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ArchiveGetting to know Omar from the inside out by Robyn Sassen, February 19, 2019
… of this photographer, described by Ari Sitas as being black, and red, his bravery and his sense of humour in a time …
PlaceVoortrekker Monument
… of the, Voortrekker Women. On both sides of this sculpture black Wildebeest are chiselled, into the Walls of the …
Fifty Fighting Years by A. Lerumo. The Communist Party of South Africa, 1921 - 1971 - Foreword to Book, by Dr Yusuf M. Dadoo,1972
… to help in every possible way the just struggle of the black people for freedom. This has been manifested time and …
Document 99 - Edwin T. Mofutsanyana, “All-African Convention: Masses Must Support It”, South African Worker, 9 January 1937
… Natives. The record of British and Boer Imperialism is too black and consistent for the Native people to hope to achieve …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Glossary
… in their struggle against apartheid. In the 1970s several black-ruled states joined together to co-ordinate their …
Chapter 2 - SADF Speaks...
… were influenced by the PLO to eliminate among others black leaders. Small elements from ANC headquarters in …
PlaceKwaMashu
… Houses in KwaMashu were erected in phases and occupied by Black people from March 1958. By February 1962, the …
"Apartheid - the Indictment": Paper Presented to the International Conference for Sactions agains South Africa by O. R. Tambo, April 1964
… of life, and invariably placing the African, with his black skin, at the rock bottom of the human scale, the white … was that "slave" came to mean "African…
Paper Presented to the International Conference for Sanctions Against South Africa, 1 April 1964, London
… of life, and invariably placing the African, with his black skin, at the rock bottom of the human scale, the white … was that "slave" came to mean "African…
Archive2000 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 4 February 2000
… we are entitled to make the claim that, as a people, both black and white, we did, in a mere decade, carry out a … robbed, assaulted, hijacked or murdered…
ArchiveThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad by Max Rossiter
… and workers, but spent much of the 1920’s organizing black South Africans. From its early roots, it had strong … of exercising’.” By 1925, however, it had a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…