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BiographyYetta Barenblatt
… In 1925, a friend encouraged her to come to South Africa with the promise of employment. However, due to her … Naidoo, P. (2006). 156 Hands that built South…
BiographyHelen Joseph
… in Hyderabad. She then came to live in Durban , South Africa c. 1930, where she met and married dentist Billie … Every Step of the Way: The Journey to…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes
… white educators responsible for African education in South Africa. For details, see R. Hunt Davis, "The Black American … Institution Press, 1973), Vol. II,…
BiographyJon Lynton David Hrusa
… row seat to major events that would take place in South Africa from the 1980’s up until 2012. Jon was passionate … penguins after a massive oil spill off the…
BiographyNgila Micheal Muendane
… the Middle East, and Western Europe. He returned to South Africa after liberation and served as a member of parliament … is one of the consulting editor of…
BiographyBoy Mvemve
… an embodiment of gallantry in the cause of freedom for all South African humanity. …
EventThe First Anglo-Boer War: Boers defeat the British at the Battle of Majuba
… government's federation policy, and signed the Pretoria Convention in August 1881. This convention granted the Transvaal 'complete self-government, …
ArchiveForeign investment
… Black Peoples Convention Memorandum on foreign investment …
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… explorer on his sail around the southernmost part of Africa, visits the coast of Namibia near Swakopmund. 1488 … The British claim sovereignty of all…
BiographyEve Hall
… World War broke out, her father was on a visit to South Africa, leaving her mother to cope with a half-Jewish child … surviving the war, Hall and her mother…
Steve Biko revisited by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 21 June 2016
… is true, in the Cape particularly, has rejected chiefs and all that kind of nonsense”. He was a great man, but of his … Western and the Islamic and the Euro…
ArticleFederation of South African Women by Skylar Jayes
… that women played in the fight against apartheid in South Africa is often forgotten. For centuries the South African … gave FEDSAW the capability to unite…
ArchiveStatement by BPC Vice-President
… A press statement issued by the Black Peoples Convention, attacking Gatsha Buthelezi …
ArchiveB.P.C. Leadership Training
… Memorandum by the Black Peoples Convention supporting and promoting leadership training …
Historical Background of the Constitutional Court
… The Constitutional Court was established in 1994 by South Africa's first democratic constitution - the interim … became the highest legal authority in the…
ArchiveThere is a wave that has been sweeping throughout Azania from the late sixties.
… Memorandum introducing members of the Black Peoples Convention. (document may be incomplete) …
ArticleIndian South Africans Timeline 1910-1919
… from receiving pensions according to this Act. South Africa Act, 1909 (Sections 26, 35, 44, 147 and 151) leaves … laws of the pre-Union colonies and excludes…
ArticleHeritage and identity of Provinces
… Anglo-Boer War, there were six British colonies in South Africa. They were all separate, with their own governments. In 1910 four of the … Cape with the…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1910-1919
… 1912 8 January, The South African Native National Convention - later the African National Congress is formed at … in 1912. The SANNC declares that its aim is…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… in modern South African History since 1948& In 1948 South Africa held a general election which was to be decided by the … This document aimed to be the…
PlaceEswatini (formerly Swaziland)
… the British annexed the kingdom. Although the Swaziland Convention of 1881 ensured the areas independence it made the … of advisors called the Council of…
ArchiveBlack Conciousness and its origins
… Thami Zani, the Black People's Convention publicity secretary, explains the history and …
BiographyVincent Joseph Gaobakwe Matthews
… In March 1991 he privately applied to return to South Africa. He attended the ANC congress held in Durban in 1991 … representative of the veterans. Matthews…
Subbiah Moodley
… mother lived to a ripe age and was able to vote in South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994. She passed away … on 16 December 1961. This marked the…
ArchiveConcert: St Lukes YCM
… black and white poster. Fund raiser for Zeerust SACC Youth Convention 1985. Notice of a fundraising concert. …
ArchiveLetter from Gatsha Buthelezi to Gwendolin Carter
… on 12 June 1975, with comments on Black Renaissance Convention …
ArchiveLetter from H S Buthelezi to the Reverend Don Morton
… by H S Buthelezi, Secretary General of the Black Peoples Convention, to the Reverend Don Morton, requesting financial …
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… launching the student revolt of June 1976 is accepted by all. Even Baruch Hirson, a harsh critic of Black … its documents. We were just trying for ourselves…
ArchiveDisco studio 45
… SACC Youth Convention '85 poster. Notice of a disco at Huhudi Hall on …
Chapter 7 - Gumede keeps the bright fire burning, 1928-29
… succeed in uniting the different ethnic groups in South Africa against racism and colonialism, what his stance would … called in the aid of Britain to…