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ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
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…
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=…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArchiveI Write What I Like: Selected Writings
… anti-apartheid thinkers and the founding figure of the Black Consciousness Movement. The collection brings together … What I Like articulates Biko's central…
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…
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…
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 …
ArchiveSishaywa Zimvula Nje, Simanikiniki Nje, Umhlol’Usekhaya – Reading Mafika Gwala in Times of Thunder and the Terror of the Elements by Sanibonani Molweni
… I was exposed to, and deeply treasured as a student and Black Consciousness activist. My English literary studies at … s poetry appealed to me for these key…
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…