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Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the AU-African Diaspora Ministerial Conference Gallagher Estate, Friday 16 November 2007
… especially in the many struggles that they themselves face today. This, I believe, is something that both our …
Albert Luthuli’s Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize, Oslo, December 10, 1961
… an age when the outbreak of war would wipe out the entire face of the earth, the ideals of Nobel should not merely be …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Ceremony to mark the Retirement of Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson and the Assumption of Office of Chief Justice Pius Langa and Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke: Houses of Parliament, Cape
… they will accomplish their mission with distinction. We face continuing challenges with relation to the judiciary, …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Tribute to the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid - Statement at the Meeting of the Special Committee on its Tenth Anniversary by O. R. Tambo, New York, 2 April 1973
… Chairman, Sir, Distinguished representatives, Today, we, black and white, peoples of many nationalities and … in terms of race, colour and nationality, in…
South African House of Assembly pays tribute to the SS Mendi
… 616 South Africans lost their lives, 607 of which were Black men serving in the South African Native Labour … White men who had lost their lives or survived…
EventSouth African House of Assembly pays tribute to the SS Mendi
… 616 South Africans lost their lives, 607 of which were Black men serving in the South African Native Labour … White men who had lost their lives or survived…
ArchiveFrom conscience politics to the battlefield
… The Party gradually shifted its attention to the voteless black majority, and took its active opposition beyond the … Congress, in the region, in attracting…
EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs’ (CAD)
… Africa occupied this precarious position between White and Black South Africans. This position was intensified during … Plessis as its head. "Coloured" South…
EventSouth African Parliament votes to repeal the legal framework of Apartheid
… For almost 350 years, Black people in South Africa had been subject to exceedingly … elections in 1994, with Nelson Mandela as the first Black President. The…
EventElectricity cut off in Tumahole township
… the R7 million arrears was written off and the much hated Black Township Council resigned. The resignation of the Black Township Council was considered an…
EventBessie Amelia Head, SA novelist dies
… to Bessie Amelia Birch, a White woman and a Black unnamed father. Due to the apartheid policies of the … was a prolific writer and was also the first South…
EventNoble South Africans win Nobel Peace Prize
… occasions. Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli was the first Black African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on 10 … 1984 in recognition of "the courage and…