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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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),…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… in 1910. With the adoption of the Union Constitution Act of 1910 the two dominant white political interests, the … civilisation largely do not apply to the…