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ArchiveA survey of race relations in South Africa: 1954-1955
… affecting specific groups - The Coloured people, Asiatics, Africans; Regional group planning, Group areas and siting of …
EventHuman Rights Day is celebrated for the first time in South Africa
… of human life happened when a march by ordinary South Africans protesting the Pass Laws turned into a police-led …
EventMass arrests in Pondoland
… Erasmus informed the National Assembly that 4 769 Africans, 2 Europeans and 2 others had been taken into …
EventBruce Fordyce is born
… and was voted 64th in the 2004 Top 100 Great South Africans. …
EventSouth Africa is invited to rejoin Commonwealth of Nations
… members. The invitation came at a time when South Africans and the world alike were beginning to see positive …
3. The Communist Party of South Africa and the Communist International
… had a difficult balancing act in broadening its appeal to Africans while remaining faithful to working class struggles … the Party after its executive opened…
ArticleRand Rebellion 1922
… a roadblock ©Museum Africa In the early days of mining no Africans possessed the skills necessary for deep level, … bands of white men shooting and…
ArticleDrum Magazine
… and broadcaster, supposedly to depict Black South Africans as 'noble savages'. The South African government … focused on providing relevant content for Black…
Apartheid - The early 1980s
… international criticism of apartheid, satisfy white South Africans, form relations with other black countries in Africa … and blacks in descending ranking…
Archive1994 - President De Klerk, State Of the Nation Address, 28 February 1994 (Before National Elections)
… South Africa. * It cannot amend the reality that all South Africans are inextricably interdependent - economically, … It cannot and should not amend the…
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… the pass system to African women, the forcible removal of Africans from the Western Areas of Johannesburg and new labour legislation – in which Africans were…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… and hastened the mass mobilization of black workers.14 Africans, however, were not the only ones to feel alienated. … were expected to think of themselves “…
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, at the opening of the 37th congress of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies Carlton Hotel, Saturday, 21 August 1993
… my remarks tonight. Our national experience as South Africans is dominated by conflict. The three centuries of … governments around the grievances of the…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Foreword
… imprisonments, there was a huge influx of members, mostly Africans into the NEUF. In some quarters, it was felt that … letter from Lembede, whose death we…
Address on Behalf of the Graduating Class at Fort Hare College, delivered at the “Completers’ Social,” by M. R. Sobukwe, October 21, 1949
… College has remained mute on matters deeply affecting the Africans, because, we learn, it feared to annoy the … of course, that what they say has been done…
Robert Sobukwe Speech at the University of Fort Hare as President of the Students’ Representative Council, 21 October 1949
… College has remained mute on matters deeply affecting the Africans, because, we learn, it feared to annoy the Nat … of course, that what they say has been…
Statement by Albert Luthuli on the "Sabotage Act", 6 June 1962
… time. It knows that in the hearts of freedom-loving South Africans of all races, the freedom flame burns too strong to … in a separate development that gives…
Press Conference in Maputo: Comments by Oliver Tambo on South African offer of territory to Swaziland, 5 March 1982
… regime to denationalise some one million black South Africans and throw them into Swaziland. But agreement was … the attempts by Pretoria to deprive a…
ANC statement on more lies inside the Cape Town story, 14 May 2011
… South Africans have now become accustomed to the blatant … member, Ntombikayise Lugalo, to peddle lies amongst South Africans that the party has delivered…
Address On World Aids Day, 1 December 1999
… of South Africa, Today we mark World AIDS Day. As South Africans, we participate in the World AIDS Day events as part … family, our friends, our neighbours…
Address on Accepting an Honarary Doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow, 30 April 1999
… or easy task. Although the lives of millions of South Africans have begun to improve, we face still greater … of apartheid's neglect of the education of most…
ArticleHistory of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa
… Free State and the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek. Many South Africans are the descendents of slaves brought to the Cape … a colonial contact was a two-way…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), King George Hotel, Athens, 24 February 2005.
… rapidly to many parts of the world, including Africa. Many Africans are proud that the ideas of Greek democracy arising … though well-intentioned, were…
Address to the Joint Sitting of the National Assembly and the National Council on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, 31 October 2001
… the 21st Century? It is our firm view that together, as Africans, we must answer that question with a resounding - … of peace, democracy, development and…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bound to strike back by Emilia Potenza
… on the right side of the law, which was designed to keep Africans out of the cities. Laws were also passed to control the movements of Africans both on the…
EventThe Immigration Regulation Act is passed in South Africa
… In the 1930s the Act was extended to not only targeting Africans, but also people from Central and Eastern Europe. …
EventAlbert Luthuli delivers his Nobel Peace Prize Lecture
… in May 1964. Since Luthuli's prize, three other South Africans have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize: Archbishop …
EventProtest against pass laws in Langa
… is something that touches my heart. I appeal to you young Africans to come forward and fight. These passes make the …
EventZola Skweyiya is born
… and children. Under his leadership nearly 10 million South Africans are receiving state grants. Skweyiya is also …
EventThe Bantu Labour Regulations Amendment Bill becomes operative
… bargaining rights for Blacks. The conditions under which Africans - for the first time - had the legal right to …