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BiographyPercy John "Jack" Hodgson
… Bill, which sought to remove the coloured voters from the main voters roll in the Cape. In 1952, as National Secretary, …
BiographyDr. Walter Benson Rubusana
… pomp and ceremony in May 1910. The deputation had had two main objectives - reversal of the 'colour bar clauses' and …
ArticleGrade 12 - How SA emerged as a democracy from the crises of the 1990s
… During the 1980s, the apartheid government came under increasing … renewed impetus for the resistance movements, and the 1980s was a decade which became a…
Rebecca Lan
… of Habonim, a Zionist youth movement. There were four main Zionist youth movements in South Africa in the mid-20th …
BiographyJohannes Nkosi
A martyr for the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA and SACP after 1953), was the son of Jacobina Nkosi (no details of his father could be traced). Nkosi…
BiographyAudrey ‘Bobbie’ Cobden
… her involvement in anti-apartheid politics became her main focus. In the late 1950s, Cobden worked for the …
BiographyReggie Vandeyar
… generation of TIC activists and community leaders. The 1980S saw countrywide schools boycotts in the Indian and …
BiographyPaul Weinberg
… key role in documenting the resistance to apartheid in the 1980s. Weinberg headed its Agency and Badsha headed its …
ArticleArtist Proof Studio
… in Boston where Berman spent six years as an intern in the 1980s. She subsequently received a Masters of Fine Arts from … Nhlanhla Xaba Image source Since…
EventUN concerned about Fischer’s arrest
… to life imprisonment in May 1966. Click here to read a chronology of the United Nations and Apartheid Source: … L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political…
BiographyPoonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
… as the leading promoter of the Agreement was the main target of all the criticisms. During the negotiations … (UN). The meeting began on 23 October 1946 with…
BiographyStephen Bantu Biko
… Christian student bodies where Basil Moore was to be the main speaker, but Moore was not allowed to speak, and Steve was asked to be the main speaker. The…
BiographyJoseph Fansio Mati
… was also involved in organising bus boycotts, but Mati’s main focus, as he stated in Coetzee, Gilfillan and Hulec …
ArchiveProfile, Namibia
… .Booklet discussing: basic facts, churches, resources, chronology, political development and economic situations. …
BiographyNimrod Sekeramane Nathale
… of the campaign was a public meeting on 4 September. The main speaker, was Nimord Sejake, who emphasised the role of …
BiographyJanet Mary Cherry
… and the International Centre on Human Rights Policy. Her main areas of research are human rights, democratic …
BiographyAlex la Guma
… violent response to the system. In A Walk in the Night the main character is depicted as … nursing a little growth of …
ArchiveReport on public conduct during township protests
… 1984, It also includes the pamphlet including chronology and testimonials by Yusuf Veriava and Abubakr …
ArticleTswana
… similar dialects, beliefs and society structures and the main distinctions between the three groups were only … In fact, most archaeologists presume the…
ArchiveSummary of activities taken against the Christian Institute and Spro-Cas between August 1973 and January 1974
… Chronology of the Commission of Enquiry into Certain …
ArchiveWe will not move: the struggle for Crossroads
… support speeches, police statements, legal documents, chronology and a bibliography …
ArchiveApartheid under siege, 1984-1988: actions and reactions
… the political violence that beset South Africa during the 1980s and examines critically the impact that violence had on … between actions and reactions that…
Conflict among civic organisations
… cadres and destroying their hideouts. Operation Mac The 1980s also saw the increased activity of the ANC in the … the third was concentration of electric…
EventManilal Gandhi leads a resistance group across the Natal
… to three months hard labour. See our Defiance Campaign chronology and our feature on the History of Indians in South …
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
… and sheer brute force. The period from the 1960s to the 1980s was punctuated by the enactment of security laws that … Prison. Two decades in particular – the…
EventFour Indian leaders are sentenced under Terrorism Act
… J. A. et al (1999). Southern African Political History: A Chronology of Key Political Events from Independence to …
A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group
… of power by the Nationalist Party in 1948.’ By the 1980s, Volkskas was no longer that dependent on state … Pieter Morkel, managing director of Volkskas in…
EventA Cape Passive Resistance Council is formed
… in South Africa. Source: http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/chronology/special-chrono/defiance-campaign.htm …
EventFifth banning order for Albertina Sisulu
… L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
BiographyRick Turner
… of a break with his orientation in the commission, whose main drivers – among them Halton Cheadle, Charles Nupen , … colonised people in a manner that would…