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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…
EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs’ (CAD)
… Africa occupied this precarious position between White and Black South Africans. This position was intensified during … Plessis as its head. "Coloured" South…
EventSouth African Parliament votes to repeal the legal framework of Apartheid
… For almost 350 years, Black people in South Africa had been subject to exceedingly … elections in 1994, with Nelson Mandela as the first Black President. The…
EventElectricity cut off in Tumahole township
… the R7 million arrears was written off and the much hated Black Township Council resigned. The resignation of the Black Township Council was considered an…
EventBessie Amelia Head, SA novelist dies
… to Bessie Amelia Birch, a White woman and a Black unnamed father. Due to the apartheid policies of the … was a prolific writer and was also the first South…
EventNoble South Africans win Nobel Peace Prize
… occasions. Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli was the first Black African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on 10 … 1984 in recognition of "the courage and…
EventApartheid police officers admit to the killing of Biko before the TRC
… role in the 1977 killing of Steve Biko, the leader of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). Biko was arrested on the … inflammatory pamphlets and "inciting…
EventThe siege of Mafeking starts
… town adjacent to Mafeking. Sol Plaatje, well-known Black author and political publicist and at that time a court … up in the siege. He kept a diary, the…
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…
Reflections on the 1973 Durban strikes by Steven Freedman
… may have been the turning point. Previous strikes by black workers had been crushed – the 1973 strikes led to wage … use reforms to appease workers. Firms…
PlaceAgulhas National Park
… high and low tides. Here you could spot the rare African Black Oystercatcher, and in the second half of the year you …
PlaceBisho, Capital of the Eastern Cape
… Joshua Gqozo and the reabsorption of the so-called black Homeland or Bantustan, into South Africa. (This …
PlaceSasolburg
… aromatic, and naphthenic organic chemicals, as well as black carbon and such inorganic materials as sulfur 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…
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…
Address to the Nation on Radio Freedom by O. R. Tambo, 22 July 1985
… against the puppet local government authorities in the black urban areas as well as other state personnel in the … and South Africa ungovernable. There is…
Address by Oliver Tambo to the Nation on Radio Freedom, 22 July 1985
… against the puppet local government authorities in the black urban areas as well as other state personnel in the … and South Africa ungovernable. There is…
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]…
ArticleGrade 11 - What were the consequences when pseudo-scientific ideas of Race became integral to government policies and legislation in the 19th and 20th centuries?
… immigrants, criminals and often a particular race like Black people. Sexual relationship between the superior and … In other words scientists had discovered…
ArticleFirst Anglo Boer War
… and focusing on the government’s lack of control over black people like the Pedi and the Zulu. This demoralised the … British Native commissioners were…
Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… Afrikaner government steadily grew. In this trying time, black South Africans turned to one of the most important … rule. Because of the language barrier…
A new class struggle
… it was intended as "indirect taxation"65 just as the Black paid his annual "hut-tax." (The Act did not apply to … with the Whites by marriage." The growing…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… the most severe consequences of Union were visited on the Black people of South Africa, who were dispossessed and … strike. When the Chamber of Mines began…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… the government to eventually recognise the rights of Black people in South Africa. However, the 1950s and the … South African government to further isolate…
ArticleSotho (South Sotho or Basotho)
… province. Origins: The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho-Tswana, … and Sotho account for the largest percentage of…
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… and the Indian UDF leadership did not really understand black dynamics, and in Cape Town where coloured UDF … problem. In Natal, the leadership decided to…
Discovery of the Gold in 1884
… this number being equally divided between White and Black residents. The South African War of 1899-1901 saw a … were replaced on the mines by the…