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EventNRP leader, Vause Raw announces that his party is ready to give the President’s Council a chance
… office in a landslide defeat by the National Party (NP) in 1948, which then introduced Apartheid policy. He became the …
EventSpecial Committee on Apartheid publishes its first Interim Report
… Party (NP) after it won the heavily contested elections of 1948 following the end of the World War II, 1945. After …
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… to deal with rising levels of crime in the townships. In 1948 the National Party won the general elections and set up … (SEYO) which was established in 1986…
EventNjabulo Ndebele was born on this day
… On 4 July, 1948 respected academic Professor Njabulo Ndeble was born in …
EventDr Hendrik Johannes van der Bijl, SA industrialist who laid the foundation for the establishment of Escom and Iscor, is born in Pretoria
… Steel and Iron Corporation (Iscor). Van der Bijl died in 1948 and is regarded as one of the greatest South Africans …
EventMarais Steyn dies
… age of 83 in Stellenbosch. His political career started in 1948, when he stood for the United Party (UP) against the …
PlaceLouw House Museum, Sutherland
… an honorary degree from the University of Utrecht in 1948, and was a professor of Afrikaans at the University of …
EventBill Flynn, popular SA actor dies in Johannesburg
… due to a heart attack. Flynn was born on 13 December 1948, and was educated at Plumstead High School in Cape Town, …
PlaceHoward College Building and the Memorial Tower Building, University of Natal
… in WWII. The building, which cost £235000, was begun in 1948 and completed in 1972. It was declared a National …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 3 - Afrikaner Nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Albert Grundlingh
… Afrikaner race policies, were quick to equate the post-1948 apartheid state with the Nazi state of the 1930s and … Malan did not believe that they could win…
ArticleFietas: Pageview timeline 1880-1988
… the Minister of the Interior by the Tamil Benefit Society. 1948 Most primary and secondary education of inhabitants of … Krause Street in the east and…
Bibliographical Data
… StrugÂgle for Freedom in South Africa (London: Gollancz, 1948; 2nd ed., Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1964), … nor was Janet Robertson, Liberalism…
ArticleThe ‘four nation’ thesis
… ‘four nation’ thesis as a framework in their manifesto of 1948, stating that “South Africa is a country of four chief …
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… the forging of a racially divided society. The second in 1948 was an expression of a lack of confidence in the ability …
EventSouth African historian Charles van Onselen is born.
… Matter of a Horse: The Life of ‘Nongoloza’ Mathebula 1867-1948. Protea Book House, Pretoria, 2008.↵ … Matter of a Horse: The Life of ‘Nongoloza’ Mathebula…
EventGeorge Msimang, artist, is born
… Artist George Msimang was born on 26 October 1948 in Durban. Msimang's interest in art began at school … Anon, George Msimang (1948 -2004 from African Art…
EventANC stalwart, Albertina Sisulu dies in Johannesburg
… where Albertina Sisulu was the only women present. In 1948 she joined the ANC Women’s League and in the 1950s she …
Chronology
… Dr. Y.M. Dadoo) begin passive resistance campaign (1946-1948) June 23 , Second National Anti-Pass August 12-15 , … by trial of communist for sedition,…
EventWestern countries, including South Africa, implement an airlift to supply provisions to the inhabitants of the eastern section of Berlin
… On 28 June 1948, Soviet forces had cut off all land access to the … [Accessed: 17 June 2014]|June 28, " On this Day: June 28, 1948 " , from timesonline …
EventElectrically powered units replaced Johannesburg's horse-drawn trams
… with ease. The trams were to remain in service up until 1948, when increased private automobile use and a shift in …
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… People (NAACP), and Progressive Citizens of America. 1948 24 January, R.A. Pillay and R. Mahabeer, chairman of the … Natal-Transvaal border. They were…
Document 45 - Ray Alexander, “Trade Unionism in South Africa”, Discussion, 1, 6, 1952
… and increases the ratio of Africans to Europeans. After 76 days the strike ended with 320 persons dead. The … Racialism in Trade Union Movement During 1947…
PlaceEzakheni Township of Ladysmith
… Rietkuil, a ‘black spot’ next to Ladysmith in 1975-76. Moreover, large numbers of families were moved to …
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… The ascendancy to power of the Apartheid government in 1948 under the National Party (NP) took land dispossession …
ArticleThe role of traditional leaders during Apartheid
… leaders in the then Union of South Africa. In 1948, the National Party under the leadership of DF Malan …
A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group
… and the Apartheid state When the Nationalist Party won the 1948 election Afrikaners acceded to state power, and they … from the assumption of power by the…
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… event as a proud accomplishment of the apartheid regime (1948-94) (Goodhew, xv-xvi). The South African government … 70). This initiative took place in full…
EventWorld Health Day
… 1945. The WHO's Constitution came into effect on 7 April 1948, and therefore this date has been celebrated as World …
EventNamibia gains Independence
… request was turned down by UN, however, things changed in 1948 when the National Party came into power. The NP defied …
EventAlan Paton is born
… the Beloved Country, which was published in February of 1948, during a time in which he studied penal institutions in …