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EventApartheid police officers admit to the killing of Biko before the TRC
… role in the 1977 killing of Steve Biko, the leader of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). Biko was arrested on the … inflammatory pamphlets and "inciting…
EventThe siege of Mafeking starts
… town adjacent to Mafeking. Sol Plaatje, well-known Black author and political publicist and at that time a court … up in the siege. He kept a diary, the…
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…
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…
A new class struggle
… it was intended as "indirect taxation"65 just as the Black paid his annual "hut-tax." (The Act did not apply to … with the Whites by marriage." The growing…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… the most severe consequences of Union were visited on the Black people of South Africa, who were dispossessed and … strike. When the Chamber of Mines began…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak
… to raise money with the goal of building schools in black townships, and these efforts resulted in the founding … Manas, Gwala, Mafika Pascal, and Thoahlane,…
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
… rose to unprecedented heights and even went beyond black-white unrest, with Inkatha clashing with the ANC/UDF … was an unprecedented level of resistance in…
Discovery of the Gold in 1884
… this number being equally divided between White and Black residents. The South African War of 1899-1901 saw a … were replaced on the mines by the…
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
… movements, MK and Poqo. The 1970s saw the emergence of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), which dominated political … that Afrikaans should be the…
ArticleMessage of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, delivered by Mr. Tambo, at the funeral of Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo
… national oppression and economic exploitation of the black South African masses, he was able in his own unassuming … terror. The irresistible march of the…
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… and the Indian UDF leadership did not really understand black dynamics, and in Cape Town where coloured UDF … problem. In Natal, the leadership decided to…
ArticleSharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960
… embarked on a feverish drive to prepare their members and Black communities for the proposed nationwide campaigns. The … non-violence and that the PAC saw it…
PlaceAgulhas National Park
… high and low tides. Here you could spot the rare African Black Oystercatcher, and in the second half of the year you …
PlaceBisho, Capital of the Eastern Cape
… Joshua Gqozo and the reabsorption of the so-called black Homeland or Bantustan, into South Africa. (This …
PlaceSasolburg
… aromatic, and naphthenic organic chemicals, as well as black carbon and such inorganic materials as sulfur and …
EventIan Smith of Rhodesia and Henry Kissinger meet in Pretoria
… that his government had accepted Kissinger's proposal of a Black majority government within two years. This, however, did not end the war in Rhodesia. The…
EventSA pledges support for a negotiated settlement in Rhodesia
… aimed at improving South African foreign relations with Black independent states in Africa. He hoped that a negotiated settlement would result in a moderate…
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces withdrawal of Internal Stability Units (ISU)
… from the communities and political organisations. Many black communities raised their unhappiness with the manner in … ISU from the Aliwal North area that…
EventRenewal of land acquisition programme in Zimbabwe
… farmers for the land confiscated for resettlement by Black peasant farmers. Mugabe defended this move by stating … occupied by war veterans - farms initially…
EventGeneral De la Rey protests British mistreatment of women and children
… farm houses. Boer women and children, as well as their black servants, were taken to concentration camps, where they … Around 26 000 Boer women and children,…
EventKitchener succeeds Roberts as Commander-in-Chief
… Boer commandos. Thirdly, Boer women and children and some Black South Africans were placed in concentration camps. This … as approximately 26 000 Boer women…
PlaceKwaMuhle Museum, 130 Ordnance Road, Durban
… labour control. Exhibitions include collections of large black and white prints reflecting township life, and an accurate depiction of the histories of…
PlaceMaphikela House
… In 1912, prominent black leaders gathered here and forged the foundations of … of the ANC in Bloemfontein in 1935. In 1912, prominent black leaders…
ArchiveAt the Pompidou by Jeremy Harding, 26 April 2018
… story of South Africa’s labouring classes, predominantly black, in a world shaped by race laws and extractive … two million inhabitants; at least a quarter…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Glossary
… separate educational facilities which disadvantaged black children. [9] Ottoman Empire - This was a Turkish …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Source-Based Questions and Answers
… L. “The Natives Land Act of 1913 engineered the poverty of Black South Africans: a historico-ecclesiastical … L. “The Natives Land Act of 1913 engineered the…
Interview with Dr Vanitha Chetty by Ms Rajes Pillay,University of Durban Westville,13 June 2002
… no she was very well received, although after that she did face a bit of - I don’t know if I would call it opposition, I … of difficulties, or what sort of…