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ArchiveStudents and action in society
… power of contemporary radical thought; African socialism; Black power; Black power in South Africa and Student as rebel. Included …
ArchiveDon't let them hang. : Give them freedom
… in green block across bottom of poster. Poem at top in black letters entitled "Message from the gallows" by D M Moisi. Black image of gallows and hangman's…
EventStart of blood classification controversy
… racially profiled blood donations, and that Coloured and Black donors were considered as "high risk" cases. This led … Dr David Klatzow said the level of…
South African Labour Bulletin
… cover of Labour Bulletin, May 1990. Volume 14, Number 8. Black and white photo of public sector workers on the march outside OK in Johannesburg. Black and…
EventThe apartheid government reportedly pays compensation for death of Steve Biko
… began his political career as the co-founder of the all-black South African Student's Organization (SASO). It was … his involvement in this organization that…
The Role of Women in the Struggle against Apartheid, 15 July 1980
… mattress, furniture and baking industries. While several black national federations were formed and dissolved, the one … of the period in which women…
EventThe Star Condemns Forced Removals In Sophiatown
… The Star newspaper condemns the forced removal of black residents from Sophiatown, near central Johannesburg, … cities and towns white. They did this by…
Indian passive resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948 by E. S. Reddy
… of people. The Indian movement set an example to all the black people of South Africa, and gave them confidence that … die because of these brutal and…
Document 7 - ‘White South Africa.’ Two Voices.” The International, 27 January 1922
… the General, wants to wipe out the dividing line between black and white, involving equal rights for kaffirs, or the black taking his place alongside the…
ArchiveRoseinnes Daniel Phahle by Allison Drew
… Alexandra residents. In 1958, supported by the majority of black students, Phahle was elected to the Wits Students’ … after the 1976 Soweto Uprising, Phahle…
Conclusion: A Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
… natural resources. In its wake it has left millions of Black people desperately poor and without any means for …
The South African War
… men on their way to commando duty; and the third involved Black mine workers who returned to their rural homes …
ArchiveInterview with Ntsizi Elijah Moremi
… a refugee in Kenya in the late 1970s. An adherent of the black consciousness movement, he became involved in efforts to create an external wing of the…
ArchiveANC 2019 Election Manifesto
… due to a combination of global and domestic factors. We face a more significant challenge to meet the target of 24 … of work through casualisation and labour…
Chapter 7 - ‘We Are Also People’
… The contempt that he held his murderers in was in that face on the shelf. I think this photo captures that … through her mesh curtains and saw a White man…
PlaceAvalon Cemetery, Soweto
On the Southern edge of one of the Country’s most famous townships, Soweto, lies the equally Historic Avalon Cemetery. The biggest cemetery in South Africa…
PlaceMolweni, Kwa Zulu Natal
… The Population of Molweni is made up of mostly Black Africans, with Females being the predominate Gender! … The Population of Molweni is made up of mostly…
EventDurban Declaration is published denouncing Thabo Mbeki's AIDS denialism
… between HIV and AIDS formed part of racist rhetoric that black men were vectors of disease, and was a ploy to assert …
PlaceElandsfontein Phosphate Mine, Hopefield
… long-term partnerships, in particular with Elandsfontein’s Black Economic Empowerment partner and one of its significant …
EventSimon Petros Matseke, prominent in African social and political life, dies in Pretoria
… Matseke became prominent in the social affairs of black South Africans after joining the Pretoria Location … of rent. Matseke also championed the appointment…
EventPercy Qoboza, editor of the Post, states that it is difficult to see how a credible newspaper for Blacks can be created in South Africa
… editor, and ensured that the World was the most circulated Black newspaper in the country. After studying in the United … difficult to create and sustain a…
EventThemba Sono is expelled from SASO
… leaders to advance the party's interests and liberation of Black people. He called for SASO: "To move away from the … them to our way of thinking, this…
EventBritish establish first ‘refugee’ camps during the South African War
… 1 676 elderly men, died in these camps. The death toll in Black concentration camps, housing Africans who had been … like horses, cattle and sheep, killed…
EventThe Native Land Act is passed
… less than 20% of the population. The Act stipulated that Black people could live outside the reserves only if they … Cape property-ownership was one of the…
'Native life' 100 after Sol Plaatje published it by Janet Remmington, Brian Willan, Bhekizizwe Peterson (Mail and Guardian), 30 September 2016
… by one of South Africa’s most talented early 20th-century black leaders and journalists, Native Life is a foundational, … Native Life’s neglect was its being…
ArchiveLetter from Rev G Hawkes, to the Secretary, Van der Walt Commission of Inquiry into the Consolidation of the Ciskei
… request to the commission to stop the wholesale removal of black people from their long-standing places of residences. … letter also stresses the negative…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Introduction
… helped to shape South African society. They impacted on black social life and politics in a particular way. In the … the labour market, notably white women…
African and Indian in Durban by Fatima Meer
… Africans. There was doubt of African dependability in the face of press and governmental provocation; but direct blame … alleged seduction of African girls…
Chapter 3 - Exploring the feasibility of negotiation
… minority by blacks. The most crucial tasks, which will face the government and the ANC, will be to reconcile these … the NP, for discussion with the genuine…
EventNational Party adopts five year programme
… included a political "reform" plan to give South Africa's Black majority a role in national as well as local government … the government did not succeed to…