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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 …
The Role of Women in the Struggle against Apartheid, 15 July 1980
… mattress, furniture and baking industries. While several black national federations were formed and dissolved, the one … of the period in which women…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… crowd of Blacks in Newclare, Johannesburg attack a Black policeman attempting to arrest an African civilian … Union, visit Basutoland. They have discussions…
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…
Chapter I - Twenty thousand strong we marched
… until they became only one face, the face of the suffering black people of South Africa. I know that there were tears in … white domination, implacable enemy…
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 …
ArchivePetrus Mashishi
… artisans on condition that they only be allowed to work in black residential or bantustan areas. His specialisation was … Bantu Administration Boards in…
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…
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
… oppression, both material, and in line with Steve Biko’s Black Consciousness , Psychological. This article looks at … express the material issues of workers,…
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…
ArchiveAn Analysis of the Imprisonment and Detainment Treatment of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela by Monica McCausland
… continued, with the wardresses discriminating against black prisoners, who they named the ‘Bantu’, and especially … more favorably by the prison guards,…
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…
ArchiveBiography of Dorothy Nyembe by Thomas Boatman
… not only endured, but overcame the double burden of being black and a woman in Apartheid South Africa. … While in prison, Nyembe took on the…
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…
ArchiveBiography of Amina Desai by Cole Deal
… racist… complaining of having to share meals with a black woman (Dorothy Nyembe).”17 On top of being …
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 …
BiographyKing Dingane ka Senzangakhona
… of two companies, the younger men being in the Mnyama (black) section and the older men in the Mhlophe (white) …
BiographySunny Girja Singh
… with the bare minimum of clothing (prison uniforms). Black prisoners were not given long pants — even in winter, …
BiographyChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli
… salaries were low and few other professions were open to black people at the time. Luthuli showed empathy with working …
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… and later specialised in Intelligence. Women and the Black Consciousness Movement in the 1970s The Black Consciousness Movement, led by Steve Biko, was a new…
ArticleThe formation of the SANNC/ANC
… of these constitutional discussions. In 1909, a group of Black delegates from the four provinces attended the South … law. The group comprised of South…
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
… and were often in favour of white people’s interests. Black and white people were not allowed contact in different … had well-resourced schools with better…