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TRAC (Transvaal Rural Action Committee) Newsletter, 1983 - 1990
… Action Committee, established in 1983 as a project of the Black Sash, published this Newsletter with the intention of … malnutrition. The Government policy…
EventVaal Triangle erupts in violence
… Bophelong, Evaton, Sebokeng and Sharpeville, five Black townships in the area known as the Vaal Triangle … for the violence was rent increases proposed by…
EventHenry Olonga, Zimbabwean Cricketer is born
… Test debut in 1995, becoming the youngest person and first black person to play for Zimbabwe. Olonga’s professional … career ended in 2003 after he and a…
PlaceWagendrift Nature Reserve and Dam, Escourt
… along the Bushman's River. Found here are; Fish Eagle and Black Eagle, which nest in the reserve. Species of fish … picnic and fishing spot. Found here are;…
PlaceFisantekraal, Cape Winelands
… per km²) houses or shacks, in this Township. 51% are Black Africans while 47% of the population is Coloured. Most … per km²) houses or shacks, in this…
EventRocklands Community Hall declared a heritage site
On 20 August 2019, the 36th anniversary of the founding of the United Democratic Front (UDF), the Rocklands Community Hall, located in Mitchell’s Plain,Cape…
PlaceKatberg, Eastern Cape
… in the area, it lies on the uppermost reaches of the Black-Kei River and is stocked with rainbow trout that …
EventWWI: battalion consisting of 'Cape Coloured men', called the Cape Corps, is established
… fought in World War One, and fewer than 4 000 were black, coloured or Indian. The most well-known battle that …
Lecture by President Thabo Mbeki delivered on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the death of Stephen Bantu Biko, 12 September 2007, Cape Town
… established SASO, the first organised formation of the Black Consciousness Movement, nine years after the … they do not desire. Biko himself said that: …
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of President Nujoma of Namibia Cape Town, 13 May 1996.
… dusty township. During the next few weeks' dozens of other black townships across the country were involved in the most … Villiers: 'Deeply concerned…
Concluding Remarks
… to "truths made clear" as early as the beginnings of Black Consciousness. A neglect of overtly political art from … of information and insight include SASO…
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad 1906 - 1990
… new land laws in the Orange Free State, which had stripped black residents of their legally bought land. 1919 The ANC … socialists and workers. 1925 The…
ArchiveBoycott the Can
… A2 red, yellow, black litho on white; graphic people demonstrating; crossed … Boycott the Can; The management of Metal Box retrenched 22 black workers and…
EventBishop Ambrose Reeves returns to South Africa
… was strongly denounced by the Rand Daily Mail, while Black rallies were called to protest against the action taken … Reeves was lovingly called 'our Bishop'…
EventWiseman Khuzwayo, reporter for the Durban Daily News hands himself over to the police
… Eight days later, the security police arrested 28 black journalists and 1 white photographer during … protest against the detention without trial of at least…
ArchiveFrank Talk
… body corporate, but committed to a theoretical vision of a Black Consciousness ideology. "Frank Talk" was originally the … contains a full list of these…
ArticleBisho Massacre 1992
… to military rule and the re-absorption of the so-called black homeland into South Africa. When the marchers tried to …
ArticleWages Commission
… into the wages and working conditions of unskilled black university staff. Ultimately, it aimed to gather …
ArticleThe Establishment of the Afrikaner Broederbond in May 1918.
… traditional ways of life and worldviews, as both White and Black rural migrants had to contend with rapidly changing … Ohio University Press).|Grundlingh,…
PlaceNew Brighton Location
… spread affected all sectors of the population, it was the black community who bore the brunt of the Plague Health … situated in the historical Red Location,…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 2 - Imperialism and the Union in South Africa by Timothy Keegan
… South Africa did not live under direct white rule by 1870. Black and white societies parcelled out the land, often … for governing the country as a whole,…
EventThe 1st troop ship to set sail after the sinking of the SS Mendi
… 23rd of March the 1st ship, the Durham Castle, carrying Black troops after the Mendi set sail from Cape Town. The … from Jingoes, who wrote of his journey,…
PlaceTembisa Township, Midrand
… Ekurhuleni Municipality . It was established in 1957 when Black People were resettled from Alexandra and other Areas in … word ‘tembisa’ meaning ‘promise’…
EventMafika Gwala born
… began to write his first poetry and “The Classic” – a Black literary magazine – published his first piece. A poet … and writer, Gwala made people think on…
EventNico Basson says that SADF had supplied weapons and covert assistance to IFP in order to weaken the ANC
… National party leader, Roelf Meyer, called the conflict 'Black on Black violence', denying any state involvement. Basson …
EventHelen Zille, former leader of the Democratic Alliance, is born in Johannesburg
… she exposed the real circumstances behind the death of Black Consciousness Movement leader Steve Biko. In the 1980s she joined the anti-Apartheid…
What the lives of two South African music giants tell us about culture under apartheid by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 13 July 2017
… and work tells us a great deal about the intersection of black politics and culture under apartheid, and also about … by reservoirs where whites sailed and…
Women in the apartheid society by Fatima Meer
… only marginally from that of white men: likewise, while black women suffer more than black men from the violations of their rights, the violations … in South…
Pan-Africanism was Peter Abrahams’ Country by Tyler Flemming (Africa is a Country), 13 February 2017
… in 1935 when the two attended St. Peter’s School, an elite black school located in a white Johannesburg suburb. At the … to justify and glorify the dark…
Reclaim the humanism of Socialism, The 2017 Strini Moodley Memorial Lecture, UKZN, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, by Mphutlane Wa Bofelo, Pambazuka News, 19 July 2017
… also due to the fact that Comrade Strini subscribed to the Black Consciousness philosophy, a philosophy that has … relationship between memory and being very…