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Introduction
… support closer co-operation and collaboration with other black groups. Its strategy failed, however, as discriminatory …
PlaceElgin
… on the valley was Kathleen Murray, who was a leader in the Black Sash Movement, among other political activities. In …
EventSouth Africa Freedom Day - 26 June 1950
… declared that "South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white" and that "no government can justly claim …
From Segregation to Apartheid
… a system that formalised the territorial separation of the Black majority from Whites in the countryside. The creation …
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
… and Sophiatown was the nucleus of all reef crimes. A black man could land in jail for lack of a pass; so to be …
Why protect worker’s rights?
… barriers that adversely affect the designated groups: black people, women and people with disabilities. Such …
ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
… with police duties during times of peace, especially in Black areas. In 1911 General J. B. M. Hertzog , the Minister …
ArticleAfrica: What’s in a name?
… the Guinness people. Guinness was a generic term used for black people, in contrast to the more brown people of much of …
The South African History Online (SAHO) Graduate Internship Programme
… the South African liberation struggle and the history of black anthropology scholarship in Southern Africa. My M.A. …
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… declared that South Africa belongs to all who live in it Black and White. Subsequently Africanists are ejected from …
Eyewitness accounts of the Sharpeville massacre 1960
… the intention of showing the crowd, and in the process black South Africa, a dreadful lesson. People started to run …
ArticleHow did the Nazis construct an Aryan identity?
… with the Aryans at the top and with Jews, Gypsies and black people at the bottom. These 'inferior' people were seen …
Colonial history of Polokwane
… part of the ZAR. The constitution of the Republic excluded Black, Indian and Coloured people from exercising equal …
ArticleCapitalism in the USA 1900 to 1940
… crash of 1929: reasons for and economic and social impact; Black Tuesday – 29 October 1929 Source: …
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… NP came and introduced a number of oppressive laws against Black people in South Africa. The 1950s decade was one of the …
ArticlePoqo
… Africa between the government and the groups representing black people. The period after 1976 witnessed increased …
Interview with Archibald Gumede 6 April 1996
… are found innocent? What message will that send to the black community? AG If they are found innocent? Well it … not been who he is. POM That's right…
Document 45 - Ray Alexander, “Trade Unionism in South Africa”, Discussion, 1, 6, 1952
… of the non-European workers than the achievement of black and white class unity. Striving to achieve unity of black and white workers becomes reactionary,…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE FUNERAL OF JOE SLOVO Johannesburg, 15 January 1995
… today: a life not so much of white generosity to the black people of our country;for JS did not see himself as a … sense, Comrade JS leaves the South African…
Say It out Loud - The 1906 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1906
… sight of. Even in our own legislation, the bogey of the black peril had crept in; When the Education Bill was before … children going to school were getting…
Document 109 - G. H. Gool and J. A. La Guma, “Appeal of the National Liberation League for a National Convention of the Subject Peoples of South Africa”, The Liberator, September 1937
… of the Union of South Africa were raised by predominantly black labour. Non-European artisans, Coloured, Malay, manned … for the vast majority of the…
The ANC and the Women’s League
… so good, all these women in uniforms, green, yellow and black, the same as the ANC flag. Black for us, the black people of the country, green for the green…
I will not Compromise About my Work: David Goldblatt on Artistic Freedom, Censorship, and Moving His Archive Out of South Africa by Robin Scher ( ArtsNews.com), 2017
… or controversial for the way in which they depict black people.” Based on their recommendations, toward the end … was a point of confusion, as he was born…
Lobenguela’s izinDuna by Martin Plaut (Quarterly Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa ), 2016
… Ndebele, Gaza and Swazi envoys to England: 1882 – 1894, in Black Victorians, Black Victoriana, ed. Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, Rutgers …
Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, delivered by Mr. Tambo, at the funeral of Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo, 01 September 1983, London
… national oppression and economic exploitation of the black South African masses, he was able in his own unassuming … terror. The irresistible march of the…
The Johannesburg Biennale by Bisi Silva (Artnet), 1998
… as far back as the 1890s of working- and middle-class black people dressed in complete Victorian attire. Mofokeng intercepts this unusual portrait of a black…
PlaceOude Molen, Alexandra Care and Rehabilitation Centre, Maitland
… been the most prominent feature along the Liesbeek and Black Rivers. Today it is still in use as a chapel for … Valkenburg region between the present…
PlaceMasjiengebou (Machine Building), Defense Headquarters, Pretoria
… the Construction of the Johannesburg Fort. A member of the Black Hussars of the Duke of Brunswick, Schiel came to the … to correct it in times of deployment…
Links & Partnerships
… of Fort Hare, South Africa's oldest historically black university, has beem made the custodian of the Archives … (PAC), the Azanian Peoples' Organisation …
Appendix II: About Dr. Dadoo, delivered by Oliver Tambo
… national oppression and economic exploitation of the black South African masses, he was able in his own unassuming … terror. The irresistible march of the…