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EventRhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith visits the United States, challenging officials to support his plan for the transition of government in the country.
… when Smith finally signed an agreement with moderate black leaders on condition that they eschew war. But exiled …
EventThe South African Football Association (SAFA) is founded
… interracial match in Maseru in Lesotho between teams the Black African Pirates and the White Germiston Callies. In the …
EventThe company, IBM, re-forms in South Africa
… that the vast majority of workers in South Africa are black and would most surely be adversely affected. To be …
EventBomb meant for Kangaroo Court judge, May Ledwaba kills sleeping William Ledwaba
… in an attack a few days previously on the home of a Black policeman who had earlier shot and killed an …
EventKaunda calls for Thatcher’s exclusion from talks on South African sanctions
… and would lead to the greater suffering of South Africa's black population. Kenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia, along …
EventThe Rand Revolt strikers’ stronghold at Fordsburg Square falls to the government
… industry leaders to replace many white workers with black workers. The strike began in January 1922 and became an …
EventFawcett Commission into Concentration Camps in South Africa
… only White people were kept in these camps, some 14 000 Black people died in them. By 1902 there were 27 927 deaths …
PlaceNgcobo
… Western-style institution that was the largest school for black Africans in Thembuland. Made to socialise with other …
EventSouth African Defence Force (SADF) raid Maseru in an effort to kill suspected members of the African National Congress
… attacks in South Africa against political leaders in the black "homelands" of Transkei and Ciskei. The SADF displayed …
An extract of the speech delivered by Albertina Sisulu on the first anniversary of the UDF
… the people has been exhausted now. We have mothers here, black and white, mothers who know what it is to bring a child …
ArchiveCongress Resister 1983 - 1989
… some activists in the Indian community were involved in Black Consciousness organisations. Others associated …
EventF.W. de Klerk announces the release of Nelson Mandela and unbans political parties
… with mixed feelings inside and outside Parliament. Black and White South Africans celebrated the news as they …
EventSoweto students march against government’s language policy
… against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in Black secondary schools. The uprising then escalated into a …
ArchiveThe West African Kroomen and their link to Simon’s Town by Joline Young
… were easily identifiable by the adornment of a distinct black line from the forehead to the nose. [xi] They also bore … in later years became a way of life…
PlaceCape Peninsula University of Technology
… have the Government’s regulation lifted on the quota for Black students. The 1990’s would usher in a new era for the …
PlaceBurgersdorp, E.C.
… Stormberg contributed to what became known as ' Black Week '. In the Battle of Stormberg, a Commando of 400 …
National OR Tambo Memorial Lecture series inaugural address by his excellency Dr Jacob G Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa, OR Tambo International Airport, 24 October 2011
… leadership around the 1970s or 1980s did not at some point face OR`s sharpest tongue, as he argued his point to help you …
James Stewart - the ANC fighter who spoke truth to power by Martin Plaut, 1 February 2016
… if Loots had not had the courage and integrity, in the face of considerable pressure, to report the truth. His …
Address by ANC President Nelson Mandela to ANC-business summit 30 March 1994
… rational debate about the challenges business that the ANC face. Secondly, we are confident that this summit will serve …
Address by ANC President Nelson Mandela to ANC-Business Summit 30 March 1994
… rational debate about the challenges business that the ANC face. Secondly, we are confident that this summit will serve …
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, submitted to the Annual Conference, December 15-17, 1950
… Grahamstown, Capetown and other centres. In the face of such a short period hardly a month between the …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Special Sitting of the Senate of the Republic of Chile: Valparaiso, June 8, 2005
… products. The seas also provide us with food and jobs. We face the common challenge to eradicate poverty and …
62. Congress defends its stand on the colonisation scheme
… will be willing to 'cut off their nose to spite their face’ by driving us away. Gentlemen, in conclusion, let me …
ArchiveAll That Glitters - What is industrialisation? by Emilia Potenza
… of mass production . This process changed the face of people's lives. These events and their impact on …
Interview with Archibald Gumede 21 August 1990
… he is at the point, do you think he has accepted, say, black majority rule or do you think he is looking for some … Africa, no system would work. So if it…
Whither Palestine? by Ronnie Kasrils, 19 May 2015, London
… complicity and deceit of the departing British, and in the face of the poorly organised and led response from weak Arab … Africa was essentially about the…
Another Victory for Trade Unionism: The 1918 Cape Town Musicians’ Strike
… as it did the appalling living conditions of the Cape Town black population 2 and the working class strata of European … a new problem for the management,…
Chapter 4 - Another Victory for Trade Unionism: The 1918 Cape Town Musicians’ Strike
… as it did the appalling living conditions of the Cape Town black population 2 and the working class strata of European … a new problem for the management,…
ArticleIndian South Africans
… discriminatory laws enacted against Indians and the other Black oppressed groups in the country. As a consequence, the …
ArticleThe Sedition Trial 1946 - 1948
… of Non European Trade Union for a general strike of black workers added momentum to the strike. The strike …