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ArticleThe African Students Association (ASA)
The African Students Association (ASA) was established on 17 December 1961 in Durban under the auspices of the banned African National Congress (ANC). At the…
ArticleSophiatown timeline 1899-1955
… leads to further growth in Sophiatown’s population. 1939-1945 During the war years Sophiatown continues to grow. Some …
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… unions countrywide. The CNETU membership data in 1945 stood as follows: A huge number of members came from … World Federation of Trade Unions was launched in…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… be offered some form of parliamentary representation. 1945 January 28, The moderates are compelled to negotiate … forward the demands agreed to at the…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010
During this period the ANC consolidated its hold on power but also faced both internal and external challenges. Significantly, the National Party, which was…
ArticleTanzania and its Support of Southern African Liberation Movements
The role of Tanzania in fostering African Liberation movements The emergence of organised popular liberation movements throughout Africa following the end of…
Tanzania and its Suipport of Southern African Liberation Movements
The role of Tanzania in fostering African Liberation movements The emergence of organised popular liberation movements throughout Africa following the end of…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
Introduction In 1948 the National government was voted into power and instituted apartheid. This lead to an increase in the number of people being…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… pass Campaign mounted in the Western Cape between 1944 and 1945. In 1945, the government passed the Urban Areas Act which was … ANC leading the initiative…
ArticleAbram Fischer Timeline 1908-1975
… residents protesting the one-penny increase in bus fares. 1945 2 January, Bram attends the annual conference of the …
ArticleList of people banned under Apartheid
People banned under ApartheidNameAct/Section/Issued up to: (delivery date)Date on which notice expires:Other: (address, occupation etc.)Aba, LickardAct No. 44…
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… Naicker was elected to the organisation's leadership in 1945. Due to more militant protests, by the 1950s and 1960s … people. Naicker was elected to the NIC…
Durban Mayors and other city officials
… Johnston (1935 - 39) R Ellis Brown (1939 - 45) SJ Smith (1945 - 46) R Ellis Brown (1946 - 47) Leo Boyd (1947 - 49) Ken …
The Development of Indian Political Movements in South Africa, 1924 - 1946 by Essop Pahad
… Shafa'at Ahmad , 1941 - 1944. Deshmukh, Ramrao Madhaurao , 1945 -1946. (BACK TO TOP) CONSTITUTION OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN …
ArticleThe Arrival of Jan Van Riebeeck in the Cape - 6 April 1652
On 24 December 1651, accompanied by his wife and son, Jan van Riebeeck set off from Texel in The Netherlands for the Cape of Good Hope. Van Riebeeck had signed…
Doing Oral History
Edited by Dr Johan Wassermann (2002) This publication is a product of an Oral History workshop organised by the Department of Education and the facilitator…
ArticleA Brief History of Pageview
… it was experienced, particularly during its heyday between 1945 and 1960. To read more about the people, politics, …
ArticleThe Drafting and Acceptance of the Constitution
On 2 February 1990, the National Party government unbanned political parties, released many political prisoners and detainees, and unbanned many people,…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
During the 1990s, behind-the-scenes negotiations between the government and the ANC gathered pace. As part of that process, the ANC, PAC and other parties were…
10 YEARS PROJECT
close Document 6 Africans' claims in South Africa 16 December 1943 (Including 'The Atlantic Charter from the Standpoint of Africans within the…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… elected to the committee of the Natal Provincial pision in 1945 and soon after, he became the president of the pision in …
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
In 1959 the Africanists broke away from the ANC and formed the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). The histories of these two organisations are inextricably linked…
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
ABSTRACT Heinz Klug is a white man born in South Africa who vehemently fought apartheid from both within South Africa and outside in exile. Klug believed that…
ArticleA History of Official Government HIV/AIDS Policy in South Africa
The HIV/AIDS Crisis Emerges: Reponses of the Apartheid GovernmentIn 1982, the first case of AIDS in South Africa was reported in a homosexual man who…
ArticleThe South African War 1899-1902
On 9 October 1899 the SAR issued an ultimatum to Britain and two days later, on 11 October the war was officially declared between Britain and the Boers. The…
10 YEARS PROJECT
close Document 4 'Our Annual Conference - An Inspiring Gathering': report in the South African Worker 31 January 1929 The Seventh…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 10) Time for a Chartist Movement The idea of the Freedom Charter and the…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
1990 2 February, President F. W. de Klerk makes a speech at the opening of Parliament, announcing the lifting of a 30-year ban on the ANC, the Pan African…
ArticleHow did the Nazis construct an Aryan identity?
… elected as the Reich Minister of Propoganda from 1933 - 1945. To control every part of every German's life, the Nazi … even a barely mature Jew boy”¦" - Der…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… 10 of the Natives (Urban Areas) Consolidation Act of 1945, as substituted by Section 27 of Act 54 of 1952, places …