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EventANC adopts the Programme of Action
… non-violent resistance campaign jointly mounted by the Black communities and a small group of White left wing …
EventUDF members challenge the government to arrest them on charges of high treason
… representing about two million white, mixed-race, and black South Africans. It was the largest and most powerful …
EventCar bomb explodes outside Air Force headquarters
… reforms to grant some representation to sections of the Black population in parliament through a Tricameral …
EventIdi Amin, Ugandan dictator, flees after a seven year reign
… in Burma, Kenya, and Somalia. He was also one of two 'Black' Ugandan soldiers to be promoted to the rank of officer …
EventThe last passenger boat of the Union Castle line, the Windsor Castle, leaves Table Bay
… fleet, well known for their signature lavender hulls and black and red funnels. But alas, the career of Windsor …
EventSA President P.W Botha meets with leaders of independent homelands
… government was put under extreme pressure as unrest in Black townships escalated. During the year schools in …
EventSir Benjamin D’Urban accepts the Mfengu as British subjects
… Christianity, and accede to be subjects of the Crown, or Black 'settlers'. *Note: Mfengu - Although they speak a …
EventClampdown on 'conflict diamonds' begins
… diamonds, in an unprecedented effort to weed out the 'Black market' trade in gems that has been used to fund civil …
Event15 000 applications for gold mining permits received per week in Johannesburg
… and gain immense profits from the diamonds and gold that black miners extracted from the earth. Most African miners …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 2 - Explaining the Miracle by Max du Preez
… and military power since 1948 but made a deal with the Black majority to establish a democracy and transfer power to … power and privilege under apartheid…
Daily reflections by Virginia MacKenny, September 2002
… in coal dust. They are visually arresting in their deeply black and glittering surfaces, stencilled with text from … is engaging. Shot in colour it reads as…
"Our struggle is for progress": Statement by Albert Luthuli, 15 June 1962
… to all sections of the South African population - both Black and White. I want to address it to the peasants in the … beginning of the end of our struggle…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on death sentences passed on three members of ANC and Umkhonto We Sizwe, 20 August 1981
… to death. But the cause of justice will never die. For the black and democratic majority in our country the march to … alone, South Africa has witnessed an…
David Goldblatt: Intersections; Asbestos; Particulars by Sue Williamson, 1 - 25 October 2003
… new for Goldblatt, who for years worked solely in black and white. For him, images in colour were … the third body of work,'Particulars' are closeups, in…
David Goldblatt - 'Mostly Unseen' at the Goodman Gallery by Sean O'Toole
… District Six series with the three portraits of youthful black subjects Goldblatt shot in 1972. New Recruit, Fanakalo … has not lost this sensitivity in his…
District Six: 3,000 ex-residents on land claims waiting list by Diana Mellow (GroundUp), 23 September 2016
… Street, became Keizersgracht Street. All businesses run by black people along the road were destroyed. Davids describes … now Cape Peninsula University of…
Mafika Gwala speaks to Andrea Meeson about not living in the shadows
… Gwala as the “exciting re-emergence of the respected Black-consciousness era poet.” “Crap,” says the published … of poetry means to us today’, or ‘let’s talk…
PlaceMelville Koppies Nature Reserve, Judith Road, Johannesburg
… was a rudimentary Boer republic in place, the previous black inhabitants were well on their way to becoming … was a rudimentary Boer republic in place, the…
University of York Student Submissions 2015
… Project: ‘Where Do Whites Fit in?’: The portrayal of Black Consciousness and its effects on white liberals in …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… Convention is organised by J.T. Jabavu, editor of the Black newspaper, Imvo Zabantsundu . The convention declares …
ArticleHeritage day, Braai Day or Shaka Day: Whose Heritage is it Anyway?
… (article) Race and ethnicity in South Africa (article) Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) (article) Pan-Africanism …
Launch of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… monthly spring clean. He entered the hall and found 50 black cleaners at work. Looking for somewhere else to plant …
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArchiveBiography of Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin by Victoria Sedeno
… to the movement against the unfair treatment of black Africans in South Africa through her career as a … young people. [3] Sikhakhane-Rankin then became the…