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General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… Act (National States Citizenship Act) No 26: Required all black persons to become citizens of a self-governing … authority. As Minister Connie Mulder stated:…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… criticizes the living conditions that Johannesburg's Black citizens are forced to live under. 1906 Pass Laws for … Commission criticizes living conditions of…
Article1973 Durban Strikes
… the beginning of a turning point in the long struggle of Black, Coloured and Indian workers to build non racial trade … organisations. The third tradition…
Artist groups and educational facilities (1960-1980)
… Due to the apartheid racial classification systems, many black artists were not allowed to further their education and … mainly for white scholars at the…
ArticleInkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
… of apartheid in the 1940s marked major changes for all Black South Africans. In 1953, the South African Government … was only in the 1980?s that membership…
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… in the industrial sector. Segregation legislation against Black, Indian and Coloured South Africans increased during … The Government also sought to tighten…
ArticleQuotations by Oliver Tambo
… society. We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in … economic power, its oppression and…
Biography of Lefifi Tladi by Paul Linck
… [xv] . Lefifi Tladi’s African art and poetry reveals his Black Consciousness outlook, but he never joined a political … South African History Online talks…
ArticleKing Kong the Musical 1959 -1961
… King Kong: An African Jazz , was the first all-Black South African musical which opened in 2 February 1959. … Dhlamini. It helped create a new set of…
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
… position to engage government in dialogues than their Black counterparts. In the early 1930s NUSAS was affected by … to all races. University of Fort Hare…
ArticleOvercoming Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid by Bennett Gwynn
… and their employers symbolised racial relations between Black and White South Africans during this time period. Domestic workers in South Africa were Black…
ArticleMiriam Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts by Connor Kirkpatrick
… the United Nations to show compassion for the actions of Black South Africans. She also appealed to them to try and … folk recording. The album talked about…
History of the Labour Movements in South Africa
… The history of working people, and particularly Black workers, to organise is inextricably tied to the … of Europe, arriving in Southern Africa and joining…
ArticleThe Strikes and Popular and Political Support
… Chief Mangosuthu G. Buthelezi, the Coloured Labour Party , Black Sash , and the South African Institute of Race … workers to join the GFWBF and later the new…
South African Student Organisation Leaders
… Mji 1976 president Drake Koka the first secretary of the Black People's Convention Winnie Kgware First President of … 1972 Sath Cooper Dr. Mampela Ramphele…
ArticleTimeline on the defacing of statues
… Howard Campus is splattered is white paint, covered in black cloth and has written papers stuck on it. 30 March, The … Town has its plinth draped with a…
ArticleThe Langa March, 30 March 1960
… civilians and three non-White police officers. 26 Black policemen and 365 Black civilians were injured – no White police men were … of a state of emergency,…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… acts such as sexual intercourse between White and Black people. Amended in 1957 as Act 23. Suppression of … numbers, the government set up semi-urban…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… and segregating South Africa. The Khoikhoi, San and Black Africans under the British and the Afrikaner republics … farms. White farmers who allowed the…
ArticlePoor Whites and their Political Weapon: Constructing the Kakamas Dam
… maintain a racial hierarchy and separate poor whites from black urban slums, the church’s water scheme also focused on … regain respect and have a higher…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1930-1939
… recognised that there was a need to fix a minimum for Black workers in order to protect the White workers? wages … Representation of Blacks Act No 12 of 1936…
ArticleAfrapix
… by Omar Badsha, Lesley Lawson and a small group of black and white photographers and political activists in … pooled their skills and resources to train…
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… being allowed to live there).The people in question were Black people for who opportunities to own land were severely … from their homes. Similarly, under…
ArticleRichard David Turner Timeline 1941 - 1978
… of Cape Town 1960 Changes to philosophy 1960 Sharpeville – black mass movement curtailed and white opposition groups … lecturer at Rhodes University 1970…
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… only to unskilled work, which was performed mostly by Black people (Dugard 1978: 85; Horrell 1978: 6). Repealed by … 20 of the Mines and Works Amendment Act…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1900-1947
… South Africa accelerated the process of further squeezing Black people off the land. A series of draconian legislation … Masters and Servants Ordinance is…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… government’s secret police. Mandela was nicknamed the ‘Black Pimpernel’ at this time, and repeatedly frustrated the … invisible and unheard, removed by white…
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 110 of 1983
… participation of Coloured and Indian people and exclude Black people. The proposal maintained the central control of … convinced that they would deepen…
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
… on successive governments to ensure a supply of cheap black labour for small businesses and farmers. From 1942 to 1945 wage differences between white and…
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