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Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the 1940s
… in manufacturing output meant a massive expansion of the urban labour force. The need for African labour was stronger … poor. segregationist policies - those…
The flight of the Gwala-Gwala bird: Essays by Ari Sitas, review essay by Linda Cooper
… of a broad definition of class that goes beyond shop floor issues and avoids economic reductionism (p.11). Essay One … movement of the late 1960s/early…
BiographyStephen Joel Chifunyise
… the iconic expert whose articulation of arts and culture issues with clarity and deep understanding will remain etched …
BiographyMagasvarie Govender
… across an organisation which took up a range of community issues called the Chatsworth Housing Action Committee (CHAC) … Anti-apartheid activist, teacher,…
Indian Community
… They contribute to the multicultural atmosphere of the city and many Indian rituals and traditions can still be … process. By 1950, the Group Areas Act was…
SAHO Milestones
… book Imperial Ghetto. Ways of Seeing in a South African City by Omar Badsha . Imperial Ghetto - Ways of Seeing in a … Ghetto - Ways of Seeing in a South…
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… Assembly: United Nations must take Action to Destroy Apartheid Delivers a speech: Comments and Observations on … River, sleeping in the open with the group…
ArticleSouth African Youth Congress (SAYCO)
… like other organizations, represented a challenge to apartheid particularly with regard to its call for the … of 1000 youths. PEYCO organized youth around…
ArticleRobert Mcbride timeline
… Robert grows up in Wentworth, a suburb 11km from the city centre of Durban. Converted from a World War 2 military … contribution of Coloured people in the…
Documents, and articles relating to the Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… a whole and not, as now appears, only to those who work in apartheid structures. In the light of subsequent Government … held recently with the 'homeland'…
EventPretoria is proposed as the new capital of ZAR
… from Potchefstroom to Pretoria in 1860. With the city becoming the capital, it marked the end to Boers’ … in 1961. It remains the administrative capital of…
PlaceThe Durban Centre for Photography
… and community outreach programmes, among other social issues and spaces. [4] The exhibition ran from the 30th March … in Black and White: Margaret Bourke…
PlaceJohannesburg Public Library
… 2025! The Johannesburg Public Library, is based in the City Centre, in Market Street. It has over 1.5-Million books … many other L ibraries in the S uburbs…
Port Elizabeth an Overview
… become the Colony's premier port and its second-largest city. Some of this impetus was dissipated after 1890 as, on … As resistance against oppressive…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1970 - 1979
… he comments that South Africans have been resisting apartheid admirably; he points to the industrial action and … removals and resettlement orders. January…
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… The apartheid era was characterised by different resistances such … the East Rand in 1985 and Soweto uprising of 1976 . The apartheid era ended in 1994, and…
ArchiveThe Legacy Of The Jazz Epistles, South Africa's Short-Lived But Historic Group by Simon Rentner, 27 April 2017
… one session together before the country's brutally racist apartheid government forced them into exile. One recording … were saying very defiantly: 'We are…
ArchiveSpeak
… by Speak Collective, is a publication focussing on issues of interest mainly to women. Violence against women, including wife battery and rape, health issues…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… these are words that were used to explain South Africa’s Apartheid regime, which officially lasted from 1948-1994 … Six in Cape Town, and Sophia-town in…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Matomela by Maximiliano Rubio
… Her collegue in the anti-apartheid struggle, Hilda Bernstein , describes Florence … same year, demonstrations ensued in South Africa’s main urban areas, such…
PlaceLanga Township, Cape Town
… expanded to create a more formal structure for African Urban administration. In 1923 the Urban Areas Act was passed to enforce the compulsory … Areas Act…
PlaceVanderbijlpark
… banks of the Vaal River . It is considered an industrial city in the Gauteng province of South Africa, known for its … on the Vaal River, forming part of the…
ArchiveHighlights on successes and experienced challenges during the 25 years of freedom and democracy.
… resources compared to those which were built during the Apartheid period. Corporal punishment was banned there foreit … but my education is the same as that…
ArchiveCourt Observers Report for 1993: Presented b
… National Conference on 16 March 1984 discussing pass laws, Urban Areas Act, detentions, apartheid. …
BiographyOprah Winfrey
… the daughter of Vernon Winfrey, a coal miner, barber, and city councilman. However, according to Kitty Kelley, author …
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
… , is later published by Random House and is banned by the apartheid government. In addition, the government also … Hillbrow, which depicts the life and…
BiographyJoseph Mathunjwa
… seen little improvement in their lives two decades after apartheid ended. Mathunjwa led the mineworkers strike in … Available at www.miningmx.com [Accessed:…
BiographyTlou Theophilus Cholo
… Silver , for his self- sacrifice in the struggle against apartheid and outstanding leadership in the trade union …
BiographyMduduzi Richard Shabalala
… them at the time that Lesotho was in on good footing with Apartheid South Africa. They were abducted by the Lesotho …
BiographyPauline Podbrey
… the Industrial Council. However, the introduction of grand apartheid legislation, in particular the Mixed Marriages Act …