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ArticleOrganization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000
… Ghana) makes it the first British African colony with a black majority in the Legislative Council 1947 T. R. Mekonnen … fricanist Journal in London. New…
Eye of the Needle - Notes by Richard Turner
… Turner 1 It will be noted that the author uses the term "black" throughout to refer to persons of color, including … Africans. This use of the term has deÂ…
Chapter Six - The Fighter in Turmoil: 1946 - 1960
… expansion was dependent upon increased employment of black labour was seen from the fact that black employment increased by 70 percent compared with 20 … in…
ArchiveDavid Koloane fought for the right to define himself – and his art by Ruth Simbao, 24 July 2019
… Koloane was deeply influenced by Steve Biko and the Black Consciousness movement. It was important, he suggested, “to … in his own writing: We were expected…
ArchiveChapter 7 - Planning for people's war `Blow on the embers and it will catch alight', January 1983 - March 1984 by Howard Barrell
… able to draw in the churches, even the Azapos and other black consciousness organisations like Cusa Footnote ...and a … into the front, they failed to…
ArchiveJakes Gerwel: The epitome of integrity and courage by Niren Tolsi, 30 November 2012
… it to be into a vibrant intellectual centre for the black left in South Africa. O'Connell said Gerwel attracted … Jakes Gerwel the man he was: South Africa…
The National Question in Post 1994 South Africa. A discussion paper in preparation for the ANC`s 50th National Conference by Z. Pallo Jordan
… held the view that the contradiction between the colonised Black majority (Africans, Coloureds and Indians) and the … It was a system of White minority rule…
ArchiveDeborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo
… police harassment were just the least of what an average black citizen faced. In the in the long struggle of … Act. Under Apartheid, the…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to New African, 05 January 1980, London
… It has, therefore, always been important that the black workers who keep this economy going should use the … - are a confirmation of the readiness of the…
Unity in Action Decisive - O. R. Tambo Interviewed to New African, London, 1980
… It has, therefore, always been important that the black workers who keep this economy going should use the … - are a confirmation of the readiness of the…
I - Introduction
… on these other deaths. The rest of the world seldom knows black leaders, even those well known to black people within South Africa. They have no means of ……
ArticleWorld War I and the South African Native Labour Contingent
… by me from the French. (Grundlingh: 1987:41) Some 35 000 Black South Africans had already served as part of a labour … :100). A number of measures were taken…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… By 1980, the Black Consciousness organisations were in a gradual decline and … to Pretoria, Eldorado Park and Lenasia, among many other Black schools…
EventCI and SACC offices are raided
… two religious formations considered to have links with the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) were raided by security police. …
74. The Freedom Charter, 1955
… Freedom Charter embodying the hopes and aspirations of the black people. The aim of the Congress was to publicise the Freedom Charter and thus awaken…
Chapter 10 - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… for 31 March. [56] Nevertheless the desperate thirst of black working people for a lead in action produced a response … it had been demonstrated that the…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… by Cecil John Rhodes), which the dominating notion that Black labour was cheaper to use in mines and on farms. It is … economic impoverishment and exclusion…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 8 - The Impracticality of Realism
… all other things will remain equal: that the change in consciousness that would replace competing egotists by … consumes far more of the country's resources…
Citation for Saleem Badat by Professor Paul Maylam, 10 April 2015, Rhodes University
… at considerable personal cost. At first aligned to the black consciousness movement, but soon deciding to work for the … about 5900 in 2006 to almost 7500 in…
Early Beginnings
… It is equally necessary to say 'natives unite; unite as black men to free yourselves from slavery' . The demands of … that there were tactical reasons…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… seemed uncertain. In April 1969 fourteen independent black states from Central and East Africa met in Zambia to … position of independent African states. It…
Newspaper article taken from the City Press in 2002: Student Politics under Apartheid
… graduates. SASO, formed in 1968, gave birth to the Black Consciousness (BC) movement in South Africa. It was the key actor within the BC movement,…
“Exodus without a map”: What happened to the Durban moment? by Edward Webster
… were low, and the apartheid system was built on cheap black labour. But as it is often said, surveys usually … to Steve Bantu Biko and his emerging…
Indian Community in Lenasia
… by more radical anti-apartheid elements, such as the Black Consciousness activists and some Congress-aligned figures. … his honour, and hundreds attended…
ArchiveCHAPTER SEVEN: Resistance Politics In Retreat: Cablism, The ANC Underground And Gandhi, 1985-1989 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
From the 1973 Durban strikes to the Marikana massacre and De Doorns conflict: How trade unions acquired their power and what has gone wrong with employment relations in South Africa subsequently by Johann Maree
… they faced. Straight after the strikes, when worker consciousness was high and workers realised the need to … in 1986. Its political orientation was Pan…
Chapter 6 - Reform, Repression and Mass Resistance
… restructuring of the previous terms of domination of the black population, economic recession, the political offensive … from its inception SANSCO defined…
ArticleRemembering and Celebrating South Africa’s Iconic LGBTQI+ Women
… on contemporary political and cultural issues that affect black people in Africa and its diaspora. …
Document 48 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: The Native Question (Majority) (1934)
… 44-hour week. Because of this intense exploitation of the black workers, the exploitation of the white workers is … workers to side with the employers in the…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… criticizes the living conditions that Johannesburg's Black citizens are forced to live under. 1906 Pass Laws for … Commission criticizes living conditions of…