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PlaceThe Bag Factory
… At the time, the space provided studios for predominantly Black artists who had little to no access to platforms and …
PlaceAlgiers, Capital of Algeria
… the town as 19,290 people, of whom the vast majority were black (98%) and Tswana-speaking (93%). Ganyesa is the main …
EventThe Bisho Massacre occurs
… Gqozo and the re-absorption of the so-called black homeland into South Africa. The protest was led by …
EventThe Slagtersnek rebels are tried in the Uithenhage landdros court
… government as they believed that the British favored Black and Coloured farmers over Afrikaner farmers. Burghers …
PlaceSastri College, 1 Winterton Walk, Durban
… College , agreed to set up a Segregated Campus for Black Students using the facilities of Sastri College. …
ArchiveCourt Transcript of statement from the Dock of Nelson Mandela, Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964
… all the people who live in it, and not to one group, be it black or white. We did not want an interracial war, and tried … The volunteers were not, and are…
52 STEPS TO HEAVEN
… on death row, the white warders instructed one of their black colleagues, sergeant Mathebaku, to make sure that none … at me dancing and showing their fists…
Prehistory of the Polokwane/Pietersburg area
… at the beginning of the cycle, chiefs would send a black goat to their professional rainmakers, instructing them …
A growing urban African population
… run in most cases by dedicated and committed white and black people. And the churches played a dominant role in …
ArticleThe Constitution
… National flag The national flag of the Republic is black, gold, green, white, red and blue, as described and …
ArticleGarveyism: Early 1900s philosophy
… - had adapted the teachings of Garvey to fit in with the black South African experience. Thus the return of land to …
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
… Group Areas Act and many more laws that made the lives of black people unbearable - are testimonies that our freedom …
ArchiveRecollections of the Resurrection of Women’s Day, 40 Years Ago by Julie Wells
… I was in Durban in 1980 to work on my PhD research on black women’s struggles against pass laws. By then, I had … Choonoo, a Durbanite of Indian descent, and…
ArchiveRadio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio by Chris A. Smith
… centers in the Cape Flats and thatched-roof huts in black homelands to hear the transmission. They hunched over … station reappeared in the late 1960s,…
EventWalter Sisulu celebrates 90th birthday
… about issues of political rights and land by the educated black elite. In the same year, the African Political (later … was a declaration of war on the…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1992
… anti-apartheid fighters and democrats - young and old, black and white - join hands to reflect on the history of … democracy will surely triumph. Our destiny…
Devout domesticity? A century of African women's Christianity in South Africa by Deborah Gaitskell
… took her inspiration, allegedly modelled their red, black and white uniform on British redcoats (just as the ABM … of Methodist garb gained a currency it…
Speech at Meeting to Commemorate South Africa Freedom Day and to Condemn the 600-year Alliance between Britain and Portugal by O. R. Tambo, London, 20 June 1973
… the establishment of the Coloured Labour Party, the Black Peoples' Convention and SASO (the South African … will we cringe before their strength. On the…
Reciprocal Bases of National Culture and the Fight for Freedom by Frantz Fanon, 1959
… to scandal. In the same way the stylisation of the human face, which according to sociologists is typical of very … of the Earth (1959) publ. Pelican. Speech…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 3 - The Socio-economic Impact of the Mineral Revolution on South African Society by Drusela Numvuzo Yekela
… the lives of all those involved, none more so than black South Africans. Their socio-economic power was taken … glimpse of racial discrimination in the…
EventThe First Gay Pride March is Held in South Africa
… Apartheid. Addressing the crowd, Simon Nkoli said; “I am black and I am gay. I cannot separate the two parts of me …
Photography David Goldblatt by Sean Jacobs, 1 September 2009
… who shot most of his photographs during Apartheid in black and white] employs color and large prints and explores …
EventCol. Muammar Gaddafi seizes power in Libya
… organizations that received Libyan support were the Black People's Convention (BPC) and the South African …
EventThe UN General Assembly adopts resolution 1881, requesting South Africa to release all political prisoners
… repressive laws limited the freedom and movement of black South Africans. External resistance to the policy came …
EventThe Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, Bishop Ambrose Reeves, resigns
… schools included St Peter's in Johannesburg, where many Black leaders, among them Oliver Tambo, had been educated. …
EventChurch Council meets PW Botha over unrest
… White only delegation to discuss matters affecting mainly black people. The SACC delegation was weakened by the …
EventZubeida Jaffer is detained, while pregnant, by the security police under Apartheid regulations
… African journalist by the US-based National Association of Black Journalists. She became the first woman on the African …
EventThe trial of Dr Allan Boesak on charges of theft and fraud starts
… members included some two million white, mixed-race, and black South Africans, and was the largest and most powerful …
EventThe ANC celebrates its centenary anniversary in Bloemfontein
… (SANNC). This move was a reaction to the exclusion of Black people from power in the new Union of South Africa. … Odendaal, A. (1984) Vukani Bantu: the…
EventThe corner stone of the Union Buildings in Pretoria is laid
… 1956 Women's March protesting against proposed passes for black women. Since South Africa's emergence as a democracy, …