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EventCharlotte Maxeke dies
… Even before her death she was honoured as 'Mother of Black Freedom in South Africa' at a meeting of the …
EventLondon hosts an international conference on the protection of the African elephant and rhinoceros
… the White Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros simus Burchell) and the Black Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros bicornis Linnaeus). Governments …
EventSipho Malaza allegedly dies in detention
… A Black high school student, Sipho Malaza, presumably died on …
EventDemocratic Party (DP) indicates its policies and outlines its proposed reforms
… outlines its proposed reforms. These include granting the Black population representation on municipal councils on the …
EventMinister of Defence, P.W. Botha, reports to the Senate on the Arms Industry and defines the main aims of South Africa’s defence policy.
… the Apartheid State regarding a potential uprising by Black South Africans, supported by the Soviet Union and the …
EventAt least 150 people die in clashes between the ANC and IFP
… violence was a common occurrence in South Africa, with Black townships most affected. The violence took place under …
EventPolice break up demonstrations against South African rebel Cricket Tour
… the African National Congress (ANC) and the mainly black National Sports Congress demonstrated against a visit … 01 December 2010]| Anon, 1990: Rebel…
EventA consumer boycott is called in Boksburg
… (now Ekurhuleni municipality, Gauteng). The boycott, by Black and Coloured residents, followed the reintroduction of …
EventThe first hearing looking into the mysterious death of Samora Machel begins
… Military Intelligence. Based on evidence gathered from the black box of the plane and military intelligence, the Margo …
EventThe Hewat Teacher Training College in Athlone is set alight in solidarity with the UWC students on a boycott
… group that marched towards the centre of town, giving the Black Power salute to passing Blacks until stopped by the …
EventNaledi High School is founded
… stoned the police and burned their car. The first sign of Black unrest in Soweto schools was noticed by government …
EventArtist, Thomas Trevor Motswai , award-winning South African artist is born
… He attended art classes at FUBA (Federated Union of Black Artists) and the Johannesburg Art Foundation. Motswai's …
EventSouth Africa’s first democratic elections
… headed by the ANC’s Nelson Mandela who became the first black President of the country. …
EventTodd Tozama Matshikiza, musician, composer and writer, is born in Queenstown, Eastern Cape
… Matshikiza School of Music. He was also one of the first black journalists to work for Drum Magazine. Matshikiza wrote …
EventKenya is granted independence
… first Prime Minister. The Union Jack was replaced by the black, red and green flag of the new nation. This followed …
EventP.W. Botha, former South African State President, appears in court for refusing to testify at the TRC
… of his involvement in the gruesome apartheid killings of black freedom fighters allegedly arranged by the apartheid …
EventAfrican bus boycott lasting ten weeks is initiated in Johannesburg and Pretoria.
… resistance from the public. More than 80 percent of the Black population lived below the poverty line meaning that …
PUBLIC RESPONSE TO SAHO WEBSITE
… our children can started reading about the history of the black heroes of our struggle - well done I would like to … I am so happy to know that pan…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… layer in controlling the movement and life of urban Black, Indian or Coloured persons (Baldwin, 1975: 218). Rural … was surrounded by White-owned farms, it…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… increasing deterioration in race relations, especially in Black-White relations. There can be no two viewpoints on this … more than does apartheid to the…
Colonial history of Rustenburg
… the subject of Solomon T. Plaatjie’s Mafikeng Diary: A Black Man’s View on a White Man’s War . Plaatjie was one of an elite group of Black intellectuals at…
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… workers were to be properly addressed and improved, strong black trade unions had to be set up and guided by the … strikes in their respective areas. In Port…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… demands, and by 1925 the party had a majority of Black members and in 1928, the CPSA called for Black majority rule. It was also during this period that the …
An evening with FW de Klerk – the full event by Alec Hogg (Biznews London Forum), 15 September 2017, (interview transcript)
… is a growing number from all races, especially from the black community, the fast-growing middle class, who realise … find together far less socialists,…
ArticleGrey Street Complex timeline 1800-1999
… and their buying power limited, non-white South Africans face real problems in mounting sufficiently effective … National Congress (Natal) have called on all…
Document 25 - E. R. Roux, The New Slogan and the Revolutionary Movement among White Workers in South Africa, presented at the Sixth
… the class struggle in South Africa, because the unity of black and white workers is so necessary there, that the … "Not a White South Africa, but Africa for…
Baroness Castle of Blackburn opened an exhibition on the history of the Anti-Apartheid Movement at the opening session of the Symposium
… of Commons with Abdul Minty in 1961. We were working out a black sash demonstration outside Lancaster House. Sharpeville … And so we worked out our scheme,…
Document 38 - Certification of the Constitution; a summary of the judgment of the Constitutional Court
… resistance in South Africa were an inspiration to the black people in the United States in launching the Civil … and obstruction of major Western Powers, so…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
… 11 million to 51.7 million and 79.6% of the population is black. 24 October President Zuma appoints the Commission of … practices 16 December Four white men…
Robben Island
… being used as a prison again. During apartheid many Black people were kept on Robben Island as political …