalisation of the Apartheid policy by the NP. Legislations that had an … another direction in the 1950s. Before the…
BiographyJohn Jacques William Aitchison
… and analysis of the conflict and helped demystify the apartheid state's propaganda on "black on black" violence. …
BiographyDorothy Cleminshaw
… Party of South Africa (LPSA). The Liberal Party opposed apartheid and advocated for “one man, one vote”. She joined …
ArticleChieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa
… of chieftaincy faces many problems. One of the key issues relates to chieftaincy operating on principles that … regime of the British. [xv] Chieftaincy under…
EventThe corner stone of the Union Buildings in Pretoria is laid
… South African government and is situated in the capital city, Pretoria, now known as Tshwane. It was designed by Sir … as a location for political protests,…
EventThe corner stone of the Union Buildings in Pretoria is laid.
… South African government and is situated in the capital city, Pretoria, now known as Tshwane. It was designed by Sir … as a location for political protests,…
Address to the Swedish Parliament Stockholm, 13 March 1990
… the parties to which you belong, represent the common anti-apartheid and democratic positions of the overwhelming … aligned with regard to the fundamental…
Karen Nieuwoudt
… competition and came 2nd in the category 'play and the city'. I love landscape photography and have gone on … photos onto bags that I have made. I have…
Address delivered at The 9th COSATU Congress, 18 September 2006, Gallagher Estate, Midrand
… of the mass army of revolution that is today shaking the apartheid system to its very foundations. The formation of … Democratic Revolution are achieved…
Arthur Chaskalson Chief: Justice Emeritus, Constitutional Court of South Africa
… to the African National Congress on constitutional issues (April 1990-April 1994), and served as a member of the Technical Committee on Constitutional Issues…
Beerhalls in Soweto from Soweto Heritage Survey Final Report compiled by Steven Lebelo and Elsabe Brink for the National Monuments Council, Northern Region
… in Johannesburg's African townships. The Johannesburg City Council JCC) opened a beerhall in Western Native … the JCC to introduce the home-brewing system…
Document 75 - A. Mon (M. N. Averbach), “The Historical basis for the Programme of the Fourth International Organisation of South Africa”, Workers’ 1944
… equipped leadership and the semi-peasant nature of' the city Bantus joined in many of these struggles. But during the … struggle, a struggle which will draw…
EventJohannesburg municipal workers strike
… place in Johannesburg, the largest and most industrialised city in South Africa. The strike involved over 10,000 African … strike was centered around the…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the launch of the Siyakha Project, Groutville, 17 June 1995
… leadership of Chief Abert Luthuli. During those days the apartheid regime was bent on frustrating African farmers and … rely entirely on agriculture. Gone…