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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 …
EventKing George VI is born
… 1947, as South Africa was preparing for the elections in 1948, King George and his family visited South Africa and …
Chapter 24. Sack All Non-Europeans
… In May 1948, when the Nationalist Government came to power, the … or agreeing to submit to arbitration. On the 15th July 1948, a special general meeting of…
PlaceAlbertynhof, Kimberley
… written a multitude of articles for various journals. In 1948, the University of Pretoria awarded Albertyn with a …
EventSeretse Khama is re-united with his British wife
… as a clerk at Lloyds in 1947. The two married in September 1948. Their marriage was prohibited in Botswana and escalated …
EventArthur Elias Letele, medical doctor and prominent ANC leader who went into exile in Basutoland, dies
… well as the local ANC branch when he moved to Kimberley in 1948. When the Defiance Campaign started in 1952, Letele …
EventBotswana President, Seretse Khama dies
… of a retired army officer. They were married in September 1948. Khama’s Uncle Tshekedi ordered him to come home so that …
PlaceApartheid Museum, Johannesburg
… The National struggle climaxed during the Apartheid era (1948 - 1994) where gross human rights violations were … 1) and in the Universal Declaration of Human…
PlaceLiliesleaf Farm, Rivonia- Johannesburg
… Africa's oppressive Government. The Apartheid laws of 1948 had meant that racial discrimination was officially … they married and which jobs they were…
ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
… The National Party (NP) , after its ascendance to power in 1948, radicalised it, however. These legislations took away … against Apartheid was launched in…
34. Further immigration restrictions, 1903
… and others is reproduced. Source: N.P.P. 664, Petition no. 76, Natal Archives. That your petitioners respectfully …
EventBevil Rudd, the Olympic gold, silver and bronze medalist
… Daily Telegraph.[vi] Bevil Rudd passed away on 2 February 1948 in Kimberley, Northern Cape.[vii] End Notes [i] Bevil …
EventWalter Sisulu arrested under the Suppression of Communism Act
… ANC Secretary General. With the National Party victory in 1948 came the official implementation of apartheid. …
EventAfrican National Congress Youth League is founded
… developed a manifesto in 1944 and published a program in 1948. The ANC officially adopted this program in 1949, which …
EventP.W. Botha becomes Prime Minister
… been an article of faith for the National Party (NP) since 1948. The new prime minister told his fellow Whites that they …
EventAcclaimed South African poet Sheila Cussons dies
… in the first Stiebeuel anthology. Cussons went abroad in 1948 to Amsterdam with her husband CJM Nienaber where she …
EventBantu Women’s League protests against pass laws
… of the African National Congress (ANC) Women's League in 1948. …
EventEban Abba, Israeli statesman is born in Cape Town
… described him as "superb orator and witty debater." In 1948 Eban became Israel's United Nations (UN) representative …
Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
… Defiance Campaign mass meeting The post-1948 period saw the African National Congress (ANC) …
EventThe first 'Bantustans' or 'homelands' comes into existence when the Transkei Regional Authority is instituted
… via the 1913 Land Act. Later, under apartheid (after 1948) the division and control were more rigorous and these …
EventThe first ‘Bantustans’ or ‘homelands’ comes into existence when the Transkei Regional Authority is instituted
… via the 1913 Land Act. Later, under apartheid (after 1948) the division and control were more rigorous and these …
EventThe UN General Assembly adopts resolution 1881, requesting South Africa to release all political prisoners
… With the inception of apartheid in 1948, numerous repressive laws limited the freedom and …
EventAlbert Luthuli is elected as an ANC President
… Party victory and the imple- mentation of Apartheid in 1948, the ANC launched the Programme of Action strikes and …
EventSouth Africa becomes a charter member of the United Nations
… takeover of the government by the National Party (NP) in 1948 led to friction between the UN and South Africa. The …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2 - Kitchener proposes establishment of concentration camps
… Nationalist Party (NP) seizing power in the elections of 1948. …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Timeline
… first constitution 8 Jan 1912 Formation of the ANC 1948 National Party comes to power 1955 26 June, Adoption of …
Address at the Africa Regional Disability Consultative Conference Johannesburg, 6th May 2003
… of Human Rights as adopted by the United Nations in 1948. As we know, the United Nations has, since 1948 adopted many declarations and resolutions dealing…