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EventVaal Triangle erupts in violence
… Bophelong, Evaton, Sebokeng and Sharpeville, five Black townships in the area known as the Vaal Triangle … for the violence was rent increases proposed by…
EventHenry Olonga, Zimbabwean Cricketer is born
… Test debut in 1995, becoming the youngest person and first black person to play for Zimbabwe. Olonga’s professional … career ended in 2003 after he and a…
PlaceBethlehem, Free State
… various ladders and Bridges up and along the Mountain face and a pleasingly designed Route combine to make a …
ArchiveThe Mission by Denis Goldberg - Foreword by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… dictated that he would be incarcerated apart from his Black comrades and colleagues. That segregation denied him … involved to the point of risking his life…
ArchiveCHAPTER 3 - Unprepared by Howard Barrell
… its potential constituency, particularly from within the black consciousness movement. Yet this military emphasis, … government in Rhodesia into conceding…
PlaceNew Brighton Location
… spread affected all sectors of the population, it was the black community who bore the brunt of the Plague Health … situated in the historical Red Location,…
ArchiveBoycott the Can
… A2 red, yellow, black litho on white; graphic people demonstrating; crossed … Boycott the Can; The management of Metal Box retrenched 22 black workers and…
EventBishop Ambrose Reeves returns to South Africa
… was strongly denounced by the Rand Daily Mail, while Black rallies were called to protest against the action taken … Reeves was lovingly called 'our Bishop'…
EventWiseman Khuzwayo, reporter for the Durban Daily News hands himself over to the police
… Eight days later, the security police arrested 28 black journalists and 1 white photographer during … protest against the detention without trial of at least…
ArchiveFrank Talk
… body corporate, but committed to a theoretical vision of a Black Consciousness ideology. "Frank Talk" was originally the … contains a full list of these…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 2 - Imperialism and the Union in South Africa by Timothy Keegan
… South Africa did not live under direct white rule by 1870. Black and white societies parcelled out the land, often … for governing the country as a whole,…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 103th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… to know that South Africa belongs to All Who Live In It, Black and White and that No Government Can Justly Claim … must be involved in the ongoing challenges…
What the lives of two South African music giants tell us about culture under apartheid by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 13 July 2017
… and work tells us a great deal about the intersection of black politics and culture under apartheid, and also about … by reservoirs where whites sailed and…
Pan-Africanism was Peter Abrahams’ Country by Tyler Flemming (Africa is a Country), 13 February 2017
… in 1935 when the two attended St. Peter’s School, an elite black school located in a white Johannesburg suburb. At the … to justify and glorify the dark…
EventThe 1st troop ship to set sail after the sinking of the SS Mendi
… 23rd of March the 1st ship, the Durham Castle, carrying Black troops after the Mendi set sail from Cape Town. The … from Jingoes, who wrote of his journey,…
EventMafika Gwala born
… began to write his first poetry and “The Classic” – a Black literary magazine – published his first piece. A poet … and writer, Gwala made people think on…
EventNico Basson says that SADF had supplied weapons and covert assistance to IFP in order to weaken the ANC
… National party leader, Roelf Meyer, called the conflict 'Black on Black violence', denying any state involvement. Basson …
EventHelen Zille, former leader of the Democratic Alliance, is born in Johannesburg
… she exposed the real circumstances behind the death of Black Consciousness Movement leader Steve Biko. In the 1980s she joined the anti-Apartheid…
PlaceTembisa Township, Midrand
… Ekurhuleni Municipality . It was established in 1957 when Black People were resettled from Alexandra and other Areas in … word ‘tembisa’ meaning ‘promise’…
EventTseko Simon Nkoli dies
… of an AIDS related illness. Nkoli was one of the first Black anti-apartheid activists to publicly identify as gay … retribution against homosexuality and…
EventThe Rand Revolt breaks out
… Africa as well. Soon after the war, in 1918 and 1919, Black workers across economic sectors went on strike. In 1921 … were a reduction of wages and the…
PlaceWagendrift Nature Reserve and Dam, Escourt
… along the Bushman's River. Found here are; Fish Eagle and Black Eagle, which nest in the reserve. Species of fish … picnic and fishing spot. Found here are;…
PlaceFisantekraal, Cape Winelands
… per km²) houses or shacks, in this Township. 51% are Black Africans while 47% of the population is Coloured. Most … per km²) houses or shacks, in this…
EventRocklands Community Hall declared a heritage site
On 20 August 2019, the 36th anniversary of the founding of the United Democratic Front (UDF), the Rocklands Community Hall, located in Mitchell’s Plain,Cape…
PlaceKatberg, Eastern Cape
… in the area, it lies on the uppermost reaches of the Black-Kei River and is stocked with rainbow trout that …
ArchiveHARWU: The Aborted Attempt to Build a National South African Catering Union (1984 – 1990) by Allan Horwitz, June 2018
… disruptions. There was also rising tension in the black-led Bantustans whose alliance with the Afrikaner … African Communist Party nationalist/Stalinist…
Archive2014 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 13 February 2014 (before National Elections)
… We have to work more intensively to develop emerging or black industrialists. Many of the aspirant black industrialists complain about the difficulties they …
Coloured by History, Shaped by Place - New perspectives on Coloured Identities in Cape Town
… It argues that coloured identities are a valid part of black and African experiences, while refusing to erase their … : Zimitri Erasmus Soft cover : ISBN 0…
EventAllan Boesak is born
… politician, is born in Kakemas in South Africa. When other Black political leaders were arrested or in exile Boesak established himself as a spokesperson for…
EventSchool boycott in Port Elizabeth ends
… Leaders of Port Elizabeth's Black secondary school children decided to end a four month … when an estimated 80 percent of the Port Elizabeth Black Civic…