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ArchiveSo wheres the party.
Title in white letters on black parachute. Red SADF Logo with number 75 on it. Candles lit on names of townships. 75 years of SADF. End Conscription…
ArchiveTwo borders
Green and black poster. Notice of a meeting at St. George's Hall, on Thursday 28th. Notice expires on 30/7. Speaker on Angola - Peter Vale. Speaker on the…
EventThe Black Affairs Administration Act comes into force
The Black Affairs Administration Act No 45 commences. This Act provided for black self-government in townships. It was repealed by section 69 of the Black…
ArchiveMandela 'Only hope to control youths' from Saldru Archive
Nelson Mandela is probably the only recognised leader of SA's black community capable of instilling some discipline into the kids in the townships, Helen…
ArchiveSoweto Students Representative Council: To all fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, friends and workers, in all cities, towns and villages in the Republic of South Africa.
Circular, issued by Soweto Students Reprsentative Council, calling on residents of Black townships to boycott Christmas shopping and shebeens as a show of…
ArchiveLetter from the Town Clerk of the City of Grahamstown to the Secretary of the National Council of African Women
Letter from the Town Clerk of the City of Grahamstown addressed to the Secretary of the National Council of African Women discussing the reasons behind the…
ArchiveInterview with members of the Street Committees
Interview with members of Street Committees. Soweto has 26 townships and 25 of them have established Street Committees and are all functioning well.The…
ArchiveThe mid 1986 Crossroads/KTC Squatter Camp Demolitions in Wider Context: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1987
The mid 1986 Crossroads/KTC Squatter Camp Demolitions in Wider Context: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference on 14 March 1987 discussing…
ArchiveWomen unite against Bothas deal
A2 silkscreen Black on green, photo collage of women and townships; Text: Women unite against Botha's deal; August 9 National Women's Day; Away with forced…
Public Meeting
A2 poster, litho blue on white; graphic boot kicking man's head; text: Public Meeting: *on the bannings of student organisations; * on townships -- what is…
EventRioting erupts in Soweto
Riots erupt again in Soweto and spread to other townships in South Africa. The Minister of Justice, Jimmy Kruger, again banned public meetings under the…
ArchiveJohnny Clegg: South Africa’s universal man of uncommon passion by David Coplan, 25 July 2019
… to South Africa as a researcher for a documentary on “township music”. Like me, Johnny was a devotee of African …
PlaceWitwatersrand, Johannesburg (Gauteng)
… village of Ferreira’s Camp to transform into the Ferreira Township , as miners settled in the region hoping to strike …
Interview with Albert Luthuli by Studs Terkel, 6 May 1963, Chicago
… as masters; in the evening they must return to their own township and come back to work in the morning. Any contact …
EventNegotiations between Nelson Mandela and Mangosutho Buthelezi
30 March 1990 Negotiations between Nelson Mandela and Mangosutho Buthelezi 30 March 1990 Nelson Mandela of the African National Congress (ANC) and Mangosutho…
Biography of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile by Brianna T. Hogg
… Johannesburg, South Africa Baleka Mbete was born in the township of Claremont on 24 September 1949 in the province of …
ArchiveRepression of the United Democratic Front under state of attack
Article on repression of the United Democratic Front under the state of attack as President Botha said the month saw increased government response to the…
Event1 575 people are detained under a state of emergency
The events which led to mass detentions in April 1960 were the following: A state of emergency was called after anti-pass demonstrations at Sharpeville, Langa…
Statement issued by the Vigilance Committee, Grahamstown
Statement issued by the Grahamstown Vigilance Committee with suggestions on improving relations between the Council and Grahamstown Townships. The suggestions…
EventThe Star Condemns Forced Removals In Sophiatown
The Star newspaper condemns the forced removal of black residents from Sophiatown, near central Johannesburg, to Soweto, located on the outskirts of the city…
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… rights. 30 October, A series of bomb blasts rocks the township of Soweto , South of Johannesburg, killing one … against mainly foreign nationals starts in…
Document 39 - “Walter Sisulu, “Boycott as a Political Weapon”, Liberation, 23, February 1957
… the Alexandra bus boycott of 1944; the Western Native Township Iran boycott; the Port Elizabeth bus boycott; the …
PlaceConstantia
… it was considerably altered about the 18305. Today a large township, Bergvliet, occupies part of the farm. Nova …
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
Xhosa community The pre-1994 apartheid system of homelands or 'Bantusans' denied Xhosa people South African citizenship and attempted to confine them to the…
ArchiveWhose Reality Mr. Botha?
A2 red and black on white, litho; maps of SA with bars; text: Whose reality Mr Botha? thousands of innocent people detained; hundreds of innocent people…
ArticleElections in post Apartheid South Africa
1994: South Africa's first non racial, democratic electionsSouth Africa’s democratic system was endorsed by voters drawn from across the country’s racial…
Disbanding, 1990-1991
With the ANC now legal, mass demands were made for a constitutional assembly to create a new non-racial, democratic, and unitary South Africa. The UDF had…
EventMinister introduces free and compulsory education
The Minister of Bantu Education M.C. Botha announced that the government moved towards the introduction of free and compulsory education for Black pupils. This…
EventGary Bernard, photographer of The Star, commits suicide in Johannesburg
Gary Bernard was a photographer for the Star Newspaper. He was recruited by conflict photographer Ken Oosterbroek as an intern. He was soon promoted to Staff…
ArchiveThe migrant labour system
The notion of migrant labour is based from a legal framework system that did not recognize 'homelands' or 'reserves' as part of the Union of South Africa,…