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Death of a lion of the law, Arthur Chaskalson by Rebecca Davis, 3 December 2012
… of my radical views in relation to the treatment of black students.” A motion of no confidence had been brought … begin, or even exactly what charges the…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 87th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1999
… mobilisation of the youth. We also call especially on the black professionals and intellectuals themselves to use their … that the problems which our country…
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…
PlaceGranger Bay
… Green Point Stadium and the site of heated debate in the face of the 2010 World Cup , as local residents fought to …
EventThe first 'Bantustans' or 'homelands' comes into existence when the Transkei Regional Authority is instituted
… After South Africa became a Union, the government wanted Black and White people to live separately, so they set certain areas apart for Black people. Before…
Chapter 6 - No more suppers for my comrades
… thread between the 30 was the fact that they were all Black South Africans. Some were students at school in … you Mme ' Ntate? Your generosity is mind…
Address at the National Summit of Unity and Reconciliation in Rwanda Kigali 19 October 2000
… of history, South Africa had become a country of both black and white. It was clear therefore that the only way … could begin the conscious process of…
Address at the National Summit of Unity and Reconciliation Kigali, Rwanda, 18 October 2000
… of history, South Africa had become a country of both black and white. It was clear therefore that the only way … could begin the conscious process of…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1930-1939
… recognised that there was a need to fix a minimum for Black workers in order to protect the White workers? wages … Representation of Blacks Act No 12 of 1936…
The diary of Maria Tholo - November 2 - December 1 by Carol Hermer
… the wind. They looked like angels. The Methodists were in black skirts, red blouses, white collars and caps. The Catholics had black caps and skirts and…
ArticleRichard David Turner Timeline 1941 - 1978
… of Cape Town 1960 Changes to philosophy 1960 Sharpeville – black mass movement curtailed and white opposition groups … lecturer at Rhodes University 1970…
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… only to unskilled work, which was performed mostly by Black people (Dugard 1978: 85; Horrell 1978: 6). Repealed by … 20 of the Mines and Works Amendment Act…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the 118th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly: Cape Town, 13 April 2008
… in both urban and rural areas. Among the tasks the clearly face parliamentarians is continuous engagement with citizens … the fear that today's meal may be…
Document 12 - Notes prepared by Nelson Mandela for his meeting with P. W. Botha
… Comrades have identified the core political issues which face us, in particular: the need to revitalise and strengthen … do not support this vision of our…
Chapter XI - Witness for freedom
… of the policies of your organisation." Once I had to face forty-five minutes of uninterrupted questions from the … tearful after reaching gaol. As I…
Speech on the Sixtieth Anniversary of the ANC, Lusaka by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1972
… and Briton - for the more intensive exploitation of the black people. Present at the inaugural conference which led … whose outcome can only be victory for…
Liberation and Ethics. Is there a connection? by Raymond Suttner, 05 April 2016
… meant that my world was radically different from that of black people. It was a world of privilege. Given this … repression that was normally associated with…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1900-1947
… South Africa accelerated the process of further squeezing Black people off the land. A series of draconian legislation … Masters and Servants Ordinance is…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), King George Hotel, Athens, 24 February 2005.
… needed a new type of organisation with a fresh mandate to face the contemporary continental and international … whites made to believe that there are…
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 110 of 1983
… participation of Coloured and Indian people and exclude Black people. The proposal maintained the central control of … convinced that they would deepen…
Statement submitted to the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, on the occasion of the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners, 11 October 1979
… in so many parts of our country. In a very real sense all black South Africans are political prisoners - prisoners of … equally true that those, for whose…
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
… on successive governments to ensure a supply of cheap black labour for small businesses and farmers. From 1942 to 1945 wage differences between white and…
ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
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…