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PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Documenting Ordinary Scenes Of South Africa Then and Now by Michael Kimmelman (The New York Times), 24 August 2001
… know it, your discomfort really changes only by degrees. Black South Africans, by contrast, would immediately have … of the memorable pictures in the…
Event80 Women arrested for anti-pass protest
… Passes and measures to control the mobility of the Black population particularly centring on White urban areas, … to embark on an anti-pass passive…
Gold and Workers 1886 - 1924 by Luli Callinicos
… of Forced Labour Part 3 - Workers' Resistance Chapter 13 - Black Workers Boycott The Mines Chapter 14 - The Chinese … Chapter 15 - White Workers and Colour…
EventAPLA burns down farm house in Fouriesburg
… land from White people and return it to dispossessed Black people. In 1990, the PAC had adopted the slogan 'Year … that negotiation would yield the desired…
EventPercy Qoboza, influential anti-Apartheid journalist, dies
… the newspaper became South Africa's most popular Black-edited publication. The National Association of Black Journalists in the United States named in Percy…
EventCleric and anti-apartheid activist, Mpilo Desmond Tutu is ordained as Archbishop of Cape Town
… the Bantu Education Act of 1953 which he saw as devaluing Black education,became the first Black head of the Anglican Church in South Africa. Tutu was …
EventPixley Seme, lawyer, journalist and co-founder of SANNC is born
… (ANC) in 1923. The organisation was formed as a result of Black dissatisfaction with the South Africa Act of 1909, … numerous laws being passed that…
EventGeorge Pemba, artist and playwright is born in Port Elizabeth
… commissioned by the Bantu Welfare Trust to paint scenes of Black tribal life. In his lifetime, Pemba received several … Pemba’s chosen career was viewed as…
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
… and 1963 Poqo activists carried out attacks against both black and white targets, particularly in the Cape and … sentenced to death for the murder on 18…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… Agriculture. 1919 Xuma joins Alpha Phi Alpha, a nationwide Black fraternity. December 1919-January 1920: Xuma is part of … and Xuma speaks on ‘Bridging the…
Call for papers: 100 years of the SACP
… important tasks of the Communist Party has been organising black workers. We invite papers that examine the party’s … constituency, and the party’s approach…
ArchiveDenis Goldberg belongs to those who defeated apartheid
… white comrade, was treated differently and better than his black and Indian comrades. The conditions of white prisoners were always better than those of…
ArticleEOAN Group
… Department was for the group to have separate shows for Black, White and Coloured audiences. This lead to the groups …
Community Arts Project (CAP)
… that emerged after 1976, such as The Federated Union of Black Artists (FUBA) , Funda , and The Johannesburg …
South African Labour history
… and this is their story, too. The great majority were black. When gold production began, their lives were drawn …
Rejuvenation of the ANC and intensification of the struggle 1940s
… - all linked to global developments. These gave the black population reason to expect better conditions. In 1944, …
ArticleAccount of events: Rand Rebellion 1922
… of the ISL, who had been instrumental in forming the first black trade union - the Industrial Workers of Africa (IWA) - …
ArticlePrehistory of the Cape Town area
… and free Blacks. Chemical analyses showed that some Black labourers came from as far north as Mozambique. An …
ArticleConstitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996
… between the British and Afrikaners disenfranchised the Black majority and set in motion processes that laid the …
June 17
… they marched through the streets they were joined by many black workers. At this point the political leadership of the …
PlaceNyanga Township
… of Cape Town’s urban sprawl, Nyanga is one of the oldest Black townships in Cape Town. It was established in 1946 and … KTC, Old Location, Maumau, Zwelitsha,…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising, 16 June 1986
… the country, means that the entire people of South Africa, black and white, the oppressed and the oppressor, friend and … the irresistible advance of the…
"The Count-Down has Started": Statement on the Tenth Anniversary of the Soweto Uprising by O. R. Tambo, 16 June 1986
… the country, means that the entire people of South Africa, black and white, the oppressed and the oppressor, friend and … the irresistible advance of the…
Freedom Charter sold out the dispossessed by Motsoko Pheko (The Sowetan), 2 Feb 2012
… declare that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white ... and, therefore, we the people of South Africa, black and white together, equals,…
PlaceVolksrust, Mpumalanga
… a National Monument. The Population of the Town includes Black, White, Asian and Coloured people. The population … the apartheid Groups Areas Act legislation…
Professor Terence Ranger: An Obituary by Trevor Grundy
… academic John Reed that he wished he'd been born black. "Terry," Reed wrote years later, "began a debate on … means to be African by saying how much he…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Where Working people Lived
… unskilled workers placed them in competition with low-paid black workers. Housing for migrant workers For black workers, the housing available in the towns…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 15 September 1970 during the Prime Minister’s Vote
… of Churches, the Republic's policy in respect of the Black states in Africa and the arms sales to the Republic. In … along. They believe that the time has…
ArticleBiography of Lindiwe Mabuza by Kayla Johansen
… Mabuza had a childhood no different from the majority of Black South Africans at the time. Her family of seven fought … [36] Published in 1989, One Never…
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… version of Marcus Garvey’s Pan-African liberation for black people via village meetings arranged by Wellington … Act affects Walter and his mother, amongst…