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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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
While colonialism and slavery flourished in the 18th century, the foundations of modern democracy were also being established. It is important to consider the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Post-detention weapons
… around 1968, peaking around 1976. The ideology of black consciousness had become a dominant intellectual … repression in 1976. The targets of this repression…
PlaceSchmidtsdrift
… were forcibly removed, subsequently. Ultimately the ‘Black Spot’ removal policy saw more than 1000 Tswana or …
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…
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…
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…