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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 …
EventSA Artist, Father Frans Claerhout, is born
… posted to the Orange Free State, where he worked among the black people living in and around Bloemfontein. He served …
EventSpanish Flu strikes South Africa
… did their best, but were too few to treat the ill. The Black and Coloured sections of the population were most …
EventBattle of Delville Wood starts
… 433 soldiers, the rest had either been killed or wounded. Black people were also involved in this battle as unarmed …
EventThe first rugby match that is played in SA
… helped to further spread the popularity of the sport in Black communities. SA now has a number of local rugby …
EventBafana Bafana, SA’s National soccer team, wins the Africa Cup of Nations Final
… The victory was celebrated nationwide with people (black and white) taking to the streets to celebrate. …
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… After the discovery of diamonds and gold ever more cheap black labour was required. Only whites were allowed to own … the principle of equal electoral rights…
78. The Natal Indian Congress calls for a national convention
… they must plead together with one voice the justice of the black man's cause; when they must bring to bear on the power … convention. It would mean the…
PlacePaarden Eiland
… of Cape Town's Southern Suburbs. It eventually joins the Black River to empty into Table Bay at Paarden Island. The …
PlaceBitterfontein, Western Cape
… one of its finest hallmarks. Its terrain is roamed by the black-backed jackal and Cape honey badgers. An arid area, …
Mountain Zebra National Park, Karoo Region of Cradock
… are great, particularly if you’re trying to spot Birds, Black Rhino and Cheetah, are fantastic! Time your visit with …
Helen Zille and the myth of the White Saviour by Panashe Chigumadzi, (Sunday Times), 19 March 2017
… met its downfall around 450AD when it was destroyed by black invaders. Smith's narrative is banal and unoriginal - … With this in mind, it becomes easy to…
The National Question in Post 1994 South Africa. A discussion paper in preparation for the ANC`s 50th National Conference by Z. Pallo Jordan
… held the view that the contradiction between the colonised Black majority (Africans, Coloureds and Indians) and the … It was a system of White minority rule…
Beyers Naudé: former General-Secretary of the South African Council of Churches and before that Director of the Christian Institute interview with Rupert Taylor, 4 February 2000, Northcliff, Johannesburg
… the majority of the people who would govern us would be black or not-white, and that we should co-operate with them, … lack of compassion for the sacrifices…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress On The Occasion Of the 105th Anniversary of the African National Congress Presented By President Jacob Zuma
… ownership, control and real leadership of the economy by black people. The ANC must use the levers of state power to … which would increase the ownership of…
PlaceDullstroom, Mpumalanga in the Emalaheni Municipality District
… in sunset, or dark grey and rent by lightening, or velvet black and filled with stars that seem close enough to touch – … tree, the green metallic glint of…
Address of President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the opening of the second session of the Democratic Parliament Cape Town, 17 February 1995
… this spawning corrupt practices. Precisely because we face the challenge of dealing with systemic corruption we … together with these unions to solve the…
Edendale and the birth of the ANC, 06 January 2012
… to assert herself had come. On January 8, 1912, the first black South Africans to qualify and be admitted as attorneys, … brother of Selby Msimang), convened…
PlaceClaremont, a Suburb of Cape Town
… in Cape Town suburbs. Claremont was identified as a ‘black spot’ following a visit to the area by a government … indicated that the government would rid…
Archive”Social Conditions Among Bantu Women and Girls”. Address by Charlotte Maxeke at the Conference of European and Bantu Christian Student Associations at Fort Hare, June 27-July 3, 1930 [Extract]
… and rightly too that the laws of the land are not made for Black and White alike. Take the question of permits for the … only do the Bantu feel that the law…
South Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, VolumeTwo 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew - Bibliographical note and further reading
… Discussion, 1 , 6, December, 1 -8. Gerhart, Gail ( 1978), Black Power in South Africa, Berkeley: University of … ( 1970), My Life and the ICU: The…
Bishop Tutu’s 1999 interview on NewsHour
… that it showed the world cared about his country's black majority. ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU : (10/16/84) It is … free, multi-racial elections, South Africans…
PlaceAthlone - or Cape Flats, Cape Town
… and Southern Suburbs of Cape Town and is made up of Black Townships, Coloured ghettoes and Shantytowns. It was the area that most Black people were moved to…
Statement of the African National Congress and the South African Tamil Federation National Working Committee, 14 November 2014
… Indian learners in general, and Tamils in particular; Black economic empowerment policies in the public and private …