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Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Preface
… action on a human rights problem. Indians, and indeed all black South Africans, gained a moral victory through the … fighting for the freedom of all South…
ArchiveUmkhonto we Sizwe - Structure, Training and Force Levels (1984 to 1994) by Tsepe Motumi , African Defence Review No 18, 1994
… coup in Portugal. During the pro-Frelimo rallies in 1974, black university students demonstrated in support of the … the ranks of MK. To a lesser extent some…
From Protest to Challenge: Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964 Volume 2
… of complete political and industrial equality for the black man, declaring for working class unity irrespective of … native movements as 'creating hostility…
Archive2012 - President Zuma, State of the Nation, 9 February 2012
… other components of the liberation movement - the Black Consciousness Movement which was led by Mr Steve Biko, … in the country. Those are the three things…
ArticleChanges in modern forms of communication
… as the Penny Block stamp. The development of the Penny Black stamp meant people could pay for the postage in … at flat rate instead of per page delivered…
ArticleWomen and Children in White Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
… Due to the fact that Black People were detained in separate camps, the issue of Black Concentration Camps is dealt with in another … In a letter to…
PlaceGhwarrie Poort
The Ghwarrie Poort is located on the tarred N9 between the Karoo towns of Uniondale in the south and Willowmore in the north. The Poort is 14 kms long and…
ArchiveAri Sitas in Conversation with Sumangala Damodaran
… as you know, “if you love me you will put the pillow to my face. Tight”. There is Fugard’s Lena still waiting for the …
ArticleSouth Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured
… family ties. Significantly, as Strini Moodley (from the Black Consciousness Movement who was imprisoned in Robben …
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Closing Address by President Jacob Zuma, Gallagher Estates, 29 June 2012
… and unemployment persist. These affect primarily the black majority, women and the youth. Conference has agreed … after excluding the value of foreign…
ArticleTimeline — Land Dispossession and Restitution in South Africa - 1995-2013
… The government intended to redistribute 30% of land to black people by 2014. However, the process of land reform has … and the falling into disuse of…
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… centre for the Boers. 1840s Boleu establishes Thaba Ntsho (Black Mountain), a fortified capital built on a hill near … from Nelspruit as a labour reserve, it…
The Atlantic slave trade
… saw a large furnace of copper boiling, and a multitude of black people of every description chained together, every one … deck and fainted. When I recovered…
EventKing George V visits the SANLC
… assist Britain in the First World War with labour duties. Black South African men were shipped to France in battalions, … Clothier, Norman. Black Valour…
PlaceAluin Krantz West, a Farm Near Alexandria
… useful in brilliant dyes, the dark-colored only in dyeing black or very dark colors. One species was a liquid, which …
ArchiveUrban crisis and the apartheid state response: South African housing policy in the 1980s
… in African townships as a way of promoting the top-down Black Local Authorities (BLAs), the extensive amendments to …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.4 No.2 Jul-Aug 1981
… a new proemdra by Mtutuzeli Matshoba; Notes from a Black Writer, Kimberley: The Prohibition Years by Ronnie …
EventThato Madonsela, the South African rapper is born
… in 2010.[ii] The mixtape also included the diss track “Black Suit” aimed at South African rapper AKA.[iii] He …
ArchiveFirst Mafika Gwala Lecture: The Arts of Resistance - Mafika Gwala and South African Poetry by Ari Sitas
… Sobantu and Mpophomeni. It was a common landscape of black experience, hope and fire. It was where, the poet found …
EventDeath of Maria Koopmans-De Wet
… in Strand Street. In 1879 Johan Koopmans died. Marie wore black for the rest of her life and referred to herself as …
EventThe United Arab Republic is proclaimed by Egypt, Iraq, and Syria
… adopted a flag made of three horizontal red-white-and-black stripes, with two green stars placed on the white …
EventThe first mountain zebra foal is born in at the National Mountain Zebra Park
… Namibia, and South Africa. It is boldly stripped in black and white or brown and white with a white underbelly …
EventANC adopts the Programme of Action
… non-violent resistance campaign jointly mounted by the Black communities and a small group of White left wing …
EventUDF members challenge the government to arrest them on charges of high treason
… representing about two million white, mixed-race, and black South Africans. It was the largest and most powerful …
EventCar bomb explodes outside Air Force headquarters
… reforms to grant some representation to sections of the Black population in parliament through a Tricameral …
EventIdi Amin, Ugandan dictator, flees after a seven year reign
… in Burma, Kenya, and Somalia. He was also one of two 'Black' Ugandan soldiers to be promoted to the rank of officer …
EventThe last passenger boat of the Union Castle line, the Windsor Castle, leaves Table Bay
… fleet, well known for their signature lavender hulls and black and red funnels. But alas, the career of Windsor …
EventSA President P.W Botha meets with leaders of independent homelands
… government was put under extreme pressure as unrest in Black townships escalated. During the year schools in …
EventSir Benjamin D’Urban accepts the Mfengu as British subjects
… Christianity, and accede to be subjects of the Crown, or Black 'settlers'. *Note: Mfengu - Although they speak a …
EventClampdown on 'conflict diamonds' begins
… diamonds, in an unprecedented effort to weed out the 'Black market' trade in gems that has been used to fund civil …