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ArticleA brief history of domestic service in South Africa
… [vi] . Poor housing and the fact that they were mixed with black employees in homes with several maids deterred white … domestic service had changed into a…
ArchiveChapter 6 Underground in Joburg by Denis Goldberg
… gallows were two large cardboard vultures, one with the face of Prime Minister Verwoerd , the other of BJ Vorster , … the aims of the illegal ANC and was out…
ArchiveSpeech of the President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela to members of the British parliament House of Commons, London, 5 May 1993
… the majority of our population, which happens to be black, lives in conditions of dire poverty. The situation which these millions face is not catastrophic…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the 40th anniversary of Inkosi Albert Luthuli`s passing away, 4 November 2007, Thembeni, Ilembe District Municipality, Kwazulu-Natal
… eventually live together in harmony because no one, white, black or brown, wants to destroy this beautiful land of ours. … build a South Africa that belongs…
Archive25 Years of Democracy and Now!
My name is Naledi Seloane from MD Coovadia Combined School a Grade 9 learner. I take this opportunity to congratulate you on your recent election as the…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… The African people know that their unity is vital. In the face of violence, many strugglers for freedom have had to … of the South African Students…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… from ordinary civil rights in South Africa. (1 x 2) (2) Black South Africans. Comment on the meaning of the following … laws that exclusively reserved jobs…
2018 - Cyril Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 16 February 2018
… to build on these achievements, confront the challenges we face and accelerate progress in building a more prosperous … Through measures like preferential…
Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers’ party
… of South Africa brought into exÂistence the massive black working class concentrated in the urban centres, and in … of labour - a party which could, as it…
ArticleMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) - Timeline: 1890-1899
… feet. On being refused, he gave a brutal blow on Gandhi's face. But at Standerton the coach was changed and the rest of … to return to India with Government…
BiographyKing Sarhili kaHintsa
… I’m weighed down by leading and ruling. Hintsa’s black-crested cuckoo! That’s it!! [43] Endnotes …
BiographyKing Dingane ka Senzangakhona
… of two companies, the younger men being in the Mnyama (black) section and the older men in the Mhlophe (white) …
BiographySunny Girja Singh
… with the bare minimum of clothing (prison uniforms). Black prisoners were not given long pants — even in winter, …
BiographyChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli
… salaries were low and few other professions were open to black people at the time. Luthuli showed empathy with working …
ArticleLand, Labour and Apartheid
… the land in the hands of the British. The rights of the black population were generally not taken into account, … they did still live scattered across South…
Women’s liberation by Zanele Dhlamini (Mbeki)
… which in the United States is best expressed by the Black Panther Party's slogan of "All Power to the People". A … the way this democracy is actually…
Message by Albert Luthuli to the National Conference of the African National Congress Women`s League, 1 August 1959
… weary. We shall need all the stoic fortitude and wisdom to face and surmount mountains of problems, troubles and …
EventSlave rebellion at the Cape led by Louis of Mauritius. Over 300 slaves and Khoi Khoi servants from outlying farms marched on Cape Town demanding their freedom
… was sprung. The participants quickly scattered in the face of superior forces. The dragoons rounded up and captured …
Centenary of the 1913 Land Act By Colin Bundy, 18 April 2013
… This clause precipitated the eviction of hundreds of black families from farms, wrenched from relative security as … and social space in which to contain…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on 16 June 1984
… for the so-called Coloured and Indian sections of the black people of our country, to establish the other two … vote, you will be voting for continued…
Statement on June 16 by O. R. Tambo, 1984
… for the so-called Coloured and Indian sections of the black people of our country, to establish the other two … vote, you will be voting for continued…
Chapter Two - The year with the ICU: 1921 - 1926
… The ICU was formed through the mobilisalition of mostly black dockworkers. In June 1919 a branch of the Industrial … often seemed to forget conveniently in…
ArchiveChapter 7 Arrest at Liliesleaf by Denis Goldberg
… Africa was bankrupted by trying to maintain itself in the face of our multi-pronged sustained attacks of political, … The battles in the streets of South…
PlaceZandspruit, Johannesburg
Twenty-five years ago, the informal settlement was once a piece of land with a few houses scattered around. Today over 30 000 people call Zandspruit home! …
Africa and Freedom, 1961
… Man or to set a limit beyond which the human being in his black form might not strive to serve his Creator to the best … South Africa's race problem as a…
ADDRESS AT THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT, 13 June 2001
… contribution both with regard to exposing thousands of Black people to literacy, technical, agricultural and … institutions admitted many South Africans,…
Nelson Mandela ‘Release Us or Treat Us as Political Prisoners’, 22 April 1969
… government seems prepared to do 54 years later with black politicians who have even more justification to resort … offenders. This is a spurious argument…
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… and later specialised in Intelligence. Women and the Black Consciousness Movement in the 1970s The Black Consciousness Movement, led by Steve Biko, was a new…
Statement of the NWC on the organisation`s readiness for the upcoming election, 10 May 2011
… officials. No part of South Africa will escape the wave of black, green and gold. The ANC Womens Leagues 30-day … are found guilty of this abuse of basic…
ANC Press Statement presented by Oliver Tambo, 16 August 1985, Lusaka
… of the apartheid system. He has flung an insult in the face of his best friends internationally, telling them in no … days ago. Many white people will lose…