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Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
… of the apartheid period was the fourfold increase of the black population from just over 8 million to over 31 million. … of entry into the dominant caste for…
ArchiveA Speech to Displease All Parties by Imraan Coovadia, 11 October 2021
… more questions. What is a state? What is fairness? What is black? And how do those words move us? Thirdly, Gwala was … Gwala as the ‘exciting re-emergence of…
XIII - The Courts
… modern parallel'. The majority of South Africans are black, but the courts are presided over by white judges and … under laws and which are totally different…
Document 8 - Letter on the current situation and suggesting a multi-racial convention, from Chief Albert J. Luthuli to Prime Minister J.G. Strijdom
… in respect of their prescriptive stance when dealing with black leaders generally The impression is shared not only by … protest will now be tolerated. To…
PlaceSão Tomé and Príncipe
… —in the country.) Women in Sao Tome and Principe, face societal and structural obstacles to their development, …
ArchiveHugh Masekela - what I'm thinking about ... a crisis for African culture (The Guardian)12 March 2013
… glasses and chicks with their asses in the air and in your face … I don't know how much of it is music. People talk to …
ArchiveThe Fragility of Existence by David Goldblatt (www.aperture.org), 6 February 2018
… scratched from an appallingly inhospitable terrain in the face of overwhelming societal transition. Yet these …
Document 37 - “Communist Election Policy Defined: National Conference Decision”, The Guardian, 8 January 1948
… World War, with the atomic bomb waved threateningly in the face of the U.S.S.R. and its Democratic and Socialist allies. …
!U’S STORY - Photographs 16 - 19
… people in man history, live in an uncertain world. We must face ness, bad luck and the biggest loss of all death. Our …
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… the second Constitution. This also took away the rights of black people. In 1983 the government passed the third … Coloured and Indian groups. This…
The significance of the Bulhoek massacre today by Sam Matiase, 11 May 2015, South Africa
… of South Africa (British and Dutch) and the baboon the black people (Africans). This metaphor might be problematic … was presumably have been taken from the…
ArchiveI Write What I Like: Selected Writings
… anti-apartheid thinkers and the founding figure of the Black Consciousness Movement. The collection brings together … What I Like articulates Biko's central…
PlaceBorder Cave or Sibudu Cave, Found in Cliff Between KZN and Swaziland
… of these camps is Sibudu Cave, a rock shelter in a cliff face above South Africa's Tongati River, about 40 Kilometres …
PlaceHuguenot Memorial Museum, Franschhoek
The story of the Huguenot Memorial Museum is quite fascinating, and lends the Building and its contents a certain charm and intrigue. In the 1700’s, the…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… assertion of white minority rights at the expense of black people. 1920 The Housing Act is passed. This Act made … SANNC. In his speech Mahabane decried the…
ArticleStaffrider magazine (1978-1993)
… its name and identity from township slang referring to black youth who travelled either sitting on the roof or … travelling to work and back-that is…
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… farms and placing their women and children in white- and black concentration camps where some 28 000 died. Although … Even before after the Anglo-Boer War,…
ArticleHeritage and identity of Provinces
… They got this idea possibly because many of the Black groups moved around. One reason for this was to flee … between them and the different Voortrekker…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 84th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1996
… and agents of foreign powers. They pontificated that "no black person was capable of successfully governing a country … abject poverty. The overwhelming…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Disfranchisement of the Cape Native
… Cape Colony in 1854, without, distinction as to white and black. Before this privilege was conÂferred upon the … civilisation on everybody alike, excluding…
BiographyDr. Mantombazana ‘Manto’ Tshabalala-Msimang
… Inanda Seminary Secondary School, a boarding school for black South African girls located 25 kilometers from Durban. …
BiographyDimitri Tsafendas
… governed by the natives of that Province, whether they are black or white.” Tsafendas was subsequently imprisoned and …
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… to the mineral-industrial complex partly to transport black workers from in and around southern Africa and to … were characterised by the violent state…
First National Consultative Conference: Report on the Strategy and Tactics of the African National Congress, 26 April 1969, Morogoro
… illuminating leadership. How then do we view the enemy we face - his strength and his weakness? What sort of structure … Coloureds and Indians white…
The defiance campaign by M. P. Naicker
… 1951, decided to invite the head committees of other black national movements - the South African Indian Congress … reached unbearable limits, especially…
ArticleAbout Nkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Project
… us the building of a new land, a home for men who are black, white, and brown, from the ruins of the old narrow … Egyptian, Jewish, European. It will not…
Archive1996 - President Mandela, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 1996
… all citizens. These are the critical challenges that we face within and outside these hallowed chambers. In October … power who, at best, pay lip service to…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… was to reinforce constitutionally the segregation of the Black populations of South Africa from the White minority as … would never work as modern industry…
History lesson: When Vorster stuck the knife in Ian Smith's back by Jamie Miller (Rand Daily Mail), 17 September 2016
… intervention, then it’s not in the name of white against black. The implication was clear: if communist intervention occurred against a predominantly black,…
Address by Comrade President Nelson R Mandela to the International Federation of Newspaper Publishers Conference Prague, 26 May 1992
… was inevitable because a number of the pioneers of the black press were amongst the founders of the ANC. In this … the exception of " Imvo ", formerly "I mvo…