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Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 110 of 1983
… did not have a problem with the concept of racial segregation or laws like the Group Areas Act that forced …
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
… Government single-mindedly pursued a policy of racial segregation in the case of White areas, it tended to ignore …
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
… marks the end of over three hundred years of colonialism, segregation and white minority rule and the establishment of …
The Indians of Natal: Resistance to Apartheid, 1971-1985 by Davinder S. Dhillon
… minority's struggles against the systematic and unjust segregation of mankind along racial lines. Their courage …
EventMass Democratic Movement (MDM) begins their Defiance Campaign
… encouraged throughout the country. For example, the segregation laws of hospitals around the country were …
EventNelson Mandela celebrates 88 th birthday
… where he stood trial in 1952 for defying the government's segregation policies. Also launched on Wednesday in …
PlaceSastri College, 1 Winterton Walk, Durban
… Class Backgrounds were united in opposition to Racism and Segregation. Sastri College was declared a National Monument …
ArticleAfrican Achievements and Potential
… ://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/index_section6.shtml (8 May 2016). ↵ [23] Tolerance and …
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1930-1939
… amendments in 1934, 1935 and 1937 establish the statutory segregation of Indians in the Transvaal and end the state of … Indians, gives evidence in…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… a result of recommendations of Select Committee. Proposes segregation: *relocation of Indians to designated areas … amendments in 1934, 1935 and 1937…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… of houses formerly occupied by Whites in Durban. Voluntary segregation, said Dadoo, will lead to 'national suicide'; Dr … of Indian organisations meet in…
ArchiveAppendix 2 The Political Landscape of Cape Town, by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… different from South Africa’s other cities. Though racial segregation had its origins in the city, it had a reputation … to call for a civil disobedience…
EventNelson Rolihlahla Mandela passed away
… better part of his life battling the injustices of racial segregation and oppression. In 1984 while still imprisoned, …
EventKaunda calls for Thatcher’s exclusion from talks on South African sanctions
… pressurize the apartheid government to end its policy of segregation. In 1962, the United Nations established their …
EventEducation Minister, Sibusiso Bengu warns Stellenbosch University that it can’t to be exclusively Afrikaans-speaking
The former South Africa Minister of Education, Dr. Sibusiso Bengu warned the University of Stellenbosch that it could not continue to be an exclusively…
EventEducation Minister, Sibusiso Bengu warns Stellenbosch University that it can't to be exclusively Afrikaans-speaking
The former South Africa Minister of Education, Dr. Sibusiso Bengu warned the University of Stellenbosch that it could not continue to be an exclusively…
Article1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
… Bill which deals with residential and commercial segregation in the Indian community as well as land ownership … into European areas. The NIA opposed the…
EventSteve Biko, a pioneer of the Black Consciousness Movement, is born
… Black Consciousness under the apartheid system of racial segregation that ended with the release of Nelson Mandela …
EventDonald James Wood journalist and Anti apartheid activists is born
… working area in violation of the government's policy of segregation. The editorials of the Daily Dispatch became …
Document 127 - 6 Point Communist Programme f c. 7 941)
… regulations have been introduced in this country-stricter segregation in the factories, stricter segregation on the beaches, stricter residential segregation…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1910-1919
… splits, with Dube accepting the theory of territorial segregation. As a result Samuel Makgatho assumes office as … The speech sets out the whites ruling…
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
… historical periods: colonialism, the apartheid era of segregation, and after democratization. The 1996 South … through legislation that enforced systems of…
Last of The Gandhians in South Africa
… of Nanabhai - now old and sick - against forcible racial segregation, was an inspiration to the people. He helped keep … described as a pillar of apartheid,…
ArticleLand, Labour and Apartheid
… from mixing together. The policy is known as the policy of segregation, and would later be replaced with the policy of …
PlaceoThongathi, previously Tongaat
The area was formally developed around 1848–1850 when land was granted to settlers for sugar cultivation. Derived from the Zulu word 'uThongathi', which…
PlaceFietas Museum, Johannesburg
… Fietas as part of its policy of forced removals and ethnic segregation, know as the Group Areas Act. The once-bustling …
Letter to Americans by Albert Luthuli, distributed by the American Committee on Africa with the "Appeal for Action", 4 November 1962, New York
… And now - under the new "Sabotage" Act, to challenge segregation is to risk the death penalty. Under such …
EventRioting and destruction in Cato Manor and Durban continues
… of passive resistance by Indians to this residential segregation law, led the government to placate this group …
EventZimbabawean Independence Day
… taking the name Zimbabwe. The day marked the end of racial segregation after a protracted war of liberation that claimed …
ArchiveThe Women’s Jail at the Old Fort and its Impact by Claire Ennis
… Jail was built to hold women of all races, although with segregation present. [5] The prison held both common law and … beside one another. [19] Life inside…