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EventUnesco lists Robben Island as a World Heritage Site
… there voluntarily, but in 1892, the Leprosy Repression Act was passed, forcing lepers to remain in Robben Island. …
EventCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart, first state president of South Africa, is born
… He was instrumental in the passing of the Immorality Act, the banning of the South African Communist Party (SACP) …
EventDay of Reconciliation celebrated as a public holiday in SA for the first time
… and murdered Retief and his party of 100 people. This act culminated in the Battle of Blood River, in which 470 …
Opening Statement at the Second National Consultative Conference of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Kabwe, Zambia, 16 June, 1985
… must be suppressed. To honour their memory and in an act of rededication to the victory of the common cause, I … sacrifices of our people. To absorb that…
Address at the South African Millenium Trust Launch, Kyalami 19 November 1998
… celebrate something that we do not fully comprehend. Every act of celebration is the act of triumph. Every celebration is the act of arrival, or of departure…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Deputations
… under the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representative Act is raised. The original intention was that Mr. Choudree … following a conviction under the…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Pan African Parliament, Gallagher Estate, Midrand, 16 September 2004
… for us as Africans to forge a collective identity and to act together in our interest both within and between our … of the continental decisions expressed in…
46. The Gandhi-Smuts compromise explained
… voluntarily, after which the Government would repeal Act 2 of 1907 which made registration compulsory. The … self-interest is rather ill-considered. In fact,…
Message to the People of South Africa on the 68th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1980
… this case we want to refer to what Nelson Mandela wrote in 1953 under the very appropriate title: "The Shifting Sands of … certainty that this year and in…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 68th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1980
… this case we want to refer to what Nelson Mandela wrote in 1953 under the very appropriate title: "The Shifting Sands of … certainty that this year and in…
Statement by Mfanafuthi Makatini in the Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly, 27 November 1981
… policy of bantustanization aimed at having the so- called Bantu homelands serve not only as reservoirs of cheap labour … organizations strongly to condemn…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… of Education, and later the South Africa Department of Bantu Education, took over the publication of textbook. 1960s … armed struggle, was caught and charged…
EventGandhi supports APO's Day of Mourning
… as a day of mourning, in protest against the South Africa Act's disenfranchisement of Indians, Coloureds and Africans …
PlaceMeadowlands or Ndofaya, in Soweto
… of ' Soweto Council123 '. The Natives Resettlement Act (Act No 19 of 1954) led to the establishment of Meadowlands, …
ArticleSouth Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured
… in the preamble to the National Heritage Resources Act (1999), and its purpose was to “encourage communities to … as forced removals were instigated through…
ArticleA brief history of domestic service in South Africa
… not eligible for benefits under the Workmen's Compensation Act and the Unemployment Insurance Fund [xxiv] . Domestic …
Let them Speak - Slave Stamouers of South Africa by André van Rensburg
… to 43. The myth that the early Cape only had contact with Bantu when the Boers encountered the Xhosas at the Fish river … since the slaves from Angola…
Report of the National Executive Committee of the PAC, Submitted to the Annual Conference, December 19-20, 1959
… has fallen victim to the pipe-dreams of Verwoerd's Bantu Education. Henceforth this College shall be under the … no fault of theirs, are forced to gulp in…
Make South Africa ungovernable: Broadcast on Radio Freedom: Oliver Tambo, 10 October 1984
… from Botha`s polling booths, as a conscious and organized act of rejection of the constitution of the oppressor. It is … reflects and seeks to entrench. As a…
Make South Africa Ungovernable: Broadcast on Radio Freedom by O. R. Tambo, 10 October 1984
… from Botha's polling booths, as a conscious and organized act of rejection of the constitution of the oppressor. It is … reflects and seeks to entrench. As a…
ArchiveWomen and the Satyagraha Campaign
… Gandhi. The negotiations resulted in the Indian Relief Act of 1914 . The £3 poll tax was abolished and Hindu and … to a head when The Asiatics (Land and…
Appendix 1: Freedom Fighters On The March: A Message From Dr. Y. M. Dadoo To The Indian People
… apartheid and White Supremacy. The GROUP AREAS ACT is taking a heavy toll; daily more and morefamilies are … The Passive Resistance Campaign of1946 against…
Address on disturbances in Bloemfontein location, by I. J. Nthatisi, March 4, 1919
… live ever since the coming into force of the Native Lands Act which has recently been declared by Mr. Neser, M.L.A., … them they will never be poorer for…
Document 6 - M. Lopes, “Socialism and the Labour Party”, The Bolshevik, April 1920
… fear this would lessen the privileges they enjoy, and also act as an obstacle to the masters granting the skilled … Henderson in England and Cresswell in…
Draft Declaration by ANC, 20 December, 2012, 53rd ANC Annual Conference, Mangaung
… in actual practice, South Africans - black and white - act as their own liberators. At the core of the above, should … that next year marks the centenary of…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… of apartheid, laws such as the Suppression of Communism Act hit unions hard. Black workers left the Trades & Labour … introduced the Industrial Conciliation…
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… arrested in July and convicted for violating the Pegging Act . H. Barren, the Chief Magistrate of Durban, postponed … Interior Minister who was responsible…
Helen Zille and the myth of the White Saviour by Panashe Chigumadzi, (Sunday Times), 19 March 2017
… Initially, the evidence points to founders of "obscure Bantu origin", but eventually it is confirmed that the …
Beerhalls in Soweto from Soweto Heritage Survey Final Report compiled by Steven Lebelo and Elsabe Brink for the National Monuments Council, Northern Region
… of a white man near the Mai-Mai beerhall, the Minister of Bantu Administration gave a directive that by the 16th of …
’UNITE! MOBILISE! FIGHT ON! BETWEEN THE ANVIL OF UNITED MASS ACTION AND THE HAMMER OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE WE SHALL CRUSH APARTHEID!’
… of apartheid rule. But after more than twenty years of Bantu Education the circle is closed and nothing demonstrates …