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ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
1928 Fatima Meer was born in Durban, daughter of Moosa and Amina Meer. 1940s Established literacy classes for adults in her father's garage She spent…
SAHO Timeline and Milestones
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ArticleCato Manor timeline 1650-2007
1650 Earliest known history - the Nqondo clan occupy the land now known as Cato Manor 1730 They are replaced by the Ntuli clan - it is unclear what…
EventChumani Maxwele ignites the #RhodesMustFall Movement at UCT
On 9 March 2015, Chumani Maxwele threw human excrements at a statue of Cecil John Rhodes that was situated on the campus of the University of Cape Town, on…
EventSoweto agrees to pay rent
In a meeting between the Soweto People's Delegation (SPD) and,and the Transvaal Provincial Administration an agreement was reached bringing to an end a five…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… 'winning hearts and minds' (WHAM) of the masses by token township upgrading. At the top of the system is the State …
A Biography of Ernest Cole by Anna Hutchinson
… grapes, they are black and white. Drive along the bumpy township road from Vlakvontein towards Pretoria and you will … April 1966 he was working on a story…
ArchiveWhy The EFF Is A Fascist Political Party by Gareth van Onselen, 26 March 2018
… (EFF), gestures during a media briefing in Alexandra township near Sandton, South Africa August 17, 2016. … at the launch of EFF's election manifesto in…
Address to the Annual Conference of the Natal, 23 November 1951
… about the removal of Sophiatown and the Western Native Township but it is not said where the Africans will be taken … about the removal of Sophiatown and the…
ArchiveRoseinnes Daniel Phahle by Allison Drew
… on 21 March 1936, Roseinnes Phahle grew up in Alexandra Township. From 1950 to 1952 he boarded at St Peter’s School …
ArchiveRemembering French Investments In Apartheid South Africa, 17 December 2013
… 1974 [4] . On 16 June 1976, thousands of students from the township of Soweto (Johannesburg) demonstrated against school …
A volatile case of Afrikan vs. Indian in KwaZulu-Natal by Jackie Shandu, 7 April 2015, South Africa
… of Afrikans in a certain levels of their workforce. Township shopping malls, restaurants and banks will also be …
We are the soldiers of Sisulu by Thabo Mbeki 2003
… workers strike and the mass struggles of 1950 in Alexandra Township. Walter Sisulu's commitment to our movement and our …
New Generation Sculpture
… mediation of the 'art world' in the creation of the 'township' style. However he and many of the other critics who …
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the anti-racist day meeting of the Greater London Council, 21 March 1984, London
… 1960, 69 Africans were brutally murdered in the black township of Sharpeville, South Africa, when police fired on …
Address to the Anti-Racist Day Meeting of the Greater London Council by O. R. Tambo, London, 21 March 1984
… 1960, 69 Africans were brutally murdered in the black township of Sharpeville, South Africa, when police fired on …
ArchiveThe Black Consciousness Movement and Steve Biko By Jonathan Ansumana
… insults, but vents it on his fellow men in the township and the property of black people” (Biko and Stubbs, …
Nelson Mandela’s address to rally in Durban 25 February 1990
… serve the people must be established in every school, township, village, factory and farm. Since my release, I have …
EventThe PAC is formed
An Africanist group led by Robert Sobukwe and Potlako Leballo were frustrated by the multi-racial character of the African National Congress (ANC). They echoed…
ArchiveCHAPTER 3 - Unprepared by Howard Barrell
… so as not to endanger ‘the allotted function of the township as a pool of labour power for the white metropolis’. … machinery helped them stay briefly in…
Mafika Gwala’s Books Catalogue
… Gwala, Mafika Pascal. 'The bangalala.' (SUBJECTS: Black township life ; Illegitimate baby ) Gwala, Mafika Pascal. … 'Biting in lumps.' (SUBJECTS: Cities,…
ArchiveUrban crisis and the apartheid state response: South African housing policy in the 1980s
A dissertation presented in partial fulfilment of the MSc in Urban Planning (Housing in Development), submitted to the University College, London (Development…
EventThe Liquor Laws Amendment Bill comes into effect
Location: back to this day in history search archive The Liquor Act, which was passed on 23 June 1927, prohibited Africans and Indians from serving liquor,…
EventNelson Mandela is free
On this day, Nelson Mandela was released unconditionally from prison after 27 years. Accompanied by his then-wife Winnie, he left the Victor Verster prison …
EventSipho Gumede, South African jazz legend, dies
Born in the predominantly Indian community of Cato Manor near Durban, Sipho Gumede started playing music on a homemade guitar. He joined his first band at the…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu Timeline 1918 - 2011
… was removed, but she was prohibited to leave her own township of Orlando and she had to continue to report the …
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… a permit. He is found guilty of entering the Coloured township of Heatherdale without a permit and fined ten …
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA)
… to Biko. Variava had been active in Lenasia, the Indian township outside Johannesburg, and had been a member of the …
Ramifications of South Africa’s Dop System by Alexandra Larkin
… The Pebbles Project works with wine farm workers and township communities and the many children whose lives are …
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
… fired on protestors, was murdered in Pabalello, a Black township in Upington. In April 1988, after a two-year trial, …