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EventAndré Phillipus Brink, well-known SA author, is born
… of his most notable works include: A Dry White Season, An Act of Terror and The Other Side of Silence. …
EventWalter Sisulu secretly attends a meeting at the house of George Xorile with F. Van Rensburg
… movements were banned under the Unlawful Organisations Act. All “illegal organisations” were on 7 April 1960 banned. …
68. Passive resistance 1946-1947
… to the S.A.I.C. resolution to resist the 'Ghetto' Act and rallied solidly behind the Joint Passive Resistance … that it is the present Government with its …
”South Africa - Time of Challenge” - Report to the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, October 1973
… beginning to show a greater readiness to speak out and to act, is in part due to an absolute and relative deterioration … creation of job opportunities in…
PlaceBonteheuwel
… out of Cape Town. This was a result of the Group Areas Act of 1950, were the land was divided into: blacks and … residential zones, the beginning of…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 79th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1991
… which is certain to become a reality. All these must act now to end all campaigns of terror against the people and … all the relevant political organisations…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.2 No.1 Oct-Dec 1957
… Race Zoning in Cloud Cuckoo Land, Leo Kuper. The Ghetto Act, Yusuf Cachalia. The Schizophrenic Heart, Dr. O.D. …
EventThe Rev. Allan Hendrickse steps down as a leader of the Labour Party
… especially for his defiance of the Separate Amenities Act when he swam at a beach reserved for Whites, though he …
EventThe trial of Fred Carneson, a listed communist begins at the Supreme Court in Cape Town
… sabotage and contravention of the Suppression of Communism Act. On 25 May Carneson was sentenced to a total of five …
EventTwo former Soweto student leaders, Khotso Seathlolo and Mary Loate are given long term sentences
… 23 were given long term imprisonment under the Terrorism Act. Seathlolo was given 15 years and his companion, Mary was …
EventA plan limiting admission of black students in white universities is withdrawn
… back to the 19th century. It preceded the University Act passed in 1916 by the Union of South Africa government. …
Testimony by Moosa Muhammed Moolla before the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Commission on Human Rights, Dar es Salaam, 22 June 1967
… law that came into being, namely the ninety-day detention act. I was told that I would be held incommunicado, that I … a magistrate came to see me; it was…
EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs' (CAD)
… apart. Some of these laws included the Mixed Marriages Act, the Immorality Act and the Group Areas Act. Though not aimed exclusively at "Coloureds", this …
WE HAVE THE KEY TO FREEDOM NOT THE OPPRESSOR, December 16, 1957
… to explain the "why-for" of the opposition. As an example: Bantu Education must be shown up as slave education: an … interfered with; the movement of whites…
Address to the Nation by President Thabo Mbeki, 21 September 2008
… ngabanye. Among other things this means that we must all act in a manner that respects the dignity of every human … as well as the national unity we require…
PlaceLand Claims Court of South Africa, Randburg
… 100 years ago, the Natives Land Act of 1913 created socio-economic injustice in terms of … The Court also deals with the Extension of Security Tenure Act and…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Strategic Debates, the ANC - SACP alliance and the Soviet Union. Convenor: Tshepo Moloi.
… 1950 by the introduction of the Suppression of Communism Act , yet its activities and influence within the … ‘independence’ by Arianna Lissoni After the…
Nelson Mandela’s leadership: his ‘obstinacy and stubbornness’ (Part 2) by Raymond Suttner, 11 June 2018
… decision? Or was this a way in which a leader needs to act when seeing an opening that needed to be exploited? … the conditions under which he acted had…
EventAttempts of sabotage are made in Secunda
Two strategic acts of sabotage, supposedly by the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK ), against the oil-from-coal plants based in Secunda failed to successfully hit their…
EventWalter Sisulu and others are arrested for attending a party
… They were charged with contravening section 9(1) of Act 44 of 1950. The case was later withdrawn because there …
EventSharpeville Deputy Mayor killed
… addition, the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 110 of 1983 had been tabled and approved by parliament …
EventFormer South African Prime Minister JG Strijdom dies
… protest against the proposed amendments to the Urban Areas Act of 1950. Strijdom pushed for the establishment of a …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… commercial farms. In 1913, the infamous Natives Land Act, worsened the situation for black people as land … whites and disadvantaged blacks. Black people…
Chapter 6 - No more suppers for my comrades
… students, were escaping the horror and strangulation of Bantu education, hoping to further their studies and waiting … Africa to come out to the ANC to…
Statement of the Alliance Political Council, 13 October 2009
… of the alliance, and confirm that the alliance will act in united action for the joint programme of social … ANC led Alliance as a strategic political centre…
PlaceJubilee Art Centre
… to the Mofolo Art Centre in Soweto when the Group Areas Act made it illegal for Black students to be educated in the …
ANC hits back at Jimi Matthews
… for his decision while others say it’s an outrageous act. “We would have expected better conduct from a very …
EventANC President Albert Luthuli banned
… banning notices under the 1950 Suppression of Communism Act. Click here for a list of people who were banned during …
EventMoses Kotane, the South African Communist Party and African National Congress stalwart dies in Moscow
… He was banned under the Suppression of Communism Act of 1951. In 1955 Kotane and I.M Cachalia sneaked out of …
EventBram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment
… sabotage and v iolating the Suppression of Communism Act. On 9 May 1966 he was sentenced to life imprisonment for …