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EventSAAN announces its decision to close the Rand Daily Mail
… It was the first newspaper to address the issues of Black people at the time. Its demise was caused partly by its …
EventVuyisile Mini, Trade unionist and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) activist is hanged
… government had increased its repressive measures against Black trade unions. He became the first African National …
EventCharlotte Maxeke dies
… Even before her death she was honoured as 'Mother of Black Freedom in South Africa' at a meeting of the …
EventLondon hosts an international conference on the protection of the African elephant and rhinoceros
… the White Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros simus Burchell) and the Black Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros bicornis Linnaeus). Governments …
EventSipho Malaza allegedly dies in detention
… A Black high school student, Sipho Malaza, presumably died on …
EventDemocratic Party (DP) indicates its policies and outlines its proposed reforms
… outlines its proposed reforms. These include granting the Black population representation on municipal councils on the …
EventMinister of Defence, P.W. Botha, reports to the Senate on the Arms Industry and defines the main aims of South Africa’s defence policy.
… the Apartheid State regarding a potential uprising by Black South Africans, supported by the Soviet Union and the …
EventAt least 150 people die in clashes between the ANC and IFP
… violence was a common occurrence in South Africa, with Black townships most affected. The violence took place under …
EventPolice break up demonstrations against South African rebel Cricket Tour
… the African National Congress (ANC) and the mainly black National Sports Congress demonstrated against a visit …
EventA consumer boycott is called in Boksburg
… (now Ekurhuleni municipality, Gauteng). The boycott, by Black and Coloured residents, followed the reintroduction of …
EventThe first hearing looking into the mysterious death of Samora Machel begins
… Military Intelligence. Based on evidence gathered from the black box of the plane and military intelligence, the Margo …
EventNelson Mandela celebrates his 90th birthday.
… social, economic, political and institutional rights of Black people. The commemoration of his birth this year (2008) …
EventThe Hewat Teacher Training College in Athlone is set alight in solidarity with the UWC students on a boycott
… group that marched towards the centre of town, giving the Black Power salute to passing Blacks until stopped by the …
EventNaledi High School is founded
… stoned the police and burned their car. The first sign of Black unrest in Soweto schools was noticed by government …
EventArtist, Thomas Trevor Motswai , award-winning South African artist is born
… He attended art classes at FUBA (Federated Union of Black Artists) and the Johannesburg Art Foundation. Motswai's …
EventSouth Africa’s first democratic elections
… headed by the ANC’s Nelson Mandela who became the first black President of the country. …
EventTodd Tozama Matshikiza, musician, composer and writer, is born in Queenstown, Eastern Cape
… Matshikiza School of Music. He was also one of the first black journalists to work for Drum Magazine. Matshikiza wrote …
EventKenya is granted independence
… first Prime Minister. The Union Jack was replaced by the black, red and green flag of the new nation. This followed …
EventP.W. Botha, former South African State President, appears in court for refusing to testify at the TRC
… of his involvement in the gruesome apartheid killings of black freedom fighters allegedly arranged by the apartheid …
EventAfrican bus boycott lasting ten weeks is initiated in Johannesburg and Pretoria.
… resistance from the public. More than 80 percent of the Black population lived below the poverty line meaning that …
PUBLIC RESPONSE TO SAHO WEBSITE
… our children can started reading about the history of the black heroes of our struggle - well done I would like to … I am so happy to know that pan…
South African and World leaders
… of a country has or should have. In the 1950s and 1960s, Black people in America had to fight for their civil rights. … there was a policy in Alabama, a…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… layer in controlling the movement and life of urban Black, Indian or Coloured persons (Baldwin, 1975: 218). Rural … was surrounded by White-owned farms, it…
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 …
10 YEARS PROJECT
… increasing deterioration in race relations, especially in Black-White relations. There can be no two viewpoints on this … more than does apartheid to the…
Colonial history of Rustenburg
… the subject of Solomon T. Plaatjie’s Mafikeng Diary: A Black Man’s View on a White Man’s War . Plaatjie was one of an elite group of Black intellectuals at…
Chapter VI - HEAR US!
… endorsing signatures to be collected from the public, black and white, within a year. A national consultative … ten times as much being spent on white…
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… workers were to be properly addressed and improved, strong black trade unions had to be set up and guided by the … strikes in their respective areas. In Port…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… demands, and by 1925 the party had a majority of Black members and in 1928, the CPSA called for Black majority rule. It was also during this period that the …