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… Black strip at top with title in white lettering. "State of Emergency" in red letters down sides of poster. Black and white image of soldier in centre with…
EventStart of blood classification controversy
… racially profiled blood donations, and that Coloured and Black donors were considered as "high risk" cases. This led … Dr David Klatzow said the level of…
EventThe apartheid government reportedly pays compensation for death of Steve Biko
… began his political career as the co-founder of the all-black South African Student's Organization (SASO). It was … his involvement in this organization that…
EventThe Star Condemns Forced Removals In Sophiatown
… The Star newspaper condemns the forced removal of black residents from Sophiatown, near central Johannesburg, … cities and towns white. They did this by…
The Role of Women in the Struggle against Apartheid, 15 July 1980
… mattress, furniture and baking industries. While several black national federations were formed and dissolved, the one … of the period in which women…
Document 7 - ‘White South Africa.’ Two Voices.” The International, 27 January 1922
… the General, wants to wipe out the dividing line between black and white, involving equal rights for kaffirs, or the black taking his place alongside the…
PlaceAvalon Cemetery, Soweto
On the Southern edge of one of the Country’s most famous townships, Soweto, lies the equally Historic Avalon Cemetery. The biggest cemetery in South Africa…
PlaceMolweni, Kwa Zulu Natal
… The Population of Molweni is made up of mostly Black Africans, with Females being the predominate Gender! … The Population of Molweni is made up of mostly…
PlaceElandsfontein Phosphate Mine, Hopefield
… long-term partnerships, in particular with Elandsfontein’s Black Economic Empowerment partner and one of its significant …
ArchiveRoseinnes Daniel Phahle by Allison Drew
… Alexandra residents. In 1958, supported by the majority of black students, Phahle was elected to the Wits Students’ … after the 1976 Soweto Uprising, Phahle…
ArchiveInterview with Ntsizi Elijah Moremi
… a refugee in Kenya in the late 1970s. An adherent of the black consciousness movement, he became involved in efforts to create an external wing of the…
Deployment of Racism in South Africa by Rooha Variava
… Chapter 2: Questions Method Chapter 3: The Constitution of Black as ‘Other’ Chapter 4: The Black as Uncivilized Chapter 5: The Management of Blacks ……
The South African War
… men on their way to commando duty; and the third involved Black mine workers who returned to their rural homes …
Conclusion: A Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
… natural resources. In its wake it has left millions of Black people desperately poor and without any means for …
EventSimon Petros Matseke, prominent in African social and political life, dies in Pretoria
… Matseke became prominent in the social affairs of black South Africans after joining the Pretoria Location … of rent. Matseke also championed the appointment…
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
… editor, and ensured that the World was the most circulated Black newspaper in the country. After studying in the United … difficult to create and sustain a…
EventThemba Sono is expelled from SASO
… leaders to advance the party's interests and liberation of Black people. He called for SASO: "To move away from the … them to our way of thinking, this…
EventBritish establish first ‘refugee’ camps during the South African War
… 1 676 elderly men, died in these camps. The death toll in Black concentration camps, housing Africans who had been … like horses, cattle and sheep, killed…
EventThe Native Land Act is passed
… less than 20% of the population. The Act stipulated that Black people could live outside the reserves only if they … Cape property-ownership was one of the…
ArchiveLetter from Rev G Hawkes, to the Secretary, Van der Walt Commission of Inquiry into the Consolidation of the Ciskei
… request to the commission to stop the wholesale removal of black people from their long-standing places of residences. … letter also stresses the negative…
'Native life' 100 after Sol Plaatje published it by Janet Remmington, Brian Willan, Bhekizizwe Peterson (Mail and Guardian), 30 September 2016
… by one of South Africa’s most talented early 20th-century black leaders and journalists, Native Life is a foundational, … Native Life’s neglect was its being…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Introduction
… helped to shape South African society. They impacted on black social life and politics in a particular way. In the … the labour market, notably white women…
EventNational Party adopts five year programme
… included a political "reform" plan to give South Africa's Black majority a role in national as well as local government … the government did not succeed to…
PlaceKeetmanshoop
… 'Swartmodder' or 'Zwartmorast' (which respectively mean 'black mud' and 'black marsh') . The missionary Dr Carl Hugo Hahn had …
PlaceElandsberg Nature Reserve, Western Cape
… in the 1970s, has abundant herds of eland, springbuck, black wildebeest, zebra and bontebok, as well as other … one of the leopard’s favourite foods. The…
David Goldblatt by Jean Dykstra, 11 September 2011
… Jewish Museum show consists entirely of modestly sized black-and-white prints, 150 altogether, dating from 1948 to … we grasp the image as a reference to the…
EventSupreme Court changes ruling on forced removals, traditionally
… 1983, the apartheid Government forcibly moved 3.5 million Black South Africans in one of the largest mass removals of … throughout the country. As a result…
EventSASO adopts the Alice Declaration
… resolved that students nationwide should close down Black institutions of higher education through lecture … had attacked segregated education and White…
Steve Biko: Gone but not forgotten by Robin Comley and Claire Keeton (Times Live), 12 September 2017
… Biko. He was elected president of the university’s first black Student Representative Council, on which Biko also … during the lengthy trial of nine student…
ArchiveJonas Gwangwa embodied South Africa’s struggle for a national culture by Gwen Ansell
… Gwangwa borrowed his lifetime trademark: a jaunty black beret. He became, in his own words “this little … Verse One became the first modern jazz album from a…