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ArchiveStaffrider Vol.3 No.2 Jun 1980
… Stopforth; Moss Petlo. Photographs: Biddy Crewe; Frank Black; Clifford Ranaka; Paul Weinberg; Les Lawson; Vicky …
Introductory Statement on the Presentation of the Statement of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 79th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1991
… the continued offensive of the masses of our people, both black and white, to end the apartheid crime against humanity, …
PlaceGanyesa
… British , who established it as a Reserve for the local black inhabitants (known as a native community ) in the …
Notes on the Life of Ernest Cole 1940–1990 by Gunilla Knape
… late 1950s until 1966 he portrayed the everyday lives of black South Africans with warmth and empathy. As one of the …
EventHumphrey Khoza, former chief executive officer of Uthingo Management (Pty) Ltd and director of several other companies, is born in Germiston
… of the Boss of the Year title in 2001, being the first black president of the South African Chamber of Business (and …
EventPaarl Riots report submitted
… in order to create an African socialist state representing Black South Africans. The presiding Judge observed that, in …
EventThe Federation of South African trade unions
… organisation that could coordinate the movements of Black trade unions. The Federation came into being after the …
EventAmy Biehl is murdered in Cape Town
… with a brick. Amy was beaten and stabbed to death. Her Black friends tried in vain to stop the attack by shouting …
EventDisinvestment moves by two major companies
… South Africa Movement in the US was launched mainly by Black and church groups in November 1984. Early in 1985 it …
EventAfrikaans is declared an official language of South Africa
… race among South Africans, Afrikaans is widely spoken by Black people. …
EventSA author, Nadine Gordimer, is born
… She often wrote about apartheid by focusing on oppressed Black characters. The Nobel Prize laureate was an ardent …
EventAbout 22 000 miners on Witwatersrand gold mines go on strike in what became known as the Rand Rebellion
… by removing the colour bar and increasing the ratio of black workers to white, for although the wages for whites had …
EventSA Artist, Father Frans Claerhout, is born
… posted to the Orange Free State, where he worked among the black people living in and around Bloemfontein. He served …
EventSpanish Flu strikes South Africa
… did their best, but were too few to treat the ill. The Black and Coloured sections of the population were most …
EventBattle of Delville Wood starts
… 433 soldiers, the rest had either been killed or wounded. Black people were also involved in this battle as unarmed …
EventThe first rugby match that is played in SA
… helped to further spread the popularity of the sport in Black communities. SA now has a number of local rugby …
EventBafana Bafana, SA’s National soccer team, wins the Africa Cup of Nations Final
… The victory was celebrated nationwide with people (black and white) taking to the streets to celebrate. …
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… After the discovery of diamonds and gold ever more cheap black labour was required. Only whites were allowed to own … the principle of equal electoral rights…
78. The Natal Indian Congress calls for a national convention
… they must plead together with one voice the justice of the black man's cause; when they must bring to bear on the power … convention. It would mean the…
PlaceLady Grey, Eastern Cape
… were no poor White people in Lady Grey. During the War, Black people were paid well in service of the British and …
PlacePaarden Eiland
… of Cape Town's Southern Suburbs. It eventually joins the Black River to empty into Table Bay at Paarden Island. The …
PlaceBitterfontein, Western Cape
… one of its finest hallmarks. Its terrain is roamed by the black-backed jackal and Cape honey badgers. An arid area, …
PlaceMountain Zebra National Park, Karoo Region of Cradock
… are great, particularly if you’re trying to spot Birds, Black Rhino and Cheetah, are fantastic! Time your visit with …
PlaceErmelo
… Ext2', six kilometres away. This had been demarcated as a black area by the apartheid government. Many community …
ArchiveThe 1957 Alexandra Bus Boycott and its unsung heroes by Roseinnes Phahle, June 2019
… moving people out of Sophiatown which it had declared a “black spot” because it was located in the midst of … south, east and north. In the grand scheme of…
Helen Zille and the myth of the White Saviour by Panashe Chigumadzi, (Sunday Times), 19 March 2017
… met its downfall around 450AD when it was destroyed by black invaders. Smith's narrative is banal and unoriginal - … With this in mind, it becomes easy to…
The National Question in Post 1994 South Africa. A discussion paper in preparation for the ANC`s 50th National Conference by Z. Pallo Jordan
… held the view that the contradiction between the colonised Black majority (Africans, Coloureds and Indians) and the … It was a system of White minority rule…
The diary of Maria Tholo - September 20 - October 17 by Carol Hermer
… the one in the hot. Evidently one of the ministers gave a Black Power salute when he entered the yard but the children quickly stopped that. 'It's not for us…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress On The Occasion Of the 105th Anniversary of the African National Congress Presented By President Jacob Zuma
… ownership, control and real leadership of the economy by black people. The ANC must use the levers of state power to … which would increase the ownership of…
History lesson: When Vorster stuck the knife in Ian Smith's back by Jamie Miller (Rand Daily Mail), 17 September 2016
… intervention, then it’s not in the name of white against black. The implication was clear: if communist intervention occurred against a predominantly black,…