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The Children’s Charter
Children’s rights and responsibilities In any society, it is very important that children are protected and cared for. Children are vulnerable members of…
BiographyNadine Gordimer
… University, Johannesburg without receiving a degree. In 1948, she moved to Johannesburg where she lived most of her …
BiographyHumphrey Phakade “Pax” Magwaza
… The Nationalist Party (NP), which came to power in 1948, adopted increasingly oppressive laws to strengthen …
BiographyMary Dorothy Benson
Dorothy Mary Benson – known as Mary Benson – was born on 8 December 1919 in Pretoria, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng), where she received her early education…
BiographyTheophilus Shepstone
Theophilus Shepston was born near Bristol in 1817, the son of the Reverend J William Shepstone, who became an 1820 settler, and his wife Elizabeth Brooks, a…
BiographySir. Theophilus Shepstone
Theophilus Shepston was born near Bristol in 1817, the son of the Reverend J William Shepstone, who became an 1820 settler, and his wife Elizabeth Brooks, a…
BiographySonja Schlesin
… Schlesin was 59 when Gandhi was shot on 30 January 1948. In 1953, at the age of 65 she enrolled at the …
BiographyChief Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk
… rule and the transition to the apartheid regime in 1948, and in 1950, he and his family were forced to register …
BiographyHemant Kumar Waghmarae
… Hemant Kumar Waghmarae was born on 24 October 1948 in Mumbai, India to Vishnu Maroothi Waghmarae and …
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew
Introduction Part One - South African Socialists and the radically-divided working class Document 1 - Keir Hardie, "Stoned in South Africa", 1907 …
BiographyMafika Pascal Gwala
Mafika Pascal Gwala was born on 5 October 1946 in the town of Verulam, a region predominantly inhabited by Zulus and Indians, in what was then Natal province …
The historical significance of COSATU’s Workers’ Charter Campaign
… However, with the rise to power of the National Party in 1948 it became clear that major concessions would only be …
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott - Timeline
22 June 1946 —The Government of India requested that the question of the treatment of Indians in the Union of South Africa be included in the agenda of second…
BiographyTimothy Peter Jenkin
… Timothy Peter Jenkin was born in 1948, in Cape Town and educated at Rondebosch Boys' Prep and …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… When the Nationalist Party (NP) won the election in 1948, it gave Afrikaner nationalists the opportunity to fully … nationalist leaders with enough white…
BiographyAdelaine Florence Hain
… Africa in search of work after World War l. On 1 September 1948, she and Walter married in the Pretoria Registry Office. …
Evelyn Ntoko Mase
… [11] Mase and Mandela had three more children; Makaziwe in 1948 who died at nine months old, Makgatho in 1950 and …
BiographyZanemvula Kizito Mda
… was born in Herschel, Eastern Cape, South Africa, in 1948 to Rose Nompumelelo, a nurse, and Ashbey Peter Solomzi …
BiographyJudge Jan Hendrik Steyn
… stifled since the Native Land Act in 1913 and its post-1948 legislative extension. The strategy was ownership in all …
BiographyRobert Sobukwe
… combined to make Sobukwe more politically active. In 1948 Sobukwe and three of his friends launched a daily …
South Africa Communists Speak Documents from the history of the South African Communist Party 1915 - 1980
Contents Introduction by Dr Yusuf M. Dadoo (South African Communists speak 1915 - 1980) Section 1 Socialist and Internationalists: Introduction …
ArticleThe Founding of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
According to the EFF’s publication ‘The Coming Revolution’, Julius Malema had earned the title of Commander-in Chief of the Economic Freedom Fighters when he…
EventThe ANC unveils its proposed constitutional principles
On 12 April 1991, the African National Congress (ANC) made public its proposed constitutional principles in a discussion document, which to some extent had the…
BiographyRaymond Ackerman
… study commerce at the University of Cape Town. There, in 1948, he encountered WH Hutt, the teacher who was to give him …
BiographyMadi Gray
… the National Party in South Africa, which came to power in 1948. Consequently, she was afraid that with their background …
BiographyReggie Vandeyar
… workers Vandeyar was formally recruited into the TIC in 1948 and participated in the Defiance Campaign of 1952 . He …
BiographyPetros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize)
… Failure to do so resulted in immediate arrest. Between 1948 and 1986, over 17 million arrests were made under the …
BiographyHarry Heinz Schwarz
… class. Schwarz’s first political engagement came in the 1948 election, when he campaigned for the incumbent United …
ArchiveMandatory economic sanctions and the oil embargo against SA at International Conference
Conference paper on mandatory economic sanctions and the oil embargo against SA prepared by the African National Congress of South Africa for an international…
BiographyDr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
… Party took control of the South African government in 1948 and officially systematized the segregation that defined … manipulative “notwithstanding that…