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EventWinnie Mandela attacked by a group of people
… trial was a smear campaign by the government to discredit Black leaders. …
EventGen. De la Rey captures Lord Methuen
… 'Resisting British Control'.Click here to read about Black involvement in the Second Anglo-Boer War. …
EventJustin Alexander (Alex) La Guma, SA novelist, short story writer and political activist, is born in Cape Town
… wrote several books, most of them depicting the plight of black people under apartheid. He was arrested several times …
EventMore than 2,250 people are arrested in the township of Sebokeng
… Vaal in what was believed to be the biggest raid against black people living in the townships and hostels. The arrest …
EventCouncil of Unions of South Africa (CUSA) is formed
… Urban Training Project and the Consultative Committee of Black Trade Unions. Initially it appeared to be more …
EventArchibald Lamont, ex-mayor of Durban, passes away.
… Lamontville) was named after him at the insistence of the Black people for whose cause he has campaigned so diligently. …
EventANC’s Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe rally support against Urban Bantu Councils Act
… The Bantu Urban Councils Act, Act No 79 of 1961 created black councils in urban areas that were linked to authorities …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education
… Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the1940s by Mohamed Adhikari Chapter 3 - …
Chapter 7 - Gumede keeps the bright fire burning, 1928-29
… with the CPSA and give effect to the ideals of the new Black republic thesis. For Gumede the stakes were undoubtedly … Russian Communists were looking…
Nelson Mandela’s address to rally in Durban 25 February 1990
… with the formation, right here in Natal, of the first black political organisation in Africa. The Natal Indian … set a new example for the world.' This is…
ArticleAfrica, Portugal
… cases of missionary intervention on behalf of mistreated black workers on farms, sometimes even winning convictions … because of their fight for the rights…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… for government to “abolish the colour bar and enable the black peoples of South Africa to play their full part in the … policy is thus not conducive to…
ArticleInsurrections Ensemble
… and jazz improvisation from the jazz players in the black and coloured townships surrounding Port Elizabeth. He … Ink @ Boiling Point: A selection of 21st…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.7 No.3 and No.4 1988
… Gordin; Era by Jaki Seroke; Just a Game by Essop Patel; Black Recollections by Essop Patel; Ou China en die … Nise Malange; Praise Poem to FOSATU by Alfred…
Democracy - The only solution by Nelson Mandela, President of the ANC 1 July 1992
… of Rands of taxpayers' money, supposedly earmarked for black advancement, are embezzled by government officials with … being torn to shreds by the violence…
PlaceDelmas
… 8.74 square kilometers and has a population of 7. 399. Black Africans constitute 40.2% of the population while the … dominant political party in Delmas…
4. Conclusion
… developing closer ties with the ANC and participating in black popular protests against housing shortages, Pass Laws, … in the coming decades, the CPSA…
ArchiveNew Deal? South Africa 1983
… support for a New Constitution that wanted to exclude the black majority. The right wing Herstigte Nationale Party was …
EventPolice swoop down on the homes of Congress of the People leaders across the country, the arrests led to the Treason Trial
… Ten days later, the police had arrested 156 leaders, both Black and leftist Whites. Among those arrested were Albert …
EventThe Bantu Labour Regulations Amendment Bill becomes operative
… and apartheid still being imposed on labour unions, many Black trade unions were not interested in registration. …
EventHundreds of political prisoners began a hunger strike at Robben Island
… campaign showed a rare glimpse of political unity among Black political prisoners opposed to Apartheid, as prisoners …
EventSibusiso Vilane tells about his conquest of Everest
… Mpumalanga game ranger, Sibusiso Vilane, became the first Black South African to reach the top of Mount Everest, an … ‘ President Mbeki Congratulates…
EventRecognition of the Customary Marriages Act comes into effect
… gave recognition to the customary marriage practicised in Black communities. It provided for the equal status and …
EventCrime statistics released
… that violent crimes continue to have a serious impact on Black communities, with Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal being the …
Coal Miners Strike on the Rand
… strike of the 20 000 White miners meant that the 180 000 Black workers had no work either. The strike escalated into a …
EventSelf government is granted to the Transvaal
… whether or not to extend the parliamentary franchise to Black South African's. The Boers decided not to, and Blacks …
EventCecil Edwin Frans Skotnes is born in East London, Eastern Cape
… and woodcuts. He was a great inspiration to young Black artists, who he trained. The most successful series he …
Founding members of friends of United Democratic Front
… National Congress, Eric Mafuna he was the president of black management forum for 8 years, Nadine Gordimer is the …
EventAfrikaans is used for the first time in an international document with the signing of the Convention of Mozambique in Pretoria
… asserted the language as the dominant official language. Black people rejected the language as a medium of education …
ArchiveApartheid - a vigilant witness
… of Bondage, the first published book of photographs by a black South African]. Apartheid is violence. Violence is used to subjugate and to deny basic…