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ArticleCelebrating Freedom and Democracy
… law passed by Parliament and it is the highest law in the land. All other laws must follow it. Other laws can be …
BiographyAbraham H. de Vries
… by Martin Trump 1987 “Tin soldiers don’t bleed” in A Land Apart compiled by André P. Brink and J.M. Coetzee 2007 …
BiographyRichard Feetham
… Council Commission (1930””31), the Transvaal Asiatic Land Tenure Commission (1932””35), and the Witwatersrand Land Titles Commission (1946”” 49). In 1938,…
BiographyJohn Tengo Jabavu
… or more calamitously,his support for the 1913 Natives Land Act,Jabavu allied himself with forces clearly inimical … progress of Blacks. He was a known…
ArticleIndian South Africans: 1924-1948 Legislation and Segregation
… on 19 June 1913 the Union government passed the Natives’ Land Act that prohibited black people from owning or renting land outside special areas called…
BiographyPiet Retief
… — working as a clerk in a store, prospecting for land, building and the liquor trade. His liquor license was … He promised them that if they succeeded he…
BiographyGideon Mendel
… in Zimbabwe. Perpignan Photo Festival 1989 Beloofde Land (Promised Land) Market Photo Gallery,Johannesburg. 1988 Living in … AIDS in South Africa…
ArticleAccount of events: Rand Rebellion 1922
… indictment against capitalism [was] filling up from every land and every clime; and the roll of honour of proletarian …
BiographySushila Gandhi
… located in central India. She was the daughter of a rich, land-owning family who gave much support and money to Gandhi …
Mooroogiah Dhanapathy Naidoo
… of volunteers from the Indian Congress who set up tents on land that was reserved for whites in 1946 as an act of …
BiographyCassim Saloojee
… because it was difficult for Indians to rent property or land in the Transvaal, were prohibited from purchasing land. Later his father sold bicycles, but…
ArticleMaritime history and heritage: shipwrecks
… that are better preserved than they would have been on land because of the low oxygen levels, and resulting low …
BiographySantu Mofokeng
… North Carolina United States of America. 1993: "Happy Sad Land", Herten Fotofestival - Herten, Germany, 1993 1993: … de la Photographie Africaine" - Bamako,…
ArchiveNat reaction that to spells conflict, Rand Daily Mail, 4 June 1980
ArchiveTalk and humanitarian aid go hand in hand
BiographyClarence Mlami Makwetu
… breakaway faction because of its commitment to restore the land to its rightful owners, the African people. Makwetu as … a building firm earning R39 a month…
BiographyIsaac Williams Wauchope
… the destruction of Xhosa society and the theft of the land, Isaac grew up to become a prominent African elite in … of the Buffalo Drift, his wife Hoho…
BiographyAmbrose Mzimkhulu Makiwane
… Joe Slovo . That same year the ANC was offered a piece of land at Kongwa, 400 kilometres south of the Der es Salaam, …
BiographyCecyl Esau
… layers of our society more aware of the injustices in the land and the need to transform society into one free from …
BiographyDavid Lurie
… Museum, Los Angeles] 'Struggling to Share the Promised Land': 2001-2 [UK, Germany, Bahrain, South Africa]* …
Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
… pave the way to apartheid, among them a colonial conquest, land dispossession, economic impoverishment, and exclusion … first, the Khoikhoi and later the…
ArticlePoverty and development
… women were forced into the rural areas to live off the land, without opportunities and choices allowing them to …
ArticleThe fight against colonialism and imperialism in Africa
… revenues from the colonies. These changes included taking land from African people and giving it to the growing number … with a growing number of settlers,…
BiographyNyiko Floyd Shivambu
… of the Constitution was amended to make expropriation of land without compensation. Shivambu is a member of the Joint …
BiographyKing Dingane ka Senzangakhona
… Richard King to meet with Dingane in person and request land. Dingane received the request with interest but demanded … be coming up to Mgungundlovu to…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… people. The most important law passed was the Natives’ Land Act of 1913. This law reserved 93% (revised to 87% in 1936) of the land in South Africa for…
ArticleDefinition of Natural and Cultural heritage sites
… human history. A place where humans settled and used the land in a way that represents their culture can also be a … earth's history. This can be in fossils,…
BiographyBheki Cele
Life and Early Career Bhekokwakhe (Bheki) Hamilton Cele was born on 22 April 1952 to Albertina Mtshali and Gillford Cele at uMuzumbe Mission Hospital near…
BiographyBaldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane
… Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) board as well as the Land Bank. In 2010, Dr Ngubane was presented with the Grand …
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 … Mogopa, who, on the eve of the…