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PlaceErmelo
… Ext2', six kilometres away. This had been demarcated as a black area by the apartheid government. Many community …
Opening Address to the ANC National Consultative Conference by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 14 December 1990
… odds. It is thanks to you that today the dignity of a black person is being restored and, together with it, the … It is us, the generation gathered here in…
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
… he still continued to fight for the rights of the majority black South Africans in the nation. His involvement in the … for white South Africans under the…
The Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa
… workers. Also, it was not racially biased, accepting both Black and White people. (Simons SAHO) The union was not only … but also very effective in…
ArticleA History of Official Government HIV/AIDS Policy in South Africa
… if a case was confirmed. Later that year, the first black South African was diagnosed with AIDS. In 1988, a … of the disease as a tool to rid South Africa of…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 1: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
… from different shades of white clay or from bird poop. Black paint came from charcoal and manganese oxide. … source There are many different shades and…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and the Black People’s Convention (BPC) in 1972. The re-organisation … government to undermine the…
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
… South Africa is just as bad for the country as any talk of Black South Africa because there can be no divided South … at the back of my mind and 1 remembered…
EventBanyana Banyana player, Eudy Simelane, is found raped and murdered
… over 25 times. ‘Corrective’ rape is a common threat to black lesbian women in South African townships, the idea …
PlaceAggeneys, a Town at the foot of the Aggeneys Mountain in the Namaqualand
… originated on a farm of the same name, to service the Black Mountain Mine, which currently employ 600 permanent …
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. …
ArchiveJock Strachan: Artist, guerilla, fighter pilot, bomb maker, fisherman, humourist, writer, hero
… month aged 94 – prevented a probable second massacre of black demonstrators outside Central Prison in Durban by … his “dramatic exposé of the appalling jail…
PlaceDullstroom, Mpumalanga in the Emalaheni Municipality District
… 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…
ArchiveChapter 7 - Planning for people's war `Blow on the embers and it will catch alight', January 1983 - March 1984 by Howard Barrell
… able to draw in the churches, even the Azapos and other black consciousness organisations like Cusa Footnote ...and a … into the front, they failed to…