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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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
ArticleSouth African Coloured Peoples 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 …
Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
… Defiance Campaign mass meeting The post-1948 period saw the African National Congress (ANC) …
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 …
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…
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. …