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PlaceCity Hall, Cape Town
… Grand Parade square. ‘Today the majority of South Africa, black and white, recognise that apartheid has no future,’ …
EventSteven Biko is arrested.
… president of South African Student Organisation (SASO), a black student’s organization that was focused on the …
PlaceVenda
… Homelands. The Homelands were supposedly created to allow Black South Africans to Govern themselves and to preserve …
EventUN concerned about Fischer’s arrest
… and went into hiding. After living "the secret life of Mr Black" for nearly a year, he was again arrested on 11 …
EventHendrik Verwoerd becomes Prime Minister
… of Bantu Self-Government Act in 1959. The Act classified black people into eight ethnic groups, each with its own …
EventIngrid Jonker, SA poet, commits suicide.
… engaged with the cause of the poor and the lot of black South Africans from the position of a common humanity. …
EventWWI: battalion consisting of ‘Cape Coloured men’, called the Cape Corps, is established
… fought in World War One, and fewer than 4 000 were black, coloured or Indian. The most well-known battle that …
ArchiveThe Final Prize: Family - chapter 1
… meeting of a dozen or so individuals, most of them black, voteless, domestic workers, and a small crowd of …
EventPAC’s leader, Potlako Leballo confirms that Poqo is the organisation’s military wing
… police to stem the tide of popular unrest. These included Black police officers and officials working in local …
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…
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…
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…
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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…
David Goldblatt’s Portraits of Ex-Convicts at the Scenes of their Crimes by Max Campbell, 6 October 2016
… of the wooded area where he tortured and then murdered a black South African man named Samuel Kganakga. According to … to photograph a second chapter of his…
ArchiveExtracts of 3 Interviews from the 1956 Women’s Anti-Pass March
… I felt as an African woman I should to do something. I'm Black when I feel to be. What will I have done for the … MT: We were singing the song, which says …
PlaceKhayelitsha Township
… Prime Minister, P.W. Botha promised fair treatment for Black people who resided in urban areas, though he persisted … to the immense influx of people, it is…
PlaceLanga Township, Cape Town
… of Africans in locations . Following the removal of Black people from Ndabeni location, near Maitland , in the … a dingy relic, at Langa's old pass office …
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Christian Missions and the Bantu
… Free State and Natal, where they hoped to handle the black man according to their own notions unhampered by the … Colony is the one province in all South…
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…
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
… strike, there were several clashes between the white and black miners. YCL recruits young people According to Roux, it … of the Party had risen to 1700 of…
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… approach. Africanist - An ideology that says that black people should determine their own future - Africa for … Africa between the government and the groups…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… in August 1983, this pre-eminence was sealed, and the Black Consciousness organisations began to wane. The strength … adopted the Freedom Charter, shedding…
ArticleThe death of Samora Machel
… refusal to make the cockpit voice recorder (the black box) available to the Commission. He had seized it at … the investigators. Based on the evidence…
ArticleDesmond Mpilo Tutu Timeline
… Times Magazine UK Desmond Tutu is ordained the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town. "Your … The police violence, which was normally…
ArticleWorld War I and the South African Native Labour Contingent
… by me from the French. (Grundlingh: 1987:41) Some 35 000 Black South Africans had already served as part of a labour … are unique, as all other units in…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes
… vocational and technical training inspired a generation of black and white educators responsible for African education … in South Africa. For details, see R…
PlaceHluhluwe and Umfolozi Game Reserves
… while the Umfolozi area is found to the south near the Black and White Umfolozi rivers where there is open savannah. …
EventDurban Declaration is published denouncing Thabo Mbeki’s AIDS denialism
… between HIV and AIDS formed part of racist rhetoric that black men were vectors of disease, and was a ploy to assert …