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Joint Communique of the Meeting of the National African Federated Chambers of Commerce and the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 27 May 1986
… delegation also explained that, as an organisation of black business people, its members are affected by all the problems facing the black community in…
ArchiveA Place In The City - The Rand On The Eve Of Apartheid by Luli Callinicos
… and many left South Africa for other countries. Most black South Africans had a different response. African … against dispossessed, exploited and vote less…
Document 7 - The Freedom Charter
… took her inspiration, allegedly modelled their red, black and white uniform on British redcoats (just as the ABM … of Methodist garb gained a currency it…
Chapter 2 - No equality under the Union Jack, 1900 - 1910
… political movement. Gumede, Martin Luthuli and other Black leaders in Natal identified the urgent need for a new … driven by such action. We find that we are…
Grade 4 term 2 Timeline: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… suspended for two years. He Opens South Africa’s first black law firm with Oliver Tambo 1956 Mandela isarrested and …
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 1
… him with a devotion which, even at seventy, shone from her face at the mention of his name. It fell to this girl to take … and soft skin of girlhood, high…
ArchiveAmos 'Amla' Monageng interview by Kyla Jade Mc Nulty, The University of Pretoria, 2 May 2016
… as race or you can be more culturally specific. A: I am black, but I’m Tswana. I: And then land of origin; so where … if not the differences, between the…
Postscript
… There is burning of cars, houses, offices and shops in black and coloured areas, even in Phoenix in Natal, where … in the past fifteen months more than six…
EventRhodes statue removed at UCT
… Africa’s economy, but at the expense of the subjugation of Black people for the provision of cheap labour. The debate … it connoted White supremacy,…
Launch of The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner
… South Africa increasingly influenced by Steve Biko and the Black Consciousness movement. His work was forceful and … when many have turned their attention…
EventThe SS Mendi began its journey from Cape Town to Plymouth
… In 1916, the South African government agreed to recruit Black people to assist the British in World War 1 by … consisted of five white officers, seven NCOs…
ArchiveInterview with Absolom Zithulele Cindi
… with Absolom Zithulele Cindi who was an activist in the black consciousness movement and later in the Azanian … School in Soweto in the late 1960s. In 1972…
EventSS Mendi sinks in the English Channel on the way to France
… (1914-1919). A total of 616 South Africans, including 607 black troops serving in the South African Native Labour … South African Native Labour Contingent…
EventLeaders of six homelands reject new constitution
… still excluded Africans from parliament, leaders of six Black homelands issued a statement rejecting it. Their … Conference, the South African Council of…
EventFirst postage stamp in Africa is issued in the Cape Colony
… ever to be issued in the world was the British "Penny Black" in 1840, which depicted Queen Victoria's head against a black background and had a denomination…
PlaceImbali Township, Pietermaritzburg
“Imbali” is the IsiZulu word for: “Flower”. Imbali Township was established in 1958 and built in the mid-1960s to settle the City workers and employment…
Place"When Woodstock had a Beach"
… estuary, a natural meeting point for the Liesbeek and Black Rivers . Yet, by the early 20th century, the relentless …
Culture from Exile: Dakawa Art Centre By Jongikaya Mene
… several years it hosted an exhibition about the history of black rugby in Grahamstown. Every year during the Grahamstown …
ArchiveThis violence is not unique to SA by Daniel Magaziner, 09 September 2019
Every time there is violence of a particular sort in SA I think about 1949. In mid-January of that year a single incident between an Indian shopkeeper and a…
EventKaunda calls for Thatcher's exclusion from talks on South African sanctions
… and would lead to the greater suffering of South Africa's black population. Kenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia, along …
PlaceWest Coast National Park, Saldanha Bay
… area with many raptors showing well, including African Black Harrier. The viewpoint from the top of Posberg provides …
PlaceLimietberg Nature Reserve, Paarl
… and is home to: Baboons, Dassies, the Cape Sugarbird, Black Eagles, the sweet little Protea Canary and is the where … and is home to: Baboons, Dassies, the…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - Introduction by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… Schreiner This book tells the story of Frances Baard, a black South African woman who was a trade unionist, political … by a foreign power. At this time…
Introduction - My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… This book tells the story of Frances Baard, a black South African woman who was a trade unionist, political … by a foreign power. At this time there were…
Interview with Albert Luthuli by Studs Terkel, 6 May 1963, Chicago
… an African. Originally, Bantu was used to distinguish the black group from the Western group living in Africa, which is … white man came along and said: no…
ArticleGrade 11 - What were the consequences when pseudo-scientific ideas of Race became integral to government policies and legislation in the 19th and 20th centuries?
… immigrants, criminals and often a particular race like Black people. Sexual relationship between the superior and … In other words scientists had discovered…
ArticleFirst Anglo Boer War
… and focusing on the government’s lack of control over black people like the Pedi and the Zulu. This demoralised the … British Native commissioners were…
EventMore than a dozen people are killed, including seven children, in Kwamakhutha Massacre
… violence and death. This strongly polarized provincial Black politics, with the conflict carrying all the … intent on wiping out support for the ANC and…
Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… Afrikaner government steadily grew. In this trying time, black South Africans turned to one of the most important … rule. Because of the language barrier…
ArticleSotho (South Sotho or Basotho)
… province. Origins: The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho-Tswana, … and Sotho account for the largest percentage of…