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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
Chapter 4
… threaten the fundamental relationship of White trustee and Black ward . When we want to ascertain where the liberals … agreed on one fundamental point, the…
O. R. Tambo Interview with Mayibuye on the Current Situation in South Africa and Southern Africa in General 1984
… the women, the workers, our young armed cadres to rise and face this bold attempt by the enemy to dig in. And there was … the light of reactions to it of the…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Mayibuye on the current situation in South Africa and Southern Africa in general, 01 March 1984
… the women, the workers, our young armed cadres to rise and face this bold attempt by the enemy to dig in. And there was … the light of reactions to it of the…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Financial Strangulation of Native Education
… of the political and other relations between white and black in South Africa. This tradition is so constant that … will be available, but unfortuÂnately it…
Chapter 5 - The Indian Tobacco Workers Strike of 1920: A Socio-Historical Investigation by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… certain points of the negotiation process as far as the "black legs" were concerned, 59 and was unable to demand their … at the late stages of the strike was…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1948 - Press Reports on the Campaign
… It is in the forefront of tackling the many problems that face it with confidence and enthusiasm." "There is today an … desire for equal rights for his…
A Chronological look (1943 to 1986) at the Life and Times of Mr George Ponnen
… by the Authorities, i.e. Health and Town Boards. No black people were allowed to stay near the white areas and … from the market and sold them house to house…