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ArchiveI Write What I Like: Selected Writings
… anti-apartheid thinkers and the founding figure of the Black Consciousness Movement. The collection brings together … What I Like articulates Biko's central…
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…
ArchiveDeborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo
… police harassment were just the least of what an average black citizen faced. In the in the long struggle of … Act. Under Apartheid, the…
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…
BiographyDr. Mantombazana ‘Manto’ Tshabalala-Msimang
… Inanda Seminary Secondary School, a boarding school for black South African girls located 25 kilometers from Durban. …
BiographyDimitri Tsafendas
… governed by the natives of that Province, whether they are black or white.” Tsafendas was subsequently imprisoned and …
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…
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…
EventSA's Fifa membership reinstated
… leagues had been divided according to race. Now Black-owned football clubs were officially not recognised as … South African Soccer Federation (SASF), which…
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…
Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… people employed in the manufacturing industry, especially Black men and White women increased by 60% between 1939 and … felt that Smuts lacked a clear policy…
ArticleUnion, Segregation, apartheid and Democracy: From Union to non racial democracy
… representation in the country’s representative bodies. Black opposition to this political dispensation began with … The situation was worsened by the…
The CASA Conference
… was taken in order to support the promotion and growth of Black art and culture, as well as being a form of affirmative … physical landscape, allowing for…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… a presence throughout the modern history of South Africa, Black trade unions never managed to establish a permanent … was the first real flowering of trade…
ArticleLife in Sophiatown
… overcrowding and rack renting became the order of the day. Black property owners in Sophiatown were themselves poor. In … tribes, Chinese, Mulattos like me…
ArticleNUSAS Wages Commission Timeline 1971-1973
… interest by the public and government on the question of Black wages. December, The Durban Wages Commission begins … though completed, have to be redone. It…
ArticleTutu and his role in the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
… government committed serious atrocities against the Black majority. A number of brutal measures were adopted by … Congress (ANC), Pan-Africanist Congress …
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… the start of the longest and most widespread period of black resistance to white rule. The Lekoa and Evaton Town … Tricameral parliament, and did not pay…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… January, Security Police in Port Elizabeth, detain three black civil rights leaders after the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation (PEBCO) decide to…
ArticleWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa by Cait Chapman
… Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa Abstract: Black, Coloured and Indian women faced harsh oppressions in … 1930s, shops were closing and the once…
ArticleThe Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910
… that they are easily supplied, and like most men, White or Black, they will not work when they have no want." (Bundy, C. … gave rise to increasing social…