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'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
… South Africa is just as bad for the country as any talk of Black South Africa because there can be no divided South … at the back of my mind and 1 remembered…
Reflections on the 1973 Durban strikes by Steven Freedman
… may have been the turning point. Previous strikes by black workers had been crushed – the 1973 strikes led to wage … use reforms to appease workers. Firms…
PlaceAggeneys, a Town at the foot of the Aggeneys Mountain in the Namaqualand
… originated on a farm of the same name, to service the Black Mountain Mine, which currently employ 600 permanent … horror, these mountains stand probably…
The Mass Democratic Movement, February 1988 - January 1990
… State of Emergency. The UDF was not quite sure why, in the face of negotiation, these restrictions were introduced. … homelands, would be held on the same…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising, 16 June 1986
… the country, means that the entire people of South Africa, black and white, the oppressed and the oppressor, friend and … It is forced to take on the people…
"The Count-Down has Started": Statement on the Tenth Anniversary of the Soweto Uprising by O. R. Tambo, 16 June 1986
… the country, means that the entire people of South Africa, black and white, the oppressed and the oppressor, friend and … It is forced to take on the people…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of Steve Biko’s death East London, 12 September 1997, South Africa
… on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face". And so we are assembled here to pledge our commitment … liberation, lapping at our own…
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 …
BiographySolomon Tshekisho Plaatje
… the Beam : An Epic on Sex-Relationship ' Twixt White and Black in British South Africa (1921), and translations of …
BiographyDr Essop Essak Jassat
… the Johannesburg Indian High School and was one of only 12 black students to be accepted by the Medical Faculty of the …
BiographyBilly Modise
… racial discrimination imposed by apartheid which forced black people and his personal experiences of racism served as …
BiographyPenny Siopis
… South Africa, Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki (2010); Black Womanhood: Images, Icons and Ideologies of the African …
BiographyLesley Lawson
… in Weekend World, banned along with World Staff and Black Consciousness organizations in October 1977. Some of …
BiographyReverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu
… Xundu took sabbatical leave to work full time for the Black Community Programmes (BCP). During this time he worked … Anglican Priest, full time worker for…
BiographyIsaac ‘Ike’ Osler Horvitch
… and others. While he was on bail, the massacre of 69 Black people shot down by the police at Sharpeville in 1960 …
The Durban Strikes and the making of the Political Struggles in South Africa by Vuyisile Msila
… that the Durban strikes initiated not only the rebirth of black labour movement in South Africa but they strengthened the liberation struggles. Keywords…
1973: Neo-apartheid and the Sleeping the Giant by Mbuso Nkosi
… where businesses could not afford to increase the wages of Black workers while demanding an increase in productivity … were to wake up the sleeping giant in…
ArticleWomen in African Literature: Writing and Representation
… South Africa and the various scenarios both parties face in their different roles. Although it is riddled with … society and details the sorrow and hardships…
Albert Luthuli`s message to New Age on 25th anniversary of Progressive Press, 22 March 1962
… the case of New Age and its predecessors which have had to face all the hardships imposed against them by successive … affecting the civil and political…
PlaceMoletzie Bird Sanctuary
… mostly whitish grey above flecked with brown. The outer black primary feathers of the wing, the 12 tail feathers (in … of long feathers forming a grey- buff…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Freedom Day Celebrations: Landsdown Stadium, Cape Town, April 27, 2008
… Group Areas Act and many more laws that made the lives of black people unbearable – are testimonies that our freedom … some acts of racism as well as racist…
BiographyAdrian Leftwich
Adrian Leftwich grew up in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape), in 1940 in a liberal Jewish family. His father was a doctor, and his mother gave…
ArticleDemocratic Alliance (DA)
… forced removals. Suzman demanded trade union rights for Black people and fought for better wages and working … a rebranding of the DA, Mmusi Maimane was the…