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ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications by Allison Drew
… Many of the ALSC members had been involved with the exiled Black Consciousness Movement of Azania. Thus, although they were Marxists and socialists, they did…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… seemed uncertain. In April 1969 fourteen independent black states from Central and East Africa met in Zambia to … position of independent African states. It…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… responded with unrestrained brutality. Across Soweto 18 Black people were killed and Mandela stayed in a nurses' … attempted adultery or related immoral acts…
ArticleThe Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial, 1984
… chaos in the court. A date was set for the sixteen men to face trial in the Pietermaritzburg Supreme Court. Mohamed … been given the choice either to work…
ArticleThe Politics Behind Water
… it to specific groups. In 2002 there were still 14 million Black South Africans without running water as previous laws … the 1913 Land Act was introduced,…
ArticleGertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… fulfilled her mother’s dream for her to become an educated Black woman in South Africa. Her journey led her to become a … of Documents Act of 1952, had begun…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa
… 000 people died from AIDS in South Africa in 2007. Women face a greater risk of HIV infection. On average in South …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… views and opinions of 85% of country’s future citizens (black people) not even considered in these discussions. … of white citizens. However, a small number…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… January, Security Police in Port Elizabeth, detain three black civil rights leaders after the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation (PEBCO) decide to…
ArticleIndentured Indian labourers and their struggle for citizenship in South Africa by Dr Brij Maharaj
… only effective strategy for a great state to adopt is to face responsibility fairly and squarely, to do away with the …
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… by Cecil John Rhodes), which the dominating notion that Black labour was cheaper to use in mines and on farms. It is … economic impoverishment and exclusion…
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
… and 1963 Poqo activists carried out attacks against both black and white targets, particularly in the Cape and … sentenced to death for the murder on 18…
ArticleThe Seriti Commission
… [xxxii] Defence Web. 2021. Seriti Commission judges could face misconduct charges. 12 May. Available: Seriti Commission judges could face misconduct charges …
ArticleA Luta Continua Dialogues
… is an international dialogue series, bringing together Black and Indigenous activists, community workers, and …
ArticleAbstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes Conference
… Niekerk The Fruits of the 1973 Durban Strikes: A Powerful Black Trade Union Movement. Are they still on track or are … The British Government, The Trade…
Women’s Food Committees in Cape Town during the 1940s
… the distribution of food, these women went on to tackle black marketeers who were accumulating food and selling it at … Durban. According to Sarah Carneson ,…
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… within Afrikaner families who perceived them as the black sheep of the family; boere seuns who had wandered from … and burial of its local cultural…
Biography of Bessie Emery by Elizabeth Venditti
… ABSTRACT: Bessie Emery was the first black South African woman to publish a collection of short … because her mother was white and her father was black. [ii]…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… attempted adultery or related immoral acts” between black and white people. The Act in essence criminalised … for unity among Africans and redefines the…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
… talent, Buthelezi was among the country’s most influential black leaders for the majority of his long and remarkable … were the 10 impoverished rural areas…
ArticleSouth African Student Organisation (SASO)
… in 1968 after some members of the University of Natal’s Black Campus SRC (Student Representative Council) decided to … In the 1960s White members became…
ArticleAZAPO’s Women’s Wing - Imbeleko
… formed in 1982 to address the specific challenges faced by black women under apartheid. The organisation emerged from … women as central to the nurturing and…
Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA)
… interracial unions, it was not opened to membership of Black unions. The council adopted the policy of accepting membership of only registered unions…
ArticleA brief history of domestic service in South Africa
… [vi] . Poor housing and the fact that they were mixed with black employees in homes with several maids deterred white … domestic service had changed into a…
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
… of publications that assembled and edited stories from a black perspective and targeted a black audience was due largely to entrepreneurial white … woman is…
ArticleLand, Labour and Apartheid
… the land in the hands of the British. The rights of the black population were generally not taken into account, … they did still live scattered across South…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… The African people know that their unity is vital. In the face of violence, many strugglers for freedom have had to … of the South African Students…
ArticleMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) - Timeline: 1890-1899
… feet. On being refused, he gave a brutal blow on Gandhi's face. But at Standerton the coach was changed and the rest of … to return to India with Government…
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… and later specialised in Intelligence. Women and the Black Consciousness Movement in the 1970s The Black Consciousness Movement, led by Steve Biko, was a new…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… from ordinary civil rights in South Africa. (1 x 2) (2) Black South Africans. Comment on the meaning of the following … laws that exclusively reserved jobs…