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EventRestitution of Land Rights Act is signed
… The Restitution of Land Rights Act, restoring the rights of those … by discriminatory land legislation dating back to the 1913 Land Act, was passed by Nelson…
ArchiveNative Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act, Act No 48 of 1953
… The Act was to provide for the prevention and settlement of native labour disputes and for the regulation of … Native Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act,…
Casting a long shadow: The Natives Land Act of 1913 and its legacy by Colin Bundy
… Casting a long shadow: The Natives Land Act of 1913 and its legacy by Colin Bundy …
BiographyJohn Tengo Jabavu
… against anti-African legislation,including the Glen Grey Act of 1894.The lauching in1898 or more calamitously,his support for the 1913 Natives Land Act…
BiographyThomas Mtobi Mapikela
… contractor as well as a key figure in Orange River Colony Native Vigilance Association ,known subsequently as the ORC … was a member of the delegation to…
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… Introduction The history of white colonial land dispossession began at the Cape with the expansion of … other local communities enabled the colonists to…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… to the phenomenon of overcrowding and squatting on empty land by those seeking employment. In many cases, the scramble … mixed neighbourhoods (Marquard, 1969…
ArticleLand, Labour and Apartheid
… Land and labour are two very important elements of the … Africa was divided. In 1913 the government passed the Land Act. This Act decided how the land in…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1900-1947
… By the 1900s African people had been dispossessed of their land and colonial rule was still in the process of being … land in prescribed areas were passed…
A Century of the Notorious 1913 Land Act by Rudolph Alfred Kgolane Phala
… A Century of the Notorious 1913 Land Act by Rudolph Alfred Kgolane Phala …
BiographyShadrack Fuba Zibi
… a white ex-soldier who informed him of the availability of land in the Western Transvaal. Due to congestion in … the farm was registered in the name of the…
EventAbolition of Racially Based Land Measures Act is adopted
… under President F.W. de Klerk adopted the Abolition of Racially Based Land Measures Act 108 of 1991, which scrapped the segregation laws relating … Southern…
BiographySolomon Tshekisho Plaatje
… interpreter and clerk to the Mafeking administrator of Native affairs. He was proficient in at least eight … .) The first major campaign of the SANNC was…
ArticleThe 1913 Women’s anti-pass campaign in the Orange Free State
… When the Union of South Africa was established in 1910, there was already a … from the municipality where they lived. In 1908 a special Native…
BiographyJacobus Wilhelmus Sauer
… Roses Innes. He served as in the cabinet as Minister of Native Affairs. Sauer also became a member of the South … “a friend of the natives” Sauer introduced…
ArticleThe impact of the War on Agriculture and Land
… in South Africa received a major stimulus as a result of increased demand inside the country and a growing export … by the war. Combined with the impact of…
National Land Committee
… Programme should address the racially based dispossession of all forms of land rights that occurred after 1913. Government should acknowledge that certain…
The department of native refugee camps
… The department of native refugee camps …
The Native Labour (Settlement of Disputes Act): Summary
… The Native Labour (Settlement of Disputes Act): Summary …
BiographyHenry Selby Msimang
… in 1912 when he was a founder member of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC, African National Congress … to send a deputation to Britain to…
Native (Black) Urban Areas Act No 21 of 1923
… Native (Black) Urban Areas Act No 21 of 1923 …
ArticleLand Restitution in South Africa since 1994
… Land restitution is one of the key issues since South Africa achieved democracy in … since the promulgation of the Restitution of Land Right Act 22 is…
EventGandhi leads a march from Newcastle into the Transvaal to defy the Immigrants Regulation Act of 1913
… Hundreds of men, women and children led by Mahatma Gandhi marched from … Transvaal to purposefully defy the Immigrants Regulation Act of 1913 (Act no. 22)…
BiographySefako Mapogo Makgatho
… range the politics surrounding the signing of the General Act of the Conference of Berlin in 1885 by Britain, Germany, … of the African Political Union (APU)…
The Black Homeland Citizenship Act of 1970
… Government attempted to divide South Africa into a number of separate states, called homelands, for Blacks. Under the … group. According to the Promotion of…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
… The nineteenth century was a period of several events whose socio-political and economic impact … and the African continent. Colonial conquest and rapid land…
BiographyWalter Ernest Stanford
… as a bookkeeper before returning to the Department of Native Affairs. Due to his good work ethic and ability … of the Cape, Gordon Sprigg passed the Peace…
ArticleTransport on land
… The first form of transport on land was, of course, WALKING! Content Animals … and then put together by hand. This took much too long. In 1913 the American…
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… The Empty or Vacant Land Theory is a theory that was propagated by European … this theory. Despite evidence to the contrary a number of parties in South…
BiographyJosiah Tshangana Gumede
… had to be baptised, literate (in English as well as their native language), and older than 13 years of age. The … in June 1884, the Boers claimed nearly 3…