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… leader and Mohandas Gandhi’s confidential clerk, dies in Durban. He was born in Madras, India, in 1 …

… (Bloke) Modisane, journalist, writer and actor is born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. He died in 1986 in Dortmund, West G …

… Nkomo, accused of plotting a coup, is dismissed in Zimbabwe. Armed resistance in his stronghold of Matabeleland, in the west, i …

… Mark Thatcher appears in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court in connection with the failed coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea.   Hi …

… Certificates of citizenship in the ‘homelands’ are to be issued by seven homeland authorities in their respective capitals in t …

… Khama III (in Tswana: Kgama), paramount chief of the Bamangwato in the Bechuanaland Protectorate (later Botswana), dies in Sero …

… Pragalathan Naiker, journalist and politician born in Durban in 1920, dies in an aeroplane during a flight between Lo …

… Rebels in a military complex in Monrovia, Liberia, release more foreigners while African peacekeeping troops fan out in the cap …

… Johann Friedrich Budler, Rhenish missionary in South Africa, is born in East Prussia. He was stationed in Komaggas, Steinkopf ( …

… with a collective of social documentary photographers in the 1980s to early 1990s, helping to expose the atrocities of apartheid and to empower young black South Africans through media training. In 1983 he joined Afrapix and set about to help establish a …

… University of Cape Town. He was a voluntary social worker in teh informal settlements in Cape Town. His banning order specifically prohibited him … entering any educational institution, any harbour or any black township. …

… year-long observance of the 1946 Indian passive resistance in South Africa. Speaking at the University of Natal in … of people. The Indian movement set an example to all the black people of South Africa, and gave them confidence that … not only brought this method of resistance again to public consciousness, but showed that South Africa had leaders who …

… Hassim Seedat, was born in Newcastle, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), in 1930. His family … council member of the Natal Law Society in 1980, the first black member to hold this office. He is a former member of the Democratic Lawyers Association (DLA), the first black law organisation in the country. He has been a past …

… Elliot Mngadi was born in Roosboom around 1918. Alongside Peter Brown also a leading member of the LP, Mngadi spearheaded the cause of black farmers in Natal who were affected by policies of the … government began forcibly removing people in the so called black spots in Natal, Mngadi who was also a landowner …

… necessity be understood within a specific social context, in this instance that of the apartheid political structure. … little or no 'political' art is produced, in particular by black artists. This has partly to do with the fact that … could take an exhibition of traditional and modernist black art abroad and attempt to perpetuate the illusion of a …

… Silkscreened; black and red; South Africa - A nation in chains... : What are the alternatives? … South Africa - A nation in chains: What are the alternatives? …

… Fihla Tinto was born on Christmas day on 25 December 1925 in the Mqanduli district of the former Transkei , now part of Eastern Cape Province . His involvement in political activities started at an early age. In 1942, while he was still a student at St John’s College in …

… Vondela Landingwe played rugby for Crusaders in Gugulethu and Western Province under the auspices of the … as a lifesaver at Mnandi Beach and the swimming pools in the Black townships in Cape Town.  He later became involved in …

… to categorise us - white, African, coloured, Indian - have in many ways become part of our identities. And because the … policies of Nazi Germany before 1938 and apartheid laws in South Africa …

… of meeting of the Christian Consultation on Resettlement in the Ciskei discussing the socio-economic impact of forced removals and relocations on Black families. … of meeting of the Christian Consultation on Resettlement in the Ciskei held in Grahamstown on August 29 and 30, 1980 …

… In 1950, the two major pieces of legislation designed to … Registration Act. Segregation was further enforced in South African cities and towns through the passing of the Separate Amenities Act in 1953. The Act enforced segregation of all public … government agrees to eliminate racial segregation in theatres but not in cinemas …

… Letter from Barbara Orpen, Research Convenor, Black Sash reporting on the latest developments on political activists on death row in the Eastern Cape … Political activists on death row in the Eastern Cape …

… Hyacinth Joseph Bill Bhengu was on 7th of September in 1919 Ixopo distric in Natal.He attended school in Catholic mission and then he … exchange program and served as the national chairperson of Black Community Programmes from 1974 until it was banned in …

… Nomhlangano Beauty Mkhize was born on 12 April 1940 in Sophiatown, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng). Her family’s … this was shelved until 1983; Driefontein was regarded as a Black Spot and the people had to be removed, even though they … helping the community to contact lawyers through the Black Sash in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). Her …

… The global pervasiveness of racism and segregation in the 1920s and 1930s During the 1920s and 1930s, there were … and were often in favour of white people’s interests. Black and white people were not allowed contact in different … g.za/dated-event/european-community-lifts-sanctions-against-sa See: …

… White poster with black lettering, and artwork of a pair of scissors, with 'Censor Limited' and 'Made in Britain' stamped on them, cutting through a microphone … If you dont know what is happening in Northe …

… Afrikaans is one of the eleven official languages spoken in South Africa. It is a derivative of the Dutch, language spoken by settlers who arrived in the Cape in the 17th century. Modern Afrikaans contains … asserted the language as the dominant official language. Black people rejected the language as a medium of education …

… known to survive their infancy on 11 January 1974, in Cape Town, South Africa. The three boys (David Peter, … section. They were born at Mowbray Maternity Hospital, in Cape Town South Africa. Their total birth weight was 24 lb … (2.0 kg) Only one of the six children, Grant, still lives in South Africa where he was born. The others have resettled …

… tribute to Nelson Mandela, there has been unanimous praise in France for the South African leader and the struggle … “white economy” could provide "abundant and inexpensive" black labour. "It is true black people are working for us”, said in April 1968 the …

… Grey poster with black, red and white lettering. Subscription to magazine … List of contents of magazine. Photographs of scenes in South Africa. Poster from Southern African Bishops … Be in contact with the changing world of youth …