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PlaceMeadowlands or Ndofaya, in Soweto
… Meadowlands, located in Gauteng Province , South Africa, is a Suburb of Soweto . … the early 1950's during the Apartheid era to accommodate Black residents…
ArchiveDecide our response
… Light grey poster with dark green strip at top with title in grey lettering. Announcement of Student Body Meeting at the SU at 1pm on Tuesday. All other…
EventHenry Olonga, Zimbabwean Cricketer is born
… Henry Khaaba Olonga was born in Lusaka, Zambia, to a Kenyan father and a Zimbabwean … Test debut in 1995, becoming the youngest person and first black person…
PlaceBonteheuwel
… Township situated North of Cape Town. It was created in the 1960's as a "Dumping Site" for coloured people, who … 55 707, of whom 95% were classified as…
EventJournalist Percy Qoboza is released from detention
… was released from detention, together with nine other Black leaders seized in security raids in October 1976. Qoboza was freed as result … in the country for…
What the lives of two South African music giants tell us about culture under apartheid by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 13 July 2017
… Back in 2000, musicians interviewed for my book on music and … and work tells us a great deal about the intersection of black politics and culture under…
ArchiveRally
… September 1984. Speaker Rev F Chikane. White poster with black lettering. Black and white image of man holding cross in one hand and broken handcuff chains…
Address At The Commerce Faculty Graduation Ceremony by Saleem Badat, 10 April 2015, Rhodes University
… It tries to discover the deeper processes at work in society that maintain and reproduce, or/and erode and … movement. It comprises students and academics,…
Document 5 - “Trade Union Notes”, The Bolshevik, March 1920 (Extract)
… The action of the Executive of the Mine Workers' Union in calling upon the miners to scab upon the striking native … racial struggle but a proletarian one',…
EventThe National Union of Mineworkers start South Africa's longest wage strike
… At the time it was the second largest trade union in South Africa. NUM represented mainly Black mineworkers in the gold and coal mines belonging to the…
Notes for address by President Nelson Mandela at a breakfast of the Raadzaal Rotary Club 17 September 1994
… "What is the Communist Party? Lesson 4: What will be Done in the Bantu Republic?", Umsebenzi, 17 March 1934 In our last … English or any other imperialists…
Pan-Africanism was Peter Abrahams’ Country by Tyler Flemming (Africa is a Country), 13 February 2017
… South African-Jamaican writer Peter Abrahams died at 97 in Jamaica, where he has been living for more than 60 years. … in 1935 when the two attended St…
EventThemba Sono is expelled from SASO
… annual General Student Council meeting (2 - 9 July) held in Hammanskraal. Sono's expulsion came after giving a … leaders to advance the party's interests and…
EventTseko Simon Nkoli dies
… On this day in history, prominent activist Tseko Simon Nkoli died of an AIDS related illness. Nkoli was one of the first Black anti-apartheid activists to…
EventThe first ‘Bantustans’ or ‘homelands’ comes into existence when the Transkei Regional Authority is instituted
… After South Africa became a Union, the government wanted Black and White people to live separately, so they set certain areas apart for Black people. Before…
ArchiveA mapping of the KwaZulu Natal political conflict with reference to Inkatha (1990-1993)
… Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree … Faculty of Arts at the University of Port Elizabeth. The Black political…
TRAC (Transvaal Rural Action Committee) Newsletter, 1983 - 1990
… TRAC, the Rural Action Committee, established in 1983 as a project of the Black Sash, published this Newsletter with the intention of … malnutrition. The…
EventAllan Boesak is born
… Allan Boesak, clergyman and politician, is born in Kakemas in South Africa. When other Black political leaders were arrested or in exile Boesak established…
EventSASO adopts the Alice Declaration
… SASO meeting at the Federal Theological Seminary in Alice, Eastern Cape. The Declaration resolved that students nationwide should close down Black…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
… prison sentences were released and many others who were in exile were allowed to return to South Africa. Several … Nelson Mandela served as the first…
Economic Transformation for a National Democratic Society by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… enduring and useful guidance for the ANC as a whole, but in particular for those cadres we deploy in government to … essence of the apartheid system will…
EventWinnie Madikizela-Mandela, former wife of President Nelson Mandela, is born
… , former wife of President Nelson Mandela , is born in Bizana, Pondoland. Madikizela-Mandela was a staunch … ". Madikizela-Mandela played a role in the…
ArchiveChapter 16 Tee Shirts, Music and More Solidarity by Denis Goldberg
… In the months after I started my incessant round of speaking … of the various South African exile groups including the Black Consciousness Movement, the Pan…
Man-made women: Gender, class and the ideology of the volksmoeder by Elsabe Brink
… From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker IDEALISED … under this ordeal; a striking feature was their profound…
ArchiveConclusion by Howard Barrell
… us with a kind of promontory from which we can now, in this conclusion, look back and make summary observations … often lay in a growing realisation among…
CHAPTER 10 - CONCLUSION
… us with a kind of promontory from which we can now, in this conclusion, look back and make summary observations … often lay in a growing realisation among…
EventThe Rand Revolt breaks out
… that affected South Africa as well. Soon after the war, in 1918 and 1919, Black workers across economic sectors went on strike. In 1921 … were a reduction of…
South African Labour Bulletin
… cover of Labour Bulletin, May 1990. Volume 14, Number 8. Black and white photo of public sector workers on the march outside OK in Johannesburg. Black and…
PlaceDiepkloof, Soweto
… Transport routes into Johannesburg. The three main Areas in Diepkloof are each characterised by Settlement type and … the previous Government to accommodate…
ArchiveThe people shall broadcast!
… White poster with black border. Title only in black letters. …