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EventWinnie Madikizela-Mandela, former wife of President Nelson Mandela, is born
… ". Madikizela-Mandela played a role in the founding of the Black Women's Federation and the Black Parents' Association. Both worked towards the ending of …
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…
SEME by Richard Rive and Tim Couzens
… has, in recent years, established scholarships to bring black South African students to the school for a year`s free … by the recently retired editor of…
Conflict among civic organisations
… and cultural organisations, trade unions in Cape Town, Black Sash and NUSAS converged to deliberate the implications … the presence of white liberal…
In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
… population was too small: Apartheid laws kept most black people poor and reduced their purchasing power. The … support for the banned ANC and to wreck the…
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1994
… effect on 27 April 1994. The system of “homelands” for the Black population was abolished. With the policy of racial … On 9 May 1994, Nelson Mandela was…
ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
… Men’s Social Centre as the office boy at Pathfinders, the Black section of the Boy Scout Movement. While working at the … The Bantu World , a white owned…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
Archive2003 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 14 February 2003
… access to a better life for all. The challenge we all face as South Africans is to put our shoulders to the wheel … service; * increased social and economic…
The South African War
… men on their way to commando duty; and the third involved Black mine workers who returned to their rural homes …
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 …
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…
State of the nation address by the President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela
… succeed in avoiding high inflation in the economy. We also face a major challenge in re-entering the global economy, … financial institutions in the…
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…