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Letter by Oliver Tambo to the OAU Secretary-General, Mr. William Eteki Mboumoua, 01 June 1974
… is being rocked by the biggest strike movement of the black workers in ten years. Everywhere the oppressed and … and at Loraine Mine this year. But, Your…
Letter to the OAU Secretary-General, Mr. William Eteki Mboumoua by O. R. Tambo, 1974
… is being rocked by the biggest strike movement of the black workers in ten years. Everywhere the oppressed and … and at Loraine Mine this year. But, Your…
ArchiveBiography of Dambisa Moyo by Alex Kamau
… not as loud a voice. There is also something known as the black market, and black-market economics play their part in a country’s … financial stability. Even…
Document 8 - S. P. Bunting, The “Colonial” Labour Front, 23 October 1922
… there is a great gulf fixed between the white and the black workers who jostle together in the country, and local … barricades are thrown up entrenching the…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Hertzogian Segregation VERSUS The Cape Native Policy
… divided into Higher and Lower certificates for white and black pupils respectively on colour lines. Even in State … first that white men, if worth their salt…
PlaceBill Ainslie Studios, Johannesburg
… the Cyrene Mission Station in Zimbabwe, Federated Union of Black Artists, FUNDA Community College, The Alexandra Art …
PlaceGroot Drakenstein
… of two pioneering farmers in the area. One was the Free Black farmer, Jan van Saloor, also known as Jan Lui (Lazy …
EventThe Soweto Uprising leaves 174 blacks and two whites dead following 10 days of rioting
… introduction of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction. Black people resented Afrikaans because it was seen as the …
EventAlbert Luthuli accepts the Nobel Peace Prize
… attended by King Olav of Norway. Luthuli was the first Black African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. …
EventHertzog and Smuts to form a coalition
… to the separate political representation of White and Black and the retention of the civilised labour policy. …
EventSharpeville Deputy Mayor killed
… puppets of the apartheid regime. The gropup wanted all Black councillors and mayors to resign from their position as …
EventPrime Minister P.W. Botha announces Ciskei will become independent on 4 December 1981
… its programme of Apartheid by excluding the majority of Black South Africans from South Africa proper. The Bantustans …
EventSASO leader, Abram Tiro is assassinated
… responsible for sending him the parcel bomb. As a result, Black students boycott lectures and their institutions were …
EventAhmed Helmy, Egyptian actor, is born
… adorn anything from car stickers and clothes with the red, black and white colours. Helmy is also ambassador for the …
EventBenjamin Mzimkulu Macala, SA artist, is born
… His subject matter of Picasso-like portraits with huge black eyes is easily identifiable in almost all his works. …
EventPhambili Ka Ntloko, national organiser of AZAPO, is born
… involved in the South African Students’ Movement (SASM), a black consciousness organisation for high school children. He …
No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa
… Content I - Introduction II - The Life of Steve Biko III - Black Consciousness IV - The Death of Steve Biko V - The …
Speech to the ANC Rally at Soccer City by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 16 December 1990
… came the big crowds, from every corner of the country, black and white, whom it was a great delight to be received … National Party to open talks with the…
Document 27 - Letter from E. R. Roux to Douglas Wolton, 5 September 1928
… It is equally necessary to say "natives unite; unite as black men to free ourselves from slavery." The demands of the … there were genuine tactical reasons…
Marikana and the New Politics of Grief, 20 August, 2012 - Jon Soske
… after a bitter, two year struggle for recognition by the Black Allied Mine and Construction Workers Union. After four … the swirling rumors of factional…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to Newsweek, 01 August 1980
… because they find it almost impossible to believe that the black man can be efficient, that he can be a good fighter, … as nations where control is exercised…
ArchiveMandela, From a Freedom Fighter to an Icon of Reconciliation
… fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic … Government was unable to suppress…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Introduction
… These include business and national groupings, both black and white. But among these groups, it is the organised … into existence a vast labour force based…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 106th Anniversary of the African National Congress presented by ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa, 13 January 2018
… of legislation that were central to the deprivation of black South Africans of their land, assets and livelihoods. … in South Africa document, which set out…
PlaceGroutville
… Groutville also saw it fair share of the struggles of Black people in South Africa. Black farmers were neglected by the authorities and suffered …
ArchiveThe South African Choir’s pathbreaking tour: 1891 – 1893 by Martin Plaut, 6 January 2017
… The contacts between black South Africans and the African American community in … been recently unearthed. They are rare, early images of black South…
PlaceRustenburg
… were confronted with the question of their relation to the Black Inhabitants, of the Country. The fact that the Church … Constructed using the Labour of …
Document 92 “Communist Party of South Africa Plenum Held from 5th to 8th April 1936”, Umsebenzi, and 16 May 1936
… of division and lack of unity in the ranks of the black and white toilers, the Party must be a means to bring … about more unity of struggle and organisation…
Document 71 - Spartacus Club October Revolution Celebrations Oddfellows Hall, 70 Loop Street, Cape Town, 6 November 1937
… the Son. Songs: "Kudala Sizula" "Isn't it hard to be a Black Man?" Scene 3. In town, some weeks later, Lukosi meets … In jail. Lukosi IS thrown in by…
EventApartheid becomes official policy
… White farmers in the Northern provinces were unhappy that Black labour was moving to the cities. Apartheid - … 'belonged' to the Afrikaners he did not have…