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Statement by Reverend Gabriel Seteloane at the special meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in Atlanta to pay tribute to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the 50th anniversary of his birth, 16 January 1979
… eat and what kind of nice foods they enjoy." I speak as a black South African. To see how people can celebrate freedom … we must take his word that we in…
Gender and deviance in South African industrial schools and reformatories for girls, 1911-1934 by Linda Chisholm
… young girls and mental. The process whereby criminalised black and white girls were constituted as both abnormal and … of deviance, which flit across the…
Grade 4 term 2 Timeline: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… suspended for two years. He Opens South Africa’s first black law firm with Oliver Tambo 1956 Mandela isarrested and …
ArchiveAmos 'Amla' Monageng interview by Kyla Jade Mc Nulty, The University of Pretoria, 2 May 2016
… as race or you can be more culturally specific. A: I am black, but I’m Tswana. I: And then land of origin; so where … if not the differences, between the…
EventRhodes statue removed at UCT
… Africa’s economy, but at the expense of the subjugation of Black people for the provision of cheap labour. The debate … it connoted White supremacy,…
Launch of The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner
… South Africa increasingly influenced by Steve Biko and the Black Consciousness movement. His work was forceful and … when many have turned their attention…
EventThe SS Mendi began its journey from Cape Town to Plymouth
… In 1916, the South African government agreed to recruit Black people to assist the British in World War 1 by … consisted of five white officers, seven NCOs…
ArchiveInterview with Absolom Zithulele Cindi
… with Absolom Zithulele Cindi who was an activist in the black consciousness movement and later in the Azanian … School in Soweto in the late 1960s. In 1972…
EventSS Mendi sinks in the English Channel on the way to France
… (1914-1919). A total of 616 South Africans, including 607 black troops serving in the South African Native Labour … South African Native Labour Contingent…
EventLeaders of six homelands reject new constitution
… still excluded Africans from parliament, leaders of six Black homelands issued a statement rejecting it. Their … Conference, the South African Council of…
EventFirst postage stamp in Africa is issued in the Cape Colony
… ever to be issued in the world was the British "Penny Black" in 1840, which depicted Queen Victoria's head against a black background and had a denomination…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of Steve Biko’s death East London, 12 September 1997, South Africa
… liberation, lapping at our own borders, was consolidating black pride across the world and firing the determination of … liberation, lapping at our own…
Postscript
… There is burning of cars, houses, offices and shops in black and coloured areas, even in Phoenix in Natal, where … in the past fifteen months more than six…
Last kicks of a dying horse July 1992 - June 1993
… and 20 000 injured have been the ordinary residents of black townships throughout the country. Their lives during … largely unaware of the suffering being…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 3 - South Africa: Culture and Conflict
… throughout the twentieth century, control the movement of black workers to suit the needs of white employers and … difficult. Laws like these, controlling…
Chapter I - Twenty thousand strong we marched
… until they became only one face, the face of the suffering black people of South Africa. I know that there were tears in … white domination, implacable enemy…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - Introduction by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… Schreiner This book tells the story of Frances Baard, a black South African woman who was a trade unionist, political … by a foreign power. At this time…
Introduction - My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… This book tells the story of Frances Baard, a black South African woman who was a trade unionist, political … by a foreign power. At this time there were…
Interview with Albert Luthuli by Studs Terkel, 6 May 1963, Chicago
… an African. Originally, Bantu was used to distinguish the black group from the Western group living in Africa, which is … white man came along and said: no…
EventMore than a dozen people are killed, including seven children, in Kwamakhutha Massacre
… violence and death. This strongly polarized provincial Black politics, with the conflict carrying all the … intent on wiping out support for the ANC and…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… weeks and lands 85km north of it, where he meets the first Black people, probably a Tsonga society living north of the … Circuit courts are introduced in the…
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… began to establish “ Native Locations ” for exclusive Black settlement. On 8 March Umlazi, south of Durban, and … to accommodate the establishment of…
Tribute to the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid - Statement at the Meeting of the Special Committee on its Tenth Anniversary by O. R. Tambo, New York, 2 April 1973
… Chairman, Sir, Distinguished representatives, Today, we, black and white, peoples of many nationalities and … in terms of race, colour and nationality, in…
Address At Meeting On The Occasion Of The 60th Anniversary Of The Formation Of The South African Communist Party, London, July 30, 1981
… fighting spirit of Soweto alive. We speak to the oppressed black women whose children have been murdered in thousands by … to the millions who are being…
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… Introduction The strike by some 76,000 black miners in 1946 was one of the most significant examples of industrial action by black workers in South Africa…
Biography of Bessie Emery by Elizabeth Venditti
… ABSTRACT: Bessie Emery was the first black South African woman to publish a collection of short … because her mother was white and her father was black. [ii]…
Document 52 - LA. Jordaan, “A Critique of Mr. W. P. van Schoor’s.The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa” Discussion, 1, 3, June 1951
… blacks blacker, Mr. van Schoor tries to paint the white black and blacks white. The result is the same. Not only does … chattel slaves. Only a small…
South African House of Assembly pays tribute to the SS Mendi
… 616 South Africans lost their lives, 607 of which were Black men serving in the South African Native Labour … White men who had lost their lives or survived…
EventSouth African House of Assembly pays tribute to the SS Mendi
… 616 South Africans lost their lives, 607 of which were Black men serving in the South African Native Labour … White men who had lost their lives or survived…
ArchiveFrom conscience politics to the battlefield
… The Party gradually shifted its attention to the voteless black majority, and took its active opposition beyond the … Congress, in the region, in attracting…