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ArticleThe co-optation of the African National Congress: South Africa’s original ‘State Capture’, Sampie Terreblanche
… narrow interests of the old white elite and the emerging black elite. The enabling conditions of the new system were … of the old white corporate elite and…
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
… of the organization. 18 March 1960 – the PAC calls on Black South Africans to leave their pass books at home and … Education Amendment Act, Act No 34, which…
ArticleResponse to the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising by organisations in exile
… Medium Decree, issued in 1974, which made it mandatory for Black schools to use the Afrikaans language as the medium of … and military training of young men…
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… mine owners showed a propensity to increase the numbers of Black miners over their white counterparts. This led to the … ensured that they passed legislation…
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… South African trade union federation that organised mostly Black employees that aimed to be a national, non-racial umbrella organisation that could…
ArchiveSouth Africa in World War One, 31 October 2018
… Commonwealth Studies, on what white Afrikaner leaders and black South Africans gained for their show of patriotism … with their former English adversaries to…
EventBusiness Day reports that minister of law and order, Adriaan Vlok, said that apartheid has become an albatross around the country's neck.
… an albatross around the country's neck. 'If you ask a black South African what apartheid has done, he will say it …
Epidemics Affect Everyone By Elron Kleinhans
… overcrowded slums. However, a substantial amount of the black patients treated for smallpox in Grahamstownlazaretto’s … the spread of the plague by…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… the control of the white authorities into the hands of the black activists. [3] As a result of the public relations … censors would not think to go and by…
PlaceMasiphumelele Township, Cape Town
… times to come. In the early 1980’s a group of 400-500 black people started the first informal settlement close to … away by force. Later they were told that…
ArchiveDemocracy
… each one’s potential Democracy The national flag Black, gold, green, white, red and blue Reflecting the … My right to vote My vote is…
EventOne hundred and twenty three people banned following June 16 Student Protest
… that Afrikaans would be used as a medium of instruction in Black schools. This failed to curtail mass action campaigns …
EventWhite entrepreneurs to be given contracts in the 'homelands'
Prime Minister B J Vorster announces that White entrepreneurs will be given long-standing contracts in the 'homelands' to speed up economic development. This…
ArticleSignificance of the Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… to white minority rule and domination by a disenfranchised black majority. Coming shortly after the Defiance Campaign of … in minimising ideological feuding…
European Societies in the Middle Ages
… punishment should be as harsh as possible. Activity: The black death: plague and the consequences Read this paper by … titled ‘The Political and Social…
EventHarold Cressy is born in Rorke's Drift
… is born in Rorke's Drift, Kwazulu-Natal. He was the only Black student of the South African College, now the …
EventSouth African football legend Steve Mokone is born 23 March 1923
… born in Doornfontein, Johannesburg. He became the first black professional footballer to play in Europe, when he … er/feature-a-profile-of-steve-mokone--…
EventSouth African football legend Steve Mokone died
… Steve ‘The Black Meteor’ Mokone died in Washington D.C on 20 March 2015. … er/feature-a-profile-of-steve-mokone---coventry-citys-first-black-player/ …
ArchiveElizabeth van der Heyden by Allison Drew
… Cape’s coloured intelligentsia. [4] Tiny numbers of black students had been able to enroll at historically white … Education Act, No 45 , making it a…
Justice Arthur Chaskalson: President of Constitutional Court interviewed by Rupert Taylor, 2 February 2000, The Braamfontein, Johannesburg
… that - for example, majority rule would be reduced to black majority rule and change would only come through … right. Taylor: And I guess it’s… I mean you …
ArticleSocio-economics in Sophiatown
… Schooling was not provided by the state. There were a few black schools run by missionaries and church groups, but many …
ArticleGarment Workers Union (GWU)
… union committees. The garment industry employed Coloured, Black and White women. The White women workers in the garment …
ArticleThe Aftermath of the war
… Self-government would be promoted. Voting rights for black people would only be discussed once the two new …
EventThe constitution of the South African Students’ Organisation (SASO) is adopted at its inaugural conference and Steve Biko is elected president
… the new organisation is committed to a philosophy of Black Consciousness, it does not reject the liberalism of …
EventThe constitution of the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) is adopted at its inaugural conference and Steve Biko is elected president
… the new organisation is committed to a philosophy of Black Consciousness, it does not reject the liberalism of …
EventUnions protest against the circumstances of Aggett's death
… detention, was supported by virtually all-independent Black unions, and tens of thousands of workers. Outrage at …
Book Launch: The Nightwatchman, Hlonipha Mokoena
… of African men in colonial South Africa and how the Black male body and their sartorial choices move through …
Quotes by Steve Biko
… Letter to SRC Presidents, I Write What I Like, 1978. "Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate…
ArticleTimeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s
… Talk, a political and literary magazine publishing black writers was banned under the Suppression of Communism … (IRR 1965 p45) Apr- The Sunday Times (London…
PlaceBrandfort, Free State
… The dilapidated Township, had no official name but the Black residents had named it “Phathakahle” -meaning handle … SAHRIS. Retrieved 5 December 2017…