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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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
PlaceGranger Bay
… Green Point Stadium and the site of heated debate in the face of the 2010 World Cup , as local residents fought to …
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…
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…
Document 28 - Brian Bunting, “Problems of the Multi-Racial Conference”, Liberation, 28, November 1957
… advocated in some quarters. To deny this is to fly in the face of the facts. The existence of Africanists inside the … in the year of the law designed to end…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
ArchiveCHAPTER TWO: Class, Consiousness and Organisation inthe Political Development of Indian South Africans, 1860 - 1979 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
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…
Term 1:THE HUNTER GATHERERS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
… bride. The bride’s mother would decorate her daughter’s face with the fat of an animal and mix it with red ochre. … from different shades of white clay or…
ArticleLetters: Albertina Sisulu
… of Walter’s imprisonment, despite her showing a brave face, was a heavy burden together with her banning order …
ArticleNapoleon Bonaparte
… of Napoleon. What problems did the Congress of Vienna face? The old order had been seriously weakened in most of …
The Military Defeat of the South Africans in Angola by Horace Campbell (Monthly Review), Africa, Angola
… so, losing air superiority, and faced with mutinies among black troops and a high casualty rate among whites, the South … the old idea of white domination…