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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak
… to raise money with the goal of building schools in black townships, and these efforts resulted in the founding … Manas, Gwala, Mafika Pascal, and Thoahlane,…
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
… rose to unprecedented heights and even went beyond black-white unrest, with Inkatha clashing with the ANC/UDF … was an unprecedented level of resistance in…
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…
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
… movements, MK and Poqo. The 1970s saw the emergence of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), which dominated political … that Afrikaans should be the…
ArticleMessage of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, delivered by Mr. Tambo, at the funeral of Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo
… national oppression and economic exploitation of the black South African masses, he was able in his own unassuming … terror. The irresistible march of the…
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…
ArticleSharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960
… embarked on a feverish drive to prepare their members and Black communities for the proposed nationwide campaigns. The … non-violence and that the PAC saw it…
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 …
EventIan Smith of Rhodesia and Henry Kissinger meet in Pretoria
… that his government had accepted Kissinger's proposal of a Black majority government within two years. This, however, did not end the war in Rhodesia. The…
EventSA pledges support for a negotiated settlement in Rhodesia
… aimed at improving South African foreign relations with Black independent states in Africa. He hoped that a negotiated settlement would result in a moderate…
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces withdrawal of Internal Stability Units (ISU)
… from the communities and political organisations. Many black communities raised their unhappiness with the manner in … ISU from the Aliwal North area that…