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BiographyHenry Burton
… to take on the case of Saul Mankazana. Mankazana, a land owner and registered voter, had been arrested for not … 302). With Burton’s help Merriman managed to…
BiographyJohn Xavier Merriman
… orator, he would also be tasked with taking the Irrigation Act through Parliament in 1877. He rejected Carnarvon’s plan … Sprigg who became premier in 1879…
BiographyArchibald Jacob Gumede
… Ciskei . Gumede subsequently studied at the South African Native College (now University of Fort Hare) at Alice, in the … for a five-year period under the…
BiographyCecil John Rhodes
… to stake the best claims. In 1887 when Rhodes finally did act and formed the Goldfields of South Africa Company with … of other imperial powers, such as…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… ordinances played a key role in legitimizing systematic land dispossession and segregating South Africa. The … of the Union in 1910 and later under the Group…
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…
BiographyHerbert Henry Curson
… Curson was also appointed Assistant Deputy Director of Native Agriculture in the Department of Native Affairs. During World War II Curson served as a … He…
Centenary of the 1913 Land Act By Colin Bundy, 18 April 2013
… In fact, there are direct links between the Natives' Land Act of 1913 and current struggles. The Land Act and its … were not displaced and dispersed (as, by…
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…
BiographySaul Msane
… in 1900. In 1901 he became a founder member of the Natal Native Congress (NNC), which aimed at educating the Africans … 1912. During the SANNC's first annual…
Henry Reed Ngcayiya
… on the executive committee of the Orange River Colony Native Congress. Two years later, after he had moved to the … the executive committee and was secretary…
EventThe Native Land Act is passed
… The Natives Land Act (No. 27 of 1913) was passed to allocate only about 7% of arable land to Africans and leave the more fertile land for whites. … The…
BiographyAlfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo
… worked as a clerk with the Pietermaritzburg Municipality Native Affairs Department; as a dairyman; and as an … he retained until 1910. In 1906 he joined the…
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…
Richard Victor Selope Thema
… had to draw up a new constitution for the South African Native National Congress (SANNC, African National Congress … attend and participate in conferences…
BiographyNokukhanya Luthuli
… in 1845. Interestingly, Groutville differed from other native reserves in some important ways. Firstly, the people … often took him away from home. [16] Thus…
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…
BiographyPetros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize)
… The rural areas of KwaZulu-Natal were designated as "native reserves" under the 1913 Land Act, limiting African land ownership to just 7% of South … to 7…
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
… He condemned discriminatory laws, including the 1913 Land Act, and called for African unity, through the spread of … and Gumbede in direct competition with…
BiographyJudge Jan Hendrik Steyn
… on sufferance, under section 10 of the Bantu Urban Areas Act. The fiction was that they were mere sojourners, with … Steyn knew that the grant of outright…
BiographyJoseph Booth
… but Booth was undeterred. Again in South Africa in 1912-1913, living off rent from boarders in his Cape Town home, … ambitious plans for a system of "British…
BiographyElias Phakane Moretsele
… he moved to Johannesburg where he joined the South African Native National Congress (SANNC, since 1923 the ANC) in 1917. … Nelson Mandela, by virtue of the…
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… important political movements. One was the South African Native National Congress (later ANC) formed in 1912, and the … despite their constituting over 75%…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… important political movements. One was the South African Native National Congress (later ANC) formed in 1912, and the … despite their constituting over 75%…
BiographyDaniel Simon Letanka
… district of the Transvaal in 1874 and attended the Native College in Grahamstown in the Cape. Hoping to raise … the next 20 years. A founding member of the …
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… of businesses such as Mohamed Dadoo’s and the Asiatic Land and Trading Act of 1919 was enacted to stall the success of the Indian … him directly rather than…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1910-1919
… racial divide”. This includes the Black Labour Regulation Act which “made it an offence to break an employment … co-founder of the SANNC, proposes the…
BiographyAnna Victoria Mangena
… two years under Matron Helen Scott Russell as so called 'native nurse'. At the end of June 1915 she left Klerksdorp and joined the staff of the Crown Mines…
BiographyAllison Wessels George Champion
… Adams College, but was suspended for rebelliousness in 1913, before completing standard seven. Champion left the school that year and was employed as a…
BiographyIsaac Williams Wauchope
… the destruction of Xhosa society and the theft of the land, Isaac grew up to become a prominent African elite in … Isaac’s life prior to his enlistment in…