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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…