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EventMandela signs SA Constitution into law
… between the British and Afrikaners disenfranchised the Black majority and set in motion processes that laid the …
EventNavanethem (Navi) Pillay is born
… In the mid 1970's, Pillay defended detained members of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) such as Saths Cooper and …
EventWorld War I begins
… armed organisation known as Unification of Death (also the Black Hand). The motivation behind the assassination was that …
PlaceGoshen
… Boers in 1884, as a Republic. Their flag was horizontal black-white-red stripes with a green vertical stripe at the …
EventJoe Slovo dies
… the African National Congress (ANC) away from away from Black Nationalism to a doctrine of non-racialism. Over the …
Margaret Thatcher's role in SA's transformation by FW de Klerk, 5 December 2016
… minorities. South Africa, by contrast, ruled over a large black majority with a relatively advanced culture, coherent … segregation of apartheid; the denial…
Address by President Jacob Zuma, at the James Sebe Moroka Lecture, Northwest Province, 22 August 2012
… on 16 March 1892 in Thaba Nchu. He was one of the early black South Africans to obtain a medical degree in South … in providing medical care for his…
The flight of the Gwala-Gwala bird: Essays by Ari Sitas, review essay by Linda Cooper
… the distinct kinds of ‘cultural spaces’ created by black South Africans, with their own unique aesthetics of … and poetry; and Mifika Pascal Gwala, who was…
Statement submitted to the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, on the occasion of the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners, 11 October 1979
… in so many parts of our country. In a very real sense all black South Africans are political prisoners - prisoners of … equally true that those, for whose…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 1 - Rural Change and the Future of South Africa by Rachidi R. Molapo
… of the day was willing to pass this bill was that black tenant farmers could produce more cheaply than white … the white minority would occupy 87% of the…
SEME by Richard Rive and Tim Couzens
… has, in recent years, established scholarships to bring black South African students to the school for a year`s free … by the recently retired editor of…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Augusts 25 - September 3 by Carol Hermer
… "Well. Here an African is usually taken to mean a black person." "Right. Now you are clever," they chorused. … whoever's left in front of them. They don't…
ArticleAbram Fischer Timeline 1908-1975
… one of two Joint Council representatives (one white, one black) on the executive of the Institute of Race Relations. … to a farm in Rustenburg where he…
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… while, at the same time, serving notice to British and Black alike that it was determined to maintain the … Wolmarans. At that time it was a common…
ArticleSPEAK Magazine (1982 - 1994)
… that those who are pro-abortion are trying to reduce the black population and that ‘ the average black woman is not interested in killing her baby’ ( SPEAK ……
Liberation
… outside the designated reserves while 20 million rural Black people barely survive on minute allotments in the … on this skewed and unequal distribution of…
ArticleNdebele
… The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho, Shangaan-Tsonga … The Nguni represent nearly two thirds of South Africa’s…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… of Britain and the Allies. October, In an attempt to get Black support for the South African war effort, the Union … demands that there should be full…
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… the Native Resettlement Board (NRB), in respect of Black residents of the Western Areas (Sophiatown, Martindale … of Johannesburg (Sophiatown, Martindale and…
ArticleSouth Africa and the United Nations, 1946-1990
… South Africas violent actions in Windhoek after some black people protested against being moved to a new area led … people there and looked into the…
ArticleChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli timeline 1800 - 1967
… ', Chief Luthuli introduces the campaign to make ordinary Black people more aware of their political situation and … The Extension of University Education…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… known as Poqo ('Pure') in the 1960s. This became the first black political organization in South Africa that openly … in Cape Town joined the stay away. The…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Freedom Day celebrations, Bisho Stadium, Eastern Cape, 27 April 2007
… this country; and that millions of our people, especially black people, still live in abject poverty. These are the … to the implementation of policies aimed…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the unveiling of the FIFA Soccer World Cup South Africa 2010 emblem, Tempodrom, Berlin 7 July 2006
… the pernicious system of apartheid which even denied a black child the right to play football with a white child. … of our soccer players. In that same year,…
Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU
… and Labour Council (from which TUCSA was later to emerge), black workers were tolerated as second-class members and … Weakness The weakness of trade union…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki on the Occasion of His Inauguration and the 10th Anniversary of Freedom, Pretoria, 27 April 2004
… like a dying comet. It was a place in which to be born black was to inherit a lifelong curse. It was a place in … To say that South Africa belongs to all who…
Chapter 1. The South African Trade Union Movement- Historical Background - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… is a calm, peaceful land, spacious and sunny; its peoples-Black, White and Coloured-are fundamentally warmhearted and … and could not be bothered with the…
The diary of Maria Tholo - December 16 - 1 January 1977 by Carol Hermer
… were all a bit anxious about December 16, supposedly our Black Christmas, but it turned out very quiet. People didn't … asked us all to show we're in…
ArchiveThoughts on Winnie Mandela by Enuga Reddy
… joined by my dearest Fatima. Fatima and I had formed the Black Women’s Federation in 1975, which was short-lived … of the research institute she founded, the…
PlaceRandjieslaagte Beacon, Parktown, Johannesburg
… the fixed points - those familiar white beacons with the black signal vanes which are visible on most hilltops - … as an axis. In urban areas the…