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ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications by Allison Drew
… Many of the ALSC members had been involved with the exiled Black Consciousness Movement of Azania. Thus, although they were Marxists and socialists, they did…
BiographyOlive Peace Landman
… arrival she discovered that her name was still on the ‘black list’, however the Reverend Allan Hendrickse intervened …
BiographyImam Abdullah Haron
… the Food and Canning Union, and Mrs Eulalie Stott of the Black Sash addressed them on relevant aspects of their …
ArticleThe Politics Behind Water
… it to specific groups. In 2002 there were still 14 million Black South Africans without running water as previous laws … the 1913 Land Act was introduced,…
ArticleGertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… fulfilled her mother’s dream for her to become an educated Black woman in South Africa. Her journey led her to become a … of Documents Act of 1952, had begun…
ArticleSouth Africa’s 2019 General Election - Post Analysis
… privatisation of land and State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), Black Economic Empowerment (BEE). The parties released their … of the Free State, now secretary…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… views and opinions of 85% of country’s future citizens (black people) not even considered in these discussions. … of white citizens. However, a small number…
Chapter IV - Becoming an activist
… vote. It had been a short but bitter battle, in which the Black Sash also played its part. Later in the year came my … into contact with the Garment Workers'…
ArticleThe Roots of Apartheid in the Construction of Buchuberg Dam
… Poor whites also viewed themselves as racially superior to black workers and demanded higher wages for their labour on … as they did not want poor whites…
PlacePanorama Route, Mpumalanga
… Pinnacle: R10 per car (in 2022) God’s Window – A 900m high viewpoint where the entire Mpumalanga Lowveld stretches … Window R10 (in 2022) 'Wonder View'- This…
BiographyHenry Burton
… in 1892 (Willan, p66). He became known for defending black Africans who had fallen foul of various race laws in …
BiographyChief Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk
… blankets, and started a hunger strike when coloured and black prisoners were given different food. Van Wyk refers to …
ArchiveThe women's suffrage movement: The politics of gender race and class by Cheryl Walker
… predicated on racial domination. It was not simply that black women were excluded from the vote. The enfranchisement … and the ruling National Party on…
ArticleA Luta Continua Dialogues, Episode 1: Student Activism
… being formed by recent student activism, the challenges Black students face in predominantly White and Black universities, the need for Universities to…
ArticleDebating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
… movement. [2] The Open Stellenbosch protests were led by black students who argued that Afrikaans as an undergraduate … of instruction at public universities…
ArticleA Luta Continua Dialogues
… is an international dialogue series, bringing together Black and Indigenous activists, community workers, and …
ArticleAbstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes Conference
… Niekerk The Fruits of the 1973 Durban Strikes: A Powerful Black Trade Union Movement. Are they still on track or are … The British Government, The Trade…
Women’s Food Committees in Cape Town during the 1940s
… the distribution of food, these women went on to tackle black marketeers who were accumulating food and selling it at … Durban. According to Sarah Carneson ,…
BiographyChris Hani
… of University Education Act (1959) had put an end to black students attending White universities (mainly the …
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
… talent, Buthelezi was among the country’s most influential black leaders for the majority of his long and remarkable … were the 10 impoverished rural areas…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 2 (2001-2022)
… place, particularly in the form of giving contracts to new black elites. The Guptas were given coal contracts as old … Godinho note that Gigaba styled…
ArticleSouth African Student Organisation (SASO)
… in 1968 after some members of the University of Natal’s Black Campus SRC (Student Representative Council) decided to … In the 1960s White members became…
ArticleAZAPO’s Women’s Wing - Imbeleko
… formed in 1982 to address the specific challenges faced by black women under apartheid. The organisation emerged from … women as central to the nurturing and…
Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA)
… interracial unions, it was not opened to membership of Black unions. The council adopted the policy of accepting membership of only registered unions…
ArticleA brief history of domestic service in South Africa
… [vi] . Poor housing and the fact that they were mixed with black employees in homes with several maids deterred white … domestic service had changed into a…
Dr Mamphela Ramphele interviewed by Rupert Taylor, 16 April 1998, Cape Town
… not PAC, they were largely students who were actors in the Black Consciousness movement. And I’m intrigued that you … Right. So what do you see the…
ArticleLand, Labour and Apartheid
… the land in the hands of the British. The rights of the black population were generally not taken into account, … they did still live scattered across South…
ArticleIndian South Africans: 1924-1948 Legislation and Segregation
… the British and the Afrikaners, to the exclusion of black people. As one author put it, “ While the Boers and the … hands both joined in declaring a…
BiographyKing Sarhili kaHintsa
… I’m weighed down by leading and ruling. Hintsa’s black-crested cuckoo! That’s it!! [43] Endnotes …
Evelyn Ntoko Mase
… I would explain to Makgatho in the simplest terms how the black man was persecuted by the white man.’[18] – Long Walk …