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… There is burning of cars, houses, offices and shops in black and coloured areas, even in Phoenix in Natal, where … in the past fifteen months more than six…
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…
EventRhodes statue removed at UCT
… Africa’s economy, but at the expense of the subjugation of Black people for the provision of cheap labour. The debate … it connoted White supremacy,…
Launch of The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner
… South Africa increasingly influenced by Steve Biko and the Black Consciousness movement. His work was forceful and … when many have turned their attention…
EventThe SS Mendi began its journey from Cape Town to Plymouth
… In 1916, the South African government agreed to recruit Black people to assist the British in World War 1 by … consisted of five white officers, seven NCOs…
ArchiveInterview with Absolom Zithulele Cindi
… with Absolom Zithulele Cindi who was an activist in the black consciousness movement and later in the Azanian … School in Soweto in the late 1960s. In 1972…
EventSS Mendi sinks in the English Channel on the way to France
… (1914-1919). A total of 616 South Africans, including 607 black troops serving in the South African Native Labour … South African Native Labour Contingent…
EventLeaders of six homelands reject new constitution
… still excluded Africans from parliament, leaders of six Black homelands issued a statement rejecting it. Their … Conference, the South African Council of…
EventFirst postage stamp in Africa is issued in the Cape Colony
… ever to be issued in the world was the British "Penny Black" in 1840, which depicted Queen Victoria's head against a black background and had a denomination…
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…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 3 - South Africa: Culture and Conflict
… throughout the twentieth century, control the movement of black workers to suit the needs of white employers and … difficult. Laws like these, controlling…
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…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - Introduction by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… Schreiner This book tells the story of Frances Baard, a black South African woman who was a trade unionist, political … by a foreign power. At this time…
Introduction - My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… This book tells the story of Frances Baard, a black South African woman who was a trade unionist, political … by a foreign power. At this time there were…
Interview with Albert Luthuli by Studs Terkel, 6 May 1963, Chicago
… an African. Originally, Bantu was used to distinguish the black group from the Western group living in Africa, which is … white man came along and said: no…
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…
EventMore than a dozen people are killed, including seven children, in Kwamakhutha Massacre
… violence and death. This strongly polarized provincial Black politics, with the conflict carrying all the … intent on wiping out support for the ANC and…
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…
The Construction of Whiteness/Blackness And The Invention of Miscegenation In South African Literary Texts of the 1920s and 1930 by Itala Vivan
… of the chiasm belong one to the white and the other to the black tradition, and are formed by four extremely important … by the Hogarth Press of Virginia and…