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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…
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,…
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…
Biography 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArticleCongress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa
… providing meaningful efforts to address the issues that face the people who live in traditional societies in the …
Address delivered by the Deputy President, Jacob Zuma, at the National Union of Mineworkers National Congress, 24 May 2006
… have always portrayed extreme courage and bravery in the face of trying circumstances. When we meet here today we must … alliance partners participating. T.W…
Document Center at UKZN. “Burning of the Passes” from the collection of Ela Gandhi, MP. Assention no. 1889-23
… and a bitter merriment stamped deep upon each face. In the front row, a dozen representative Chinese … whistles blown. One Indian, said to have been a…
Chapter 7. An Afrikaner Working Mother
… stars". The policeman had slapped me violently across the face and, for a whole week, I proudly bore my badge of honour-a black eye. One day, when there was…
Archive"Racism, Apartheid and a New World Order": Speech in Acceptance of the Third World Prize on Behalf of Nelson and Winnie Mandela by O. R. Tambo, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, 5 May 1986
… underling, each with his position defined by race. As black South Africans, we have lived within the entrails of … who are white are inherently superior…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 3: An ancient African society: Egypt
… settled life of agriculturalists. ‘We are content with our Black land ”¦ the heartland is with us’. - A Pharaoh's … the Nileto transport goods. ‘We are…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… among the accused and brought from Robben Island to face trial. Arthur Chaskalson was part of the Rivonia Trial … – related to the Soweto unrest , the rise…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Glossary
… of Education homelands ”” those territories reserved for black people and around which the principle of segregation in South Africa was organised; sometimes…
PlaceUniversity of Cape Town
… . The University Admitted its first small group of Black Students in the 1920's . The number of Black Students remained relatively low until the 1980s and ……