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ArticlePoverty and development
… always been that of poverty. During the apartheid years, black women were forced into the rural areas to live off the … This has left a legacy of devastating…
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… that would consolidate their wealth, while excluding black people through legislative means. Thus, resolutions, … Africa , which was accomplished in May 1910…
ArticleInanda Seminary and its Influence on Education in South Africa by Claire Wilt
… school, played a pivotal role in the education of Black South African women. Just outside of Durban, Inanda … Seminary played an important role in the…
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 …
Albie Sachs: SA Constitutional Court Judge interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane, 24 March 1998, Johannesburg Constitutional Court
… I certainly don’t accept that is was a conflict between black and white. Taylor: Right. Sachs: It’s a conflict that … or lesser extent, and there were strong…
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…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… seemed uncertain. In April 1969 fourteen independent black states from Central and East Africa met in Zambia to … position of independent African states. It…
ArticleRock Art
… people, as some human figures were then painted in black with charcoal. The emergence of domesticated animals … and stress with the environment, this however…
ArticleThe House in session
… of the school must not be prejudiced, when considering a Black pupil; that preference at all times must be given to … out of the race classification handbook…
ArticleDefeat of the Liberation struggle
… and sentenced to long goal terms. The Government banned 18 Black Consciousness (BC) organisations and two newspapers with a wide Black readership. On 25 July…
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…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939
… national opposition to the disenfranchisement of black people;. Mrs Zainunissa (Cissie) Gool is elected … a new scheme to extend the question of…
David Lurie
… Getty Centre for Arts and Humanities (Los Angeles); Black Gallery (Los Angeles) as well as in numerous private …
David Lurie
… Getty Centre for Arts and Humanities (Los Angeles); Black Gallery (Los Angeles) as well as in numerous private …
ArchiveThe South African Art Collective That Imagined the End of Apartheid by Keenan Teddy Smith, 27 August 2019
… Medu members’ devotion to upending the effects of anti-Black policy was based in their refusal of an isolated, elite … people they knew and cared for.”…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… By 1980, the Black Consciousness organisations were in a gradual decline … to Pretoria, Eldorado Park and Lenasia, among many other Black schools. Hundreds…
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…
Biography of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile by Brianna T. Hogg
… and affiliated herself to various organisations within the Black Consciousness Movement, founded and molded after the … Activist Steven “Steve” Biko founded…
ArticleRand Rebellion 1922
… by removing the colour bar and increasing the ratio of black workers to white, for although the wages for whites had … War , and during World War I the…
ArticleWomen’s Rights and Representation
… or husbands - were second-class citizens for many years. Black women were obviously doubly disadvantaged as a result … role in this prejudice. Customary law,…
ArticleWomens Rights
… or husbands - were second-class citizens for many years. Black women were obviously doubly disadvantaged as a result … role in this prejudice. Customary law,…
Article1960-1966: The genesis of the armed struggle
… in South African liberation history. On this fateful day, Black people congregated in Sharpeville, a township near … 69 and injuring an estimated 186. All…
ArticleThe 1st Johannesburg Biennale
… of the Biennale included the Spanish Pavilion’s ‘Black Looks White Myths’ curated by Octavio Zaya, Danielle … “conceptualists” represent ‘intellectualism’…
ArticleAftermath: Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… civilians and three non-White police officers. 26 Black policemen and 365 Black civilians were injured – no White police men were … of a state of emergency,…
ArticleRock art as an expression of hunter-gatherer society and world-view
… different shades of white clay or from bird droppings. Black came from charcoal and manganese oxide. There are many different shades and colours but black,…
ArticleThe South African general elections: Introduction
… to vote. In the Cape Province, an important number of Black and Coloured men were allowed to vote under a …
Apartheid power in crisis
… facilities open to all races. For example, doctors sent black patients to white hospitals for treatment, black patients arrived at white hospitals for…
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… remained in force. The Kaffir Pass Act of 1857 prohibited black African people from entering the Cape Colony except to … employer and Xhosa workers. Once the…
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
… 27,000 inside a year, figures which give an indication of black workers’ mood. In February 1973 mass strikes erupted … the concept of unfair labour practices…