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EventA consumer boycott is called in Boksburg
The town councils of Vosloorus and Reiger Park staged a consumer boycott in Boksburg on the East Rand (now Ekurhuleni municipality, Gauteng). The boycott, by…
Freedom Part to Host Ken Oosterbroek Legacy Exhibition
Many South Africans have heard of the ‘Bang Bang Club,’ a nickname given to four South African photographers who captured the dying years of apartheid through…
EventAfrican bus boycott lasting ten weeks is initiated in Johannesburg and Pretoria.
When the Public Utility Transport Corporation (PUTCO) increased the bus fare in 1957, it was met with resistance from the public. More than 80 percent of the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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,…
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 …
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, …
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 …
PlaceCenturion, Gauteng
… 'Doornkloof, Irene and Lyttelton'. The initial Lyttelton Township was marked out on the Farm: 'Droogegrond', in 1904 … of Doornkloof, Irene and Lyttelton…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes
… on missions in the West Rand and Soweto, including Orlando Township. This Arabic quotation was cited by Arthur Barlow in … a leading figure in squatter…
Archive2001 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2001
… Mdantsane and Motherwell in the Eastern Cape; * Alexandra Township in Gauteng; and, * Galeshewe in the Northern Cape. … only be able to act immediately with…