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BiographyDulcie Evonne September
… the Paris seminar, September reported on the plight of black children under apartheid. In May 1980, the UN Special …
ArticleSouth African National Students Congress (SANSCO)
… National Students Congress (SANSCO) The emergence of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) and the adoption of its … SASO was banned in October 1977 and…
ArticleA history of prison labour in South Africa
… Then, the role of the State as the provider of unskilled black labour for the mines through the penal system had … lines. Mine owners treated white workers…
Thupelo (1985)
… emergency and facilities and resources were not offered to Black artists on both educational and professional levels. … that affected South Africa and the…
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… Party (NP) in 1914. The new Union had no place for Black people, despite their constituting over 75% of the … laws and regulations that tightened state…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… Party (NP) in 1914. The new Union had no place for Black people, despite their constituting over 75% of the … laws and regulations that tightened state…
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 6: The South African War and Union
… the foundation for white co-operation at the expense of black South Africans (in terms of franchise and land). It … that the country needed to put in place…
Liberation organisations
… of the apartheid regime, and consisted of both white and black soldiers. The SADF was used: To enforce the National … Against fellow South Africans to quell…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: The SACP and Early Socialist Traditions. Convenor: Natasha Erlank
… ICU’s “Ginger” Faction and the Transformation of Interwar Black Radicalism Henry Dee International Studies Group, … Workers’ Union of Africa (ICU), a cohort…
ArticleStrong and Unnoticed: The Women of the UDF by Reid Arnold
… parliament for Indians, Coloureds, and Whites, excluding Black South Africans. The Anti-SAIC, as it would soon be … White, Coloured and Indian population,…
Make your own ROCK ART
… Use the favourite colours of the San. Hint: They liked black, brown, red, yellow and white. Why not paint … the outline of the hunting or animal onto the…
ArticleState of Emergency - 1985
… moment of draconian law enforcement against the majority Black, Coloured and Indian population of South Africa proved … by the increasingly ‘ungovernable’…
ArticleDevelopments leading to the New Dispensation
… of separate development from various quarters: the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), the resurgent trade union … cities, reflecting the inevitable…
BiographyNelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… in 1938 and as such, formed part of a very small number of black pupils who had attained a high school education in … country organising the strike, and…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications
… Many of the ALSC members had been involved with the exiled Black Consciousness Movement of Azania. Thus, although they were Marxists and socialists, they did…
Document 29 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 5 December 1928
… he certainly is not going to have anything to do with a Black Republic. Tramwaymen, indicating me, shout to each … we say is true, though they want to cling…
ArticleA History of the Springbok Legion
… militant leftist rhetoric. While the SL accepted black people into its membership, it remained largely a White … join the UDF. An estimated 110,000 white…
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
… When Black workers in Durban embarked on a wave of strikes in … by the late 1980s. From the beginning of the 20 th century Black workers in South Africa made…
ArticleFederation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU)
… South African trade union federation that organised mostly Black employees that aimed to be a national, non-racial umbrella organisation that could…
ArticleThe fight against colonialism and imperialism in Africa
… against the Germans in September 1914 in Karonga were black people. He then wrote a letter to the Nyasaland Times … that participation in the war would…
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… sound of marabi music was original and improvisational. Black Music and Musicians of the 40s and 50s With the removal … start of radio were also important to…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
… in the 1970s to distribute contraceptives freely to black women. [18] Some black women were threatened with job loss if they fell …
EventThe first 'Bantustans' or 'homelands' comes into existence when the Transkei Regional Authority is instituted
… After South Africa became a Union, the government wanted Black and White people to live separately, so they set certain areas apart for Black people. Before…
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… they had to find a way of accommodating the demands of Black people for basic rights enjoyed by whites or the … in the old haphazard way, which instead of…
Ethnicity in Post-Apartheid Discourse: Deconstructing South Africa’s Racial Narrative by Joshua Richman
… speech alongside two South African novels that depict black-on-white violence: Sindiwe Magona’s Mother to Mother … literature etc., portrays this violence as…
Article1973 Durban Strikes
… the beginning of a turning point in the long struggle of Black, Coloured and Indian workers to build non racial trade … organisations. The third tradition…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… Act (National States Citizenship Act) No 26: Required all black persons to become citizens of a self-governing … authority. As Minister Connie Mulder stated:…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… criticizes the living conditions that Johannesburg's Black citizens are forced to live under. 1906 Pass Laws for … Commission criticizes living conditions of…
Artist groups and educational facilities (1960-1980)
… Due to the apartheid racial classification systems, many black artists were not allowed to further their education and … mainly for white scholars at the…
ArticleInkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
… of apartheid in the 1940s marked major changes for all Black South Africans. In 1953, the South African Government … was only in the 1980?s that membership…