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ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Union Timeline 1919-1989
… recruited from every walk of life. The secretary of Native (Black) Affairs bans Clements Kadalie, the founder of … ICU yase Natal are some of the…
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… families, who were supposedly doing well on their plots of land in the reserves. Even before the formation of the … recognise the union: on 9 February 1942…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March, Pretoria, 9 August
… to carry passes and permits had been a major fiasco. In 1913, government officials in the Orange Free State declared … remain in the Western Cape. According…
ArticleDrafting of the Final Constitution
… deprivation. People were dispossessed of their land, marginalised and suffered severe human rights … the parliament when they repealed the Separate Amenities…
Mission Stations - T-Z
… 1873 and recorded the following: "Without pausing in the native quarter, we proceeded to the mission-house, a stone … of the Cape, granted to Dr. Philip, for…
Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… to everyone else. According to the Population Registration Act of 1950 , every person had to be classified and registered as White, Coloured, Indian/Asiatic…
Say It out Loud - The Coloured People and the Franchise, 1906
… Cape Coloured people were to be included in the term " Native " . He says: "I may say that personally I have always held that the word " Native " in the…
EventA plan limiting admission of black students in white universities is withdrawn
… back to the 19th century. It preceded the University Act passed in 1916 by the Union of South Africa government. … for white students. At the same period,…
From Protest to Challenge: Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964 Volume 2
… Capitalism. The essence of Capitalism is the ownership of land, mines, factories, machinery and all other means of … two powers. In the industrial life of…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - ‘Locations’ For Labour
… of workers, how they did it, and why. The Urban Areas Act The first major response by the South African government … Together with influx control through the…
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
… Roman-Dutch law as the basic, or common, law of the land (Cape Articles of Capitulation, 1806). Although the … revisions and amendments. The 1878 Code stated…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
… member of the party's Johannesburg Committee. The Asiatic Land and Trading (Transvaal) Act is passed. It extends the 1939 law for two years but … meets with…
The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
… in the late 1870s and 1880s. For instance, the Native Educational Association (NEA) was founded in 1879. The … of nationalist organisations such as the South…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew
… Lucas to James Ramsay MacDonald, Document 4 - "The Great Native Strike", " The International, 27 February 1920, … 1930 Part Two - Communists and the national…
Bibliographical Data
… were Ilanga Lase Natal, the Bantu World, Imvo Zabantsundu (Native Opinion of South Africa), Indian Opinion, Umteteli wa …
ArchiveThe arch agitator of the Union by Shula Marks, 31 January 2019
… most of Natal under the newly amended Riotous Assemblies Act. Champion, who was described by Margery Perham in 1929 as … as a clerk and within a short while…
ArticleOvercoming Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid by Bennett Gwynn
… government sanctioned townships created by the group areas act of 1950 (Group Areas Act (South Africa [1950]). This act … Another important piece of…
Document 25 - E. R. Roux, The New Slogan and the Revolutionary Movement among White Workers in South Africa, presented at the Sixth
… white workers often seems genuine enough apart from the "native question". The ease with which white South Africa … as a factor in the struggle against…
PlaceNyanga Township
… The system also brought about the racial segregation of land. Housing in Nyanga Phase one of an additional location … enacted the Natives (Black) Urban…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… ka Seme assumed leadership positions in the South African Native National Congress when relatively young. Dr Abdullah … education. In 1953 government passed…
Mission Stations - G-H
… time brought in a lively manner to my mind the idea of my native country. Excepting this place, I never saw any thing … to Maleo's town, fifteen German miles…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… politics. The passing of the Suppression of Communism Act by the government in 1950 enabled the state to increase … organisations. In 1953 the government…
EventSouth African Students Movement leaders meet to plan protest action against the implementation of Afrikaans
… Government had, in 1953, enacted The Bantu Education Act, which established a Black Education Department in the Department of Native Affairs. The key…
Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss
… of the apartheid regime. Hendrik Verwoerd, Minister of Native Affairs, instituted the Bantu Education Act of 1953, which segregated instruction at all levels…
ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
… 1953 the superintendent informed the Advisory Board of the Native Affairs Department that SOYA had been holding secret … being banned under the Suppression…
EventPixley Seme, lawyer, journalist and co-founder of SANNC is born
… Natal). Seme was a founding member of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC) in 1912, which was renamed … as a result of Black dissatisfaction…
Document 29 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 5 December 1928
… it was dictated by the analogy of a bourgeois democratic native revolution in China, but of course I couldn't say that … about the "minorities" so as to…
Document 7 - ‘White South Africa.’ Two Voices.” The International, 27 January 1922
… and to uphold that supreme principle, THE PRESERVATION OF LAND AND PEOPLE." The Chamber of Mines, says the General, … to be followed by the vote and by…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… Africa (ICU). 1924 Introduction of Industrial Conciliation Act. 1941 Formation of the Council of Non-European Trade … of Trade Unions (SACTU) . 1953…
ArticleThe Zulu kingdom and the colony of Natal
… be allotted by the Natal Government under the Natal Act No. 14 of 1859 and we all understand the terms under … belief which was supported by Shepstone, the…