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ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… Dube in Inanda. 1972 Founder member of the Institute for Black Research (IBR) a research and publishing venture. It … immediately after attending the…
ArticleThe Anti-Pass Campaigns 1960
… with more 'Africanist views' - An ideology that says that black people should determine their own future - Africa for … too moderate, and felt that they…
PlaceHeilbron, Free State
… and the Vereeniging Estates included relatively prosperous black tenant farmers. In July 1900 the newly-appointed … They were ‘unruly’, he complained…
ArticleThe ‘four nation’ thesis
… thesis are the four major South African racial groups: Black, White, Coloured and Indian. There are two ways in … enacted by the apartheid government on the…
The armed struggle and state repression of the 1960s
… the formation of the PAC, growing frustration among black people, the Sharpeville incident and the banning of the … their hands for a long time, earning him…
ArticleThe Inquest into Biko’s Death and his funeral
… Biko's burial town (King William’s Town), they passed Black youths standing solemnly along the road with their … as the parliamentarian, Helen Suzman,…
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
… canning industry during World War II and the post-war era. Black men and women from the Eastern Cape and Western Cape … of the FCWU towards race, gender and…
Vakalisa Art Association
… Art Association was founded in 1982. It was a network of Black cultural workers that operated in the Western Cape . …
ArticleColonial history of Bloemfontein
… Bloemfontein in 1850 held service in a hut, mainly for the Black and Coloured population. In 1852, the first Roman … chose was originally a meeting place…
ArticleAfrica: Colonialism, Arts, Protest & Independence
… Ghana) makes it the first British African colony with a black majority in the Legislative Council 1947 T. R. Mekonnen … fricanist Journal in London New…
ArticleOrganization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000
… Ghana) makes it the first British African colony with a black majority in the Legislative Council 1947 T. R. Mekonnen … fricanist Journal in London. New…
EventPeter “Terror” Mathebula dies
… 2020, Peter “Terror” Mathebula South Africa’s first black world champion boxer died. Mathebula was born on 3 July … On 13 December 1980, Mathebula became…
EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years' imprisonment
… to urge the repeal of pass laws. Sobukwe led a peaceful Black march to Orlando police station in Soweto on 21 March …
National Council of African Women (NCAW)
… Movement and this drew criticism from the more radical black organizations and individuals like Josie Palmer of the …
ArticleSoweto Students’ Representative Council (SSRC)
… introduction of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in black schools. Tsietsi Mashinini who fled South Africa in …
10 YEARS PROJECT
… controversy during the year. There were 30 delegates, 20 black and 10 white. The visitors were guests of the party … and from sundry trade unions and…
ArticleExample of a local history: Pretoria
… time there were no streets, cities or areas named after black people and heroes. Since 2003 there have been … be that the word Tshwane hints at a river that…
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament, 1983-1984
… to apparently broaden political representation excluded Black Africans – far from being a movement towards a more … the UDF began to focus on the planned…
ArticleDefiance Campaign 1952
… to deny political representation and participation of Black people at all levels of government and which affected all sectors and all classes within the…
EventThe Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) invade the World Trade Centre, during constitutional negotiations, in Kempton Park, Johannesburg, Transvaal
… action was due to their bitterness towards the impending black majority rule as they were demanding a separate … the difference in treatment of White people…
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… 1984 to 1993. At its inception in 1979 AZAPO adopted the Black Consciousness (BC) philosophy of the Black People’s Convention (BPC). In the first four years…
ArticleCongress of South African Students (COSAS)
… as a national organization to represent the interests of Black school students in the wake of the Soweto uprisings . … Student Movement (SASM) and other…
ArticleRemembering and Celebrating South Africa’s Iconic LGBTQI+ Women
… on contemporary political and cultural issues that affect black people in Africa and its diaspora. …
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… most of the land for white ownership, forcing many black farmers to work as wage labourers on land they had previously owned. When the act was amended in…
Polokwane the Segregated city
… the conflict between Afrikaner and English recede as the Black-White relation more and more took centre stage in … of 1931, now tightened the restrictions on…
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… Selbourne arrives in Pretoria. Lady Selbourne proclaimed a black township (north west of the city was the only township … passed, which leads to the creation…
EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs' (CAD)
… Africa occupied this precarious position between White and Black South Africans. This position was intensified during … Plessis as its head. "Coloured" South…
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
… Act of 1927, the title of which was later amended to the Black Administration Act. Section 11 provided the first … be applied at the discretion of the…
ArchiveThe romantic rewriting of Haile Selassie’s legacy must stop by Dr Yohannes Woldemariam, 4 February 2019
… Marcus Garvey’s famous prophecy: “Look to Africa, when a black king shall be crowned for the day of deliverance is … was reinterpreted to mean Ethiopia and…
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… massacre when apartheid-era police officers injured 180 black Africans and killed 69 when the police opened fire on … uprisings , 1980s protests when many of…