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EventThomas Titus Nkobi is born
… Potato boycott which was organized to expose the plight of black political detainees forced to work in private farms. …
PlaceTsolo
… Frere, attempted to implement a new policy which barred Black residents of the Colony from carrying weapons of any …
PlaceCape St Francis, Western Cape Peninsula
… by picturesque homes in a uniform building style – black roofs and white walls. Towards Santareme and Port St …
The role of Cecil John Rhodes' British South African Company in the Conquest of Matabeleland
… stipulations that offered a measure of protection for ‘Black Africans’, which many European settlers did not … Unsurprisingly they abandoned legislation that…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… of the killing of schoolchildren and are joined by many Black workers. 18 June, Most of the protest action takes … Whites who had publicly supported Steve…
Pedi
… sePedi – Language] The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho-Tswana, … and Sotho account for the largest percentage of…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… was aimed at further tightening existing restrictions on black people migrating into the cities. As a result pass law … organizations that took part were the…
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… of Mineworkers (NUM), the union federation Cosatu, the Black Consciousness grouping AZAPO, the United Democratic … By 1991, after the unbanning of the ANC,…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 1 - The Uneven Development of Colonialism in South Africa by Jeff Peires
… and it was prepared to consider the possibility that black and brown people could perform the same functions as … of Ordinance 50 of 1828 - a measure which…
ArchiveCHAPTER FIVE: The Politics Of Collaboration: The Campaign for Participation In The Tricameral Parliament by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
THE POLITICS OF COLLABORATION: THE CAMPAIGN FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE TRICAMERAL PARLIAMENT
… (31.7%), the government’s race policy (19.6%) and “Black nationalism of the Black Power type” (18.0%) as the three greatest threats. 30% … would not attend…
Chapter 9 - Negotiating the transition
… for peace. However, at the same time, the anger of the black majority and its youth in particular portrayed the … at rural towns in which the majority of…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: Pre-1500
… weeks and lands 85km north of it, where he meets the first Black people, probably a Tsonga society living north of the …
Judaism
… more conservative than Reformed Jews. Orthodox men wear black suits and hats and don't shave the hair next to their …
ArticlePrehistory of the Pretoria area
… or Difeqane, was characterized by great strife among the black communities in Southern Africa. This turmoil also …
Article1913 Satyagraha Campaign Resumes
… the £3 Tax , recognise Indian marriages, abolish the Black Act and to allow Indians to move freely into the …
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
… took place in Germiston when 40 volunteers entered a Black township without the required permits. The group …
ArticleEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC)
… conference, the activist women's organisation, the Black Sash , passed a resolution calling for the end to …
Archive”Presidential Address” by Dr. A. B. Xuma
… Shall we not pick up the gauntlet? South Africa, white and black, needs us. We must pull our full weight; we must make … helpfulness and happiness of all…
Presidential Address, by Dr. A.B. Xuma, 14 December 1941
… Shall we not pick up the gauntlet? South Africa, white and black, needs us. We must pull our full weight; we must make … helpfulness and happiness of all…
The diary of Maria Tholo - August 11 - 15 by Carol Hermer
… with it and they let us through. But it was quite scary. 'Black Power' is like a password now. We wanted to see Pete … It wasn't allowed to happen that way…
ArchiveCHAPTER 9 - Tactics of talks, Tactics of confrontation, The Road to Vula, July 1985 - December 1986 Insurrection cannot be led from afar. by Howard Barrell
… clashes with security forces continued, thousands of young black militants were desperate for arms. Rumours of the … to security services. A state security…
Address by Executive Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, to Corporate Council on Africa’s “Attracting Capital to Africa” Summit, 19-22 April 1997; Chantilly Virgiana, USA
… of apartheid peacefully, to queue one after the other, black and white mixed together, for hours on end, under the … that the thought would occur to these…
PlaceGallery 101
… Lucky Sibiya , and Sydney Kumalo , highlighting important Black artists of the time, some in exile . In South Africa …
PlaceMarket Theatre
… Woza Albert, Asinamali, Bopha, Sophiatown, Born in RSA and Black Dog, the Market Theatre is celebrated as a theatre that …
Message to the People of South Africa by O. R. Tambo, August 1976
… Congress hails the great three-day strike by the militant black workers resident in Soweto. It is a mighty blow against …
South Africa Communists Speak Documents from the history of the South African Communist Party 1915 - 1980
… Socialism and the Native - No Labour Movement without the Black Proletariat', published in The International, December …
PlaceWonderboom Nature Reserve, Pretoria
… including many Dassies (Rock Hyrax) and a breeding pair of Black Eagles. The Nature Reserve is also Home to …
EventIt is widely reported that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher criticised the ANC, calling it a terrorist organisation
… far as they do have an effect, the first to suffer are the black people of South Africa whose jobs and livelihoods would …
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki leads a government delegation to the funeral of former state president, P.W. Botha
… his obstinacy in refusing to grant concessions to the Black majority, which included the release of Nelson Mandela. …