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State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… in the industrial sector. Segregation legislation against Black, Indian and Coloured South Africans increased during … The Government also sought to tighten…
ArticleQuotations by Oliver Tambo
… society. We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in … economic power, its oppression and…
Biography of Lefifi Tladi by Paul Linck
… [xv] . Lefifi Tladi’s African art and poetry reveals his Black Consciousness outlook, but he never joined a political … South African History Online talks…
ArticleKing Kong the Musical 1959 -1961
… King Kong: An African Jazz , was the first all-Black South African musical which opened in 2 February 1959. … Dhlamini. It helped create a new set of…
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
… position to engage government in dialogues than their Black counterparts. In the early 1930s NUSAS was affected by … to all races. University of Fort Hare…
A Matter of ‘Principle’: Corporate America and the South African Worker in the Early 1970s by Mattie C. Webb
… community three years prior. The collective power of Black workers in South Africa startled international business … reform as a means to placate an…
EventThe Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.
… government banned all the organisations under the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) banner. The BCM … behind the uprising, these included among others, the…
ArticleOvercoming Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid by Bennett Gwynn
… and their employers symbolised racial relations between Black and White South Africans during this time period. Domestic workers in South Africa were Black…
History of the Labour Movements in South Africa
… The history of working people, and particularly Black workers, to organise is inextricably tied to the … of Europe, arriving in Southern Africa and joining…
South African Student Organisation Leaders
… Mji 1976 president Drake Koka the first secretary of the Black People's Convention Winnie Kgware First President of … 1972 Sath Cooper Dr. Mampela Ramphele…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
While colonialism and slavery flourished in the 18th century, the foundations of modern democracy were also being established. It is important to consider the…
ArticleMiriam Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts by Connor Kirkpatrick
… the United Nations to show compassion for the actions of Black South Africans. She also appealed to them to try and … folk recording. The album talked about…
ArticleTimeline on the defacing of statues
… Howard Campus is splattered is white paint, covered in black cloth and has written papers stuck on it. 30 March, The … Town has its plinth draped with a…
ArticleThe Langa March, 30 March 1960
… civilians and three non-White police officers. 26 Black policemen and 365 Black civilians were injured – no White police men were … of a state of emergency,…
The people armed, 1984-1990
… more daringly for symbolic military targets that rallied black opinion behind the ANC. For instance, the car bomb … ability to operate inside the country…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… more daringly for symbolic military targets that rallied black opinion behind the ANC. For instance, the car bomb … ability to operate inside the country…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… acts such as sexual intercourse between White and Black people. Amended in 1957 as Act 23. Suppression of … numbers, the government set up semi-urban…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… and segregating South Africa. The Khoikhoi, San and Black Africans under the British and the Afrikaner republics … farms. White farmers who allowed the…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… weeks and lands 85km north of it, where he meets the first Black people, probably a Tsonga society living north of the … Circuit courts are introduced in the…
ArticlePoor Whites and their Political Weapon: Constructing the Kakamas Dam
… maintain a racial hierarchy and separate poor whites from black urban slums, the church’s water scheme also focused on … regain respect and have a higher…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1930-1939
… recognised that there was a need to fix a minimum for Black workers in order to protect the White workers? wages … Representation of Blacks Act No 12 of 1936…
ArticleAfrapix
… by Omar Badsha, Lesley Lawson and a small group of black and white photographers and political activists in … pooled their skills and resources to train…
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… being allowed to live there).The people in question were Black people for who opportunities to own land were severely … from their homes. Similarly, under…
ArticleRichard David Turner Timeline 1941 - 1978
… of Cape Town 1960 Changes to philosophy 1960 Sharpeville – black mass movement curtailed and white opposition groups … lecturer at Rhodes University 1970…
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… only to unskilled work, which was performed mostly by Black people (Dugard 1978: 85; Horrell 1978: 6). Repealed by … 20 of the Mines and Works Amendment Act…
EventThe Minister of Cooperation and Development, Dr. Piet Koornhof, announces the lifting of the '72-hour curfew'
… part of influx-control regulations that restricted black people's movement. In his statement he said that the …
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 110 of 1983
… participation of Coloured and Indian people and exclude Black people. The proposal maintained the central control of … convinced that they would deepen…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1900-1947
… South Africa accelerated the process of further squeezing Black people off the land. A series of draconian legislation … Masters and Servants Ordinance is…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… government’s secret police. Mandela was nicknamed the ‘Black Pimpernel’ at this time, and repeatedly frustrated the … invisible and unheard, removed by white…
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
… on successive governments to ensure a supply of cheap black labour for small businesses and farmers. From 1942 to 1945 wage differences between white and…