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EventLaw and Order Minister, Adriaan Vlok implicates De Klerk at TRC
… knew of illegal operations by the security forces against Black opposition groups. Mr Vlok and more than 30 senior …
EventDe Kock is convicted of six killings
… Eugene de Kock (dubbed 'Prime Evil') of six murders of Black anti-apartheid activists during his service as …
EventA few days after deciding to establish a Dutch newspaper in South Africa, the name De Burger is chosen
… Arrie Rossouw. In 2006, Henry Jeffreys became the first Black editor of the paper. …
EventThe Draft South Africa Act is signed
… concerning them. W.P. Schreiner led a deputation of Black and Coloured leaders to London to appeal to the British …
EventKitchener’s opinion on Concentration Camps
… White concentration camps Click here for a chronology on Black concentration camps. …
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is born
… Station in the hope that his actions would inspire other Black South Africans. Along the eight kilometre walk to the …
Chapter X - Trial by detention
… dirty blankets, considered good enough for any arrested black man. At 8 p.m. they, like us, went through the farce of … driven to the Pretoria local gaol,…
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… Dadoo bore witness to the humiliating ways in which the Black prisoners were treated compared to the rest of the … Fordsburg and then proceeded to present Dr…
ArchiveAddress on the Occasion of the 107th Anniversary of the ANC by Cyril Ramaphosa, Ohlange Institute, Ethkwini, 8 January 2019
… from raising above a certain level of employment, black South Africans are now free to own companies, to trade and to enter any profession. The black middle…
From Protest to Challenge: Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964 Volume 2
… of complete political and industrial equality for the black man, declaring for working class unity irrespective of … native movements as 'creating hostility…
PlaceVredehoek
… of these removals can still be felt within the displaced Black and Coloured communities. On a lighter note, some folks … government held a firm grip over…
"Future of the Africanist Movement" Questions and Answers Y R. M. Sobukwe, in The Africanist, January 1959
… according to them, oppressed as WORKERS, both white and black. But it is significant that they make no attempt … And there have never been any in South…
ArticleChanges in modern forms of communication
… as the Penny Block stamp. The development of the Penny Black stamp meant people could pay for the postage in … at flat rate instead of per page delivered…
ArticleWomen and Children in White Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
… Due to the fact that Black People were detained in separate camps, the issue of Black Concentration Camps is dealt with in another … In a letter to…
Chris Hani Memorial Lecture by Pallo Jordan, 15th April 2003, South Africa
… waged against the essential interests of the proletariat, Black and White, as a class. Though it was crushed, that … White labour unions used this slogan as…
Chapter 3 - The Rise of the ANC
… NP victory, angered and radicalised broader layers of the black middle class, especially the youth. It was in the wake … and became the focus for the…
ArticleSouth Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured
… family ties. Significantly, as Strini Moodley (from the Black Consciousness Movement who was imprisoned in Robben …
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Closing Address by President Jacob Zuma, Gallagher Estates, 29 June 2012
… and unemployment persist. These affect primarily the black majority, women and the youth. Conference has agreed … after excluding the value of foreign…
ArticleTimeline — Land Dispossession and Restitution in South Africa - 1995-2013
… The government intended to redistribute 30% of land to black people by 2014. However, the process of land reform has … and the falling into disuse of…
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… centre for the Boers. 1840s Boleu establishes Thaba Ntsho (Black Mountain), a fortified capital built on a hill near … from Nelspruit as a labour reserve, it…
The Atlantic slave trade
… saw a large furnace of copper boiling, and a multitude of black people of every description chained together, every one … deck and fainted. When I recovered…
EventKing George V visits the SANLC
… assist Britain in the First World War with labour duties. Black South African men were shipped to France in battalions, … Clothier, Norman. Black Valour…
PlaceAluin Krantz West, a Farm Near Alexandria
… useful in brilliant dyes, the dark-colored only in dyeing black or very dark colors. One species was a liquid, which …
ArchiveUrban crisis and the apartheid state response: South African housing policy in the 1980s
… in African townships as a way of promoting the top-down Black Local Authorities (BLAs), the extensive amendments to …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.4 No.2 Jul-Aug 1981
… a new proemdra by Mtutuzeli Matshoba; Notes from a Black Writer, Kimberley: The Prohibition Years by Ronnie …
EventThato Madonsela, the South African rapper is born
… in 2010.[ii] The mixtape also included the diss track “Black Suit” aimed at South African rapper AKA.[iii] He …
ArchiveFirst Mafika Gwala Lecture: The Arts of Resistance - Mafika Gwala and South African Poetry by Ari Sitas
… Sobantu and Mpophomeni. It was a common landscape of black experience, hope and fire. It was where, the poet found …
EventDeath of Maria Koopmans-De Wet
… in Strand Street. In 1879 Johan Koopmans died. Marie wore black for the rest of her life and referred to herself as …
EventThe United Arab Republic is proclaimed by Egypt, Iraq, and Syria
… adopted a flag made of three horizontal red-white-and-black stripes, with two green stars placed on the white …
EventThe first mountain zebra foal is born in at the National Mountain Zebra Park
… Namibia, and South Africa. It is boldly stripped in black and white or brown and white with a white underbelly …