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ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… Alienation Ordinance, No 14 of 1922 Timeline: Anti-Indian Legislation. This ordinance enables the Durban City Council … for skilled work, Indian workers are…
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… Act, chieftaincy in the 1930s through to the 1960s and 1970s was largely subjected to the authority of … in exploiting a window of opportunity allowed by…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… Pact Government’s greatest progress was made in industrial legislation and economy. Its protection of White workers and … 1919 by Clements Kadalie ). In the…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… of the Group Areas Act The GAA was one of many pieces of legislation used to control the lives of Indians, Coloureds, … 1948 were less coherent and often…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1654-1899
… a store in West Street 1876 The Free State Republic passes legislation allowing Indians to enter the Republic with the … his death on 24 November 1960 The…
ArticleWomen’s Role in the Negotiations by Nicole Dellaportas
… struggle, and to watch for and resist any racist legislation directed against them as women . ’ (Brooks, 2003) …
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… Act was one of the most controversial pieces of Apartheid legislation. It prohibited adultery, attempted adultery or … not allowed to graze ?. Commenced: 1…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… police raids and arrests – and new, more draconian legislation – they played their part in weakening the … Defiance The decade opened with a wave of anti…
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… aside of those groups under the Gold Law or old Transvaal legislation. Section 9.2h empowered the Board to deal with … least 26 other cases relating to the…
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… after it had outlawed the ANC and introduced punishing legislation to curb likely covert activities. It would rather … government, which acted quickly in…
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… a focus on only a certain number of legislations to all legislation that sought to take away rights from non-White … league. This fact concerned the Black…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… maximum co-operation and unity in opposing apartheid legislation. October, The executive of the Transvaal Metal … to dissolve the Wage Board and forthwith…
ArticleBureau of State Security (BOSS)
… J., (1994), “The Revision of South African Defence Related Legislation, the Military Disciplinary Code and Related … Available at http://www.ssa.gov.za…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… rhetoric, and decides not to proceed with anti-Indian legislation during the Second World War. October 8, At a …
ArticleWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa by Cait Chapman
… economy and its and other states political futures. In the 1960s, countries across the globe were coming together to try … rarely brought up as one of those…
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
… were banned, and by 1965 Sactu petered out. From the early 1960s onwards, the state brutally suppressed all political … in anti-apartheid resistance was…
ArticleA history of prison labour in South Africa
… the treatment of prisoners. In 1959, a major new prison legislation, Prison Act of 1959 , was introduced which was … soon changed in the post- Sharpeville…
ArticleLiberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)
… the NP began enacting and implementing racially divisive legislation. This was met by strong opposition from the … while the LPSA chose to disband rather…
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… movement of slaves and Khoikhoi were promulgated. Thus, legislation played an important role in the shaping of Cape … in the Cape moved to also regulate…
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
… government’s rule for 46 years were racially divisive legislation, and sheer brute force. The period from the 1960s to the 1980s was punctuated by the…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… due to petty and severe apartheid laws. Between the 1960s and the unbanning of the liberation organisations and … of the Suppression of Communists Act and…
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
… agitation in the European community and moves to enact legislation to segregate Indians. It was only at the third … membership were broken by state…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… addressed to the Government to repeal all discriminating Legislation before or on 29 February 1952, and if this does not take place a mass contravention of…
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
… many workers to the town to the point that, until the 1960s, it maintained its place as South Africa's third … working class character which it retained…
ArticleChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli timeline 1800 - 1967
… that face them in the light of new pieces of apartheid legislation being introduced by the Malan Government. 1952 …
Pretoria the Segregated city
… Marabastad Pretoria the Segregated city Post-1948 Legislation This period marks the beginning of the rise of … who could not be absorbed into Atteridgeville…
ArticleThe Destruction of Sophiatown
… Party (NP) government's model for its urban apartheid legislation and policies. However, there are still glaring …
ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
… officers had to take care of other essential services. Legislation to cover this was soon passed and recruiting …
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… referred to as the "Ghetto Act". The aspect of the legislation defined areas where people of Indian origin … in the armed struggle, prison and exile life…
ArticleSouth African Constitutional Development Timeline 1902 - 1997
… members of the ANC. The NP undertakes to review security legislation, to work towards lifting the state of emergency, … individual weapons will be licensed…