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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…
ArticleContemporary issues: Women’s struggle, 1900-1994
… and abuse in the home, but also by the discrimination they face at school with regard to subject choices seen as …
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the ANC National Conference on Reconstruction and Strategy NASREC, Johannesburg, 21 January 1994
… society. Today, our country and ourselves have come face-to-face with an historic opportunity to transform ourselves. By … confidence and kindle the hopes of…
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… in defiance. Passes in the Free State Large numbers of Black and Coloured people moved to Bloemfontein, the capital … The Basotho, under Moshoeshoe, the…
The search for Peter Johnson’s story
… in the Security Police album and put Peter Johnson’s face to his political status. This proved to be unsuccessful, … Marxist thinking, and contemporary…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Bibliography
… Tom and William Nasson (eds.). 1992. All Here and Now: Black Politics in South Africa in the 1980 s. London: C. … Bounds of Possibility: The Legacy of Steve…
ArchiveSishaywa Zimvula Nje, Simanikiniki Nje, Umhlol’Usekhaya – Reading Mafika Gwala in Times of Thunder and the Terror of the Elements by Sanibonani Molweni
… I was exposed to, and deeply treasured as a student and Black Consciousness activist. My English literary studies at … s poetry appealed to me for these key…
PlaceNoupoort
… complete the church. The apse was later completed with red face brick. The British military camp and hospital … the days of steam and really-rolling stock,…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… campaigns in response to measures and laws affecting Black people. In the 1920s, the Communist Party of South … Ngoyi, IB Tabata, and Robert Sobukwe. They…
PlaceKgalagadi Transfrontier Park
… where imposing camel thorn trees provide shade for huge black-mane lions and vantage points for leopard and many … Climate - By 2050, the Kgalagadi…
BiographyPeter Hlaole Molotsi
… of whites who favoured the ANC and had a distaste for black so-called racists that did not offer any place for them … scattered all over Africa. The PAC also…
BiographyWalter Ulyate Sisulu
… During the Second World War, Sisulu campaigned against Black South Africans joining the army. He supported the Youth … wild celebration around the country…
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
… 1958 The photographer, Peter Magubane , is the first black South African to win the Press Photo of the Year Award. … work at the London School of Printing,…
ArticleThe Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896
… nine o’clock the following morning to vacate the palace or face a declaration of war. Khalid refused and when the …
BiographySicelo Mhlauli
… and SADF colonel Hermanus Barend du Plessis. The four black security policemen involved in their murders were …
BiographyMewa Ramgobin
… the NIC, which was strongly opposed by members of the Black Consciousness Movement . An executive was elected …
BiographySheila Weinberg
… also central to the activities of the Transvaal branch of Black Sash and the 5 Freedoms Forum – all dedicated to … Democratic Action Committee (Jodac),…
BiographyGordon Sprigg
… Gun War . He used British troops to suppress revolts by Black Africans, and put into place a harsh native policy, …
BiographyMolly Fischer
… it Bram’s unholy communist ‘experiment’ to bring up a Black child in a White family. In 1945 Fischer stood as the …
BiographyDr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker
… meeting in Durban. After the meeting Naicker and 20 black volunteers walked to the Berea railway station in …
Article16 June 1976 - Soweto Uprising
… of the Bantu Education Act in 1953. The rise of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) and the formation of … compulsory as a medium of instruction in…
Side By Side: The Autobiography of Helen Joseph
… a free and democratic South Africa. As the people of the Black townships continue to confront the South African Police … in South Africa as well as an…
Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws
… direct response to the nefarious act, which alienated the black majority from power sharing. According to ANC … order to fight against the common enemy,…
ArchiveChanging focus: The art and activism of Omar by Bongani Kona (Mail and Guardian), 4 June 2015
… northwest of Durban’s city centre – Badsha’s collection of black-and-white photographs eschews spectacle in favour of … etcetera. But your eyes are pulled…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1920 - 1929
… the Government and mining houses proposed policy of using Black miners at lower salaries in jobs traditionally done by …
ArchiveBiography of Buchi Emecheta by Alphonce Baraza
… only she faced, but that all African women faced and still face to this day in African society. Throughout her life, … is equally a second citizen in England…
EventEgyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Carter begin a Middle East peace conference at Camp David, Maryland
… overall strategy was to limit the place and time of these face-to-face negotiations and to involve only those who had the …
ArticleThe Transkei
… by the Nationalists to introduce Bantu Authorities, in the face of popular opposition to his chieftainship, was bound to …
ArticleCradle of Humankind
… at Kromdraai in 1938 and Coopers B also held a part of the face of an ape-man. Drimolen is the newest of all the sites …
BiographyTheophilus Shepstone
… It had become the practice for the diamond diggers to pay black workers with guns to attract them to work at the newly … financial and administrative reforms…