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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…
Control: 1910 - 1948
… of a number of African "reserves" for the settlement of Black South Africans, which would serve as pools of migrant … and thereby formalised the separation…
ArticleOrganisation of African Unity (OAU)
… which emerged in the United States of America (USA) among Black American intellectuals such as Martin Delany and … Crummel, who drew similarities between…
Zulu Community
… Witwatersrand. Zulu workers organized some of the first Black labour unions in the country. For example, the Zulu … Towards the end of the 19th century…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… of people according to whether they were White, Coloured, Black, Indian or Asian. People would then be treated … Only a small percentage of South Africa was…
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--…
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…
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/ …
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
PlaceLiesbeek River and Park, Cape Town
… below Rosebank and Mowbray, the Liesbeek joins the Black River. Urban Park lies between these Rivers and … Heritage sites and public open spaces. From here,…
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 …
EventP.W. Botha becomes SA's first Executive President
South Africa's Prime Minister since 1978, P.W. Botha, was unanimously elected by eighty-eight members of the Electoral College to the office of first executive…
ArchiveNothing groundbreaking in Mandela debate by Steven Friedman, 09 December 2015
… reason it is being raised now is a growing concern among black thinkers that many of apartheid’s ills are still with … does not exist. If they had the…
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…
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…
EventDr Piet Koornhof, one of the most controversial figures in South African history, dies
… a doctoral thesis that fully accepted the inevitability of black urbanisation. Koornhof was born in Leeudoringstad, in …
PlaceWallacedene, Cape Town
… The Predominant Race, making up 76% of the Population is: Black African Peoples. The Housing Rights Activist Irene …