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ArticleGrade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948
… a depiction of the conflict between the Government and the Black/ African population of the country, where the … Sharpeville massacre occurred due to the…
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… in 1824. 1877 The first biography ever written about a black South African was published. It was written by John A. … It has been criticised for its silence…
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… began to circulate inside the country the following year. Black Consciousness and the Student movement Steve Biko … Alongside these infiltration activities,…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1910-1919
… is founded on racial segregation and disenfranchisement of black people except for a small number who previously … laws that widen “the racial divide”. This…
ArticleA history of Apartheid in South Africa
… of people according to whether they were white, coloured, black, Indian or Asian. People would then be treated … Only a small percentage of South Africa was…
“Caught in the toils of our own selfishness”: Paton’s exploration of causes of, and responses to, societal failings in Cry, The Beloved Country by Eleanor Evans
… Africa and the way in which it discriminates against the black population. The novel has been heavily criticised by … in which the state and the white…
Apartheid - The early 1980s
… satisfy white South Africans, form relations with other black countries in Africa and reduce internal black resistance. Botha also realized the strength of…
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
… 1958 The photographer, Peter Magubane , is the first black South African to win the Press Photo of the Year Award. … work at the London School of Printing,…
Labour and Mining Revolution 1886-1940s
… what was left of the African traditionally ruled African (Black) territories in Southern Africa. The capitalist and … the consolidation of a racially defined…
ArticleThe Homelands
… thus denying them protection and any remaining rights a Black could have in South Africa. In other words, Bantustans … were established for the permanent…
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… traditional Xhosa harmonic patterns. The development of a black urban proletariat and the movement of many black workers to the mines in the 1800s meant that…
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
… and take the bold step of withdrawing the town's entire black labour force, leading to a situation of near panic … erupted at the meeting and the police…
ArticleTimeline for Grade 12.4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
… of Democrats, and the Colored People’s Congress. The Black Sash is founded by white women who protested against … over the age of 16 year to take part in the…
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
… on 12 September, Steve Biko was murdered. In October all Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) aligned political, … that lasted several weeks. By the end of…
ArticleANC Origins and Background
… in 1912 as a result of many grievances. This included black dissatisfaction with the South Africa Act of 1910 that … War and numerous laws that controlled…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… settlers as they encounter a number of different groups of black people who are occupying the land. 1658 28 March, 170 … Town. Previous to this only a…
ArticleA Culture of Survival
… did not keep pace with the cost of subsistence, and most black families lived below the bread line. Black workers' wages Black families often had to…
ArticleDrum Magazine
… dynamic changes that were taking place among the new urban Black South African – African, Indian and Coloured – … of writers and photographers who changed…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… and economic independence and the post-war systems left Black, Coloured and Indian people completely marginalised. … Chinese to undercut any resistance by…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… on Saturday mornings. This prison had cells for white and black male offenders, the death row cells, cells for white and black female offenders and a cell…
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… Biko’s brutal death made him a martyr in the history of Black resistance to White hegemony. It inflamed Black anger and inspired a rededication to the…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa 1910
… as a population, Europeans were vastly outnumbered by the Black population of South Africa, prevented the British from … the terms an insistence on universal…
ArticleBirth of the African Mine Workers’ Union
… he was also a leader in the South African Communist Party. Black workers were introduced to trade unionism by the early … workers' solidarity." Indeed…
ArticlePartial State of Emergency, July 1985
… owned by progressive whites and included those owned by black collaborators. Although the UDF supported consumer … Union (MAWU), rather than by the UDF, and…
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… most notably by two strands: those aligned to the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), and those aligned with … of SASM and its relation to the BCM,…
ArticleCouncil policies and practice
… approach to reforms, abolishing laws that made life for Black, Coloured and Indian people difficult, but at the same … as influx control). The Council noted…
ArticleThe impact of the War on Agriculture and Land
… War of 1899-1902 . In this process it was poor White and Black farmers who were disadvantaged by the war. Combined … Act and the increased demand for cheap…
Article1970’s: Poetry Timeline
… second book of poetry, Where White is the Colour, where Black is the Number , is published by Ravan Press. 1975 Sipho … by AD Donker. 27 June, Where white is…
Women’s Enfranchisement Association of the Union (WEAU)
… its early days the WEAU, while not specifically excluding black women, was an exclusively white movement made up … and simultaneously minimized the…
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… The ensuing struggle was not so much a contest between Black and White races as a struggle for water, grazing and … to move to the nearest urban areas to…