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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EventA plan limiting admission of black students in white universities is withdrawn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. …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Contextual Overview
… the Soviet Union from the mind 1920’s until his death in 1953. Image Source Stalin’s interpretation of … in his rule of the Soviet Union which reined from…
40 years after: Understanding the Soweto Uprising by Motsoko Pheko (Pambazuka News), 30 June 2016
… South Africa did not wake up one day and begin resisting Bantu Education. The uprising was carefully organized and led … that when students demonstrated…
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…
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…
Speech by Oliver Tambo on the occasion of the award of an honorary Doctorate to Nelson Mandela by the Karl Marx University of the German Democratic Republic, 11 November 1987, Leipzig
… regards its spirit, create expectations in the mind of the Bantu which clash with the possibilities of this country. It … policy of the State." To achieve…
Speech on the Occasion of the Award of an Honorary Doctorate to Nelson Mandela by The Karl Marx University of the German Democratic Republic by O. R. Tambo, Leipzig, 11 November 1987
… regards its spirit, create expectations in the mind of the Bantu which clash with the possibilities of this country. It … policy of the State." To achieve…
The Industrial Workers of Africa, 1917-1921 by Bikisha Media Collective
… September 1917, in Sesotho and isiZulu) Workers of the Bantu race: Why do you live in slavery? Why are you not free … as well. There is only one way of…
Eye of the Needle - Notes by Richard Turner
… use in this older sense as a substitute for the official "Bantu," which Africans resent. But "black" in the inclusive … in relation to the privileged group…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
Dimbaza, Eastern Cape
… between December 1968 and February 1969. The Minister of Bantu Education, M.C. Botha, told Parliament in May 1969 that …
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 2 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… Stay-away! The Defiance Campaign Forming the Federation Bantu Education boycott The South African Congress of Trade …
Chapter 9 - People’s Education and People’s Power: Mobilisation and Collective Action
… but also those raised in past struggles such as "the 1953 campaign against Bantu education, 1976 student revolt, [and] 1980 schools … focus week on the 30th…
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…
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…
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 …
EventGen. Louis Botha, soldier, statesman and first prime minister of the Union of South Africa, is born.
… Rebellion. He was responsible for the infamous Native Land Act of 1913, he believed in maintaining Black traditions and …
”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…
ArchiveJohnny Clegg: South Africa’s universal man of uncommon passion by David Coplan, 25 July 2019
… Universal Man: Jonathan Clegg “Sikeyi” (1953-2019). “Sikeyi” is a Zulu dance praise name: “The peg …