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Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… Union. [v] Now, he was fighting on behalf of black South Africans instead of his own people. The South African … an empathy and understanding towards black…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… Pass laws were a means of trying to control South Africans of getting into the city, finding better work, and … is something that touches my heart. I appeal…
Executive summary of the statement of the National Executive Committee of the ANC delivered by President Jacob Zuma at the 100th anniversary of the ANC, Mangaung 8 January 2012
… as colonies and dependencies. As a race, virtually all Africans had been reduced to subjects. Many years later, in … can be traced back to the first major…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2012
… as colonies and dependencies. As a race, virtually all Africans had been reduced to subjects. Many years later, in … can be traced back to the first major…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
… and had a negative effect on both white and black South Africans. The shortage of skilled labour, which was needed to … were signs that Verwoerd’s ideology…
The 1994 South African Election by Phyllis Jordan
… that has ruled that country since 1948. Most black South Africans will be voting for the first time. I say “most” … the elections have raised a lot of…
ArticleSouth African Film
… make its own feature films, telling stories about South Africans and reflecting the varied lives we lead here. … to distribute them widely. A lack of good…
ArchiveBlack Sash / Sash
… in which the Black Sash Advice Offices helped hundreds of Africans experiencing problems as a direct result of the …
EventThe last quagga in the world dies in a zoo in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
… 'Plains zebra' subspecies. Following that, a team of South Africans have been working since 1987 to recreate the quagga …
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ArchiveJoint Statement on the Durban Riots, by A. W. G. Champion of the ANC (Natal) and Dr. G. M. Naicker of the Natal Indian Congress [n.d.]
… between our peoples. We sympathise with all those Africans and Indians who received injuries as a result of …
EventSS Mendi sinks in the English Channel on the way to France
… of the First World War (1914-1919). A total of 616 South Africans, including 607 black troops serving in the South …
EventUN Security Council urges SA government to end Rivonia Trial
… the course of events in the UN negotiations with the Africans. By gaining the initiative, Britain (and the US) …
EventDetectives testify against members of the ANC and the Congress Alliance in the infamous Treason Trial
… on 20 November 1955. Fani quoted Ndimba as saying 'Today Africans must show we mean to get freedom. By our struggle we …
EventUDF members challenge the government to arrest them on charges of high treason
… about two million white, mixed-race, and black South Africans. It was the largest and most powerful legal …
EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
… drastically reduce the education standards of Black South Africans. Click here to read Tutu's acceptance speech. …
EventLeaders of six homelands reject new constitution
… to Coloureds and Indians, but still excluded Africans from parliament, leaders of six Black homelands …
EventArmscor’s Chairman announces the production of a record breaking South African artillery system
… work of a Canadian engineer Gerald Bull. However the South Africans refined the design to such an extent, that the …
EventThe South African security police bombed two houses in Manzini, Swaziland
… attacked and destroyed three houses and killed 16 South Africans and a Portuguese national, Jose Ramos, who bore a …
EventMazizi Maqekeza, ANC member, is shot dead whilst in hospital in Maseru, Lesotho
… Mazizi Maqekeza and Mbulelo Ngona were among the many South Africans who fled across the border to join the African …
EventSir Benjamin D’Urban, for whom the city Durban was named, assumes office as Governor of the Cape of Good Hope
… after being criticized for his harsh behaviour towards Africans. Evidence of his unfair treatment was given before a …
EventStampede kills twelve people in Harare
… and mostly plastic bottles onto the pitch after the South Africans had scored their second goal. The police responded …
EventThe Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA) disbands
… was associated with attacks on and murders of White South Africans. Most of these murders and attacks reportedly took …
Cutting Through The Mountain
… The Mountain is a collection of interviews with South Africans - most of them prominent and all of them Jewish - …
EventAugustine Makalakalane, former SA National soccer team player is born
… affectionately known as Bafana Bafana at a time when South Africans were still warming up to the idea of competing on …
PlaceRugby Museum, V & A Waterfront, Cape Town
… team. In an iconic moment known well to nearly all South Africans, newly elected President Nelson Mandela, wearing a …
Document 19 - The D. F. Malan Accord
… of Indians in the country created panic among white South Africans. Afrikaners and British alike were afraid of being …
EventSouth African Indian Congress opposes "Ghetto Act"
… of 1946) or "Ghetto Act". The Act deprived the Asian South Africans of communal representation and took away their …
Address at the Launch of the Millenium Labour Council, 7 July 2000
… formation bears witness yet again to the capacity of South Africans to find innovative ways of addressing seemingly … transform our country. It suggests to…
Presidential Address to the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Natal Indian Congress, Durban, November 21, 1958
… to lead our country on the path of democracy. Indian South Africans form the smallest group of our country’s … Indian Congress has a history of which all…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
… fundamental racial issue which applies to all Asiatics and Africans, and the so-called coloured races. So long as this … should, therefore, support it. It…