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ArticleAfrica: Colonialism, Arts, Protest & Independence
… Ghana) makes it the first British African colony with a black majority in the Legislative Council 1947 T. R. Mekonnen … fricanist Journal in London New…
ArticleOrganization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000
… Ghana) makes it the first British African colony with a black majority in the Legislative Council 1947 T. R. Mekonnen … fricanist Journal in London. New…
ArticleRemembering and Celebrating South Africa’s Iconic LGBTQI+ Women
… on contemporary political and cultural issues that affect black people in Africa and its diaspora. …
National Council of African Women (NCAW)
… Movement and this drew criticism from the more radical black organizations and individuals like Josie Palmer of the …
ArticleSoweto Students’ Representative Council (SSRC)
… introduction of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in black schools. Tsietsi Mashinini who fled South Africa in …
EventThe Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) invade the World Trade Centre, during constitutional negotiations, in Kempton Park, Johannesburg, Transvaal
… action was due to their bitterness towards the impending black majority rule as they were demanding a separate … the difference in treatment of White people…
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament, 1983-1984
… to apparently broaden political representation excluded Black Africans – far from being a movement towards a more … the UDF began to focus on the planned…
ArticleExample of a local history: Pretoria
… time there were no streets, cities or areas named after black people and heroes. Since 2003 there have been … be that the word Tshwane hints at a river that…
ArticleDefiance Campaign 1952
… to deny political representation and participation of Black people at all levels of government and which affected all sectors and all classes within the…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… controversy during the year. There were 30 delegates, 20 black and 10 white. The visitors were guests of the party … and from sundry trade unions and…
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
… and Art as a subject. The second category consisted of black photographers who worked in NGOs or were linked to … Durban. 1984 • In January, Gille De Vlieg,…
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… 1984 to 1993. At its inception in 1979 AZAPO adopted the Black Consciousness (BC) philosophy of the Black People’s Convention (BPC). In the first four years…
ArticleCongress of South African Students (COSAS)
… as a national organization to represent the interests of Black school students in the wake of the Soweto uprisings . … Student Movement (SASM) and other…
ArchiveThe romantic rewriting of Haile Selassie’s legacy must stop by Dr Yohannes Woldemariam, 4 February 2019
… Marcus Garvey’s famous prophecy: “Look to Africa, when a black king shall be crowned for the day of deliverance is … was reinterpreted to mean Ethiopia and…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… most of the land for white ownership, forcing many black farmers to work as wage labourers on land they had previously owned. When the act was amended in…
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… Selbourne arrives in Pretoria. Lady Selbourne proclaimed a black township (north west of the city was the only township … passed, which leads to the creation…
EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs' (CAD)
… Africa occupied this precarious position between White and Black South Africans. This position was intensified during … Plessis as its head. "Coloured" South…
ArchiveThe South African Art Collective That Imagined the End of Apartheid by Keenan Teddy Smith, 27 August 2019
… Medu members’ devotion to upending the effects of anti-Black policy was based in their refusal of an isolated, elite … people they knew and cared for.”…
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
… Act of 1927, the title of which was later amended to the Black Administration Act. Section 11 provided the first … be applied at the discretion of the…
ArticlePoverty and development
… always been that of poverty. During the apartheid years, black women were forced into the rural areas to live off the … This has left a legacy of devastating…
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… that would consolidate their wealth, while excluding black people through legislative means. Thus, resolutions, … Africa , which was accomplished in May 1910…
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… massacre when apartheid-era police officers injured 180 black Africans and killed 69 when the police opened fire on … uprisings , 1980s protests when many of…
ArticleInanda Seminary and its Influence on Education in South Africa by Claire Wilt
… school, played a pivotal role in the education of Black South African women. Just outside of Durban, Inanda … Seminary played an important role in the…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939
… national opposition to the disenfranchisement of black people;. Mrs Zainunissa (Cissie) Gool is elected … a new scheme to extend the question of…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… seemed uncertain. In April 1969 fourteen independent black states from Central and East Africa met in Zambia to … position of independent African states. It…
ArticleRock Art
… people, as some human figures were then painted in black with charcoal. The emergence of domesticated animals … and stress with the environment, this however…
ArticleThe House in session
… of the school must not be prejudiced, when considering a Black pupil; that preference at all times must be given to … out of the race classification handbook…
ArticleDefeat of the Liberation struggle
… and sentenced to long goal terms. The Government banned 18 Black Consciousness (BC) organisations and two newspapers with a wide Black readership. On 25 July…
David Lurie
… Getty Centre for Arts and Humanities (Los Angeles); Black Gallery (Los Angeles) as well as in numerous private …
David Lurie
… Getty Centre for Arts and Humanities (Los Angeles); Black Gallery (Los Angeles) as well as in numerous private …