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BiographyMoosa “Mosie” Moolla
Moosa “Mosie” Moolla was born in the small, (then) western Transvaal town of Christiana on 12 June 1934 where his father ran a successful import-export…
BiographyPetrus Nzima Nyawose
… spent most of his working hours at the offices of the Black Allied Workers Union (BAWU), where he chaired the … exile, member of Black Allied Workers Union,…
BiographyMakhosi “Tholi” Nyoka
… stopped the vehicle transporting the MK combatants and ‘a black man jumped out and opened fire with an AK-47 rifle. The …
ArticleFanakalo: the language of mining culture
… nineteenth century. [5] Fanakalo ‘became the vernacular of black labourers in the mines’: it ‘encompassed instructions … mining companies for labourers and…
BiographySonja Schlesin
… Amendment Ordinance and Immigration Restriction Act or “Black Act” . When the Restriction Act came into force in … into South Africa. He was not, however,…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt's landscapes of high voltage by Melvyn Minnaar, 21 November 2014
… underbelly of poverty. Photographed from that particular viewpoint, the smooth bronze mannequin of Frances Baard on a …
BiographyMartin Plaut
… Labour Party. Martin Plaut's publications include: Power! Black workers, their unions and the struggle for freedom in …
BiographyRomeo Zamani Makhanya
… a unique space within the city where creative black artists could engage and interact. It was here that the …
BiographyPresident Seretse Khama
… economy, administration and relations with other Black African states were repaired and developed. During his …
BiographyPaul Stopforth
… for the next seven years. Inspired by the death of Black Consciousness leader Steve Biko in 1978, the artist …
BiographyFlorence Barbara Ribeiro
… When Ribeiro went to the back of the shop, she found that black people were served from a small window. She went back …
BiographyHeidi Holland
… apart, incised tissue, as Patrikios sawed through a black Zimbabwean’s leg. In the ensuing racial uproar, the …
Mme Makwena Matlala
… a ‘chieftainess of the Matlalas’ but because she ‘was a black woman she could be insulted, slapped, stripped. From …
BiographyReginald (Reggie) September
… political debate on the inequalities suffered by black people. His political involvement began when he came …
BiographyHarriet Bolton
… built and began a programme to establish trade unions for black workers who were barred from joining trade unions by …
BiographyEnoch Mgijima
… of that year he began baptising his followers in the Black Kei River near his home at Ntabelanga. Because of his …
BiographyMosiuoa Gerard Patrick "Terror" Lekota
… his ideas. He moved towards non-racialism and away from Black Consciousness ideology. Lekota was released from …
BiographyBlanche la Guma
… subsequently banned. The Nursing Act discriminated against black nurses by promoting segregation and the dominance of …
The people armed, 1984-1990
… more daringly for symbolic military targets that rallied black opinion behind the ANC. For instance, the car bomb … ability to operate inside the country…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… more daringly for symbolic military targets that rallied black opinion behind the ANC. For instance, the car bomb … ability to operate inside the country…
Beyers Naudé: former General-Secretary of the South African Council of Churches and before that Director of the Christian Institute interview with Rupert Taylor, 4 February 2000, Northcliff, Johannesburg
… realize whom we’ll all be meeting there, but from my viewpoint I felt it was, you know, this is a key … the majority of the people who would govern us would…
BiographyMagasvarie Govender
… Secondary School, one of her teachers gave her a copy of a Black Consciousness booklet which featured women activists …
BiographyMohamed Ismail Dinat
… and poverty. He also predicted that the rise of a ‘black bourgeoisie’ would simply be a continuation of gross …
BiographyDr. Neil Hudson Aggett
… diseases of workers. He worked mainly in overcrowded Black hospitals in Umtata, Eastern Cape and Tembisa, …
BiographyCassim Mohammed Bassa
… so, Bassa was often subjected to humiliation for being black. He was either not allowed to attend welfare meetings …
BiographySir Ernest Oppenheimer
… out that he was the first to provide adequate housing for Black mineworkers and their families on the copper mines in …
BiographySamora Machel
… activities in a hospital where he protested that the black nurses were paid less than whites, who were doing the …
BiographyPrince Senzangakhona James Mahlangu
… fraudster" as its new anti-corruption head and first black treasury director. Mahlangu refused to vote on the …
BiographyBasil Lewis (Dolly) D’Oliveira
… approached, D’Oliveira realised that he had no future as a Black cricketer in South Africa. D’Oliveira wanted to play in …
BiographyBiddy Partridge
… South Africa (1990) Opposites (1991) - children's book of black and white pictures. Women by Women: 50 Years of Women's …