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Chapter 8 - ‘Creative Organisers’ rather than ‘Powerful Speakers’: Education as a Site of Struggle
… late 1979 and mid-1981 when it moved from a commitment to Black Consciousness towards a Congress movement perspective … with BC doctrine, membership of…
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…
PlaceGugulethu Township
… of Langa when it became overcrowded, having been the only Black residential area for Cape Town at the time. … of the Bantustan policy . Its chief purpose was…
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
… argued, that the CAD was a fraud. It was intended that black people would give up their demands for the full …
BiographyKasturba Gandhi
… of the trip. No one from the caste had ever crossed the “black waters” and no one could, without compromising their …
PlaceFordsburg and the Oriental Plaza, Johannesburg
… on strike against lower wages so that more and cheaper black miners could be employed at a cheaper rate. The strike …
EventMinister promises relaxation of apartheid rules and elimination of racial segregation in sports
… communities Koornhof declared that “ the resettlement of black people is resorted to in order to ensure their national …
EventArchbishop Owen Cardinal McCann becomes South Africa’s first cardinal.
… attack came at the height of anti-Government rioting in Black communities. "We see these upheavals as the result of a …
EventAbebe Bikila wins gold at Rome Olympic Games
… Ethiopian Abebe Bikila, running barefoot, became the first Black African to win gold in the history of the Olympic …
EventLaurie Bloomfield takes picture of rioting in Cato Manor, Durban
… by the apartheid government's attempt to forcibly remove black people from Cator Manor, an area inhabited by both …
EventSACTU launches a national potato boycott.
… began in protest against slave-like labour conditions for Black workers on potato farms. In areas like Bethal in …
EventANC President Albert Luthuli banned
… to address a group protesting against forced removals of Black people in Johannesburg and the Minister served him with …
EventSA rugby team plays and wins the first test match against Ireland
… particularly significant, as Errol Tobias was the first black player to start a test match in South Africa during …
EventGoldstone Commission confirms SADF complicity in violence
… to be involved in covert action aimed at undermining Black opposition groups and provoking violence. The Goldstone …
EventNkosi Sikelel’iAfrica composer, Enoch Sontonga dies
… Congress launched his hymn into prominence as an anthem of Black struggle against oppression. Because of vandalisation …
EventDeputy Minister of Defence attends commemoration of Delville Wood
… at the South African memorial on the site. The names of Black members of the South African Labour Corps who died at …
EventSecurity officials report that levels of political violence have dropped significantly in SA
… reacted with anger to the reforms by Mr. de Klerk. One black was killed in the town of Klerksdorp and the United …
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces the Group Areas Act will be repealed.
… Developed areas were allocated to White people while Black, Coloured and Indian people were removed to areas …
PlaceCato Manor Heritage Centre, Durban
… for its dramatic History of forced removals. Through large black and white prints, the Cato Manor Heritage Centre …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - List of Abbreviations
… National Congress AWB Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging BEE Black Economic Empowerment CCB Civil Co-operation Bureau GDP …
EventEdgar D. Ngoyi, South African ANC leader who spent seventeen years on Robben Island, is born.
… Island. Ngoyi and Henry Fazzie joined Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation (PEBCO) in 1984, soon after their …
Say It out Loud - Address to Returned Soldiers of the Cape Corps, 1919
… world all that he held most dear. He did not look at his black comrade askance for he knew, and he discovered beneath the black skin and the crinkly hair…
PlaceDrakensberg Mountain Range, Lesotho
… in sunset, or dark grey and rent by lightening, or velvet black and filled with stars that seem close enough to touch – … tree, the green metallic glint of…
PlaceGauteng Province
The Area of Gauteng Province is small; stretching from Pretoria in the North to Vereeniging in the South. Gauteng in Sotho means: 'for place of gold'…
PlaceKaroo Hoogland Municipality in the Karoo Region, Northern Cape
… in sunset, or dark grey and rent by lightening, or velvet black and filled with stars that seem close enough to touch – … tree, the green metallic glint of…