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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 People were dispossessed of their land, marginalised and suffered severe human rights … the parliament when they repealed the Separate Amenities…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EventA plan limiting admission of black students in white universities is withdrawn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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…