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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
… get the vote. This means in effect that the weight of the black vote is decreased from 3.1% to 1.4%. The first restrictions against the urbanisation of black…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa: Movement towards Republic
… Nationalists to counter the challenge posed by a growing Black political consciousness. This was done by systematically disenfranchising Black voters…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… economic depression after the war and dissatisfaction from Black South Africans and other extra-parliamentary groups … made the SAP's rule more difficult…
ArticleThe National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)
… as both federations were to some degree influenced by the Black Consciousness Movement, and - while agreeing on … - insisted that the leadership of the…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… significant for thee role played by women, particularly black women. Black men in the Cape Colony still had the vote (although a black man could not become a…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… immediately, there was a government crackdown of all black opposition. In a single stroke the national liberation … 1991:275). New resistance stirs: Student…
ArticleEvents leading to the Bambatha Rebellion
… labour. Rather than work for the white farmers, the black workforce was increasingly attracted to the gold mines … an attempt to increase the supply of…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… saw a steady growth of the population. Year Whites Black, Indians, Coloureds Total 1929 2757 2650 5888 1932 2757 … siren reminded all and sundry that the…
ArticleJune 16 Soweto Youth Uprising timeline: 1976-1986
… in Afrikaans appears in Soweto schools. 4 March, The Black People's Convention, the South African Students … that go before it." Winnie Mandela is elected to…
ArticleThe history of labour movements in Namibia
… Background During the 1930s and 1940s, there were few black workers organisations in Namibia (then known as South … South African government, opposed the…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Desmond Tutu
… preacher and strident voice against apartheid, first Black Secretary General of the South African Council of Churches , first Black Archbishop of the…
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace by Charley-Ann Pearson
… singing to himself’ ( Disgrace 212) whilst Petrus, the black ‘gardener and dog-man’ ( Disgrace 64) gains more and … would have played a pivotal role in David…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… African, and thereby, severely limit the movements of the black African populace, manage urbanization, and allot … and worse. However, in the location of…
ArticleSharpeville
… 19 March 1960, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) called on Black South Africans to leave their pass books at home and … carrying passes. The PAC saw this as…
Biography of Arthur Nortje by Kangkang Yang
… the buffer zone between two opposing forces of White and Black during the height of apartheid, both in South Africa … in an iron shack, symbolizing the…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… role in sport administration boosted the development of black football in South Africa. In some ways, Luthuli's … contribution exemplifies the heritage of…
ArticlePass Laws in South Africa
… The Pass Laws was a system used to control the movement of Black, Indian and Coloured people in South Africa. The pass …
The search for Peter Johnson’s story
… Marxist thinking, and contemporary theories concerning Black Consciousness and liberation. In 1967, two years before … [xv] In the 1970s, a wave of new…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1970-1979
… She is elected to the executive of the Federation of Black Women . December, An ANC National Executive Committee … Madikizela-Mandela is elected to the…