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ArticleFootball in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012
… side to tour abroad and for most opposition the first black team they played against. 1902 Durban ‘Bush Bucks' … “Kalamazoo” Mokone and David Julius become…
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… The period after the republic saw a radicalization in black politics. Afrikaners White South African politics had … J. 1999. Help-U-History Grade 12 . Cape…
Gertrude 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…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… development in Johannesburg <a data-cke-saved-href="#Black residential development in Johannesburg" href="#Black residential development in Johannesburg" id=…
ArticleGeneral Factory Workers Benefit fund (GFWBF)
… political activist. During this period it was illegal for black workers to belong to a registered trade union, as a consequence black workers joined the…
ArticleAfrican National Congress (ANC)
… Bloemfontein, with the aim of fighting for the rights of black South Africans. The organization was renamed the ANC in … the establishment of apartheid, its…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… (showing different faces). The government and the black opposition moved even further apart. This trend was accentuated by significant shifts in both black…
ArticleThe 1913 Women’s anti-pass campaign in the Orange Free State
… particularly Bloemfontein passed the laws to regulate black people in 1893. For example Law 8 passed in 1893 … passes by male and female. In the location of…
ArticleLiberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)
… building a network of LPSA branches in Natal recruiting Black people to its ranks. Alan Paton president of the LPSA … after its formation, this changed over…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… South African daily] routinely avoided using pictures of black people unless they were rioting and which did not print … Africa's racist history was how to…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… a Kimberley schoolteacher, becomes the first South African Black woman to receive a Bachelor's degree. While on a choir … University in Cleveland. She also…
ArticleThe Natives Land Act of 1913
… of South Africa, which was accomplished in 1910. However, black people were excluded from meaningful political … that would consolidate their wealth while…
ArticleArmed Struggle, the anti-apartheid struggle accelerates 1984-1990
… killing thousands of people and destroying property. Some black people died from so-called black-on-black violence, and many others were killed by police …
ArticleSS Mendi
… Davies Image source The concept of training and arming a Black army was considered undesirable by the White government … the crew gave up their places on the…
ArticleHistory of elections in South Africa
… to vote. In the Cape Province, an important number of Black and Coloured men were allowed to vote under a … independence, and allowed elections in the…
ArticleDutch Reformed Church (DRC)
… South Africa according to race. The social segregation of Black, Coloured and White people was reflected in the … umbrella, thus making South African history…
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… the second Constitution. This also took away the rights of black people. In 1983 the government passed the third … Coloured and Indian groups. This…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… assertion of white minority rights at the expense of black people. 1920 The Housing Act is passed. This Act made … SANNC. In his speech Mahabane decried the…
ArticleStaffrider magazine (1978-1993)
… its name and identity from township slang referring to black youth who travelled either sitting on the roof or … travelling to work and back-that is…
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… farms and placing their women and children in white- and black concentration camps where some 28 000 died. Although … Even before after the Anglo-Boer War,…
ArticleHeritage and identity of Provinces
… They got this idea possibly because many of the Black groups moved around. One reason for this was to flee … between them and the different Voortrekker…
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… Africa. A separate system of education was crafted for Black South African students and it was designed to prepare Black people for lives as a labouring…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… to the mineral-industrial complex partly to transport black workers from in and around southern Africa and to … were characterised by the violent state…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… by Cecil John Rhodes), which the dominating notion that Black labour was cheaper to use in mines and on farms. It is … economic impoverishment and exclusion…
ArticleAbout Nkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Project
… us the building of a new land, a home for men who are black, white, and brown, from the ruins of the old narrow … Egyptian, Jewish, European. It will not…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… was to reinforce constitutionally the segregation of the Black populations of South Africa from the White minority as … would never work as modern industry…
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… by the South African Communist Party to South Africa's Black Mine Workers Published by the South African Communist … for a major war; they are the price…
ArticleThe role of traditional leaders during Apartheid
… a traditional leader was accountable to his people. The Black South African population was organised into group with … objectives, the colonial government of…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott
… restricted any actions which might cause hostility between Black and White people. The State used this clause as a to … request to Ray Charles to cancel a…
ArticleHistory of Women in Prisons during Apartheid
… to resist apartheid. While it is well known that many black South African men were imprisoned and tortured by the … of apartheid prisons were undeniably…