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EventPresley Chweneyagae, star of the Oscar winning movie Tsotsi, is arrested for fraud in Pretoria
… performance by a lead actor for his role in Tsotsi at the Black Movie Awards in Los Angeles in 2006, heading off … African film Tsotsi, has appeared in court…
EventProfessor Bob Hepple is born
… of the SACTU newspaper, Workers’ Unity, and helped the black Metal Workers’ Union and other small unions survive the …
EventSpecial Committee on Apartheid publishes its first Interim Report
… because of its Apartheid policy that discriminated against black people. The Apartheid policy was introduced by the …
EventTwo former Soweto student leaders, Khotso Seathlolo and Mary Loate are given long term sentences
… against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in Black secondary schools. Seatlholo faced additional charges. …
‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… folded hands at a time when ruin stared the British in the face simply because they ill-treat us here’. [32] Local … 1893-1914, (Durban : Madiba Publishers…
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: …
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…
ArticleThe Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
… Acronyms BAWU, Black and Allied Workers Union COSAS , Congress of South …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Essay Questions
… to the Khoikhoi, San, imported slaves and Africans. [5] Black people were viewed as suitable slaves and these ideas …
ArticleVlakplaas and the History of Apartheid's Death Squad
… The title "askari" was used to refer to the predominantly black police officers who had participated in one of the …
Verwoerd's Grim Plot by Nelson Mandela
… May 1959 South Africa belongs to all who live in if, black and white." - The Freedom Charter. "All the Bantu have … left to remain as reservoirs and breeding…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 81st Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January, 1993
… will be the first in our country when all the people, black and white, the privileged and the deprived, will vote … in 1955 that: "South Africa belongs to…
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…
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 …