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Call for papers: 100 years of the SACP
… important tasks of the Communist Party has been organising black workers. We invite papers that examine the party’s … constituency, and the party’s approach…
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 …
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…
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 …
PlaceNyanga Township
… of Cape Town’s urban sprawl, Nyanga is one of the oldest Black townships in Cape Town. It was established in 1946 and … KTC, Old Location, Maumau, Zwelitsha,…
ArchiveElizabeth van der Heyden by Allison Drew
… Cape’s coloured intelligentsia. [4] Tiny numbers of black students had been able to enroll at historically white … Education Act, No 45 , making it a…
Freedom Charter sold out the dispossessed by Motsoko Pheko (The Sowetan), 2 Feb 2012
… declare that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white ... and, therefore, we the people of South Africa, black and white together, equals,…
PlaceVolksrust, Mpumalanga
… a National Monument. The Population of the Town includes Black, White, Asian and Coloured people. The population … the apartheid Groups Areas Act legislation…
Professor Terence Ranger: An Obituary by Trevor Grundy
… academic John Reed that he wished he'd been born black. "Terry," Reed wrote years later, "began a debate on … means to be African by saying how much he…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Where Working people Lived
… unskilled workers placed them in competition with low-paid black workers. Housing for migrant workers For black workers, the housing available in the towns…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 15 September 1970 during the Prime Minister’s Vote
… of Churches, the Republic's policy in respect of the Black states in Africa and the arms sales to the Republic. In … along. They believe that the time has…
ArticleBiography of Lindiwe Mabuza by Kayla Johansen
… Mabuza had a childhood no different from the majority of Black South Africans at the time. Her family of seven fought … [36] Published in 1989, One Never…
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… version of Marcus Garvey’s Pan-African liberation for black people via village meetings arranged by Wellington … Act affects Walter and his mother, amongst…
EventTricameral Parliament inaugurated
… was known as the 'Tricameral Parliament', still excluded Black South African citizens from voting. The exclusion of the Black South African community acted…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: Lord Methuen, British general, destroys the village of Schweizer-Reneke
… one of three that week which became known in England as Black Week (the others were at Stormberg and Colenson). … at the height of their existence. Mortality…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Introducing by Carol Hermer
… the city centre are the three townships for Cape Town's black residents. The three townships occupy about 1000 … as well as an office to issue permits…
EventChumani Maxwele ignites the #RhodesMustFall Movement at UCT
… campus that are physical reminders of White supremacy and Black subjugation and oppression that is rooted in South … make a connection with the lack of human…
EventDaily Dispatch editor, Donald Woods is banned
… a deposit before they could publish. This became known as "Black Wednesday." On the same day, Daily Dispatch editor Donald Woods who was also a friend to the…
EventEdgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia.
… would in terms of the period; greatly extend the number of black people eligible to vote. For the White electorate of … as his own party rejected him as…
EventThe first indications of protest over Afrikaans in Soweto schools
… the cutbacks by the Apartheid government on education for Black students. The result was that Black teachers now had more students to teach and fewer …
EventSchools closed in the Western Cape
… to prevent mass protest demonstration by pupils. However, Black pupils were boycotting schools in many parts of the … the students was the inferior standards…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… Poqo activists. The PAC, like the ANC, had support in black communities across South Africa. But there are areas … organization and that they intended to…
ArticleTswana
… baTswana [people]) The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho-Tswana, … and Sotho account for the largest percentage of…
Selfless Biko 40 Years On by Barney Pityana (City Press), 10 September 2017
… recalls the shock and grief he felt that day, and how the Black Consciousness Movement leader helped to shape a … conference at Rhodes University in July…