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South African Labour Bulletin
… cover of Labour Bulletin, May 1990. Volume 14, Number 8. Black and white photo of public sector workers on the march outside OK in Johannesburg. Black and…
Meeting today
… 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…
The strangulation of activity
… activists country-wide and banned la organisations, mainly black consciousness-related, under the Internal Security Act. Two of the largest black newspapers…
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…
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…
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…
'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…
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…
ArticleFanakalo: the language of mining culture
… nineteenth century. [5] Fanakalo ‘became the vernacular of black labourers in the mines’: it ‘encompassed instructions … mining companies for labourers and…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1930-1939
… people move in. Restrictions against the urbanisation of Black women are introduced. The official government reasons … the electorate from 90.7% to 95.5% and…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… responded with unrestrained brutality. Across Soweto 18 Black people were killed and Mandela stayed in a nurses' … attempted adultery or related immoral acts…
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… of industrialisation as white employers sought to hire black labourers, who were not entitled to the same wages as … Verwoerd settled the plan to clear the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Chapter 1: The 1971 Art South Africa Today Exhibition: Towards a Language of protest art
… in protest should also be mentioned. As a response to a Black Consciousness call for black people to "go it alone", the Black Art Studios (BAS) were set up…
EventForces of the White Rhodesian regime (UDI) attack a nationalist guerrilla base in Mozambique
… (ZANU) and Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU),two Black nationalist political organizations. A civil war broke … government, the former organizations…
EventBantu Women’s League protests against pass laws
… BWL continued to fight against the imposition of passes on black women and in 1922 they had achieved some success as the … tightened the law in 1923 when it…
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…
Chapter Two - The year with the ICU: 1921 - 1926
… The ICU was formed through the mobilisalition of mostly black dockworkers. In June 1919 a branch of the Industrial … often seemed to forget conveniently in…
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…