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ArchiveAfrican Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960, by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… boycotts, stay-at-homes, and rent strikes in the African townships. Perhaps the most significant Congress campaign of … Orange Free State declared that women…
Now You Have Touched the Women - African Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960 by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… boycotts, stay-at-homes, and rent strikes in the African townships. Perhaps the most significant Congress campaign of … Orange Free State declared that women…
EventThomas Titus Nkobi is born
Thomas Titus Nkobi was born in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in Southern Matabeleland. At the age of ten, Nkobi followed his father who was a migrant…
PlaceMohodi
The area of Mohodi ga Manthatha or Mohodi in short was a settlement in the former homeland of Lebowa about 75 km north-west of Pietersburg (now Polokwane). The…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Matomela by Maximiliano Rubio
Her collegue in the anti-apartheid struggle, Hilda Bernstein, describes Florence Matomela as ‘a woman who gave out warmth and life like the African sun, full…
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
The period 1860-1923 is characterised firstly by the introduction of indentured Indian labourers into Natal and of the "passenger" Indians who came to trade,…
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
The fruit-canning industry in South Africa can be traced to the late nineteenth century, when the first jam factories opened in Paarl and Stellenbosch in the…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
Introduction In 1948 the National government was voted into power and instituted apartheid. This lead to an increase in the number of people being…
ArticleCOVID-19 Timeline 2019-2020
… South Africa commences mass testing, particularly in townships and rural areas. Facilities such as drive through …
ArticleA Spiral of Trials by Norman Levy
… the demand for married miners to live with their wives in townships close to the mines. The only response from the …
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
1912 18 May, Walter Ulyate Max Sisulu is born in Engcobo District in the Transkei, in the same year, the ANC was formed. 1920 Walter returns from his…
PlaceAlabama, Klerksdorp
Township 6 km West of Klerksdorp in the North West. It is said to take its name indirectly from the State in South-East America. Named after, the Confederate…
South Africa: Writer Mafika Gwala Passes Away (allAfrica), 9 September 2014
Pretoria — Arts and Culture Minister Nathi Mthethwa has sent his condolences to the family and friends of legendary poet and short story writer, Pascal Mafika…
PlaceCiskei
The Ciskei Bantustan in the Eastern Cape was created as an enclave for the South Africa's Xhosa-speaking people as part of apartheid racial segregation. The…
PlaceFederated Union of Black Artists Arts Centre
The Federated Union of Black Artists Arts Centre was established in 1978 by Benjy Francis, Sipho Sepamla and other artists, writers, actors and musicians in…
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
… the greatest measure of self-government in the urban black townships. To provide services for the townships blacks would have to be educated and trained to…
ArchiveCHAPTER 5 - Armed Propaganda and Non-Colaborattion, Rationalising weakness, August 1979 - December 1980 by Howard Barell
… Freedom Charter, the ANC's programmatic lodestar. In black townships, prototype civic organisations began to develop … initially, local African, but also in…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 76th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1988
… in our entire history. MILITARY OCCUPATION Many of our townships remain under the occupation of the murder squads of … and set on fire by agents of the…
O. R. Tambo Interviewed by Anthony Heard, October 1985
… Lift the state of emergency, pull out the troops from the townships, and the police. And release the political …
Archive2014 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 17 June 2014 (after National Elections)
… begin planning for a major clean-up of our cities, towns, townships, villages, schools and beautify every part of our …
ArchivePetrus Mashishi
… Bantu Administration Boards in urban areas to remove black townships from ‘liberal’ white municipal control. Petrus and …
Address by President, Nelson R. Mandela, at the funeral of Martin Chris Hani FNB Stadium, Soweto, 19 April 1993
… privilege. Our homes remain the tin shacks and overcrowded townships. And no black South African has the vote. They talk …
Document 18 - The Pretoria Minute
… members and volunteers and deepen organisation in me townships and locations. In a number of areas attempts were …
ArchiveRemembering Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for music of the day by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 23 January 2018
Trumpeter, flugelhorn-player, singer, composer and activist Hugh Ramapolo Masekela has passed away after a long battle with prostate cancer. When he cancelled…
Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for the music of today, not yesterday, 29 October 2017
When trumpeter, flugelhorn-player, singer, composer and activist Hugh Ramapolo Masekela cancelled his appearance at the recent Johannesburg Joy of Jazz…
ANC statement on the death of Adelaide Tambo, 31 January 2007
It is with deep regret and a profound sense of loss that the African National Congress has learnt of the death this evening (31 January 2007) of Adelaide Tambo…
ArchiveBirth of a reggae superstar 3 August 1964 by Sam Mathe
In the mid-80s a strange pop phenomenon swept through the shebeens and music festivals of South Africa. Based on the artist's name and song title, everybody…
PlaceInanda, Phoenix
Inanda (isiZulu: Pleasant Place) is a township in Eastern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa that is situated 24 km inland from Durban; it now forms part of eThekwini…
PlaceRichmond
The Village of Richmond was established in 1844 on a portion of the Farm Driefontein, owned by P J van der Merwe. It was named after the Earl of Richmond,…
Archive2014 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 13 February 2014 (before National Elections)
… in state-sponsored violence of the 1980s and 1990s in our townships and villages. Ms Jabu Ndlovu, a former shopsteward … One of the programme will eradicate…