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A growing urban African population
… of 50 by 100 feet, and sometimes there were as many as 80 or more people living on one stand. With the growing shortage …
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
… likely to find favour with either White Liberals or the country's Neo-Democrats who have both benefited …
ArticleGarveyism: Early 1900s philosophy
… organised under the name Amafelandawonye (the Diehards) or Amafela, with a plea for a political system based on a …
Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
… of the post offices, sitting on benches marked for whites, or violating other apartheid regulations. Slowly the campaign …
ArticleThe formation of SASO and the Black People’s Convention
… conference host, refused to allow mixed-race accommodation or eating facilities. Biko reacted angrily to the incident, …
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1910 - 1919
… of 1919 , is promulgated to prevent Indians from residing or trading in areas perceived to be the preserve of Whites. …
Chapter 2 - From Crisis to Stability to Crisis
… state control. All future training of teachers for state or state aided schools was to be conducted in departmental … church missions were given the option…
ArchiveCHAPTER THREE: The Emergence Of Grassroots Politics, 1979-1981 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… of a vastly repressive state rather than of any race or group, but I was also the captive of an offensive “white” … the reach of the security police as a…
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… leaders if he did not agree with their actions, programmes or policies. Cillié infuriated Verwoerd when he supported the … his position on 18 May 1982. (see…
Lekota and George resign ahead of disciplinary hearings, 3 November 2008
… capacity of the organisation, and acting on behalf or in collaboration with a group of persons who seek to …
PlaceRehoboth
… closely linked to Rehoboth and became Rehoboth Basters or Rehobothers. There population increased rapidly from an …
PlaceGuinea-Bissau
… Guinea-Bissau, with another 16 coups attempted, plotted, or alleged. Held in December 2019, the last Presidential …
PlaceMagwa Waterfall, Lusikisiki-Port St. Johns
… movement of the earth's crust along geologic faults, or volcanic activity. Although on a much smaller scale, …
PlaceKweneng, District of Botswana
… similar to Barotse and Tuli. Its colour is plain black or multi coloured: usually red pied, and rarely black pied. …
PlacePiquetberg
… of Piquetberg. Its name was derived from the Dutch "piket" or the French "piquet", meaning a military post, and may have …
PlaceMarket Square, Port Elizabeth
… landing beach was nearby and much of the goods arriving at or leaving from Port Elizabeth did so via Market Square. The …
Document 45 - Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Left Opposition to Cape Town comrades, 23 October 1932
… to the same manner, on this following questions: fraction or Party, and: characteristic of the Russian State. …
The Nkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Competition 2014
… handed over at the requisite time, the responsible learner or educator will automatically be disqualified from the …
Class Struggle
… of workers. Thus the classes were in a state of struggle, or even war, against each other. The class struggle was not …
EventA car bomb explodes in Durban, killing five and injuring 27 people
… to have understood that these bombs could potentially harm or kill unsuspecting civilians. Lalla was granted amnesty for …
EventP.W. Botha becomes Prime Minister
… told his fellow Whites that they would have to "adapt or die." The right wing elements in the NP, especially in the …
EventAir France A-300B Airbus hijacked from Athens arrives at Entebbe, Uganda
… Netanyahu. Eleven Ugandan Mig Fighter jets were damaged or destroyed. References 1976: Israelis rescue Entebbe …
EventThe first Cape to Rio yacht race takes place
… South Africa organizing an ocean race, either to Australia or South America, at a function in Cape Town. The Springbok …
EventBeatles records are banned by the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), due to John Lennon’s previous ‘Jesus’ comments
… now; I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were …
EventRobert Kennedy, American politician, speaks at the University of Cape Town about the racial inequality of apartheid
… In his speech he referred to a 'Day of Affirmation' or a 'celebration of liberty', and compared racial inequality …
EventThe new ochre-red, white and green tri-colour of the Transkei is adopted
… in the flag is derived from the colour of the soil or "Im-bola" from which traditional Xhosa huts are built, …
EventThe Bisho Massacre occurs
… of apartheid, Ciskei was designated as one of two homeland or "Bantustan" for Xhosa-speaking people. Xhosa speakers were …
EventThe Slagtersnek rebels are tried in the Uithenhage landdros court
… sentenced to death. The remaining rebels were acquitted or banished. The execution of these rebels is as being a sore …
EventAppearance of former ministers before the TRC
… forces while so many people were dying in police custody or disappearing. Click here to read a statement by Archbishop …