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EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs’ (CAD)
… this precarious position between White and Black South Africans. This position was intensified during apartheid by … with I.D. Du Plessis as its head. …
BiographyKhaya Biko
Early lifeKhaya Biko was born in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape in 1944, the second of four children of Mzingaye Biko, a police officer and later a clerk, and…
BiographyLawrence Ndzanga
Mr Lawrence Ndzanga,aged 53, a former secretary of the Railway Workers Union and a national executive committee member of the South African Congress Trade…
BiographySebitji Frans Matlala
Sebitji Frans Matlala’s wife recounted My husband was taken away by train fromMatlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Transvaal [now Polokwane, Limpopo]. I…
BiographyMhlabuvelile Hlamandana
Chief Mhlabuvelile Hlamandana (Faku), from Bizana District [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape], refused to cooperate with the state around policies and…
ArchiveThe South African Choir’s pathbreaking tour: 1891 – 1893 by Martin Plaut, 6 January 2017
… The contacts between black South Africans and the African American community in the United … unearthed. They are rare, early images of black South Africans…
ArticleA Brief History of Pageview
… living in the area were given eviction notices. The 'Africans' were moved to Soweto, the 'Coloureds' to the …
ArticleEconomic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… the apartheid wage gap and promote rapid career paths for Africans in the workplace. f. Massive development of the …
Chapter 3 - Gumede’s role in NNC and SANNC Politics, 1909 – 1919 ‘We pray that the people be allowed to live in peace in their own land’.
… the initiative to call for clarity on the position of Africans in their native country: We wonder what our position … . 176 Gumede had little reason to be…
Document 57 - Lionel Forman, “Self-Determination in South Africa: A Contribution to Discussion”, Liberation, 37, July 1959
… for the Zulus form part of the African people and the Africans part of the South African people. They cannot all be … state. What is the position with regard…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bridging two worlds by Emilia Potenza
… 1914-1918: During World War I, 146 000 whites, 83 000 Africans and 2 000 coloured men volunteered for service. When … with another ship in the English…
EventWilliam Brown becomes the first South African officer killed during World War I
… to be one of the major factors in propelling the South Africans into the notorious offensive of Delville Wood a fortnight later. Further reading: The South…
Passive Resistance in South Africa by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "Southern Africa in Transition by Davis, John A. and James K. Baker"(Pall Mall Press), London, 1966
… Declaration of Human Rights. What puzzles and worries Africans, however, is the opposition persistently offered by … shields their sole means of protection…
From retirement to parliament
… (Including 'The Atlantic Charter from the Standpoint of Africans within the Union of South Africa' and 'Bill of … in the occupied countries in Europe. In…
'The People Accept the Challenge of the Nationalists' Statement issued by the National Executive of the A.N.C., April 6, 1963
… Bill now aggravates the already insecure position of the Africans in the country under the pass laws. This Bill, when … to crush our resistance, perpetuate…
BiographyJohn Jacques William Aitchison
John Jacques William Aitchison was born to Harold Aitchison and Phyllis Jacques, in Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) on 2 June 1944. He was brought up by his…
BiographyRobert Anthony Basil Waterwitch
Robert ‘Robbie’ Anthony Basil Waterwitch was born on 15 July 1969 and grew up in Athlone, a suburb of Cape Town located on the Cape Flats. Remembered as a…
EventSupreme Court changes ruling on forced removals, traditionally
… Government forcibly moved 3.5 million Black South Africans in one of the largest mass removals of people in … First, during the 1950s and 1960s, large-scale…
Event6 th Partnership Against AIDS anniversary is celebrated
… Deputy President Thabo Mbeki . He made a call on all South Africans to join hands to fight the epidemic. The 6th … former Deputy President Jacob Zuma. He…
Document 59 - Letter from Ruth First to The Secretary, South African Institute of Race Relations’, 17 August 1944
… follows: 1. The apprenticeship (presumably compulsory) of Africans from the age of 14 for a period of 3 years. 2. The … between farmers and labourers. 5. The…
Interview with Albert Luthuli by Studs Terkel, 6 May 1963, Chicago
… as a teacher at Adams College, the high school for Africans founded by the American Congregationalist Mission, … view that asks: why did the white come to…
"Apartheid - the Indictment": Paper Presented to the International Conference for Sactions agains South Africa by O. R. Tambo, April 1964
… and interior by slave traders, who seized thousands of Africans and flooded the slave market with slaves from … the pretence of a franchise. The Transkeian…
Paper Presented to the International Conference for Sanctions Against South Africa, 1 April 1964, London
… and interior by slave traders, who seized thousands of Africans and flooded the slave market with slaves from … the pretence of a franchise. The Transkeian…
African Claims in South Africa by Dr Xuma, ANC Conference, 1943
… Including "The Atlantic Charter from the Standpoint of Africans within the Union of South Africa" and "Bill of … in the occupied countries in Europe. In…
A celebration of 70 years of ‘African Claims’ - ANC by Zizi Kodwa, 11 May 2015, South Africa
… spokesperson, May 10 2015 African National Congress 1943 Africans’ Claims in South Africa (1) PREFACE In the following … of the occupied countries in Europe…
Extracts from Mandela’s speeches by Sapa, 6 December 2013
… for peaceful agitation and struggle have been closed. Africans no longer have the freedom even to stay peacefully … last year the police went from house to…
EventUN warns Africa of the scourge of HIV
… states in Addis Adaba that more than eighty million Africans may die from Aids by 2025. The numbers could soar to … taken to fight the disease. More than…
Document 118 - Johannesburg District Communist Party, Call to a Non-European United Front!
… refuse to submit to these inroads. At the same time Africans are being attacked in the FAGAN BILLS which aim at … the "Native Taxation Bill," a scheme is…
EventWalter Sisulu, Raymond Mhlaba and Ahmed Kathrada address the public after 26 years
… in Johannesburg, was attended by thousands of South Africans. It was the first time that these leaders were able to speak to South Africans after 25 years…
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… in order to remove voting rights of Coloured South Africans. The process to change the constitution that … offices were constantly learning of laws that came…