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Chapter 8 - The politics of Congress in the late 1950s
… increasing deterioration in race relations, especially in Black-White relations”¦Rather than outlaw the African … represented capitalist interests,…
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…
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…
EventNovelist and historian Bessie Head is born
… and sent to a mental asylum where Head was born) and a Black father, she had a very difficult childhood. Allegedly … parents rejected her at some stage…
EventInkatha Freedom Party is formed
… in Northern KwaZulu. Inkatha emerged, along with the Black Consciousness Movement, to fill the vacuum in Black politics caused by the banning of the African…
EventWorld Health Organization publishes indictment of apartheid
… between the life expectancy of White South Africans and Black South Africans. Further, the infant mortality rate of Black South Africans outstripped the…
EventMemorial service for the victims of mining disaster
… mine at Evander, south of Johannesburg is disrupted. Angry Black miners blamed General Mining Union Corporation, owner … poor safety regulations for miners…
EventThe Rev. John Langalibalele Dube dies
… (now Ilanga), dies in Umhlanga, Natal. He was the first Black person to receive an honorary D.Phil. from a South … He believed that Christianity should grow…
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…
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…
PlaceSchmidtsdrift
… were forcibly removed, subsequently. Ultimately the ‘Black Spot’ removal policy saw more than 1000 Tswana or …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
EventGeorge Pemba, artist and playwright is born in Port Elizabeth
… commissioned by the Bantu Welfare Trust to paint scenes of Black tribal life. In his lifetime, Pemba received several … Pemba’s chosen career was viewed as…