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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 …
ArticleLife Timeline of Jacob Zuma
… partner Cosatu’s objections to the Taxation Laws Amendment Act. This is rubbished by Cosatu and the Act is sent back to parliament for amendments. Parliament…
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… together by their shared outrage against The Senate Act that was devised by the Nationalist Government . The Bill … 1963, the ‘pass laws’ were ”¦ sections of…
ArchiveChapter 4 Political activity 1950-1963 by Denis Goldberg
… Having failed to complete my studies at the first go in 1953, I went to work for an engineering firm where I’d worked … there was racism built into the Union…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… community suffered the enactment of the first segregation act which restricted their economic and residential rights to … to protests against the governments…
ArticleDefining culture, heritage and identity
… (see, most famously, the Khoi and the San) as well as Bantu immigration; slavery ; colonisation; settler economies …
EventSouth Sudan votes in Referendum on Independence
… supported by the 2009 Southern Sudan Referendum Act, had a 60% turn out and was declared fair and free by …
ArchiveSouth African trade unionism in an era of racial exclusion
… Africa during the currency of the Industrial Conciliation Act from 1924 to 1979, and of state labour policy of direct …
EventSouth African Journalist, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted.
… Sisulu. In 1981 he was arrested under the Terrorism Act, detained without trial, tortured and released after 251 …
EventDisbanding of Communist Party is announced
… was made a few days before the Suppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950 was approved in parliament in June 1950 …
EventJoe Slovo is born
… In 1954 he was banned under the Suppression of Communism Act of 1951. However, Slovo and other political activists …
EventBanning orders served on NUSAS leaders
… Convention, and protesting against the 1962 Sabotage Act. This organisation constantly worked towards social …
EventChief Mangosuthu Buthelezi calls for National Convention
… register for elections in terms of the Electoral Act. However, the IFP concession was not accepted by its …
EventNational Party wins general election
… increased from 150 to 160 by the Constitution Amendment Act of 1965. It is tempting to consider what the fate of …
EventButhelezi says Zulus would continue carrying cultural weapons
… Kwazulu Homeland authorities under the Chiefs and Headman Act , which empowered headmen and chiefs to outlaw the …
EventFive ANC leaders are released from prison
… was banned in April 1960 under the Unlawful Organisation Act. During the raid scores of ANC leadership members and …
EventA consumer boycott is called in Boksburg
… it would begin rigorously enforcing the Separate Amenities Act, a by-then largely ignored law that re-established …
EventCiskeian police disrupt residents’ meeting
… to the Borders of Particular States Extension Amendment Act the government wanted in 1988 to consolidate the two …
EventDeath sentence for Rapists
… witnesses caught these four rapists and murderers in the act. This case led to an outcry throughout the country that …
EventBritish create the settlement of Sierra Leone, for freed slaves
… in 1807, the new colony was used as a base from which the act could be enforced. Beginning in 1808, hundreds of slaves …
EventBreyten Breytenbach; SA poet, activist and painter, receives the Hertzog Prize for his poetry
… in 1975, was arrested, charged under the Terrorism Act and jailed for seven years. After his release he returned …
EventThe TRC refuses amnesty to Hani’s killers
… out in the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act, No 34 of 1995. The Committee resolved "It is common …
EventThambi Naidoo mobilises the Indians
… It was agreed that Indians would register voluntarily and Act 2 of 1907, which made registration compulsory, would be …
EventPixley Seme, lawyer, journalist and co-founder of SANNC is born
… as a result of Black dissatisfaction with the South Africa Act of 1909, their treatment after the South African War and …
EventFormer MK members are dismissed from SANDF
… Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence to immediately act on the findings in its report on conditions in the …
EventRuth Perry is elected to lead Liberia, thus becoming Africa's first female head of state
… government, thereby making her Africa's first woman to act as head of state. Perry was mandated to execute the …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Essay Questions
… commercial farms. In 1913, the infamous Natives Land Act, worsened the situation for black people as land allocated to black people by the Act was largely…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter III - Dr. Philip - 'Defendre of the Hottentots'
… are those liberal apologists, like Macmillan, author of "Bantu. Boer and Briton," who hail him as the "Defender of the … conquest in Africa. It was during…
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… in 1910. With the adoption of the Union Constitution Act of 1910 the two dominant white political interests, the …
ArticleThe African Students Association (ASA)
… and the PAC in April 1960 under the Unlawful Organisations Act forcing both liberation organisations to go underground. …