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My Spirit Is Not Banned - Introduction by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… Schreiner This book tells the story of Frances Baard, a black South African woman who was a trade unionist, political activist and a women's leader both in…
Introduction - My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… This book tells the story of Frances Baard, a black South African woman who was a trade unionist, political activist and a women's leader both in the Eastern…
First Matabele War
… In 1890 Cecil John Rhodes became premier of South Africa with … from a brochure by 'the History Society of Zimbabwe'. In 1888 Rhodes sent Rev. J.S. Moffat to…
EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs' (CAD)
… Long before the inception of apartheid "Coloured" people in South Africa occupied this precarious position between White and Black South Africans. This…
ArchiveThe romantic rewriting of Haile Selassie’s legacy must stop by Dr Yohannes Woldemariam, 4 February 2019
… Haile Selassie, who ruled Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974, died in 1975, but he lives on through the romantic lyrics of the … Marcus Garvey’s famous prophecy: …
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…
Interview with Albert Luthuli by Studs Terkel, 6 May 1963, Chicago
… From Perspective on Ideas and the Arts TERKEL: Here in a suburb of Durban, South Africa, we are sitting with … an African. Originally, Bantu was used to…
Address At Meeting On The Occasion Of The 60th Anniversary Of The Formation Of The South African Communist Party, London, July 30, 1981
… 1981. On this historic occasion our message goes to all in our country, who stand for the complete destruction of the … fighting spirit of Soweto alive. We…
Chapter I - Twenty thousand strong we marched
… what I saw on 9 August 1956 ”” thousands of women standing in silence for a full thirty minutes, arms raised high in the … until they became only one face,…
ArchiveFrom conscience politics to the battlefield
… This thesis examines the ways in which the Liberal Party - the Natal Division in particular … The Party gradually shifted its attention to the voteless black…
Postscript
… book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph ... Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less travelled by, And that … There is burning of cars, houses,…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 3 - South Africa: Culture and Conflict
… be bridged, but there is wide agreement that it existed in the first place and is at the origin of today's … throughout the twentieth century, control the…
ArchiveThe South African Art Collective That Imagined the End of Apartheid by Keenan Teddy Smith, 27 August 2019
… Serote, poet and community organizer who became involved in the African National Congress in 1969, was arrested that … Medu members’ devotion to upending the…
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
… ABSTRACT Heinz Klug is a white man born in South Africa who vehemently fought apartheid from both … he still continued to fight for the rights of the…
EventThe 1st troop ship to set sail after the sinking of the SS Mendi
… Contingent, the recruitment process for troops to assist in World War 1 was not heavily impacted. On the 23rd of March the 1st ship, the Durham Castle,…
EventMafika Gwala born
… poet, writer and BCM member Mafika Gwala was born today in the town of Verulam, KwaZulu-Natal. Soon after joining the … began to write his first poetry and …
Tribute to the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid - Statement at the Meeting of the Special Committee on its Tenth Anniversary by O. R. Tambo, New York, 2 April 1973
… Chairman, Sir, Distinguished representatives, Today, we, black and white, peoples of many nationalities and … It is wonderful for us who have grown up and…
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
… In the 1980s the National Party witnessed a renewed national … and Art as a subject. The second category consisted of black photographers who worked in NGOs…
ArchiveAt the Pompidou by Jeremy Harding, 26 April 2018
… South African labour market,’ Charles van Onselen writes in New Nineveh, ‘has always been dominated by … mining, … story of South Africa’s labouring classes,…
The Atlantic slave trade
… colonies that European countries were starting to develop. In America, for instance, which was a colony of England, … saw a large furnace of copper boiling,…
Address to the Nation on Radio Freedom by O. R. Tambo, 22 July 1985
… Cape, the Witwatersrand and the Vaal Triangle. Already in these areas many people have been arrested. Combined … against the puppet local government…
Address by Oliver Tambo to the Nation on Radio Freedom, 22 July 1985
… Cape, the Witwatersrand and the Vaal Triangle. Already in these areas many people have been arrested. Combined … against the puppet local government…
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… the Voortrekkers to establish the first White settlement in the Eastern Transvaal at Ohrigstad. A second group led by … centre for the Boers. 1840s Boleu…
PlaceMaphikela House
… In 1912, prominent black leaders gathered here and forged the … the ruling party of the country. The house was built in 1926 and was Maphikela’s second…
EventNoble South Africans win Nobel Peace Prize
… occasions. Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli was the first Black African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on 10 … National Congress (ANC), was awarded the…
EventThe siege of Mafeking starts
… forces besieged the small town of Mafeking (now Mafikeng) in the Northern Cape (now North West Province), situated on … town adjacent to Mafeking. Sol…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… In this period early African political organisations were … to register 600 of their followers. 1886 African voters in the Eastern Cape increase from 1150 to…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… Often referred to as "the trial that changed South Africa,” in October 1963, ten leading opponents of apartheid went on … of the South African Students…
ArchiveLetter from Rev G Hawkes, to the Secretary, Van der Walt Commission of Inquiry into the Consolidation of the Ciskei
… Congregational, Lutheran, Methodist and Presbyterian)in the Ciskei. The letter is an urgent request to the commission to stop the wholesale removal of black…
PlaceUniversity of Stellenbosch
… Stellenbosch University the 2nd of the Universities in the picture in the Banner. With an interesting Link In … area formerly called ‘Die Vlakte’, from which…