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Event15 000 applications for gold mining permits received per week in Johannesburg
… and gain immense profits from the diamonds and gold that black miners extracted from the earth. Most African miners …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 2 - Explaining the Miracle by Max du Preez
… and military power since 1948 but made a deal with the Black majority to establish a democracy and transfer power to … power and privilege under apartheid…
Daily reflections by Virginia MacKenny, September 2002
… in coal dust. They are visually arresting in their deeply black and glittering surfaces, stencilled with text from … is engaging. Shot in colour it reads as…
University of York Student Submissions 2015
… Project: ‘Where Do Whites Fit in?’: The portrayal of Black Consciousness and its effects on white liberals in …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… Convention is organised by J.T. Jabavu, editor of the Black newspaper, Imvo Zabantsundu . The convention declares …
ArticleHeritage day, Braai Day or Shaka Day: Whose Heritage is it Anyway?
… (article) Race and ethnicity in South Africa (article) Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) (article) Pan-Africanism …
Statement by Oliver Tambo on death sentences passed on three members of ANC and Umkhonto We Sizwe, 20 August 1981
… to death. But the cause of justice will never die. For the black and democratic majority in our country the march to … alone, South Africa has witnessed an…
David Goldblatt: Intersections; Asbestos; Particulars by Sue Williamson, 1 - 25 October 2003
… new for Goldblatt, who for years worked solely in black and white. For him, images in colour were … the third body of work,'Particulars' are closeups, in…
David Goldblatt - 'Mostly Unseen' at the Goodman Gallery by Sean O'Toole
… District Six series with the three portraits of youthful black subjects Goldblatt shot in 1972. New Recruit, Fanakalo … has not lost this sensitivity in his…
Mafika Gwala speaks to Andrea Meeson about not living in the shadows
… Gwala as the “exciting re-emergence of the respected Black-consciousness era poet.” “Crap,” says the published … of poetry means to us today’, or ‘let’s talk…
PlaceMelville Koppies Nature Reserve, Judith Road, Johannesburg
… was a rudimentary Boer republic in place, the previous black inhabitants were well on their way to becoming … was a rudimentary Boer republic in place, the…
ArchiveInterview with Shaeera Kalla, former SRC president at Wits University, interviewed by Kyla Mc Nulty
… remains untransformed and is inaccessible to the poor black student. What this also highlighted was the divide that … which remain privileged and the…
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
… he still continued to fight for the rights of the majority black South Africans in the nation. His involvement in the … for white South Africans under the…
ArticleA History of Official Government HIV/AIDS Policy in South Africa
… if a case was confirmed. Later that year, the first black South African was diagnosed with AIDS. In 1988, a … of the disease as a tool to rid South Africa of…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 1: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
… from different shades of white clay or from bird poop. Black paint came from charcoal and manganese oxide. … source There are many different shades and…
The Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa
… workers. Also, it was not racially biased, accepting both Black and White people. (Simons SAHO) The union was not only … but also very effective in…
ArchiveChapter 7 - Planning for people's war `Blow on the embers and it will catch alight', January 1983 - March 1984 by Howard Barrell
… able to draw in the churches, even the Azapos and other black consciousness organisations like Cusa Footnote ...and a … into the front, they failed to…
EventBanyana Banyana player, Eudy Simelane, is found raped and murdered
… over 25 times. ‘Corrective’ rape is a common threat to black lesbian women in South African townships, the idea …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.3 No.2 Jun 1980
… Stopforth; Moss Petlo. Photographs: Biddy Crewe; Frank Black; Clifford Ranaka; Paul Weinberg; Les Lawson; Vicky …
Introductory Statement on the Presentation of the Statement of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 79th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1991
… the continued offensive of the masses of our people, both black and white, to end the apartheid crime against humanity, …
PlaceGanyesa
… British , who established it as a Reserve for the local black inhabitants (known as a native community ) in the …
Notes on the Life of Ernest Cole 1940–1990 by Gunilla Knape
… late 1950s until 1966 he portrayed the everyday lives of black South Africans with warmth and empathy. As one of the …
EventHumphrey Khoza, former chief executive officer of Uthingo Management (Pty) Ltd and director of several other companies, is born in Germiston
… of the Boss of the Year title in 2001, being the first black president of the South African Chamber of Business (and …
EventPaarl Riots report submitted
… in order to create an African socialist state representing Black South Africans. The presiding Judge observed that, in …
EventThe Federation of South African trade unions
… organisation that could coordinate the movements of Black trade unions. The Federation came into being after the …
EventAmy Biehl is murdered in Cape Town
… with a brick. Amy was beaten and stabbed to death. Her Black friends tried in vain to stop the attack by shouting …
EventDisinvestment moves by two major companies
… South Africa Movement in the US was launched mainly by Black and church groups in November 1984. Early in 1985 it …
EventAfrikaans is declared an official language of South Africa
… race among South Africans, Afrikaans is widely spoken by Black people. …
EventSA author, Nadine Gordimer, is born
… She often wrote about apartheid by focusing on oppressed Black characters. The Nobel Prize laureate was an ardent …
EventAbout 22 000 miners on Witwatersrand gold mines go on strike in what became known as the Rand Rebellion
… by removing the colour bar and increasing the ratio of black workers to white, for although the wages for whites had …