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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…
ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
ArticleFootball in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012
… side to tour abroad and for most opposition the first black team they played against. 1902 Durban ‘Bush Bucks' … “Kalamazoo” Mokone and David Julius become…
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… The period after the republic saw a radicalization in black politics. Afrikaners White South African politics had … J. 1999. Help-U-History Grade 12 . Cape…
Gertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… fulfilled her mother’s dream for her to become an educated Black woman in South Africa. Her journey led her to become a … of Documents Act of 1952, had begun…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… development in Johannesburg <a data-cke-saved-href="#Black residential development in Johannesburg" href="#Black residential development in Johannesburg" id=…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… (showing different faces). The government and the black opposition moved even further apart. This trend was accentuated by significant shifts in both black…
ArticleThe 1913 Women’s anti-pass campaign in the Orange Free State
… particularly Bloemfontein passed the laws to regulate black people in 1893. For example Law 8 passed in 1893 … passes by male and female. In the location of…
ArticleLiberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)
… building a network of LPSA branches in Natal recruiting Black people to its ranks. Alan Paton president of the LPSA … after its formation, this changed over…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… South African daily] routinely avoided using pictures of black people unless they were rioting and which did not print … Africa's racist history was how to…
ArticleGeneral Factory Workers Benefit fund (GFWBF)
… political activist. During this period it was illegal for black workers to belong to a registered trade union, as a consequence black workers joined the…
ArticleAfrican National Congress (ANC)
… Bloemfontein, with the aim of fighting for the rights of black South Africans. The organization was renamed the ANC in … the establishment of apartheid, its…
ArticleThe Natives Land Act of 1913
… of South Africa, which was accomplished in 1910. However, black people were excluded from meaningful political … that would consolidate their wealth while…
ArticleArmed Struggle, the anti-apartheid struggle accelerates 1984-1990
… killing thousands of people and destroying property. Some black people died from so-called black-on-black violence, and many others were killed by police …
ArticleSS Mendi
… Davies Image source The concept of training and arming a Black army was considered undesirable by the White government … the crew gave up their places on the…
Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert: Former Leader of the Opposition in the Whites-Only Parliament, and co-founder of Idasa interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Adam Habib, 24 March 1998, Johannesburg
… experience at Stellenbosch University, in Cape Town, the Black Consciousness thing was beginning to shape-up, you … the universities, where you did have the…
Tribute to Prof Meer on her 80th birthday by Ari Sitas, 23 August 2008
… at 54 years of age, she embarked through the Institute for Black Research on a wave of action-research activities which … the 1959 Universities Act enforced…
ArticleHistory of elections in South Africa
… to vote. In the Cape Province, an important number of Black and Coloured men were allowed to vote under a … independence, and allowed elections in the…
ArticleDutch Reformed Church (DRC)
… South Africa according to race. The social segregation of Black, Coloured and White people was reflected in the … umbrella, thus making South African history…
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 …
BiographyDr. Mantombazana ‘Manto’ Tshabalala-Msimang
… Inanda Seminary Secondary School, a boarding school for black South African girls located 25 kilometers from Durban. …
BiographyDimitri Tsafendas
… governed by the natives of that Province, whether they are black or white.” Tsafendas was subsequently imprisoned and …
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… the second Constitution. This also took away the rights of black people. In 1983 the government passed the third … Coloured and Indian groups. This…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… assertion of white minority rights at the expense of black people. 1920 The Housing Act is passed. This Act made … SANNC. In his speech Mahabane decried the…
ArticleStaffrider magazine (1978-1993)
… its name and identity from township slang referring to black youth who travelled either sitting on the roof or … travelling to work and back-that is…
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… farms and placing their women and children in white- and black concentration camps where some 28 000 died. Although … Even before after the Anglo-Boer War,…
ArticleHeritage and identity of Provinces
… They got this idea possibly because many of the Black groups moved around. One reason for this was to flee … between them and the different Voortrekker…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… to the mineral-industrial complex partly to transport black workers from in and around southern Africa and to … were characterised by the violent state…
ArchiveThe Man Before Mandela by Steven Gish
… 1920) graduated from the U of M. The first western-trained Black physician to practice medicine in Johannesburg, Xuma (1893-1962) also became one of the most…
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… Africa. A separate system of education was crafted for Black South African students and it was designed to prepare Black people for lives as a labouring…