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ArchiveRecollections of the Resurrection of Women’s Day, 40 Years Ago by Julie Wells
… I was in Durban in 1980 to work on my PhD research on black women’s struggles against pass laws. By then, I had … Choonoo, a Durbanite of Indian descent, and…
ArchiveRadio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio by Chris A. Smith
… centers in the Cape Flats and thatched-roof huts in black homelands to hear the transmission. They hunched over … station reappeared in the late 1960s,…
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… within Afrikaner families who perceived them as the black sheep of the family; boere seuns who had wandered from … to the collective mindset of the NP and…
Document 48 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: The Native Question (Majority) (1934)
… 44-hour week. Because of this intense exploitation of the black workers, the exploitation of the white workers is … workers to side with the employers in the…
Address to the Annual Conference of the Natal, 23 November 1951
… pleads for co-operation among all people in South Africa, black and while. He attempts to motivate Africans to do … about their lot. He re-defines the…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 3 - The Socio-economic Impact of the Mineral Revolution on South African Society by Drusela Numvuzo Yekela
… the lives of all those involved, none more so than black South Africans. Their socio-economic power was taken … glimpse of racial discrimination in the…
EventThe First Gay Pride March is Held in South Africa
… Apartheid. Addressing the crowd, Simon Nkoli said; “I am black and I am gay. I cannot separate the two parts of me …
Photography David Goldblatt by Sean Jacobs, 1 September 2009
… who shot most of his photographs during Apartheid in black and white] employs color and large prints and explores …
EventCol. Muammar Gaddafi seizes power in Libya
… organizations that received Libyan support were the Black People's Convention (BPC) and the South African …
EventThe UN General Assembly adopts resolution 1881, requesting South Africa to release all political prisoners
… repressive laws limited the freedom and movement of black South Africans. External resistance to the policy came …
EventThe Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, Bishop Ambrose Reeves, resigns
… schools included St Peter's in Johannesburg, where many Black leaders, among them Oliver Tambo, had been educated. …
EventChurch Council meets PW Botha over unrest
… White only delegation to discuss matters affecting mainly black people. The SACC delegation was weakened by the …
EventZubeida Jaffer is detained, while pregnant, by the security police under Apartheid regulations
… African journalist by the US-based National Association of Black Journalists. She became the first woman on the African …
EventThe trial of Dr Allan Boesak on charges of theft and fraud starts
… members included some two million white, mixed-race, and black South Africans, and was the largest and most powerful …
EventThe ANC celebrates its centenary anniversary in Bloemfontein
… (SANNC). This move was a reaction to the exclusion of Black people from power in the new Union of South Africa. … Odendaal, A. (1984) Vukani Bantu: the…
EventThe corner stone of the Union Buildings in Pretoria is laid
… 1956 Women's March protesting against proposed passes for black women. Since South Africa's emergence as a democracy, …
EventThe corner stone of the Union Buildings in Pretoria is laid.
… 1956 Women's March protesting against proposed passes for black women. Since South Africa's emergence as a democracy, …
EventNamibian artist, John Ndevasia Muafangejo, dies
… of all the modern masters" of printmaking. His powerful black and white linocuts depicted scenes from ovaKwanyama …
Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk, 26 June 1992
… which is the quintessential hallmark of democracy, with black domination. 5. In the second place, you have … reassure all parties as well as the people of…
Rick Turner: Thirty Years On by Jann Turner
… quickly came into contact with the leaders of the emerging black consciousness movement through which he met and … , then a medical student at Natal. My…
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
… of the prison with a row of singularly bleak cells with black stone floors and high walls that were unusually lacking … moments of the day. We set out…
Address by President Jacob Zuma on the occasion of the release of the 20 Year Review: South Africa 1994 to 2014, Sefako Makgatho Presidential Guest House, Pretoria, 11 March 2014
… the Bantu education system which was designed to keep the black majority confined to unskilled labour. The provision of … more representative since 1994,…
Chapter 5 - The Freedom Charter
… Charter was necessary in order to avoid frightening the black middle class away from the Congress movement. But the … of the democratic forces against…
IV - The Death of Steve Biko
… the report of his death: Mr. Steve Biko, the 30-year-old black leader, widely regarded as the founder of the black consciousness movement in South Africa,…
The fight against passes continues
… would send thousands of women from all over South Africa, black and white, to tell Strijdom the same thing. So each of … and that we were not allowed in…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… up roadblocks and distributing food. 30 000 residents of Black townships of Cape Town march on Caledon Square, led by … of University Education Amendment Act…
Statement at the 2735th meeting of the Security Council by Mfanafuthi Johnstone (Johnny) Makatini, 19 February 1987
… use in the furtherance of State-promoted and so-called black-on-black violence. Further to the electrification of the border … eminent businessmen in South…
Our Greatest Indian Leader since Gandhiji -Tribute to Dr. Gangathura Mohambry Naicker (From: Sechaba, second quarter), 1978
… of building the "Unity in Action" of all the oppressed Black people in their common struggle for national … racism, national oppression and class…
Edwin Mofutsanyana the oldest Communist in Africa: Flyer for briefing by Edwin Mofutsanyana. August, 1991
… which is the quintessential hallmark of democracy, with black domination. 5. In the second place, you have … reassure all parties as well as the people of…
“Our Greatest Leader since Gandhiji”, By Dr Yusuf Dadoo
… of building the "Unity in Action" of all the oppressed Black people in their common struggle for national … racism, national oppression and class…