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Biography of Lefifi Tladi by Paul Linck
… [xv] . Lefifi Tladi’s African art and poetry reveals his Black Consciousness outlook, but he never joined a political … South African History Online talks…
Speech at the Tenth General Conference of the United National Independence Party by O. R. Tambo, Zambia, August 1988
… say, these positive trends have been taking place in the face of stiff resistance by various international forces, … unshaken in their resolve to remove…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the opening ceremony of Telecom 95, the 7th World Telecommunications Forum and Exhibition Geneva, 3 October 1995
… imbalances between developed and disadvantaged areas, we face many of these challenging issues within our own borders. … term international co-operation…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Pan African Parliament, Gallagher Estate, Midrand, 16 September 2004
… task ahead of us is to implement what we have decided. We face the challenge to make the determination within ourselves … Africa's time has come! As we…
ArticleKing Kong the Musical 1959 -1961
… King Kong: An African Jazz , was the first all-Black South African musical which opened in 2 February 1959. … Dhlamini. It helped create a new set of…
A Matter of ‘Principle’: Corporate America and the South African Worker in the Early 1970s by Mattie C. Webb
… community three years prior. The collective power of Black workers in South Africa startled international business … reform as a means to placate an…
EventThe Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.
… government banned all the organisations under the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) banner. The BCM … behind the uprising, these included among others, the…
South African Student Organisation Leaders
… Mji 1976 president Drake Koka the first secretary of the Black People's Convention Winnie Kgware First President of … 1972 Sath Cooper Dr. Mampela Ramphele…
History of the Labour Movements in South Africa
… The history of working people, and particularly Black workers, to organise is inextricably tied to the … of Europe, arriving in Southern Africa and joining…
ArticleThe Strikes and Popular and Political Support
… Chief Mangosuthu G. Buthelezi, the Coloured Labour Party , Black Sash , and the South African Institute of Race … workers to join the GFWBF and later the new…
ArticleOvercoming Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid by Bennett Gwynn
… and their employers symbolised racial relations between Black and White South Africans during this time period. Domestic workers in South Africa were Black…
ArchiveThe Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)
… had moved from Cape Town, and had built the first major black trade union movement in the Transvaal. At a later … (WIL), entered into and had an influential…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bound to strike back by Emilia Potenza
… workers also had to battle to survive. Whether they were black men or white women, they were paid very low wages. Out … Their aim was to promote solidarity…
ArticleMiriam Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts by Connor Kirkpatrick
… the United Nations to show compassion for the actions of Black South Africans. She also appealed to them to try and … folk recording. The album talked about…
ArticleThe Langa March, 30 March 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,…
ArticleTimeline on the defacing of statues
… Howard Campus is splattered is white paint, covered in black cloth and has written papers stuck on it. 30 March, The … Town has its plinth draped with a…
The diary of Maria Tholo - December 16 - 1 January 1977 by Carol Hermer
… were all a bit anxious about December 16, supposedly our Black Christmas, but it turned out very quiet. People didn't … asked us all to show we're in…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 9 - Postscript - South Africa: The Present as History
… dominance of far greater magnitude than it has had yet to face. So far the wide range of oppressive legislation has … it is at present, they would certainly…
PlaceMiddleburg, Mpumalanga
… armoury. Hidden in a thicket, built against a sheer rock face, its carefully concealed positioning was key to ensuring … Afrikaans and Jewish on one side and…
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… Others again, “can hardly be distinguished from the black West African negro”.14 As to whether Africans and … teachers. They knew that the vast majority of…
A Brief History of Niger - Part 1 by US Department of State
… efforts to control political reforms failed in the face of union and student demands to institute a multi-party …
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Roanne Moodley
… We are twenty years into democracy and evidently face many of the same issues under a democratically elected …
Address at the Paris City Hall, 18 November 2003
… during the struggle against apartheid. New challenges now face our country and its people and I am confident that we …
The people armed, 1984-1990
… more daringly for symbolic military targets that rallied black opinion behind the ANC. For instance, the car bomb … ability to operate inside the country…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… more daringly for symbolic military targets that rallied black opinion behind the ANC. For instance, the car bomb … ability to operate inside the country…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… acts such as sexual intercourse between White and Black people. Amended in 1957 as Act 23. Suppression of … numbers, the government set up semi-urban…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… and segregating South Africa. The Khoikhoi, San and Black Africans under the British and the Afrikaner republics … farms. White farmers who allowed the…
PlaceSenteeko Dam
Senteeko Dam, officially "My Own Dam" near Barberton, Mpumalanga, South Africa, is facing an imminent risk of failure due to severe erosion and undercutting of…
Academia and activism: A unique alliance in working class organisation post 1973 by Vannessa Kruger
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference The post-1973 period created a space for academics, students, and…
PlaceRooi-Els, Western Cape
… leaving Gordon's Bay , before the landmark Hangklip rock face. Rooi Els (sometimes spelt Rooiels or Rooi-Els), borders … leaving Gordon's Bay, before the…