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Chapter 6 - ‘Direct Action’ on the Shop-Floor: The Denver Engineering Strike, 1919 - 1920
… All of them were white, skilled workers. Approximately 110 Black workers were employed on the premises as unskilled and … by collaborating with the foreman,…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… nationalists at home and begins to agitate amongst the black community for full democratic rights. May, The Broome … first hand, the humiliation and…
My Body Was Dying by Edwin Cameron (The Con), 10 March 2016
… prototypical person living with HIV or AIDS in Africa – a black, heterosexual woman. I was a white gay man. Yet my … and poor, young and old, rural and…
ArchiveObituary: Eddie Webster’s influence over generations of students extended to the country and beyond its borders by Andries Bezuidenhout (Mail and Guardian), 6 March 2024
… had opened up the space for the emergence of militant black trade unions during the 1970s — a moment that …
ArchiveOmar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary by Niren Tolsi (Mail and Guardian), 17 September 2020
… history by “reinserting the roles of women, workers and Black people” survives because it is essential to addressing …
ArticleKasturba Gandhi timeline 1869 - 1944
… excommunicated from the Modh Vania caste for crossing the “black water”. 1891 August, M.K. Gandhi returns from England … it as a "crime against humanity",…
Biography of Johnny ‘Mbizo’ Dyani by Brandon Norman
… The apartheid government made it almost impossible for a black South African to receive a passport and the only way to … him on a healthier path. He also had…
Anti-Indian Legislation 1800s - 1959
… introduces The Asiatic Law Amendment Act, 2/1907 ("The Black Act") which is identical to Ordinance 29/1906. All male … anti-Indian and other discriminatory…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Albert John Luthuli
… (NAACP) was formed. The most important and most effective black pressure group, it initially concentrated on securing … regulations in public education was…
Man-made women: Gender, class and the ideology of the volksmoeder by Elsabe Brink
… Volk, aimed to provide the historical context for this viewpoint. Stockenstrom set out to write a condensed history …
ArticleOrigins of the Battle of Blood River 1838
… two-thirds of them women and children, half of them black. The battle took place during the early hours of 17 …
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… Others again, “can hardly be distinguished from the black West African negro”.14 As to whether Africans and … teachers. They knew that the vast majority of…
40 years after: Understanding the Soweto Uprising by Motsoko Pheko (Pambazuka News), 30 June 2016
… of June 16, 1976 did not just drop from the sky. The Black students of South Africa did not wake up one day and … Coloureds were treated a little better than…
The diary of Maria Tholo - August 16 - 24 by Carol Hermer
… a life sentence on Robben Island, and Steve Biko, the black consciousness leader. In Johannesburg, 1050 black workers of the West Rand AdminiÂstration Board…
Reply by President Jacob Zuma to the debate of the Presidency budget vote, 13 May 2010
… divisive past of racism and division. South Africans both black and white have accepted each other as compatriots and … many South Africans, not just a few…
Excerpts from Priscilla Jana’s book 'Fighting for Mandela' that relate to Solomon Mahlangu
… of the disparity and discrimination he and fellow black people were suffering. Mahomed said he was a living … successes. In South Africa there were no fair…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Before the mineral discoveries by Emilia Potenza
… system. This system allowed Boers to keep homeless black children as unpaid inboekselings until the age of 25 if … hawked around the country. There were men,…
Pretoria Socialist Society
… increasing deterioration in race relations, especially in Black-White relations. There can be no two viewpoints on this … more than does apartheid to the…
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Strategy and Tactics, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… of racism; as well as conversely the socialisation of black people to consider themselves as inferior. These … such forces, including those that may burrow…
Address by President Jacob Zuma to the Military Veterans Medals Parade Waterkloof Airforce Base, 27 October 2012
… in the best interests of all the people of this country - black, brown and white - whose future happiness and … of building a united South Africa continues…
ArchiveReflections on life in a rearview mirror by Jo Ractliffe, 27 Jun 2011
… generated a lot of interest from young people—young black people in particular. And it was clear that many of … certain phase of doing that. I know that I…
South Africa: The Structure of Things Then by David Goldblatt, reviewed by Robyn Sassen (H-SAfrica), February 2000
… images, it is printed in lithographic duotone, combining black and white printing with a touch of a sepia/olive base … he touches on the boldness,…
A call to the people of South Africa: Oliver Tambo, 02 May 1987
… have witnessed a rising militancy and resolve among the black workers unprecedented in the history of our struggle. … and destruction in the region find…
Speech on the Sixtieth Anniversary of the ANC, Lusaka by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1972
… and Briton - for the more intensive exploitation of the black people. Present at the inaugural conference which led … whose outcome can only be victory for…
Liberation and Ethics. Is there a connection? by Raymond Suttner, 05 April 2016
… meant that my world was radically different from that of black people. It was a world of privilege. Given this … repression that was normally associated with…
African National Congress President, Comrade Jacob Zuma, delivers the Peter Mokaba Memorial Lecture, Mankweng Village, Polokwane, Limpopo, 6 June 2010
… Comrade Peter was an avid sports fanatic, a first Dan Black Belt and karate instructor. He was a softball player … Union of South African Students and the…
A volatile case of Afrikan vs. Indian in KwaZulu-Natal by Jackie Shandu, 7 April 2015, South Africa
… constitutional democracy, which is by definition anti-black and anti-poor. As already mentioned, the EFF has … beneficiaries of Affirmative Action/Employment…
Introduction - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… still get more emotional satisfaction from watching a black man being kicked off the pavement than from the rise of … of racial oppression? Or will there be…
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… JG Strijdom. In 1956, Jooste launched the group’s first black publication, Bona, aimed at urbanised blacks living in the townships. Later, in 1964, the group…
ArticleThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
… the Communist International (Comintern). The CPSA’s first Black secretary, Albert Nzula , became the first Black South African to travel to the USSR, where…