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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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
BiographyDimitri Tsafendas
… governed by the natives of that Province, whether they are black or white.” Tsafendas was subsequently imprisoned and …
BiographyDr. Mantombazana ‘Manto’ Tshabalala-Msimang
… Inanda Seminary Secondary School, a boarding school for black South African girls located 25 kilometers from Durban. …
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…
Race and Caste: Hierarchy and Universality - CAS in partnership with Dept. of Sociology and Dept. of Anthropology Panel Discussion
… Prof. Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi is a scholar of Global Black thought. She is co-editor of The Caribbean Race Reader … Her entry on "solidarity" appears in…
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…
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…
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…
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…