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PlaceVan Riebeeck’s Hedge, Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, Cape Town.
… Klaassen Road, Bishopscourt, were proclaimed on 11 April 1945. …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… if she/he had section 12 rights in terms of the 1945 Natives (Urban Areas)Consolidation Act. (For further … townships since these were established in terms…
PlaceHuguenot Monument, Franschoek
… was a young Dutch Immigrant. The Building was completed in 1945 at a cost of £22 000. On the 17 April 1948 marked the …
The coup that set Ghana and Africa 50 years back by Charles Quist-Adade (Pambazuka News), 02 March 2016
Nkrumah wanted to industrialize Ghana within a generation, and everything was on course until the Americans and their British cousins used some disgruntled and…
Pamphlet by Professor Z. K. Matthews, published in November 1946
… example was the Native Urban Areas Consolidation Act of 1945. There is probably no law which affects the interests of … example was the Financial Relations…
Document 3 - Letter from F. A. W. Lucas to James Ramsay MacDonald,
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 3 - Letter from F. A. W. Lucas7 to James Ramsay…
PlaceJohannesburg Public Library
The Library opened its doors to the Public in 1890, operating from several short-lived spaces provided, until a site was acquired in Kerk Street where it would…
Chapter 3 - THE MOROGORO AFTERMATH
From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The end of the 1960s was another important phase in the history of the exiled liberation movement…
EventProceedings against SA start in the International Court of Justice
… the founding of the United Nations Organisation (UN) in 1945, that organisation insisted more and more vigorously as …
EventNatal Indian Organisation delegation meets Premier Smuts
… Indian Congress (NIC), by Monty Naicker on 21 October 1945. Kajee had come under criticism for his moderate …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
… issues a flyer Trumpet Call to Youth announcing a meeting. 1945 Albert Luthuli is elected to the Executive Committee of …
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
1919 Formation of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of Africa (ICU). 1924 Introduction of Industrial Conciliation Act. 1941 Formation of…
Document 25 - E. R. Roux, The New Slogan and the Revolutionary Movement among White Workers in South Africa, presented at the Sixth
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 25 - E. R. Roux, The New Slogan and the…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Introduction
… of Philosophers ”” from Descartes to the Present Day" in 1945.”Š 15 ”‰ Considering the fact that only a few Africans … campaign, and actively involving…
Interview with Albert Luthuli by Studs Terkel, 6 May 1963, Chicago
From Perspective on Ideas and the Arts TERKEL: Here in a suburb of Durban, South Africa, we are sitting with Albert John Lutuli, winner of the 1960 Nobel…
How the Ahmed Timol case was reported on at the time by South African Institute of Race Relations (Politicsweb), 28 June 2017
South African Institute of Race Relations, Survey of Race Relations 1971: It was announced on 28 October that Mr. Ahmed Timol [arrested on the night of the 22…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1900-1947
… in Indian owned areas without first obtaining a permit. 1945 The Natives Urban Areas Consolidation Act was passed in 1945. Amongst other things, the Act…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
"Two hundred thousand subterranean heroes who, by day and by night, for a mere pittance lay down their lives to the familiar 'fall of rock' and who, at deep…
Biography of Bessie Emery by Elizabeth Venditti
ABSTRACT: Bessie Emery was the first black South African woman to publish a collection of short stories.[i] She was also described as a passionate and…
ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
… African since S.T. Plaatjie to publish a novel in English. 1945 Dorothy Crisp publishes Abraham’s second novel, Song of …
ArticleA history of prison labour in South Africa
… (SAIRR) which appointed the Landsdown Commission in 1945. A series of reforms were suggested. However, the South …
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
… between Afrikaans and English speaking universities. In 1945 University of Fort Hare became a member of NUSAS. It was …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
1930 White women get the vote. This means in effect that the weight of the black vote is decreased from 3.1% to 1.4%. The first restrictions against the…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
Introduction: Background to the Strike The formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 was a development that had vastly different consequences for the…
ArticleThe Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial, 1984
Context In the early 1980s the government took steps to control the level of resistance in the country. Its solution was to arrest key people and charge…
Artist. Activist. Historian. This man is preserving the past to protect the future (beautifulnews.co.za)
… an artist, but an activist for most of his life. Born in 1945, he grew up under the oppression of apartheid, facing …
Passive Resistance, 1946 by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Special Focus: Wrangling between political groups - 1948
… rift in the ranks of the Indian community which began in 1945 when present leaders of the Congress stormed and …
EventFirst Fietas Festival to celebrate the legacy of the community
… as it was experienced, particularly at its height between 1945 and 1960. It was a place not unlike District Six and …
ArchiveBarberton Prison by Sloane Fuller
While the South African press readily covered stories of those having committed acts of treason or communism during the apartheid era, little attention was…
A celebration of 70 years of ‘African Claims’ - ANC by Zizi Kodwa, 11 May 2015, South Africa
Document adopted by the ANC in 1943 following the Atlantic Charter ANC CELEBRATES THE 70 YEARS OF AFRICAN CLAIMS DOCUMENT AND DEFEAT OF FASCISM AND NAZISM We…