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EventEducationist George Molefe is born
… in Mbulwana, Ladysmith, Natal. Molefe was one of the first black Presbyterian ministers to graduate at Fort Hare College … many accolades during his lifetime…
EventThree cases of Buboinic plague are reported in Cape Town
… by mid 1901. As consequence, white people in PE forced black people to reside in designated areas such as New … through a bite by fleas which live on animals…
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…
ArticleThe 2nd Johannesburg Biennale
… turn debuting South African work, such as Santu Mofokeng’s Black Photo Album/ Look at Me, 1890-1950 and Penny Siopis’ My … Green, Vogue par Nelson Mandela …
ArticleThe Freedom Charter
… to know: that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white, and that no government can justly claim … or belief; And therefore, we, the people…
South Africa's political landscape, as visual poetry: Haunting images have understated, dry elegance by Mark Feeney, 20 February 2011
… photographer’’ sounds so inflexible — a category as black-and-white as the images most commonly associated with … as it happens, has as many photographs in…
PlaceDiepkloof, Soweto
… the previous Government to accommodate the large number of Black Migrants into the City. These are basic Houses that are … 1980s, to Accommodate the…
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 …
PlaceJubilee Art Centre
… in Soweto when the Group Areas Act made it illegal for Black students to be educated in the city.The laughter of … Community Art Project in Cape Town: the…
EventThe National Union of Mineworkers start South Africa’s longest wage strike
… trade union in South Africa. NUM represented mainly Black mineworkers in the gold and coal mines belonging to the Chamber of Mines. Approximately 360 000…
EventGen. Louis Botha, soldier, statesman and first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, is born.
… Native Land Act of 1913, he believed in maintaining Black traditions and in totally segregating black and white, except where blacks were needed as workers. …
EventNine policemen are killed in Cato Manor riots in Durban, shortly before the infamous Sharpville Massacre
… time when the policemen would attempt to forcefully remove black people from Cato Manor, an area inhabited by both … Among those killed were four White…
EventBishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
… preacher and strident voice against apartheid, first Black Secretary General of the South African Council of Churches, first Black Archbishop of the Anglican…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… Agriculture. 1919 Xuma joins Alpha Phi Alpha, a nationwide Black fraternity. December 1919-January 1920: Xuma is part of … and Xuma speaks on ‘Bridging the…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Native Unrest
… Other Papers by D.D.T Jabavu Introductory. The aboriginal black people of South Africa have not remained unaffected by … Britain have become hardened, while…
PlaceSchmidtsdrift
… were forcibly removed, subsequently. Ultimately the ‘Black Spot’ removal policy saw more than 1000 Tswana or …
PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Documenting Ordinary Scenes Of South Africa Then and Now by Michael Kimmelman (The New York Times), 24 August 2001
… know it, your discomfort really changes only by degrees. Black South Africans, by contrast, would immediately have … of the memorable pictures in the…
ArticleEOAN Group
… Department was for the group to have separate shows for Black, White and Coloured audiences. This lead to the groups …
Community Arts Project (CAP)
… that emerged after 1976, such as The Federated Union of Black Artists (FUBA) , Funda , and The Johannesburg …
South African Labour history
… and this is their story, too. The great majority were black. When gold production began, their lives were drawn …
Rejuvenation of the ANC and intensification of the struggle 1940s
… - all linked to global developments. These gave the black population reason to expect better conditions. In 1944, …
ArticleAccount of events: Rand Rebellion 1922
… of the ISL, who had been instrumental in forming the first black trade union - the Industrial Workers of Africa (IWA) - …
ArticlePrehistory of the Cape Town area
… and free Blacks. Chemical analyses showed that some Black labourers came from as far north as Mozambique. An …
ArticleConstitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996
… between the British and Afrikaners disenfranchised the Black majority and set in motion processes that laid the …
Event80 Women arrested for anti-pass protest
… Passes and measures to control the mobility of the Black population particularly centring on White urban areas, … to embark on an anti-pass passive…
Gold and Workers 1886 - 1924 by Luli Callinicos
… of Forced Labour Part 3 - Workers' Resistance Chapter 13 - Black Workers Boycott The Mines Chapter 14 - The Chinese … Chapter 15 - White Workers and Colour…
EventAPLA burns down farm house in Fouriesburg
… land from White people and return it to dispossessed Black people. In 1990, the PAC had adopted the slogan 'Year … that negotiation would yield the desired…
EventPercy Qoboza, influential anti-Apartheid journalist, dies
… the newspaper became South Africa's most popular Black-edited publication. The National Association of Black Journalists in the United States named in Percy…
EventCleric and anti-apartheid activist, Mpilo Desmond Tutu is ordained as Archbishop of Cape Town
… the Bantu Education Act of 1953 which he saw as devaluing Black education,became the first Black head of the Anglican Church in South Africa. Tutu was …
EventPixley Seme, lawyer, journalist and co-founder of SANNC is born
… (ANC) in 1923. The organisation was formed as a result of Black dissatisfaction with the South Africa Act of 1909, … numerous laws being passed that…