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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) - …
ArticlePrehistory of the Cape Town area
… and free Blacks. Chemical analyses showed that some Black labourers came from as far north as Mozambique. An …
ArticleConstitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996
… between the British and Afrikaners disenfranchised the Black majority and set in motion processes that laid the …
June 17
… they marched through the streets they were joined by many black workers. At this point the political leadership of the …
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… version of Marcus Garvey’s Pan-African liberation for black people via village meetings arranged by Wellington … Act affects Walter and his mother, amongst…
ArticleBiography of Lindiwe Mabuza by Kayla Johansen
… Mabuza had a childhood no different from the majority of Black South Africans at the time. Her family of seven fought … [36] Published in 1989, One Never…
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…
Event80 Women arrested for anti-pass protest
… Passes and measures to control the mobility of the Black population particularly centring on White urban areas, … to embark on an anti-pass passive…
Gold and Workers 1886 - 1924 by Luli Callinicos
… of Forced Labour Part 3 - Workers' Resistance Chapter 13 - Black Workers Boycott The Mines Chapter 14 - The Chinese … Chapter 15 - White Workers and Colour…
EventAPLA burns down farm house in Fouriesburg
… land from White people and return it to dispossessed Black people. In 1990, the PAC had adopted the slogan 'Year … that negotiation would yield the desired…
EventPercy Qoboza, influential anti-Apartheid journalist, dies
… the newspaper became South Africa's most popular Black-edited publication. The National Association of Black Journalists in the United States named in Percy…
EventCleric and anti-apartheid activist, Mpilo Desmond Tutu is ordained as Archbishop of Cape Town
… the Bantu Education Act of 1953 which he saw as devaluing Black education,became the first Black head of the Anglican Church in South Africa. Tutu was …
EventPixley Seme, lawyer, journalist and co-founder of SANNC is born
… (ANC) in 1923. The organisation was formed as a result of Black dissatisfaction with the South Africa Act of 1909, … numerous laws being passed that…
EventGeorge Pemba, artist and playwright is born in Port Elizabeth
… commissioned by the Bantu Welfare Trust to paint scenes of Black tribal life. In his lifetime, Pemba received several … Pemba’s chosen career was viewed as…
ArticleTswana
… baTswana [people]) The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho-Tswana, … and Sotho account for the largest percentage of…
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… at the same time, during this period there is evidence of black and white children being educated in common classrooms. … growing missionary movement to…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… Poqo activists. The PAC, like the ANC, had support in black communities across South Africa. But there are areas … organization and that they intended to…
PlaceNyanga Township
… of Cape Town’s urban sprawl, Nyanga is one of the oldest Black townships in Cape Town. It was established in 1946 and … KTC, Old Location, Maumau, Zwelitsha,…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Where Working people Lived
… unskilled workers placed them in competition with low-paid black workers. Housing for migrant workers For black workers, the housing available in the towns…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising, 16 June 1986
… the country, means that the entire people of South Africa, black and white, the oppressed and the oppressor, friend and … the irresistible advance of the…
"The Count-Down has Started": Statement on the Tenth Anniversary of the Soweto Uprising by O. R. Tambo, 16 June 1986
… the country, means that the entire people of South Africa, black and white, the oppressed and the oppressor, friend and … the irresistible advance of the…
Freedom Charter sold out the dispossessed by Motsoko Pheko (The Sowetan), 2 Feb 2012
… declare that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white ... and, therefore, we the people of South Africa, black and white together, equals,…
PlaceVolksrust, Mpumalanga
… a National Monument. The Population of the Town includes Black, White, Asian and Coloured people. The population … the apartheid Groups Areas Act legislation…
Professor Terence Ranger: An Obituary by Trevor Grundy
… academic John Reed that he wished he'd been born black. "Terry," Reed wrote years later, "began a debate on … means to be African by saying how much he…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 15 September 1970 during the Prime Minister’s Vote
… of Churches, the Republic's policy in respect of the Black states in Africa and the arms sales to the Republic. In … along. They believe that the time has…
PlaceSchmidtsdrift
… were forcibly removed, subsequently. Ultimately the ‘Black Spot’ removal policy saw more than 1000 Tswana or …
A Marxist critique of the Freedom Charter
… of the Freedom Charter are a cover for a section of the black middle class to become junior capitalist partners of … challenging these features, ie that the…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Introducing by Carol Hermer
… the city centre are the three townships for Cape Town's black residents. The three townships occupy about 1000 … as well as an office to issue permits…
Call for papers: 100 years of the SACP
… important tasks of the Communist Party has been organising black workers. We invite papers that examine the party’s … constituency, and the party’s approach…
ArchiveDenis Goldberg belongs to those who defeated apartheid
… white comrade, was treated differently and better than his black and Indian comrades. The conditions of white prisoners were always better than those of…