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ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications by Allison Drew
… Many of the ALSC members had been involved with the exiled Black Consciousness Movement of Azania. Thus, although they were Marxists and socialists, they did…
ArticleThe Politics Behind Water
… it to specific groups. In 2002 there were still 14 million Black South Africans without running water as previous laws … the 1913 Land Act was introduced,…
ArticleGertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… fulfilled her mother’s dream for her to become an educated Black woman in South Africa. Her journey led her to become a … of Documents Act of 1952, had begun…
ArticleSouth Africa’s 2019 General Election - Post Analysis
… privatisation of land and State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), Black Economic Empowerment (BEE). The parties released their … of the Free State, now secretary…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… views and opinions of 85% of country’s future citizens (black people) not even considered in these discussions. … of white citizens. However, a small number…
ArticleThe Roots of Apartheid in the Construction of Buchuberg Dam
… Poor whites also viewed themselves as racially superior to black workers and demanded higher wages for their labour on … as they did not want poor whites…
ArticleA Luta Continua Dialogues, Episode 1: Student Activism
… being formed by recent student activism, the challenges Black students face in predominantly White and Black universities, the need for Universities to…
ArticleDebating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
… movement. [2] The Open Stellenbosch protests were led by black students who argued that Afrikaans as an undergraduate … of instruction at public universities…
ArticleA Luta Continua Dialogues
… is an international dialogue series, bringing together Black and Indigenous activists, community workers, and …
ArticleAbstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes Conference
… Niekerk The Fruits of the 1973 Durban Strikes: A Powerful Black Trade Union Movement. Are they still on track or are … The British Government, The Trade…
Women’s Food Committees in Cape Town during the 1940s
… the distribution of food, these women went on to tackle black marketeers who were accumulating food and selling it at … Durban. According to Sarah Carneson ,…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
… talent, Buthelezi was among the country’s most influential black leaders for the majority of his long and remarkable … were the 10 impoverished rural areas…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 2 (2001-2022)
… place, particularly in the form of giving contracts to new black elites. The Guptas were given coal contracts as old … Godinho note that Gigaba styled…
ArticleSouth African Student Organisation (SASO)
… in 1968 after some members of the University of Natal’s Black Campus SRC (Student Representative Council) decided to … In the 1960s White members became…
ArticleAZAPO’s Women’s Wing - Imbeleko
… formed in 1982 to address the specific challenges faced by black women under apartheid. The organisation emerged from … women as central to the nurturing and…
Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA)
… interracial unions, it was not opened to membership of Black unions. The council adopted the policy of accepting membership of only registered unions…
ArticleA brief history of domestic service in South Africa
… [vi] . Poor housing and the fact that they were mixed with black employees in homes with several maids deterred white … domestic service had changed into a…
ArticleLand, Labour and Apartheid
… the land in the hands of the British. The rights of the black population were generally not taken into account, … they did still live scattered across South…
ArticleIndian South Africans: 1924-1948 Legislation and Segregation
… the British and the Afrikaners, to the exclusion of black people. As one author put it, “ While the Boers and the … hands both joined in declaring a…
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… and later specialised in Intelligence. Women and the Black Consciousness Movement in the 1970s The Black Consciousness Movement, led by Steve Biko, was a new…
ArticleThe formation of the SANNC/ANC
… of these constitutional discussions. In 1909, a group of Black delegates from the four provinces attended the South … law. The group comprised of South…
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
… and were often in favour of white people’s interests. Black and white people were not allowed contact in different … had well-resourced schools with better…
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… in defiance. Passes in the Free State Large numbers of Black and Coloured people moved to Bloemfontein, the capital … The Basotho, under Moshoeshoe, the…
ArticleUniversity Christian Movement (UCM)
… Stutterheim in July 1968, 60 percent of the delegates were black. In retrospect, the significance of the UCM, which … degenerating into a segregated…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Essay Questions and Answers
… The Land Act of 1913 was the final nail in the coffin for Black South Africans in the 20th century and a step to … of Apartheid. Firstly, the Natives Land…
ArticleGrade 12 - Topic 3 - Civil Society protests 1950s to 1990s
… identity in South Africa from the 1950s to 1970s – black women see themselves first as black, and white women see themselves first as white; trade … within…
ArticleGrade 12 - Civil Resistance in South Africa 1970s to 1980
… them is Antoinette Sithole. Image source The challenge of Black Consciousness to the Apartheid state See: http://www.sahistory.org.za/article/black…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… get the vote. This means in effect that the weight of the black vote is decreased from 3.1% to 1.4%. The first restrictions against the urbanisation of black…
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
… 3,650 in 1911 to 35,000. Almost all of the population was Black. This polarisation was reinforced by the Native Urban … municipalities to establish separate…
ArticleBizana and the Pondoland Revolt 1946 - 1962
… The system of Black authorities and the reforms brought about in the … the Pan Africanist Congress, who rejected the system of Black authorities because it…