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EventPrime Minister, D.F. Malan retires
… minister of the NP government that came into power in May 1948, retired from his position and withdrew from politics at …
EventFive developed countries recall their Ambassadors from South Africa
… which was introduced by the National Party government in 1948. The policy instituted racial segregation in the country. …
ArchiveA story of a memorable photograph, and why it matters by J Brooks Spector, (Daily Maverick), 18 May 2018
The death of Sam Nzima, the man who took the photograph that came to symbolise all that was wrong with apartheid and how it would be opposed, offers a moment…
BiographyMohandas Karamchand Gandhi
… the name. However, this is incorrect. On 30 January 1948, Gandhi hurriedly went up the few steps of the prayer …
Document 36 - Letter from E. R. Roux to the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, 18 November 1930
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 36 - Letter from E. R. Roux to the Executive…
ArchiveConformity and conflict: Afrikaner nationalist politics in South Africa
… This thesis includes chapters on the National Party,1948-1961; Afrikaner Social Stratification during the 1950s; …
ArchiveBiography of Moses Mabokela Chikane
… Biography of Moses Mabokela Chikane who was born in 1948 August 14 in area of Groblersdaal first of the family of …
EventThe Group Areas Act comes into effect
… In 1948 the Nationalist Party won the general election on a …
EventSeretse Khama is asked to renounce chieftaincy
… he married an English woman, Ruth Williams in September 1948, in England, without the permission of the tribal … come under the control of white Afrikaner…
EventGeneral J.C. Smuts (80), former prime minister of SA, dies
… Prime Minister on two occasions, from 1919 - 1924 and 1939-1948, General J.C. Smuts passed away at the age of 80 on his … the policy of apartheid. The…
Challenge to the church: A Theological Comment on the Political Crisis in South Africa | The Kairos Document, 1985
The Kairos document preface The KAIROS document is a Christian, biblical and theological comment on the political crisis in South Africa today. It is an…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
1960 21 March, In a peaceful anti pass march led by the PAC at Sharpeville, the police open fire on the unarmed and peaceful crowd, killing 69 and wounding…
Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the 1940s
… the way for the formation of the ANC Women’s League in 1948 - and, very importantly, centralised power in the …
PlaceJohannesburg Public Library
The Library opened its doors to the Public in 1890, operating from several short-lived spaces provided, until a site was acquired in Kerk Street where it would…
ArchiveA Place In The City - The Rand On The Eve Of Apartheid by Luli Callinicos
… to gold-propped ears When the National Party won the 1948 election, white liberals were horrified. They saw the … state the National Party set up when it…
Biography of George Hallett by Hunter Kolon
George Hallett—More than Mandela Abstract George Hallett, a South African photographer is an artist who spent several decades living in exile. He left the…
ArticleThe Seriti Commission
Background Terry Crawford-Brown petitioned the Constitutional Court in 2011 to compel former president Jacob Zuma to establish a commission of inquiry into…
PlaceAustin Roberts Bird Sanctuary, New Muckleneuk, Pretoria
… mammals, and was tragically killed in a motor accident in 1948. …
EventF.W. de Klerk is unanimously elected the new leader of the Transvaal NP
… the ruling party in South Africa as it came to power in 1948. It was F.W. de Klerk who, on 2 February, 1990 announced …
EventVuminkosi Zulu, S.A. sculptor is born in Mapumulo, Natal
… Vuminkosi Zulu was born in Mapumulo, Natal on 24 November 1948.He studied art at Rocke’s drift art school and completed … Scott-Berning, G., (2011). ‘…
ArchiveOmar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary by Niren Tolsi (Mail and Guardian), 17 September 2020
This moment’s gaping generational divide, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, with its accompanying sense of history being lost and collective memory fading,…
EventMonty Naicker dies
… of the liberation struggle in this country. As early as 1948, he called for a united front amongst the oppressed …
EventSouth African Airways is given permission to fly over the bulge of Africa as negotiations to end apartheid gain momentum
… community. Since the establishment of apartheid in 1948, various attempts had been made to isolate the country. …
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
… it established a network of local business chambers. By 1948 national coordinating bodies were formed to oversee the … undermined the ‘disciplining effects’…
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 …
EventCape Coloured Board agrees with the Department of Education on the establishment of an Art Centre for Coloured children
… was taken during a meeting held in Cape Town on 2 June 1948, where it was agreed that the centre would be under the … Anon, (1948), ‘Art Centre for Cape…
ArchiveA Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman
… Introduction Part A: The unfolding of total strategy 1948 - 1989 1. The many faces of apartheid repression 2. …
EventAlan Paton, author of “Cry, the Beloved Country” and founder member of the Liberal Party, dies
… novel 'Cry, the Beloved Country', which was published in 1948 is still in print. Paton was a founding member of the …
Chapter 3 - THE MOROGORO AFTERMATH
From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The end of the 1960s was another important phase in the history of the exiled liberation movement…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
Introduction: Background to the Strike The formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 was a development that had vastly different consequences for the…