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ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
… on 12 September, Steve Biko was murdered. In October all Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) aligned political, … that lasted several weeks. By the end of…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… settlers as they encounter a number of different groups of black people who are occupying the land. 1658 28 March, 170 … Town. Previous to this only a…
ArticleA Culture of Survival
… did not keep pace with the cost of subsistence, and most black families lived below the bread line. Black workers' wages Black families often had to…
ArchiveReminiscences of the Arrest of Fikile Bam & Marcus Solomon in 1963 by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
… person. The operator worked in conjunction with unemployed black women, known as runners, in the townships. Based on … his appointment is its dual…
ArticleDrum Magazine
… dynamic changes that were taking place among the new urban Black South African – African, Indian and Coloured – … of writers and photographers who changed…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… and economic independence and the post-war systems left Black, Coloured and Indian people completely marginalised. … Chinese to undercut any resistance by…
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… Biko’s brutal death made him a martyr in the history of Black resistance to White hegemony. It inflamed Black anger and inspired a rededication to the…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa 1910
… as a population, Europeans were vastly outnumbered by the Black population of South Africa, prevented the British from … the terms an insistence on universal…
ArchiveFrom the Archive of Steve Bantu Biko by Mafika Gwala, 23 May 2019
… James Matthews and Mandla Langa. In 1973, he edited the Black Review, and his short stories, essays and poems have … newspapers, that Steve was regarded as…
ArticleBirth of the African Mine Workers’ Union
… he was also a leader in the South African Communist Party. Black workers were introduced to trade unionism by the early … workers' solidarity." Indeed…
ArticlePartial State of Emergency, July 1985
… owned by progressive whites and included those owned by black collaborators. Although the UDF supported consumer … Union (MAWU), rather than by the UDF, and…
PlaceConstantia
… partners. The front part of the house was widened, large sash-windows were put in place of the old side-hung …
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… most notably by two strands: those aligned to the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), and those aligned with … of SASM and its relation to the BCM,…
ArticleCouncil policies and practice
… approach to reforms, abolishing laws that made life for Black, Coloured and Indian people difficult, but at the same … as influx control). The Council noted…
ArticleThe impact of the War on Agriculture and Land
… War of 1899-1902 . In this process it was poor White and Black farmers who were disadvantaged by the war. Combined … Act and the increased demand for cheap…
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Reflection of the Chasm Between Constitutional Rights and the Lived Experience in South Africa by Rhiain Moses
… of disability in accordance with the oppression of the black population in South Africa during the apartheid regime. … of South African society, which in…
Shared Cultural Trauma: Inarticulacy as Social Disability in South African Literature by Hannah Pagan
… of disability in accordance with the oppression of the black population in South Africa during the apartheid regime. … of South African society, which in…
Article1970’s: Poetry Timeline
… second book of poetry, Where White is the Colour, where Black is the Number , is published by Ravan Press. 1975 Sipho … by AD Donker. 27 June, Where white is…
Women’s Enfranchisement Association of the Union (WEAU)
… its early days the WEAU, while not specifically excluding black women, was an exclusively white movement made up … and simultaneously minimized the…
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…
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… The ensuing struggle was not so much a contest between Black and White races as a struggle for water, grazing and … to move to the nearest urban areas to…
ArticleHistory of the Rape Crisis Trust in Cape Town
… the Group Areas Act served to limit their accessibility to black women. The service model adopted by rape crisis centres also mitigated its adoption by black…
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… will trace its function in the political struggle waged by Black and Colored musicians against the apartheid regime, … break down the color bar. Indeed the…
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
… History Archives Golden City Post Can Themba was born a Black South African in a country where his race comprised of … that the White people were insisting…
The National Fish
… Near rocks the colour of the Galjoen is almost completely black, while in sandy areas the colour is silver-bronze. In KwaZulu-Natal it is known as blackfish…
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…
ArticleA Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
… and the differing contexts and conditions under which Black rural people live. The picture of Black rural South Africa in the hinterland of the former … are…
ArticleElections in post Apartheid South Africa
… historically white political parties growing the number of black voters supporting them. Similarly, Black political formations have been increasing their…
Newspaper article taken from the City Press in 2002: Student Politics under Apartheid
… graduates. SASO, formed in 1968, gave birth to the Black Consciousness (BC) movement in South Africa. It was the key actor within the BC movement,…
BiographyRonald “Ron” Press
… as it was unusual for a White man to be represented by a Black lawyer in those days. It was his first real ‘struggle’ …