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Appeal for Action to stop Repression and Trial in South Africa: Statement at the Meeting of the Special Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly by O. R. Tambo, New York, 8 October, 1963
… Africans who are being dragged to the slaughter house face death, or life imprisonment, because they fearlessly …
Memorandum by Ben Turok before the ANC`s Morogoro Conference and a "Reply" by Joe Matthews, 5 April 1969, Morogoro
… existence of waiting. . . . The camp itself badly needs a face-lift. It needs some decoration, some facilities for …
PlaceHangberg, Hout Bay
… they lived, but the community was their security. In the face of high unemployment, low wages, and high crime! … Buhler, Andreas. 2014. Smiling in the face…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at the funeral of Joe Gqabi, Harare, 9 August 1981
… are all involved - the fact of the oneness of the enemy we face; because, just as one of the heroes of this country, the …
Address of the President of South Africa and the current Chairperson of the G77 and China, Thabo Mbeki at the 61st Session of United Nations General Assembly 19 September 2006, New York
… example as to what is meant to be democratic. Even as we face the cold reality of the indifference of the many among …
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the Opening of Phase 1B of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, Mohale Dam, Kingdomof Lesotho, 16 March 2004
… to join hands as good neighbours and as Africans who face common challenges. I am confident that together we can …
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter I - The Missionary Movement where it came from
… of events if we accepted these grandiloquent aims at their face value and assumed that there was some mysterious milk of …
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
… of labour exploitation yet devised”. Resistance among black working people was at a low level. At about this time … Steve Biko captured the mood as follows: …
PlaceBill Ainslie Studios, Johannesburg
… the Cyrene Mission Station in Zimbabwe, Federated Union of Black Artists, FUNDA Community College, The Alexandra Art …
PlaceGroot Drakenstein
… of two pioneering farmers in the area. One was the Free Black farmer, Jan van Saloor, also known as Jan Lui (Lazy …
EventThe Soweto Uprising leaves 174 blacks and two whites dead following 10 days of rioting
… introduction of Afrikaans as the medium of instruction. Black people resented Afrikaans because it was seen as the …
EventAlbert Luthuli accepts the Nobel Peace Prize
… attended by King Olav of Norway. Luthuli was the first Black African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. …
EventHertzog and Smuts to form a coalition
… to the separate political representation of White and Black and the retention of the civilised labour policy. …
EventSharpeville Deputy Mayor killed
… puppets of the apartheid regime. The gropup wanted all Black councillors and mayors to resign from their position as …
EventPrime Minister P.W. Botha announces Ciskei will become independent on 4 December 1981
… its programme of Apartheid by excluding the majority of Black South Africans from South Africa proper. The Bantustans …
EventSASO leader, Abram Tiro is assassinated
… responsible for sending him the parcel bomb. As a result, Black students boycott lectures and their institutions were …
EventAhmed Helmy, Egyptian actor, is born
… adorn anything from car stickers and clothes with the red, black and white colours. Helmy is also ambassador for the …
EventBenjamin Mzimkulu Macala, SA artist, is born
… His subject matter of Picasso-like portraits with huge black eyes is easily identifiable in almost all his works. …
EventPhambili Ka Ntloko, national organiser of AZAPO, is born
… involved in the South African Students’ Movement (SASM), a black consciousness organisation for high school children. He …
No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa
… Content I - Introduction II - The Life of Steve Biko III - Black Consciousness IV - The Death of Steve Biko V - The …
ArchiveBiography of Dambisa Moyo by Alex Kamau
… not as loud a voice. There is also something known as the black market, and black-market economics play their part in a country’s … financial stability. Even…
Document 8 - S. P. Bunting, The “Colonial” Labour Front, 23 October 1922
… there is a great gulf fixed between the white and the black workers who jostle together in the country, and local … barricades are thrown up entrenching the…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Hertzogian Segregation VERSUS The Cape Native Policy
… divided into Higher and Lower certificates for white and black pupils respectively on colour lines. Even in State … first that white men, if worth their salt…
Speech to the ANC Rally at Soccer City by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 16 December 1990
… came the big crowds, from every corner of the country, black and white, whom it was a great delight to be received … National Party to open talks with the…
Marikana and the New Politics of Grief, 20 August, 2012 - Jon Soske
… after a bitter, two year struggle for recognition by the Black Allied Mine and Construction Workers Union. After four … the swirling rumors of factional…
ArchiveMandela, From a Freedom Fighter to an Icon of Reconciliation
… fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic … Government was unable to suppress…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Introduction
… These include business and national groupings, both black and white. But among these groups, it is the organised … into existence a vast labour force based…
Say It out Loud - Address to Returned Soldiers of the Cape Corps, 1919
… world all that he held most dear. He did not look at his black comrade askance for he knew, and he discovered beneath the black skin and the crinkly hair…
PlaceDrakensberg Mountain Range, Lesotho
… in sunset, or dark grey and rent by lightening, or velvet black and filled with stars that seem close enough to touch – … tree, the green metallic glint of…
PlaceKaroo Hoogland Municipality in the Karoo Region, Northern Cape
… in sunset, or dark grey and rent by lightening, or velvet black and filled with stars that seem close enough to touch – … tree, the green metallic glint of…