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State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… in the industrial sector. Segregation legislation against Black, Indian and Coloured South Africans increased during … The Government also sought to tighten…
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…
ArticleQuotations by Oliver Tambo
… society. We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in … economic power, its oppression and…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
ArchiveCHAPTER TWO: Class, Consiousness and Organisation inthe Political Development of Indian South Africans, 1860 - 1979 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Address by Oliver Tambo on receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, 09 May 1986, New Delhi
… Considering my own relatively meagre contribution in the face of this massive popular effort, it can only be with … Township; a part is in the bowels of the…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, 09 November 1982, New York
… of their struggle, the workers, particularly the black workers, the youth, the women, the masses in the rural … outposts, intermittent paramilitary…
"We are of the World and the World is with Us": Address on Receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University by O. R. Tambo , New Delhi, 9 May 1986
… Considering my own relatively meagre contribution in the face of this massive popular effort, it can only be with … Township; a part is in the bowels of the…
PlaceFree State Province
… farms. But they soon came into conflict with some of the black groups, especially the Basotho . The Basotho were a Black Nation which was found by Moshoeshoe…
Interview: The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem (Navi) Pillay
… about your work in South Africa. What challenges did you face being the first woman to start a law practice in Natal? … One was the obvious ”‘the race…
Address of Nelson Mandela, President of the African National Congress on receiving a Honorary LLD degree at the University of the Witwatersrand 6 September 1991
… Africans and the dispossession and disabilities of the black majority. We represent far more people than the small … and with the will to tackle the problems…