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EventIngrid Jonker, SA poet, commits suicide.
… engaged with the cause of the poor and the lot of black South Africans from the position of a common humanity. …
EventWWI: battalion consisting of ‘Cape Coloured men’, called the Cape Corps, is established
… fought in World War One, and fewer than 4 000 were black, coloured or Indian. The most well-known battle that …
ArchiveThe Final Prize: Family - chapter 1
… meeting of a dozen or so individuals, most of them black, voteless, domestic workers, and a small crowd of …
EventPAC’s leader, Potlako Leballo confirms that Poqo is the organisation’s military wing
… police to stem the tide of popular unrest. These included Black police officers and officials working in local …
EventSteven Biko is arrested.
… president of South African Student Organisation (SASO), a black student’s organization that was focused on the …
PlaceCity Hall, Cape Town
… Grand Parade square. ‘Today the majority of South Africa, black and white, recognise that apartheid has no future,’ …
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Christian Missions and the Bantu
… Free State and Natal, where they hoped to handle the black man according to their own notions unhampered by the … Colony is the one province in all South…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… in August 1983, this pre-eminence was sealed, and the Black Consciousness organisations began to wane. The strength … adopted the Freedom Charter, shedding…
ArticleThe death of Samora Machel
… refusal to make the cockpit voice recorder (the black box) available to the Commission. He had seized it at … the investigators. Based on the evidence…
ArticleDesmond Mpilo Tutu Timeline
… Times Magazine UK Desmond Tutu is ordained the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town. "Your … The police violence, which was normally…
ArticleWorld War I and the South African Native Labour Contingent
… by me from the French. (Grundlingh: 1987:41) Some 35 000 Black South Africans had already served as part of a labour … are unique, as all other units in…
ArticleInsurrections I: Tracks and Lyrics
… worn a one and a two, a lean hungry ten the red and the black the black and the red when the flowers bled the colours of the …
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
… strike, there were several clashes between the white and black miners. YCL recruits young people According to Roux, it … of the Party had risen to 1700 of…
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… approach. Africanist - An ideology that says that black people should determine their own future - Africa for … Africa between the government and the groups…
David Goldblatt’s Portraits of Ex-Convicts at the Scenes of their Crimes by Max Campbell, 6 October 2016
… of the wooded area where he tortured and then murdered a black South African man named Samuel Kganakga. According to … to photograph a second chapter of his…
ArchiveExtracts of 3 Interviews from the 1956 Women’s Anti-Pass March
… I felt as an African woman I should to do something. I'm Black when I feel to be. What will I have done for the … MT: We were singing the song, which says …
PlaceKhayelitsha Township
… Prime Minister, P.W. Botha promised fair treatment for Black people who resided in urban areas, though he persisted … to the immense influx of people, it is…
PlaceLanga Township, Cape Town
… of Africans in locations . Following the removal of Black people from Ndabeni location, near Maitland , in the … a dingy relic, at Langa's old pass office …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 69th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1981
… party`s Transvaal Congress that to pretend there were no black people in South Africa might, in his words, be a lovely … of white appointees of the fascist…
ArchiveEFF 2019 Election Manifesto
… hardly translated into observable economic emancipation. Black people remain landless, they remain on the margins of … disposable labour. Landlessness and…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes
… vocational and technical training inspired a generation of black and white educators responsible for African education … in South Africa. For details, see R…
Prehistory of the Polokwane/Pietersburg area
… at the beginning of the cycle, chiefs would send a black goat to their professional rainmakers, instructing them …
A growing urban African population
… run in most cases by dedicated and committed white and black people. And the churches played a dominant role in …
ArticleThe Constitution
… National flag The national flag of the Republic is black, gold, green, white, red and blue, as described and …
ArticleGarveyism: Early 1900s philosophy
… - had adapted the teachings of Garvey to fit in with the black South African experience. Thus the return of land to …
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
… Group Areas Act and many more laws that made the lives of black people unbearable - are testimonies that our freedom …
ArchiveHARWU: The Aborted Attempt to Build a National South African Catering Union (1984 – 1990) by Allan Horwitz, June 2018
… disruptions. There was also rising tension in the black-led Bantustans whose alliance with the Afrikaner … African Communist Party nationalist/Stalinist…
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…
EventDurban Declaration is published denouncing Thabo Mbeki’s AIDS denialism
… between HIV and AIDS formed part of racist rhetoric that black men were vectors of disease, and was a ploy to assert …
PlaceThe Bag Factory
… At the time, the space provided studios for predominantly Black artists who had little to no access to platforms and …