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EventPetronella Nellie du Toit South African soprano singer is born
… to sing opera. After completing her school education in 1946, she enrolled for the Diploma in Opera Singing at the …
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… as the Alexandra bus boycotts and the miners’ strike in 1946. Conversely, there was an increase in the harassment of political activists, as seen in the…
Anti-Indian Legislation 1800s - 1959
… renewed for further period of three years to 31 March 1946. ii) In Durban the position is to be pegged. No Indian … owned by Indians. Provisions to continue…
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… in 1944 and 1945 and the African Mineworkers strike of 1946 were still fresh in the minds of voters at the time of … during World War II. The African miners’…
ArticleBlack South African literature
… by Peter Abrahams, whose book Mine Boy was published in 1946. Abrahams was also one of the first into a growing field …
EventRioting and destruction in Cato Manor and Durban continues
… as tenants to Indian and African landowners. On 2 June 1946 the government passed the Ghetto Act, aimed at …
EventThelma Gutsche, a South African scholar, historian and film critic, dies
… at the University of Cape Town which she completed in 1946. Her doctoral thesis on The History and Social …
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… strikes and then begging for donations to support workers. 1946 8-12 February, Monty Naicker attends the SAIC conference … National Congress and Nehru and…
PlaceGreytown, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Buildings include: 'Greytown’s Mosque' which was built in 1946 to replace the original of 1898, 'Shri Vishnu Mandir …
EventGeneral J.C. Smuts (80), former prime minister of SA, dies
… established the Fagan Commission after WW II in August 1946, to investigate laws relating to urban Blacks, pass …
Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers’ party
… demoralisation. By the time mineworkers went on strike in 1946, they, and the whole black trade union movement were in … could no longer be held back) moved…
ArticleSita’s story
… and Sanskrit. So my life in Akola from June 1945 to May 1946 was work, work and more work – but Naboo, my neighbour, … were told by my grandfather to do so…
EventThomas Titus Nkobi is born
… Madibane High School) in Western Township, Johannesburg in 1946. Nkobi went to further his education at Roma College …
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… and other forms of non-violent resistance, similar to the 1946 Passive resistance campaign mounted by the South African … - 1967 After the illness and the…
Chapter 23. How the United Party Betrayed South Africa - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… his country at its most decisive period. At the end of 1946, two important questions concerning South Africa were … Act by the Union Parliament at the…
South Africa: Writer Mafika Gwala Passes Away (allAfrica), 9 September 2014
… was born in Verulam, north of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal in 1946. He spent most of his adult life in Mpumalanga township, …
BiographyGeorge Gangen Ponnen
… Workers Union. 1945 - African Municipal Workers Union. 1946 - Brewery and Mineral Water Workers Union 1945 - Non …
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew
… Sanctions or Non-European Unity?" Workers' Voice, April 1946 Document 12 - Non-European Unity Movement. Resolutions … Franchise in S. Africa”, Workers' Voice…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes
… not accept the petition. The campaign was sustained into 1946 when the ANC redirected its focus towards boycotting the … Hoover Institution Press, 1973), Vol…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the Opening Ceremony of the President’s Cup 2003 Fancourt 20 November 2003
… of one of South Africa’s golfing heroes, Bobby Locke. In 1946, he invited US hero, Sam Snead, for a friendly …
Chapter 13
… culminating in the African Miners Strike of August, 1946, which was drowned in blood. The significant factor … to meet in Bloemfontein on the 6th and 7th…
Ruth First Untold by Jerry Saena
… of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, from 1942 to 1946. There Ruth graduated with a BA degree in Social … During Ruth`s early campaigns which took part during…
Introduction
… said as much when, in a historic address to Parliament 1946, he declared on behalf of the S.A.I.C.: ‘ . . . from …
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… the youth wing of the African National Congress is formed. 1946 African Miners Union (AMU) organises a strike by miners …
Gandhiji and the struggle for liberation in South Africa
… inspired the great Indian passive resistance movement of 1946-48 and lent it enormous support. Birth of Satyagraha The … under the influence of Pandit…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1932 - 1949 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… among the founder members of the Muslim Judicial Council. 1946 Ahmadiyyah Movement, Cape Town 79 "The sectarian … started missionary work in its orthodox…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 11
… in the South African Indian Congress. It was not until 1946 that he was ousted from the National body. During this … to public demand, the Prime Minister…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew
… A statement by the African Mineworkers' Union, 7 August 1946 Document 135 -"National Front and Class Struggle: Report … Party of South Africa", Freedom, 5, 4…
South Africa's freedom struggle by E.S. Reddy
… and was again arrested for leading a procession. In 1946-48, he led the Indian passive resistance movement in … helped the great African mineworkers` strike…
Oration by Oliver Tambo at the funeral of Moses Kotane, 26 May 1978, Moscow
… My first contact with Moses Kotane was in 1946, which was the beginning of a period of great political …