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ArticleA history of Apartheid in South Africa
… of a different race generally brought suspicion upon you, or worse. More than this, apartheid was a social system which … to whether they were white,…
The girl child
… they care less about the education of girls than of boys, or they simply do not have the money. The DoE came up with … by attitudes toward sexual involvement…
In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
… interpretations are often influenced by their backgrounds or their involvement/connection to the event. To read an … support MK had was the menacing and…
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… that he had never fired any police officer for brutality or any related misconduct, and he strenuously denied the … 1977. The principal leaders were either…
ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
… reflected in Tabata’s statement: ‘Our test is: whether or not a man applies non-collaboration. Questions of colour, race, sex or creed do not enter.’ Tabata…
Africa’s photojournalists: The wars are not over by Greg Marinovich (Daily Maverick), 25 June 2013
… War photographers are either sleazy and glamorous, or noble and glamorous. At least this is what you will think if you believe the various literary or big…
Document 26 - S. P. Bunting, Statement on the Kuusinen Thesis1 , presented at the Sixth Comintern Congress, 20 August 1928
… 1928 Comrades, I should like to have spoken on colonial or at least on South African matters in general but in the … is more revolutionary and effective than…
Mafika Gwala speaks to Andrea Meeson about not living in the shadows
… for himself. He is not in the habit of “writing for glory” or donning the “masks of etiquette” that might put him in the … of mind and neither Gwala nor his…
PlaceApryntjiesberg / Prentjiesberg
… which is an historical word for a freed slave or a cheeky insolent person or a person of mixed blood, could also be referring to these …
Black ViewPoint - The New Day by C.M.C. Ndamse
… turning out mere corporation lawyers, skilled accountans or entomologists. What it is interested in, and this I hope … its cataracts of change, we cannot be…
Country Divided in Black and White by Holland Cotter, 1 July 2010
… doing a springy little look-at-me dance. Only at a second or third glance do you notice what could be the picture’s … had instituted a national policy of…
Chapter 22. A Slight Case of Blackmail - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… agreement for the industry, about certificates of service, or even the rate of pay to which she was entitled. As she was … to order an employer, convicted…
XI - The Verdict
… inquest centres on whether the evidence points to an act or omission on the part of the police, doctors or prison officials, which led to the death of the…
Document 4 - B.M. Kies “The Background of Segregation”, Address delivered to the National Anti-CAD Conference, 29 May 1943
… - and he has believed this. The Coloured man is told that or because the "blood of the white man" flows in his veins - … anyone except Coloured voters,…
Notes on the Life of Ernest Cole 1940–1990 by Gunilla Knape
… since 2008. It was difficult to find people who knew him or knew about him, because he “compartmentalized” them, i.e. … still be many people whom I have not…
EventNelson Mandela is appointed the Secretary of the National Action Council
… act. * We call on all Africans not to cooperate or collaborate in any way with the proposed South African Republic or any other form of Government which…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 3 - What is Your Name, Age, and Whose Slave are You? by Rayda Jacobs
… felt that they would not be of much use for the next four or five years. A second group - 228 in number - arrived in … believe that labourers from overseas…
PlaceNqamakwe
… for the establishment of a technical training institute. or what later was a High School! The village of Nqamakwe was … a Xhosa language (one of the Bantu…
Extract from a speech at the opening of the academic year at the University of Stellenbosch on 22 February 1971
… generations, each generation being involved to a lesser or greater extent. Your turn and opportunity might come … is faced with two possibilities - the way…
EventWorldwide speculation begins that a bright flash detected over the southern Indian Ocean was a South African nuclear test
… four decades later, the event, known as the Vela Incident or the "September 22 event," has never been conclusively … involved, known as Vela 6911 (also…
David Goldblatt: oblique apartheid look by Kenneth Baker, 5 December 2012
… into that community except if they had a permit to enter, or if they were guests. Once you understand that, I don't … could be completely wrong - that he had…
Document 42 - “Boycott the Dummy Elections: 2 000 Demonstrate AT Mass Rally”, The Torch , National Edition, 1 April 1958
… telegrams and other of solidarity from 43 organisations or communities in the Cape Province. PURPOSE OF CAMPAIGN In … gathering of people who had never had…
Conclusion: A Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
… willingly give up portions of their ill-gotten gains or that the state has enormous financial reserves which will …
Report of the Coolie Commission of 1872
… objected to the enforced deductions when they were absent or ill They were dissatisfied with their food rations, …
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1930-1939
… fast unto death, from food of any kind, save water with or without salt and soda" against MacDonald's Award of …
ArticlePan Africanist Congress (PAC)
… ” lists those organisations that are historically related or were at some point affiliated to the PAC. …
Indian Community in Lenasia
… of all races, including poorer White people, mixed more or less freely, had always irked those who wanted to see … of Johannesburg. These students would…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985 by Sean Field
… happened in the context of people living in their racial or cultural ghettos, with their own experiences, histories … where people explain their lack of…
Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985
… happened in the context of people living in their racial or cultural ghettos, with their own experiences, histories … where people explain their lack of…
EventAn international measure is adopted in Antwerp to block rebel groups from trading conflict diamonds
… According to the United Nations (UN), conflict diamonds, or blood diamonds, are "diamonds that originate from areas controlled by forces or factions opposed…