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ArticlePan-Africanism
… emphasized the commonalities between Africans and black people in the United States. Delany, who believed that black people could not prosper alongside…
Archive2004 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 6 February 2004 (Before National Elections)
… He said: "At this stage...the country still has to face: the first fully democratic election for local … radically and irrevocably for all South Africans…
ArchiveLiving in the Interregnum by Nadine Gordimer (The New York Review of Books), 20 January 1983
… the world is going down finally in South Africa. Since the black uprisings of the mid-Seventies, coinciding with the … made clandestinely by South African…
PlaceGovan Mbeki Municipality
Govan Mbeki Local Municipality is situated in the Gert Sibande District Municipality in Mpumalanga Province.Mbeki died in Port Elizabeth on 30 August 2001. He…
Freedom movement in South Africa: Its International impact by E.S Reddy
… and White, courted imprisonment – the impact on the Black people in the United States was remarkable. The … shattered the stupid racist myth that the…
Defining the term 'Bantu'
… are instances where Bantu was used in a positive light by black people. In Umsebenzi, a 1940s ANC periodical, the … [9] . The term was therefore used to…
BiographyReggie Vandeyar
… and the granting of bursaries to underprivileged black students. In addition, the Indian government agreed to …
BiographyPaul Weinberg
… started by the Institute of Race Relations to train young black youths in the arts. He worked for the Institute of Race …
BiographyKing Mzilikazi
… The territory of the Northern Khumalo was located near the Black Mfolozi River, squeezed between the lands of two strong …
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the 25th Anniversary of the formation of Umkhonto We Sizwe, 16 December 1986
… would soldier on to victory. Thus it was that in the face of such a massive setback the only cohesive, organised … of the people of our country; the violence…
"Umkhonto we Sizwe - Born of the People": Statement of the National Executive Comittee of the ANC on the 25th Anniversary of the Formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1986
… would soldier on to victory. Thus it was that in the face of such a massive setback the only cohesive, organised … of the people of our country; the violence…
Ruth First Untold by Jerry Saena
… to be relocated into government housing. Treatment towards Black South Africans from the government during this time is … story that she witnessed, a…
The War
… The Boers lost over 34 000 people. More than 15 000 black people were killed. The British government was … First Anglo-Boer War and more battles took place…
Extract from a speech at the opening of the National Party Congress of the Orange Free State at Bloemfontein on 18 September 1973
… about it. But it is not only subversion that we have to face squarely in these times in which we live. A much more … one should take measures. What is now…
Class, Consciousness and Organisation: Conclusion by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Chapter 6 - Reform, Repression and Mass Resistance
… restructuring of the previous terms of domination of the black population, economic recession, the political offensive … from its inception SANSCO defined…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… in 1923 - did not accomplish much to improve the lives of black South Africans. Short of funds and poorly organised, it … (now Malawi), the ICU started out…
Address to the National Council Of Provinces, 11 November 2003
… of SMME's and cooperatives, in both urban and rural areas; black economic empowerment, and special programmes for … on those living in poverty, with…
Chapter VII - Democracy?
… space at the back, which, to our anger, was separated into black and white. Yet the accused were not. Our division was … Paul Joseph of the Indian Congress…
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
… oppression, and segregation policies that subjected Black people young and old to indignity and inferior status. … where young people became aware of the…
PlaceVredehoek
… of these removals can still be felt within the displaced Black and Coloured communities. On a lighter note, some folks … government held a firm grip over…
"Future of the Africanist Movement" Questions and Answers Y R. M. Sobukwe, in The Africanist, January 1959
… A.N.C. who are its active policy-makers, maintain, in the face of all the hard facts of the S.A. situation, that ours … according to them, oppressed as…
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… of territorial segregation by forcing the majority of Black South Africans to live in reserves and making it … escaped this fate, living in small spots of…
ArchiveUnomsa for African Renaissance by Thobeka Sinxo
… that was antagonistic to the customs and rituals of the black peoples (Jabavu, 1922). Writers, Mr. D.D.T. Jabavu, Mr. … ‘goddess movement’ and the ‘superhero…
Chapter III - The world outside
… and carried out violent physical reprisals on individuals, black and white, leading to injuries and death, sometimes in … years after the introduction of…
Chapter VIII - The Mandela’s – family extraordinary
… Brandfort stared in amazement. I think no one like this, black or white, had ever walked down that street before. … court of justice but a court of…
The International Socialist League (ISL)
… progressives saw the importance of organising the growing Black working class. However, amongst this group there was still debate over the role of the Black…
ArticleBloemfontein the Segregated city
… of decision making was governed by the state. Thus, a Black leader of a body could be appointed or relieved of his … matters, little was done within these…
ArticleBiography of Mongane Wally Serote by Matthew Williams
… that conveyed the suffering and anger of the oppressed black South African people. Despite being in exile and away … Serote, poetry, apartheid, African…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the murder of Griffiths Mxenge, 01 November 1981
… In unbridled savagery, they extensively mutilated his face and cut off his ears. A member of the African National …