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EventDaily Dispatch editor, Donald Woods is banned
… a deposit before they could publish. This became known as "Black Wednesday." On the same day, Daily Dispatch editor Donald Woods who was also a friend to the…
EventEdgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia.
… would in terms of the period; greatly extend the number of black people eligible to vote. For the White electorate of … as his own party rejected him as…
EventThe first indications of protest over Afrikaans in Soweto schools
… the cutbacks by the Apartheid government on education for Black students. The result was that Black teachers now had more students to teach and fewer …
EventSchools closed in the Western Cape
… to prevent mass protest demonstration by pupils. However, Black pupils were boycotting schools in many parts of the … the students was the inferior standards…
Selfless Biko 40 Years On by Barney Pityana (City Press), 10 September 2017
… recalls the shock and grief he felt that day, and how the Black Consciousness Movement leader helped to shape a … conference at Rhodes University in July…
Archive"Racism, Apartheid and a New World Order": Speech in Acceptance of the Third World Prize on Behalf of Nelson and Winnie Mandela by O. R. Tambo, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, 5 May 1986
… underling, each with his position defined by race. As black South Africans, we have lived within the entrails of … who are white are inherently superior…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Glossary
… of Education homelands ”” those territories reserved for black people and around which the principle of segregation in South Africa was organised; sometimes…
PlaceUniversity of Cape Town
… . The University Admitted its first small group of Black Students in the 1920's . The number of Black Students remained relatively low until the 1980s and ……
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Segregation Fallacy
… and civil service of clerks and interpreters here are all black men. (4) Basutoland is conveniently near to the … to the segregationist, because he does not…
ArchiveChanging focus: The art and activism of Omar by Bongani Kona (Mail and Guardian), 4 June 2015
… northwest of Durban’s city centre – Badsha’s collection of black-and-white photographs eschews spectacle in favour of … himself. “If you look after 1960,…
Chapter Six - The Fighter in Turmoil: 1946 - 1960
… expansion was dependent upon increased employment of black labour was seen from the fact that black employment increased by 70 percent compared with 20 … of…
Silent Cries from a Beloved Country by Ken Johnson, 20 August 2009
… it can leave you with more questions than answers. A black-and-white photograph from 1984 shows a black woman and her child lying on a bed surrounded by…
ArchiveConcentration camps in the South African War? Here are the real facts by Fransjohan Pretorius, (The Conversation), February 18, 2019
… It’s well established that 28 000 white people and 20 000 black people died in various camps in South Africa. Between … of the action that the British…
ArchiveAn Interview With F.W. De Klerk, the Last Apartheid President of South Africa by Nicolas Rossier
… but the overwhelming majority of all South Africans, black or white or whatever their color might be, want the … deteriorated from 1994 until now…
EventMartin Luther King is arrested for his role in a bus boycott
… Reverend Martin Luther King leads a public bus boycott by Black people in Montgomery, Alabama, USA, for which he is … racial oppression. His dream of freedom…
EventEmily Hobhouse is born
… situation. Concerned with the plight of suffering Boer and Black families in the concentration camps, Hobhouse was also … who fought for the rights of South…
EventPassbook laws relaxed
… government lifted the obligatory carrying of passbooks by Black people on 23 July 1986. The pass system was, however, not abandoned altogether, Black men and…
ArchiveResisting apartheid through pen and paper by Richard Rive, 05 March 2018
… to criticize the government, White, Indian, Colored or Black, out of the country, behind bars, or into a grave. What … spread and enforce stigmas and…
PlaceImbali Township, Pietermaritzburg
“Imbali” is the IsiZulu word for: “Flower”. Imbali Township was established in 1958 and built in the mid-1960s to settle the City workers and employment…
Place"When Woodstock had a Beach"
… estuary, a natural meeting point for the Liesbeek and Black Rivers . Yet, by the early 20th century, the relentless …
Culture from Exile: Dakawa Art Centre By Jongikaya Mene
… several years it hosted an exhibition about the history of black rugby in Grahamstown. Every year during the Grahamstown …
ArchiveThis violence is not unique to SA by Daniel Magaziner, 09 September 2019
Every time there is violence of a particular sort in SA I think about 1949. In mid-January of that year a single incident between an Indian shopkeeper and a…
PlaceWest Coast National Park, Saldanha Bay
… area with many raptors showing well, including African Black Harrier. The viewpoint from the top of Posberg provides …
PlaceLimietberg Nature Reserve, Paarl
… and is home to: Baboons, Dassies, the Cape Sugarbird, Black Eagles, the sweet little Protea Canary and is the where … and is home to: Baboons, Dassies, the…
Joint Communique of the Meeting of the National African Federated Chambers of Commerce and the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 27 May 1986
… delegation also explained that, as an organisation of black business people, its members are affected by all the problems facing the black community in…
ArchiveA Place In The City - The Rand On The Eve Of Apartheid by Luli Callinicos
… and many left South Africa for other countries. Most black South Africans had a different response. African … against dispossessed, exploited and vote less…
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 …
Chapter II - More of the same
… helped me to get through the coming difficult weeks. The Black Sash protested on behalf of both Lilian Ngoyi and me, for her … cold morning I wrote the…