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The Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa
… living expenses. African and Coloured women were usually forced to live in townships, which required a very tiring and … motivation to unionise. The hours…
Memorial lecture on the 26th Anniversary of the Lowveld Massacre presented by Comrade Jackson Mthembu ANC National Spokesperson, 15 March 2012
… British who not only took our land by force but who also forced us off the voting roll in the Cape Colony, they also … between oppressor forces of the Boers…
ArticlePoor Whites and their Political Weapon: Constructing the Kakamas Dam
… as the mineral revolution and development of mines forced smaller farmers off their land. [1] This led to an …
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… “we can now promise you nothing but greater hardship, more forced labour, bannings and deportation ”¦ a suspension of … the campaigns against the pass laws,…
ArticleWomen and Children in White Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
… and Lord Ripon, Emily Hobhouse, although unwell, is forced to undergo a medical examination. She is eventually … In his reply Chamberlain states that it was…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… like cattle into ethnic ghettoes and set off a series of forced removals. The Group Areas Act came into effect on 30 March … on policies of social and…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
QUESTION 1: HOW WAS AFRIKANER NATIONALISM PROMOTED IN SOUTH AFRICA DURING THE 1930s TO 1940s? Study Sources 1A, 1B, 1C and 1D and answer the questions that…
ArticleA Brief History of Pageview
… To read more about the people, politics, legislation and removals during this period please have a look at the …
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… (1885). Initially, it included a clause that would have forced local authorities to set aside 'Asiatic' areas. Due to … this act, the skilled labour had been…
PlaceAtlantis
… had been displaced from various Areas of Cape Town during Forced Removals , or who wanted to escape overcrowded conditions in …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
… were similar inequalities in health and welfare services. Forced removals, detentions without trial and widespread repression …
Dream of Total Liberation of Africa is in Sight - Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 72nd Anniversary of ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1984
… in numerous encounters, whether against rent increases, forced removals or in military actions, among them the attack on the …
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 72th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1984
… in numerous encounters, whether against rent-increases, forced removals or in military actions among them, the attack on the …
ArticleThe Politics Behind Water
… 1944 many urban African workers became squatters, who were forced to live in unsanitary conditions. The municipality and …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
… domestic servants to the free settlers, but some were forced into prostitution. Many men were handed to the free …
EventSA and Mozambique revive Nkomati Accord
… support the organisation. The country had been forced into the agreement as a result of economic dependence …
ArticleThe New Group
… an element of sensation linked to their shows, like the forced removal of a painting by Cecil Higgs from an …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Where Working people Lived
… to move to improved housing. (See, for example, how slum removals were delayed in the histories of Brickfields and … industrialists, businessmen and the…
Political report by Oliver Tambo on the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference of the African National Congress, 17 June 1985, Kabwe, Zambia
… time, the progressive forces in Africa and the world were forced to wage an intense struggle for the recognition of the … "detente" offensive. At the…
Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Kabwe, Zambia, June 1985
… time, the progressive forces in Africa and the world were forced to wage an intense struggle for the recognition of the … "detente" offensive. At the…
PlaceSophiatown
Sophiatown was originally a Farm outside Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). It was bought by Hermann Tobiansky, who named it after his wife; 'Sophia'…
Statement at the Sixth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, Havana, Cuba by O. R. Tambo, 3 - 9 September 1979
… It is also the reason for the intensified campaign of removals of thousands of our people from the towns and cities … intended to salvage the political…
ArticleRemembering and Celebrating South Africa’s Iconic LGBTQI+ Women
… her consistent challenge to the norm. Preceding the forced removals of 1968, Kewpie refused to leave her home and the …
ArticleThe Women’s Charter
Adopted at the Founding Conference of the Federation of South African WomenJohannesburg, 17 April 1954. The Charter expressed the philosophy and aims of the…
ArchiveCHAPTER THREE: The Emergence Of Grassroots Politics, 1979-1981 by Kumi Naidoo
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ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… There was not enough land for everyone. Africans were forced to work for wages on white farms or in the mines or …
ArticleThe Contentious Relationship Between Ngqika And Ndlambe
… turning point in Xhosa and colonial relations. [32] This forced Ndlambe and his followers to reside in Ngqika’s … and on the side he was already making…
District Six: 3,000 ex-residents on land claims waiting list by Diana Mellow (GroundUp), 23 September 2016
… Davids, a member of the Heritage Day campaign, was forced to leave her home at age 24. “I was born and bred in … 1968 and continued for twelve years. During…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… African youth. An increasing number of protests in schools forced the government to appoint two commissions of inquiry – … the Sharpville Massacre and…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… special permission of the Minister,’ i.e. black people are forced by residence in designated ‘homelands’ areas to be … It also condemned the establishment of…