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ArchiveChapter 4 Political activity 1950-1963 by Denis Goldberg
… for white and Coloured workers. It was not illegal for black workers to form trade unions but it was illegal for … and demand that activists be fired. If…
PlaceZimbabwe
… African people and particularly common was the rape of black women by white men. White police officers were most frequently accused of raping black women. In…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at lunch hosted by the Foreign Minister of Venezuela, 13 July 1987, Caracas
… retaining white domination and racism. All sections of the black majority rejected this ostensible reform, and set in … after another. Tens of thousands were…
Keeping a cool head amid flying bullets: A tribute to Juda Ngwenya by Joseph Oesi (City Press), 26 October 2016
… We moaned and bitched collectively the way that “we” as black African journalists, particularly in the foreign media, … cover of that illustrious global…
If we want to understand African history, we need to understand the Battle of Adwa by Hannah Giorgis (Pambazuka News), 02 Mar 2016
… “Ethiopianism” has often served as a basis for other black and African peoples’ visions of political and spiritual … independence, are has often served as a…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Randall Robinson, Executive Director, Transafrica Forum, 2 March 1983, Washington, DC
… South Africas heightened destabilisation of neighbouring black states? TAMBO: They see the African National Congress … constructive engagement, what is…
ArchiveThe New South African Revolution by Prithiraj Dullay, 03 April 2017
… president bided his time. Like S Africas famed snake, the Black Mamba, he would strike with deadly force when it was … into the white controlled economy and…
ArchiveA History of Botsotso by Allan Horwitz
… Writers) and COSAW Publishing and the collapse of the Black Consciousness/Africanist organization AWA (African … in 2016 of the Botsotso Ensemble, a group of…
ArchiveStudent walkouts have changed history before. In South Africa, one helped end apartheid by DeNeen L. Brown (The Washington Post), 14 March 2018
… first students to die. On June 16, 1976, more than 10,000 black high school students in Soweto marched out of school, … none of them will be risking their…
PlaceSA Army College, Roberts Heights, Pretoria
… incoming regimes’ Political Narrative – the replacement of Black African Culture and History over that of White African … and farm workers /servants alike)…
Extracts from a press conference, 11 February 1990
… what role I should play. (Q) What do you plan to enhance black unity in the direction of PAC and in the Inkatha..... … in what way can we increase the…
For Africanisation of the Party Letter from Moses M Kotane in Cradock to Johannesburg District Party Committee dated February 23, 1934.
… class to be used against all the workers, white and black. These tyrant laws must be swept away. For these … Only thus can the whole of the working class,…
Document 4 - ‘Our Annual Conference - An Inspiring Gathering’: report in the ‘South African Worker’
… the freedom they yearn for with all their being... We all, black and white together, belong to South Africa and blacks … say you want peaceful change…
PlaceChris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Johannesburg
… was that the Government would use the hospital for the Black population of the Witwatersrand, (being situated so … the hospital for one million pounds. On 1…
EventBreyten Breytenbach was born on this day
… and participated in protests against the exclusion of black youth from educational pathways. He left South Africa … in 1975 on a false passport with the…
PlaceKwaZulu-Natal Literary Trails (under Heritage Routes)
… Head, Lewis Nkosi, Sifiso Mzobe, RRR Dhlomo (the first black writer to write a novel in English), Herbert Dhlomo (first black man to write a drama in English…
ArticleUnited Nations and Apartheid Timeline 1946-1994
… prisoners, including Nelson Mandela and all other black leaders with whom the regime must deal in any … day for all racial population groups, even separately…
ArchiveClass, Consciousness and Organisation: Introduction by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
The role of Cecil John Rhodes' British South African Company in the Conquest of Matabeleland
… stipulations that offered a measure of protection for ‘Black Africans’, which many European settlers did not … Unsurprisingly they abandoned legislation that…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… of the killing of schoolchildren and are joined by many Black workers. 18 June, Most of the protest action takes … Whites who had publicly supported Steve…
Pedi
… sePedi – Language] The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho-Tswana, … and Sotho account for the largest percentage of…
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… of Mineworkers (NUM), the union federation Cosatu, the Black Consciousness grouping AZAPO, the United Democratic … By 1991, after the unbanning of the ANC,…
PlacePretoria Art Museum
… the Pretoria Art Museum acquired its first painting by a Black artist. Subsequently it started to collect works from …
Side By Side: The Autobiography of Helen Joseph
… a free and democratic South Africa. As the people of the Black townships continue to confront the South African Police …
PlaceSt Margaret’s House, Parktown, Johannesburg
… furniture - and brickfireplaces, recessed windows, classic black and white tiles and Persian Rugs. The House is now …
EventRay Alexander Simons, founder of Food and Canning Workers Union, arrives in South Africa
… she became involved in the labour movement by organizing Black workers' unions in the Western Cape. After joining the …
EventArchibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan, Xhosa writer and linguist, dies
… in Imvo Zabantsundu a newspaper that aired the views of Black people. One of his Xhosa poems that dealt with the …
EventThomas Titus Nkobi is born
… Potato boycott which was organized to expose the plight of black political detainees forced to work in private farms. …
PlaceTsolo
… Frere, attempted to implement a new policy which barred Black residents of the Colony from carrying weapons of any …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: Pre-1500
… weeks and lands 85km north of it, where he meets the first Black people, probably a Tsonga society living north of the …