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… political aspirations. The leaders are either detained, forced into hiding or subjected to campaigns of intimidation. … to improve their living conditions…
Historical Overview of Black Resistance, 1932-1952 - The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign by Ismail Vadi, New Delhi, 1995
… newly proletarianised, both black and white, who had been forced off the land and into ”¦ towns by economic hardship, … the futility of the NRC at a critical…
Archive2016 - President Zuma: State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2016
… District Six would be a whites only area, leading to the forced removals of more than 60 000 residents. The year 2016 also …
ArchiveThe Women’s Jail at the Old Fort and its Impact by Claire Ennis
… searches and vaginal examinations, we talk of rape and forced intercourse with other prisoners, foreign objects, … this omnipresent fear. Many women…
ArticlePondoland revolt - 1950 - 1961
The Pondo people fiercely resisted the rise of the Colonisersand their attempts to reshape and re-engineer Pondoland and to co-opt their Chiefs. Violence…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… Sometimes whole communities are uprooted in this way and forced into a twilight existence. The internal refugee …
ArchiveAngola Group Discussion: Oatlands, Virginia, 18 March 1983
Minutes of a meeting with delegates from the United States of Amercia and South Africa to discuss the political and military situation in southern Africa wih…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1654-1899
… they are hence liable to register. Free Indians are also forced to carry passes or court arrest. The South African … in the Orange Free State. All Indian…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 1
… reforms, “taking into account the status of victims of forced removals”. Furthermore, provision was made for a charter …
ArticleSouth African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO)
… the NEUM's Ten-points programme of minimum demands. This forced the APO president, S.M Rahim, to relinquish his …
ArticleGertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… Group Areas Act created residential segregation through forced removals and relocations. The Population Registration Act, … schools were limited, and many of…
PlaceCape Winelands Airport, Fisantekraal
Nestled beautifully in the Western Cape winelands, Cape Winelands Airport (formerly Fisantekraal Airfield) is an ex-South African Airforce airfield now…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1970 - 1979
… thousands of workers and communities who staunchly oppose removals and resettlement orders. January 20, Dadoo issues a …
EventThe UN Security Council to lay down rules which would allow UN forces to enter Congo
On 6 August 1960, the United Nations (UN) Secretary General, Mr. Dag Hammarskjöld, asked the UN Security Council to lay down rules which would allow UN forces…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
1950 - 1960 In Fietas, Johannesburg, the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) initiates and implements the 'Decade of Defiance'. 1950 Florence Matomela…
PlaceBurgersdorp, E.C.
The Merino sheep-farming Town of Burgersdorp, in the North Eastern Cape has been a pivotal point in Afrikaner: History; Culture and Religion. Many Towns in…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
The ANC in the 1920s was largely weakened and suffered from both organisation incapacity and financial constraints. During this period, the party attempted to…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
… men found themselves jobless in a foreign country and were forced to return to their homes. [29] Consequently, the … to enter “white areas” most black…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications by Allison Drew
… Cosmos Desmond, author of The Discarded People, a book on forced removals in South Africa. Livingston Mqotsi and Desmond …
ArticleUnited Nations and Apartheid Timeline 1946-1994
… It also condemned the establishment of bantustans and forced removals of African people. 1972 4 February, The Security …
EventSoweto agrees to pay rent
… unit R23-00 service charges such as electricity and sewage removals Resident would contribute R5-00 to the Greater …
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 2
… leading intellectual of the NP, Gerrit Viljoen , who was forced through illness to retire from Working Group 2, of … from their township homes or hostel…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… Sometimes whole communities are uprooted in this way and forced into a twilight existence. The internal refugee …
EventChief Malaboch is taken prisoner
… (ZAR) Government. The authorities took action through forced removal, which ultimately resulted in the Malaboch …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
During the 1990s, behind-the-scenes negotiations between the government and the ANC gathered pace. As part of that process, the ANC, PAC and other parties were…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… families if authorities felt they had broken laws that forced them to carry passes. However, the government moved to …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) was established on 2 April 1944, by Anton Lambede (who became the League’s first President), Nelson Mandela,…
EventThe UN Group of Experts on Apartheid proposes establishment of a National Convention to set a new course for the future of South Africa
The United Nations Group of Experts on Apartheid presented its report to the Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN). The group suggested the creation of…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
A cartoon illustrating the process of getting to the idealised “American Dream" Image Source Introduction Like communism in Russia, American capitalism…
Document 120 - Draft Programme of the Communist Party of South Africa (c. 1940)41
… has lost most of its economic privileges, and has been forced into the class of "poor whites". Capitalism reduces …