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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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…