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EventSuppression of Communism Act 44 of 1950 severely limits what the media could report
… and the silencing of individuals and organisations. It is under this law that the Communist Party of South Africa …
EventAdoption of the Orange Free State constitution
… Free State was recognised as an independent territory under the Bloemfontein Convention in 1854. The convention …
EventMau Mau political prisoners escape from Mageta Island, Lake Victoria
… killing him they hid his mutilated body in a nearby bush. Under cover of darkness, the political prisoners escaped in a …
Chapter 4 - In search of Justice; Gumede in England, 1919-21
… Gumede addressed several audiences on Africans’ position under the Union government. In addition to the official SANNC … Stewart continued: Britain today is…
Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured People in the North, 1901
… been the means of raising us in the social scale. Under that policy we have advanced intellectually, materially … race is to be maintained, or by introducing…
Say It out Loud - Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured People in the North, 1901
… been the means of raising us in the social scale. Under that policy we have advanced intellectually, materially … race is to be maintained, or by introducing…
Reports of the Passive Resistance Councils: Natal and Transvaal 1946 - 1947 by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer
… of the Passive Resistance Campaign the world generally was under the impression that South Africa was a democratic … a mass meeting of 7 000 Indians, held in…
Document 91. ‘April 6: People’s Protest Day’. Flyer issued by the ANC (Transvaal) and the Transvaal Indian Congress
… birth. Today our people are suffering as never before under this Nationalist Government of Dr. Malan with its policy of Apartheid. Under high prices and low…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Financial Strangulation of Native Education
… affairs the tendency is to penalise the Cape Natives under the plea of benefitting the Northern Natives. The … taxation, in other words from the Development…
Chapter 9
… not at all overstocking, as the authorities claimed, but under stocking. The stark facts showed that the people were … had accepted the Scheme. They held…
Chapter 5 - The Indian Tobacco Workers Strike of 1920: A Socio-Historical Investigation by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… these two cities. In Cape Town the Tobacco Workers' Union under the guidance of the General Workers' Union and the … prevailing in the tobacco industry…
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… 1961 February – KANU wins the first general election under the new constitutional dispensation, taking 16 seats in … for detention without trial and other…
Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
… ANC, a process that, when it happened earlier, was always under conditions of heavy state scrutiny and vulnerable to … to co-ordinate their struggles with…
ArticleEuropean missionaries in southern Africa: the role of the missionaries
… which grouped this return for Mount Arthur (Transkei) under the heading of " Moral Statistics ": "Mount Arthur … follow these up, by seeing how the young men…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… The Minister of Native Affairs, Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd , under whose jurisdiction the pass laws fell, pointedly … They were tired of seeing their families …
Local Government
… into a series of ‘districts’, each governed by a Landdrost under the authority of central government. There was nothing … next thirteen years, until 1900,…
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
… family disadvantaged by racial discrimination in a country under white minority rule. [v] Despite this, Themba was able … life in apartheid South Africa, and…
Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… were: The government changed in constitution from 1979 under the next Prime Minister, P.W. Botha. The head of … one and a half million Africans were being…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… with its minerals and strategic location, from falling under communist influence. The British Labour government under Clement Attlee concluded that this…
Indian Community
… in 1910, a 3 pound tax on all non indentured adults, boys under 16 and girls under 12 and older. Many workers were forced to reindenture … right to remove…
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
… political dominance by 11 November. South African forces, under the command of General Constand Viljoen, began moving … SADF tried to cross a bridge from Ebo…
44th National Conference: Report of the National Executive Committee, 18 December 1955
… real purpose of the apartheid policy of the Nationalists. Under cover of the airy talk of complete territorial … to inflict discriminatory laws on the Non…
ArticleTswana
… were divided into two main groups: the Tlhaping and Rolong under Chief Morolong ( the metal worker ) and the the … Africa were declared citizens of …
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… A headman, appointed by the colonial administration and under the authority of the magistrate, presided over each … their powers duties and privileges…
ArticleNatal Indian Association (NIA)
… Meeting of the aforesaid organisation hereby amalgamate under the name and style of the Natal Indian Association … the NIC and CB&SIA which opposed each…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
… Robert McBride to two years imprisonment for driving under the influence of alcohol and an effective three years … Palestine is willing and able to carry out…
ArchiveEleanor Kasrils: From Detainment to National Liberation by Nathan Greenhaw
… to combat any forms of resistance against the government. Under apartheid legislation, the South African government … their members to become detained,…
Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women in South Africa and Namibia, 11 August 1981
… has been done by the Special Committee against Apartheid under the able leadership of Nigeria and with the resolute … "For hundreds of years, the African…
Mapping Sites of Memory: The Sobukwe Letters
… The letters reveal the intimate language of a life lived under surveillance and confinement while remaining committed … political thought sharpened in…
PlaceMiddleburg, Eastern Cape
… as to where the name "Middelburg" came from!) It falls under the Inxuba Yethemba Local Municipality , in the Chris … Farms in Middelburg district which were…