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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 …
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…
ArchiveThe Snape Building Political Demonstration at the University of Cape Town in 1966 by Andrew M. Colman
… literature, and went on to become Editor of the daily Black edition of the Rand Daily Mail and Vice President of … following the Sharpeville massacre in 1960…
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…
‘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…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 106th Anniversary of the African National Congress presented by ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa, 13 January 2018
… of legislation that were central to the deprivation of black South Africans of their land, assets and livelihoods. … in South Africa document, which set out…
PlaceGroutville
… Groutville also saw it fair share of the struggles of Black people in South Africa. Black farmers were neglected by the authorities and suffered …
ArchiveThe South African Choir’s pathbreaking tour: 1891 – 1893 by Martin Plaut, 6 January 2017
… The contacts between black South Africans and the African American community in … been recently unearthed. They are rare, early images of black South…
PlaceRustenburg
… were confronted with the question of their relation to the Black Inhabitants, of the Country. The fact that the Church … Constructed using the Labour of …
Document 92 “Communist Party of South Africa Plenum Held from 5th to 8th April 1936”, Umsebenzi, and 16 May 1936
… of division and lack of unity in the ranks of the black and white toilers, the Party must be a means to bring … about more unity of struggle and organisation…
Document 71 - Spartacus Club October Revolution Celebrations Oddfellows Hall, 70 Loop Street, Cape Town, 6 November 1937
… the Son. Songs: "Kudala Sizula" "Isn't it hard to be a Black Man?" Scene 3. In town, some weeks later, Lukosi meets … In jail. Lukosi IS thrown in by…
EventApartheid becomes official policy
… White farmers in the Northern provinces were unhappy that Black labour was moving to the cities. Apartheid - … 'belonged' to the Afrikaners he did not have…
PlaceGugulethu Township
… of Langa when it became overcrowded, having been the only Black residential area for Cape Town at the time. … of the Bantustan policy . Its chief purpose was…
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…
Introduction of A Crime Against Humanity
… in order to safeguard and perpetuate that power in the face of a hostile and non-compliant majority. That is not to …
PlaceStellenbosch, Western Cape
This Historic Town, is a living Museum with a vibrant 'Street Culture'. The Town has a variety of soils and locations ideally suited to flourishing of a wide…