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EventNovelist and historian Bessie Head is born
… and sent to a mental asylum where Head was born) and a Black father, she had a very difficult childhood. Allegedly … parents rejected her at some stage…
EventInkatha Freedom Party is formed
… in Northern KwaZulu. Inkatha emerged, along with the Black Consciousness Movement, to fill the vacuum in Black politics caused by the banning of the African…
EventWorld Health Organization publishes indictment of apartheid
… between the life expectancy of White South Africans and Black South Africans. Further, the infant mortality rate of Black South Africans outstripped the…
EventMemorial service for the victims of mining disaster
… mine at Evander, south of Johannesburg is disrupted. Angry Black miners blamed General Mining Union Corporation, owner … poor safety regulations for miners…
EventThe Rev. John Langalibalele Dube dies
… (now Ilanga), dies in Umhlanga, Natal. He was the first Black person to receive an honorary D.Phil. from a South … He believed that Christianity should grow…
EventEducationist George Molefe is born
… in Mbulwana, Ladysmith, Natal. Molefe was one of the first black Presbyterian ministers to graduate at Fort Hare College … many accolades during his lifetime…
EventThree cases of Buboinic plague are reported in Cape Town
… by mid 1901. As consequence, white people in PE forced black people to reside in designated areas such as New … through a bite by fleas which live on animals…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 9 - Postscript - South Africa: The Present as History
… it is at present, they would certainly win in any straight black-white civil war? This means, inter alia, that even if … as white civilization. It is…
Checkmate for apartheid? July 199 1 - June 1992
… criminal gangs such as the Three Million Gang, the Black Cats and many others. Mass protest, a national strike … of rules. While the game has essentially…
ArticleThe 2nd Johannesburg Biennale
… turn debuting South African work, such as Santu Mofokeng’s Black Photo Album/ Look at Me, 1890-1950 and Penny Siopis’ My … Green, Vogue par Nelson Mandela …
ArticleDemocratic Alliance (DA)
… forced removals. Suzman demanded trade union rights for Black people and fought for better wages and working … leader of the Democratic Alliance in 2015, the…
Student Politics in the Era of Democracy
… Today, some 75% of students in higher education are black and 54 % women. Thousands of poor students are … National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NSFAS)…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Diverse Culture Artistic and Linguistic Heritage
… are embodied in its arts and culture. Population The Black population of South Africa is separated into four major … spinach), amongst others, are food…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter
… to know: that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white, and that no government can justly claim … or belief; And therefore, we, the people…
South Africa's political landscape, as visual poetry: Haunting images have understated, dry elegance by Mark Feeney, 20 February 2011
… photographer’’ sounds so inflexible — a category as black-and-white as the images most commonly associated with … as it happens, has as many photographs in…
PlaceDiepkloof, Soweto
… the previous Government to accommodate the large number of Black Migrants into the City. These are basic Houses that are … 1980s, to Accommodate the…
PlaceJubilee Art Centre
… in Soweto when the Group Areas Act made it illegal for Black students to be educated in the city.The laughter of … Community Art Project in Cape Town: the…
EventThe National Union of Mineworkers start South Africa’s longest wage strike
… trade union in South Africa. NUM represented mainly Black mineworkers in the gold and coal mines belonging to the Chamber of Mines. Approximately 360 000…
EventGen. Louis Botha, soldier, statesman and first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, is born.
… Native Land Act of 1913, he believed in maintaining Black traditions and in totally segregating black and white, except where blacks were needed as workers. …
EventNine policemen are killed in Cato Manor riots in Durban, shortly before the infamous Sharpville Massacre
… time when the policemen would attempt to forcefully remove black people from Cato Manor, an area inhabited by both … Among those killed were four White…
EventBishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
… preacher and strident voice against apartheid, first Black Secretary General of the South African Council of Churches, first Black Archbishop of the Anglican…
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…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Native Unrest
… Other Papers by D.D.T Jabavu Introductory. The aboriginal black people of South Africa have not remained unaffected by … Britain have become hardened, while…
PlaceSchmidtsdrift
… were forcibly removed, subsequently. Ultimately the ‘Black Spot’ removal policy saw more than 1000 Tswana or …
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…
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) - …