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Zonal Centenary Memorial Lecture on the Life and Times of David Bopape, presented by David Makhura, ANC Gauteng Provincial Secretary, 21 June 2012, Tsakane
… I. His uncle, Filipus Bopape, gave testimony to the 1917 Native Land Commission on the impact of the 1913 Land Act on Africans living in rural areas. Ntate…
BiographyNelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… colonial authorities stripped him of his chieftainship, land, and cattle without any consultation with the Paramount … era, this had evolved into something…
Document 61 - A. Mon [M. N. Averbach] 4 , “A Comment on Trotsky’s Letter to S.A.”, Worker’s Voice, 1, 3, July 1945 […]
… to S.A.", Worker's Voice, 1, 3, July 1945 [”¦] HOW THE LAND WAS CREATED In order to understand the present land … of laws and amendments, especially since…
ArticleThe Cape Coloured Corps and the First World War
… impossible and many porters, members of the South African Native Labour Contingent (SANLC), struggled to deliver food …
The Industrial Workers of Africa, 1917-1921 by Bikisha Media Collective
… these men are the bed rock of South African capitalism. By 1913, there are nearly 40,000 white workers, and around … to "discuss matters of common interest…
ArticleWorld War I and the South African Native Labour Contingent
… The South African Native Labour Contingent (SANLC) was formed in 1916 in … Natives were not to be trusted with white women, and any native found wandering…
BiographyBartolomeu Dias
… adverse winds. Beating on for some days without sighting land, they unwittingly rounded the Cape of Good Hope in late … after a fruitless search for a…
Apartheid power in crisis
… health of the hunger strikers forced the minister to act to defuse the situation. As a result of the pressure, the … be addressed if lasting peace is to…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… The war is precipitated by competitionon for grazing, land and trade with the Cape and the drought which forces … railway line. 1902 The German…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… Immorality Amendment Act, Act No 21 of 1950 This Act was one of the most … Communities Development Act, Act No 4 of 1984 - more Bantu/Native Building Workers…
EventGeneral Louis Botha wins elections
… The Union was formed in 1910 after the South Africa Act was passed in Britain granting dominion to the White minority over Native (African), Asiatic (mostly…
ArchiveThe 1957 Alexandra Bus Boycott and its unsung heroes by Roseinnes Phahle, June 2019
… it was a freehold area in which Africans could own land, and my parents owned two properties there. As an active … as Madibane High after its principal),…
Timeline: All-Africa Convention (AAC)
… was here on 8 January 1912 that the South African National Native Congress (SANNC) was founded. (This happens at the … on the Representation of Natives Bill…
Women under indentured labour in colonial Natal, 1860-1911 by Jo Beall
… their passage could be commuted into a grant of Crown land equivalent in value to the cost of the journey back to … limited. This was particularly so after…
A Chronological look (1943 to 1986) at the Life and Times of Mr George Ponnen
… compensation. He quit the job and aquired a few acres of land on lease from White private landowner, in the district … the Africans workers from the Indian…
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
… militancy, violence and bloodshed than in Bloemfontein (1913) because international communism had influenced the … of great concern to the government and the…
BiographyPeter Henry Abrahams
… we had proof that the rest of the white Christians of our land were not like the fathers and the sisters. The equation … women who seemed untouched by the…
Vella Pillay
… of miscegenation between European migrants and the native population). Today, S.Africa possesses four distinct … almost naturally led me to join the…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… most important acts was The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act (1949) and the Immorality Act (1950), which made it … a particular race group i.e. White,…
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… on the social grammars of property, relationship with land, family structure, and different gender roles. In such … their stores are not seen. Indeed the…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - The World The Workers Made
… I became one of it.’ For most new workers fresh from the land, the noisy, pushy city came as a deep shock. People were … black farmers from the white-own…
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
… them ineligible for support under the Unemployment Benefit Act (No. 25 of 1937). Operating machinery in the industry … government tried to curb the growth of…
ArticleForced removals on Highveld and "black spots", 1912-1991
… Black communities on the Transvaal Highveld occupying land in what was considered “White South Africa”. Included … who, on the eve of the promulgation of the…
EventBantu Women’s League protests against pass laws
… of discontent against the pass system. As early as 1913 protests against were launched in the the Orange Free … government tightened the law in 1923 when it…
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
… was Black. This polarisation was reinforced by the Native Urban Areas Act of 1923 which required municipalities to establish … extended into the now-infamous…
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… a first in sociology, anthropology, economic history and native administration. 1947 First gets a job at the Social … first 600 to be ‘named’ under the…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s Satyagraha, Durban
… proud to say that, among others, Mahatma Gandhi, the great native son of India and, at the same time a beloved son of … of the Asiatic Bill and the Transvaal…
ArchiveNative Laws Amendment Act, Act No 54 of 1952
… The Act was to amend the Native Labour Regulation Act, 1911, the Natives Land Act, 1013, the Native Administration Act, 1927 and the … Native Laws Amendment…
Verwoerd's Grim Plot by Nelson Mandela
… and intensifying the pass laws the "Abolition of Passes" Act. Similarly, he has introduced into the current … Bantu Territorial Authorities, at the…
ArticleSophiatown timeline 1899-1955
… 1899 Herman Tobiansky purchases land from the Johannesburg Municipality to develop as a … the widespread support the ANC had in the township The Native Laws…