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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 …
The small matter of a horse: The life of 'Nongoloza' Mathebula, 1867-1948 by Charles van Onselen, 04 January 2012 (libcom.org)
… pass laws which were designed to curtail the mobility of black workers and to confine them to the mine compounds at … the recounting of the life story of a…
ArticleUniversity of Pretoria 2015-2016 Student Protests Timeline
… 15 February 1986, the University admitted its first twenty Black students. The number of people of colour (POC) being … White pro-institutionalised…
Document 25 - E. R. Roux, The New Slogan and the Revolutionary Movement among White Workers in South Africa, presented at the Sixth
… the class struggle in South Africa, because the unity of black and white workers is so necessary there, that the … "Not a White South Africa, but Africa for…
Document 38 - Certification of the Constitution; a summary of the judgment of the Constitutional Court
… resistance in South Africa were an inspiration to the black people in the United States in launching the Civil … and obstruction of major Western Powers, so…
Robben Island
… being used as a prison again. During apartheid many Black people were kept on Robben Island as political …
First Matabele War
… counselor. He was buried sitting in a cave, wrapped in a black ox skin. The 1893 campaign had been successful for …
A Message to Every Voter from the African National Congress, April 1958
… we have stated many times, is neither White supremacy nor Black supremacy, but a common South African multi-racial …
ArticleThe African Students Association (ASA)
… At the time of its formation, Durban was the centre of Black student life in the country. The association’s …
Oration by the President of the Republic of South Africa, Kgalema Motlanthe, at the funeral service of the late Cleopas Mododa Nsibande, 3 January 2009, Benoni
… believing that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white. That remarkable combination a trade … with the deep understanding that in…
Chapter 5 - Basotho - Their Last Supper
… who were killed for no other reason than that they were Black and offered a home to us. Guilt by association has been … in a grey moustache and beard which…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and Mozambique
The South African Communist Party and Mozambique Introduction The Mozambique Liberation Front, popularly known by its Portuguese acronym, FRELIMO (Frente…
Cecil John Rhodes, warts and all by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 22 December 2015
… an interest in their languages and cultures, he described black Africans as “despicable specimens of human beings”, who … he is generally hated by Afrikaners…
ANC Deputy President`s Election Campaign Programme, 6 May 2011
… and brief address to the public 15h00-15h30: Walkabout at Black Chain shopping centre, next to hospital 16h00-16h30: …
EventZuma announces freeze on university fees increase
… The fee increase meant financial exclusion for many Black students, for whom it was already a challenge to access …
EventZuma announces freeze on university fees increase
… The fee increase meant financial exclusion for many Black students, for whom it was already a challenge to access …
EventNathaniel Nakasa, South African journalist and writer, dies in exile
… Maimane and Bloke Modisane. Nakasa was also the first black columnist at The Rand Daily Mail. While in America …
EventTwenty-four Africans from the Graaff-Reinet district appear in the Grahamstown Supreme Court on charges under the Sabotage Act
… in banning orders. The act was applied in many cases were Black people were convicted of killing White people. This …
EventPolitical Activist and Advocate, Dumisa Ntsebeza, is born
… of South Africa. Ntsebeza also founded the South African Black lawyers Association. He is currently visiting professor …
EventANC launches mass boycott of Bantu Education
… were reserved for Whites with poor provisions made for black people. Bantu education came into effect in 1955 after …
EventANC calls on International community to save lives
… Soekmekaar and Silverton trial in Pretoria, three young Black men, Noimbithi Johnson Lubisi 28, Petrus Tsepo Mashigo …
EventRight wing Wit Kommando bombs academic’s office
… to countries which complied with the initiative. The Black states, including the independent 'homelands' rejected …
EventBishop Tutu receives Martin Luther King Award
… the launch of the National Forum, an umbrella body of Black Consciousness groups and the Pan Africanist Congress … Bute, E.L. & Harmer, H.J.P. (1997). The…
EventA blaze destroys Wanderers Cricket Club
… to this day. Click here to read about the history of Black Johannesburg. …
EventThe introduction of new South African flag 1994
… of six colours: chilli red, white, spectrum green, blue, black and yellow represent a symbol of the unity of the …
New Age
… and columns in New Age reflected the conditions of the Black people, including Indians and Coloureds of South Africa …
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… of Bantustans and the opposition to the system of Black authorities takes place in the Transkei. 14 March, The … of Johannesburg, prevents her from visiting…