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Hendrik Verwoerd: 10 quotes by Hendrik Verwoerd (Politics Web), 20 September 2016
… The 6th September 2016 was the 50th anniversary of the assassination of National Party Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd on the … we find in the much discussed…
PlaceSophiatown
… people moved to Cities in search for jobs. As the number of Black people increased in the Cities, the Johannesburg … (JCC) passed Slum Clearance programmes…
EventBantu Women’s League protests against pass laws
… resistance on 7 January 1919 against the application of pass laws to women. What precipitated the 1919 protest was … Bantu Women's League (BWL) was formed in…
The 1994 South African Election by Phyllis Jordan
… men in the Cape Province had a limited franchise. One of them, Dr. W.B. Rhubusana, represented the Wodehouse … it hoped would have a stake in the system and,…
News SABC ‘should be hitting the panic button’ over Jimi Matthews’ resignation by Ndileka Lujabe (City Press), 27 June 2016
… at the broadcaster is wrong and I can longer be part of it,” he said in his resignation letter to Professor Mbulaheni Maguvhe, chairperson of the SABC board…
Chapter 2
… be viewed as one further step in the political development of the African people. In order to appreciate this step more fully, let us briefly review the…
EventZulu King Zwelithini threatens to establish a separate Zulu state
… covering the KwaZulu homeland and Natal province as an act of insubordination against the government and African … Zwelithini was always seen to be…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Workers, New Unions
… As a result, craft workers were deskilled and many of their jobs fell away. New workers, black and white, took over more and more of the productive work…
PlaceGrey Street Complex
… is the teaming business and residential Indian sector of the Durban City Centre , and is also the educational, cultural and business heart of; the Natal…
PlaceEcho Caves, Limpopo
… On the border of Limpopo and Mpumalanga , South Africa . The caves, today … as a tourist attraction in 1959. The Echo Caves made up of some of the oldest…
19. Lawrence asks for exemption from discriminatory laws
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … exemption from such laws as the Franchise Law Amendment Act,…
A new total strategy emerges July 1990 -June 1991
… From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman The unbanning of … illegal under various laws such as…
PlaceGugulethu Township
… 15 km away from Cape Town. The name is a contraction of igugu lethu, which is Xhosa for 'Our Pride'. This township … along with Nyanga in the 1960's. The…
EventApartheid becomes official policy
… Havenga. Dr D. F. Malan became prime minister at the age of seventy-four and formed the first government dominated by Afrikaners. Havenga was appointed the…
Nelson Mandela Letter to the United Party, 23 May 1961
… by Nelson Mandela to Sir de Villiers Graaff, Leader of the White Opposition United Party, 23 May 1961. Sir De Villiers Graaff, Leader of the Opposition,…
ArchiveNUM le Chamber of Mines li ne li nkile leeto mmoho ho ea ithuta ho hong mane Geremane. presidente oa NUM le oa com ba hlalosa tsa leeto la bona (article written in Sotho language)
… National Union of Mineworkers … NUM le Chamber of Mines li ne li nkile leeto mmoho ho ea ithuta ho hong mane …
Chapter Three - The Black Republic Question and the Third Period
… From the book: Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson … heavy social disabilities and political backwardness, the…
2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location
… and Pass Laws, and Africans in countryside towns, weary of tightened restrictions and growing unemployment, began … offence under the recently enacted Native…
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… with different ideological and theoretical views. One of these views was towards a more more Africanist approach. … means to suppress the liberation struggle…
III - Black Consciousness
… very existence was regarded as threatening the stability of the apartheid state, and the state turned the formidable strength of its restrictive laws and its…
Pravin Gordhan on a leash by Daniel Silke (Politics Web), 16 May 2016
… the status quo. How apt therefore that the current saga of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan fits so well into this … Africa is being treated to an unedifying…
June 16
… Red, black and white poster. Photographs of scenes of South Africa. Unite, resist and act for freedom campaign. …
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Desmond Tutu
… voice against apartheid, first Black Secretary General of the South African Council of Churches , first Black Archbishop of the Anglican Church … his…
ArticleA Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
… Anyone who travels over the vast expanse of South Africa is immediately struck by the great variations … under which Black rural people live. The picture of…
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
… culture, develop an Afrikaner economy, and to gain control of the South African government. During the 1930s the … van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge (FAK -…
Bantu Education boycott
… Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner - 'The Bantu Education Act will make African mothers like fowls who lay eggs for … were to go to school only three hours a…
EventViolence erupts during Defiance Campaign
… that followed, four White people were killed. The Campaign of Defiance of Unjust Laws (commonly known as Defiance Campaign) started … to the campaign by…
EventMandela signs SA Constitution into law
… after the first democratic election (1994) the President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, signed the final draft of … law as the Constitution…
EventNavanethem (Navi) Pillay is born
… 1941 in Clairwood, Durban . She went to the University of Natal where she graduated with BA in 1963 and with an LLB … career by doing her articles in Durban…
ArchiveSteven Silver
… poster with black lettering. Black and white photograph of Steven Silver. Words 'Act 4 Wits'. Date stamp on poster of 1937-08-13. …