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Tribute to the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid - Statement at the Meeting of the Special Committee on its Tenth Anniversary by O. R. Tambo, New York, 2 April 1973
… Chairman, Sir, Distinguished representatives, Today, we, black and white, peoples of many nationalities and … in terms of race, colour and nationality, in…
Address At Meeting On The Occasion Of The 60th Anniversary Of The Formation Of The South African Communist Party, London, July 30, 1981
… fighting spirit of Soweto alive. We speak to the oppressed black women whose children have been murdered in thousands by … to the millions who are being…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1920 - 1929
… the Government and mining houses proposed policy of using Black miners at lower salaries in jobs traditionally done by …
Document 52 - LA. Jordaan, “A Critique of Mr. W. P. van Schoor’s.The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa” Discussion, 1, 3, June 1951
… blacks blacker, Mr. van Schoor tries to paint the white black and blacks white. The result is the same. Not only does … chattel slaves. Only a small…
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…
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…
South African House of Assembly pays tribute to the SS Mendi
… 616 South Africans lost their lives, 607 of which were Black men serving in the South African Native Labour … White men who had lost their lives or survived…
EventSouth African House of Assembly pays tribute to the SS Mendi
… 616 South Africans lost their lives, 607 of which were Black men serving in the South African Native Labour … White men who had lost their lives or survived…
ArchiveFrom conscience politics to the battlefield
… The Party gradually shifted its attention to the voteless black majority, and took its active opposition beyond the … Congress, in the region, in attracting…
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…
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…
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… police officers have confessed to the 1977 murder of Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko , and have made a … exercise" where they incited their dogs to…
A Chronological look (1943 to 1986) at the Life and Times of Mr George Ponnen
… by the Authorities, i.e. Health and Town Boards. No black people were allowed to stay near the white areas and … from the market and sold them house to house…
ArchiveAt the Pompidou by Jeremy Harding, 26 April 2018
… story of South Africa’s labouring classes, predominantly black, in a world shaped by race laws and extractive … two million inhabitants; at least a quarter…
Bloemfontein - segregation in education
… of White schools opened during this time, it is clear that Black education was not a priority for the government in …
ArticleThe Causes of World War I
… a member of the radical Serbian nationalist group, The Black Hand. Austria- Hungary hoped to use the incident to …
References and links: Learning from Leaders
… ‘ Nelson Mandela Death: A Look at South Africa's First Black President ’, (video file), 5 December, [online], …
ArticleTimeline of the History of Rugby in South Africa
… the Bantu Homeland Citizens Act effectively removing Black South Africans’ citizenships and requiring them to …