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ArticleCommemoration, remembering and memorialising June 16 Soweto uprising
… memorial of June 16 were in the form of an exhibition of black and white photograph to mark the twenty-fifth … Commemoration, memory and monuments in the…
ArticleWhat was the Great Depression and why did it start in the USA?
… began with the dramatic crash of the stock market on "Black Thursday", October 24, 1929 when 16 million shares of …
A Biography of Ernest Cole by Anna Hutchinson
… was born Ernest Levi Tsoloane Kole on 21 March 1940 in the Black freehold of Eersterust, about 16 kilometres east of … African education system. It was…
The diary of Maria Tholo - November 2 - December 1 by Carol Hermer
… the wind. They looked like angels. The Methodists were in black skirts, red blouses, white collars and caps. The Catholics had black caps and skirts and…
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…
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…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
… Nelson Mandela served as the first democratically elected black president of South Africa. He served as president of … that he oversaw the 1981 killing by…
ArticleSouth Africa and the Olympic Games
… wild guess from an American official. Because they were black and from Africa he assumed that they were from the Zulu … a story to just ignore. What is…
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 …
EventProfessor Bob Hepple is born
… of the SACTU newspaper, Workers’ Unity, and helped the black Metal Workers’ Union and other small unions survive the …
EventSpecial Committee on Apartheid publishes its first Interim Report
… because of its Apartheid policy that discriminated against black people. The Apartheid policy was introduced by the …
EventTwo former Soweto student leaders, Khotso Seathlolo and Mary Loate are given long term sentences
… against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in Black secondary schools. Seatlholo faced additional charges. …
A chronology of meetings between South Africans and the ANC in exile 1983-2000 by Michael Savage
… the dramatic February 1990 unbanning of South Africa’s black liberatory movements, many hundreds of concerned South … involved meetings with the Pan…
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
… of labour exploitation yet devised”. Resistance among black working people was at a low level. At about this time … Steve Biko captured the mood as follows: …