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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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
ArticleThe Politics Behind Water
… 1944 many urban African workers became squatters, who were forced to live in unsanitary conditions. The municipality and …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
PlaceSophiatown
Sophiatown was originally a Farm outside Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). It was bought by Hermann Tobiansky, who named it after his wife; 'Sophia'…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…