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ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… by Cecil John Rhodes), which the dominating notion that Black labour was cheaper to use in mines and on farms. It is … economic impoverishment and exclusion…
ArticleAbout Nkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Project
… us the building of a new land, a home for men who are black, white, and brown, from the ruins of the old narrow … Egyptian, Jewish, European. It will not…
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… by the South African Communist Party to South Africa's Black Mine Workers Published by the South African Communist … for a major war; they are the price…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 21 May 1962 during the second reading of the General Law Amendment Bill
… wing in South Africa. I also received protests from the Black Sash movement, which is trying to regain their lost prestige … I hope too that they are not…
EventSA's Fifa membership reinstated
… leagues had been divided according to race. Now Black-owned football clubs were officially not recognised as … South African Soccer Federation (SASF), which…
ArticleThe role of traditional leaders during Apartheid
… a traditional leader was accountable to his people. The Black South African population was organised into group with … objectives, the colonial government of…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott
… restricted any actions which might cause hostility between Black and White people. The State used this clause as a to … request to Ray Charles to cancel a…
ArticleHistory of Women in Prisons during Apartheid
… to resist apartheid. While it is well known that many black South African men were imprisoned and tortured by the … of apartheid prisons were undeniably…
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…
ArticleTuberculosis
Tuberculosis, also known as TB, occurs all over the world and is one of the most infectious diseases, causing more deaths than HIV/AIDS and Malaria [1] [2]…
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…
“Exodus without a map”: What happened to the Durban moment? by Edward Webster
… were low, and the apartheid system was built on cheap black labour. But as it is often said, surveys usually … to Steve Bantu Biko and his emerging…
Ndibhala Intando Yam: A Converstation on Translating "I Write What I Like" by Steve Biko
… is finally speaking isiXhosa - in the community where Black thought has always lived. For decades, I Write What I Like shaped Black political thought -…
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
… formidable list of censorship provisions on the “creative black writer” were only some of the many impediments on … of apartheid in the 1950s onwards. These…
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…
EventGovernment's final consolidation of 'homelands'
… form of apartheid separate development and a way to strip Black South Africans of their South African citizenship. The … the point of view of the Apartheid…
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…