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ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… embarked on a feverish drive to prepare their members and Black communities for the proposed nationwide campaigns. This … of the 21st March that came to…
ArticleDr. Abu Baker Asvat timeline 1943 - 2012
… 1978 28 April, Asvat is a founding member of Azapo, the black consciousness organization formed after Steve Biko’s … the police. October, The Azapo health…
EventBusiness Day reports that minister of law and order, Adriaan Vlok, said that apartheid has become an albatross around the country's neck.
… an albatross around the country's neck. 'If you ask a black South African what apartheid has done, he will say it …
ArticlePrehistory of the Port Elizabeth area
… During the apartheid era, it was a common myth that Black farmers met White settlers at the Fish River in the … interaction with Khoe pastoralists. Both…
ArticleWestern Cape Youth Uprising timeline 1976
… UCT students march towards the city centre giving the Black Power Salute to black people passing until the police stop them. 73 students …
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter VII - “The Missionary Charter”
… of "peace" differed little from that of open war. The viewpoint of the frontiersmen was remarkably sympathetic to … be discovered. But this economic machine…
EventOne hundred and twenty three people banned following June 16 Student Protest
… that Afrikaans would be used as a medium of instruction in Black schools. This failed to curtail mass action campaigns …
EventWhite entrepreneurs to be given contracts in the 'homelands'
Prime Minister B J Vorster announces that White entrepreneurs will be given long-standing contracts in the 'homelands' to speed up economic development. This…
ArchiveSouth Africa in World War One, 31 October 2018
… Commonwealth Studies, on what white Afrikaner leaders and black South Africans gained for their show of patriotism … with their former English adversaries to…
ArticleCape Schools Join the Revolt
… Cars were only allowed to proceed if the driver gave the Black Power salute and hooted in support. Later that morning … group that marched towards the centre…
ArchiveBiography of Dulcie September by Claire Albin
… South Africa was just one of the emerging groups of elite black South African professionals protesting inequality. The … founded in the 1800s in support of a…
Epidemics Affect Everyone By Elron Kleinhans
… overcrowded slums. However, a substantial amount of the black patients treated for smallpox in Grahamstownlazaretto’s … the spread of the plague by…
ArticleWomen’s Revolts in Natal: 1959
… year, leaving their families at home. Unfortunately theses Black men were subjected to extremely unhealthy work … Natal. The women’s retaliation had a…
PlaceMasiphumelele Township, Cape Town
… times to come. In the early 1980’s a group of 400-500 black people started the first informal settlement close to … away by force. Later they were told that…
ArchiveDemocracy
… each one’s potential Democracy The national flag Black, gold, green, white, red and blue Reflecting the … My right to vote My vote is…
South African History Online and Principia College Partnership Project - 2018 submissions
… through pen and paper Jonathan Ansumana Project: The Black Consciousness Movement and Steve Biko Laura Wilson …
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM)
… Government further entrenched its stranglehold over the Black (African, Indian and Coloured) population with an ever … Government further entrenched its…
EventHarold Cressy is born in Rorke's Drift
… is born in Rorke's Drift, Kwazulu-Natal. He was the only Black student of the South African College, now the …
EventSouth African football legend Steve Mokone is born 23 March 1923
… born in Doornfontein, Johannesburg. He became the first black professional footballer to play in Europe, when he … er/feature-a-profile-of-steve-mokone--…
Zulu Community
… Witwatersrand. Zulu workers organized some of the first Black labour unions in the country. For example, the Zulu … Towards the end of the 19th century…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… of people according to whether they were White, Coloured, Black, Indian or Asian. People would then be treated … Only a small percentage of South Africa was…
Control: 1910 - 1948
… of a number of African "reserves" for the settlement of Black South Africans, which would serve as pools of migrant … and thereby formalised the separation…
ArticleOrganisation of African Unity (OAU)
… which emerged in the United States of America (USA) among Black American intellectuals such as Martin Delany and … Crummel, who drew similarities between…
EventSouth African football legend Steve Mokone died
… Steve ‘The Black Meteor’ Mokone died in Washington D.C on 20 March 2015. … er/feature-a-profile-of-steve-mokone---coventry-citys-first-black-player/ …
ArticleThe co-optation of the African National Congress: South Africa’s original ‘State Capture’, Sampie Terreblanche
… narrow interests of the old white elite and the emerging black elite. The enabling conditions of the new system were … of the old white corporate elite and…
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… South African trade union federation that organised mostly Black employees that aimed to be a national, non-racial umbrella organisation that could…
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
… of the organization. 18 March 1960 – the PAC calls on Black South Africans to leave their pass books at home and … Education Amendment Act, Act No 34, which…
ArticleResponse to the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising by organisations in exile
… Medium Decree, issued in 1974, which made it mandatory for Black schools to use the Afrikaans language as the medium of … and military training of young men…
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… mine owners showed a propensity to increase the numbers of Black miners over their white counterparts. This led to the … ensured that they passed legislation…
EventThe constitution of the South African Students’ Organisation (SASO) is adopted at its inaugural conference and Steve Biko is elected president
… the new organisation is committed to a philosophy of Black Consciousness, it does not reject the liberalism of …