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EventPolice swoop down on the homes of Congress of the People leaders across the country, the arrests led to the Treason Trial
… Ten days later, the police had arrested 156 leaders, both Black and leftist Whites. Among those arrested were Albert …
EventThe Bantu Labour Regulations Amendment Bill becomes operative
… and apartheid still being imposed on labour unions, many Black trade unions were not interested in registration. …
EventHundreds of political prisoners began a hunger strike at Robben Island
… campaign showed a rare glimpse of political unity among Black political prisoners opposed to Apartheid, as prisoners …
EventSibusiso Vilane tells about his conquest of Everest
… Mpumalanga game ranger, Sibusiso Vilane, became the first Black South African to reach the top of Mount Everest, an … ‘ President Mbeki Congratulates…
EventRecognition of the Customary Marriages Act comes into effect
… gave recognition to the customary marriage practicised in Black communities. It provided for the equal status and …
EventCrime statistics released
… that violent crimes continue to have a serious impact on Black communities, with Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal being the …
Coal Miners Strike on the Rand
… strike of the 20 000 White miners meant that the 180 000 Black workers had no work either. The strike escalated into a …
EventSelf government is granted to the Transvaal
… whether or not to extend the parliamentary franchise to Black South African's. The Boers decided not to, and Blacks …
EventCecil Edwin Frans Skotnes is born in East London, Eastern Cape
… and woodcuts. He was a great inspiration to young Black artists, who he trained. The most successful series he …
Founding members of friends of United Democratic Front
… National Congress, Eric Mafuna he was the president of black management forum for 8 years, Nadine Gordimer is the …
EventAfrikaans is used for the first time in an international document with the signing of the Convention of Mozambique in Pretoria
… asserted the language as the dominant official language. Black people rejected the language as a medium of education …
ArchiveCHAPTER 1 - Old Battle-Cries and Borrowed Language by Howard Barrell
… come to this. Together with a heady brew of white fear and black excitement, this bewildering train of events gave the … means to achieve the fundamental…
PlaceClermont, a Township of Durban
… Clermont under the Apartheid days was a black middle income Township, in Durban. It is surrounded by … who sold his land. It was the only place in Durban…
PlaceMzilikazi Memorial, situated at Phokeng, near Rustenburg
… ceremonies, the burial process started on 2nd November. Black oxen were sacrificed to the spirits of the dead king … that a gold coated spear belonging to…
Freedom Charter and the United Nations by E.S. Reddy
… DOCUMENT 37. "Black Power--Students Forced to Leave Meeting." Article in … at the meeting is a result of the emergence of a new black consciousness.' HEMSON:…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of President Henrique Cardoso of Brazil Pretoria, 26 November 1996
… of things to be made for the war, and so they had to use black workers in the factories. And they started to use black women in the factories around that…
Document 52 - International Secretariat of the International Communist League [B-L),Minutes of meeting, 23 April 1935 (Extract)
… resolution of united revolutionary proletariat both black and white, on the basis of the agrarian revolution. We … And oppose ourselves to all nationalist…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Bibliography
… Tom and William Nasson (eds.). 1992. All Here and Now: Black Politics in South Africa in the 1980 s. London: C. … Bounds of Possibility: The Legacy of Steve…
Introduction
… of uniting Indian political organisations with other black bodies in order to present a common front. The … unjust laws; and the Congress of the People . in…
EventGold Coast (Ghana) gains independence
… green representing the rich grasslands of the area. The black star is the symbol of the people and of African …
EventThe SA 6th Division enters Florence in World War II
… the Italians in North and East Africa, along with 70 000 black and coloured labourers. These soldiers were …
EventUnrest breaks out at Naledi High School as Security police confront learners
… stoned the police and burned their car. The first sign of Black unrest in Soweto schools was noticed by government …
EventInternational Olympic Committee re-admit South Africa
… this decision elicited sharp protests from various Black African states which threatened to stay away from …
EventThe government launches ‘Operation Iron Fist’ in townships
… under emergency rule. Though a call was made by a few Black groups to boycott the curfew, it proved effective when …
EventState of Emergency enters 100th day
… reported in various parts of South Africa, especially in black townships where large contingents of South African …
EventNP holds federal congress
… got a product with the wrong name. We can't sell it in black townships." Click here to read the opening speech by …
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed TRC chairperson
… Nobel laureate Archbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu, the first Black archbishop of Cape Town rose to fame in the 1980’s. …
EventIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union is founded under Clements Kadalie
… by Clements Kadalie, a young Nyassalander who spoke no Black South African language but used English to spread the …
EventZulu assault at Holkrantz
… that the Boers felt betrayed that the British had armed Black people during the South African War, though in many …
EventPresley Chweneyagae, star of the Oscar winning movie Tsotsi, is arrested for fraud in Pretoria
… performance by a lead actor for his role in Tsotsi at the Black Movie Awards in Los Angeles in 2006, heading off …