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BiographyHenry Selby Msimang
… to send a deputation to Britain to try to have the Natives Land Act of 1913 repealed. In Bloemfontein, in 1917, he was … in Johannesburg in 1936 about the…
References and links: Transport through time
… Smart learning for All, (2014), ‘ Modes of Transport (Land, Water and Air) ’, (Video file), 27 December, [online], …
BiographyThomas Mtobi Mapikela
… Britain as a member of the deputation protesting the 1913 Land Act. Head of the Bloemfontein advisory board from its …
BiographyGeorge Christopher Cato
… sympathies. In 1845 he was given some unappropriated land by the British government in appreciation for his …
BiographyDr Mathume Joseph “Joe” Phaahla
… was appointed the Deputy Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform in South Africa.In October 2010 when he was … UDF (KZN), Former Deputy Minister of…
BiographyKing Sarhili kaHintsa
… in time, colonialists were doing all they could to capture land occupied by the Xhosa through agreements, assertion of … Hintsa portrayed a neutral stance,…
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
… the indigenous population was dispossessed of their land and died in very large numbers. The interpretation of … they would all soon die out. Apart from loss…
BiographyManilal Gandhi
… to improve their lives and secure their rights to land and full citizenship. In 1910 Manilal, then just … the South Africa and NIC to demostrate against the…
Re-membering Krotoa and Autshumato by Deela Khan (poem)
… wild. The irresistible allure of the ancestral spirit-land compelled him to snatch a boat, brave the froth and … as an air-slicing pestle, he was not re…
BiographyPeter McKenzie Brown
… 11 years. Afra continues to be very effective, focusing on land claims and farm evictions. Through his chairing of the … himself, actively championed the…
Appiah Saravanan (AS) Chetty
Appiah Saravanan (A.S.) Chetty was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 3 April 1929. He was the second of five children of Appiah and…
BiographyJuda Ngwenya
… Ngwenya covered conflict in Liberia and Nigeria, violent land seizures in Zimbabwe and natural disasters like the …
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… policy were made as early as 1913 (Ibid., 71). The Natives Land Act (1913) and the Native (Urban Areas) Act (1923) … of these “reserves,” Africans were no…
BiographyJames Mata Dwane
… the Gqunukhwebe subgroup of the Xhosa had been given some land as a reward for service to the colonial authorities .In …
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… imposed a labour tax of ten shillings a year on owning land for Africans, unless they could prove that they had been … near Johannesburg (Swanson, 1977: 388)…
ArticleWhen, why and where the first African farmers settled in Southern Africa
… were needed to look after herds of animals and to work the land. The areas they lived in could also support larger … farmers to plant more crops, but this…
ArchiveHealth and development in Tamboville, East Rand
BiographyNana Sita
… the Indians and restrict their right to ownership of land - culminating in the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act of 1946 (the … regime to…
BiographyChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli
… this period in South African history, the process of land dispossession was largely piecemeal, with Africans … by finding creative ways of securing access to…
BiographyJulius Sello Malema
… on the nationalisation of the mines and expropriation of land without compensation. The NDC turned down the … [vii] ; Calling White people “criminals” who…
BiographyJacqueline Daane-van Rensburg
… for breaking down the walls of racism, we ploughed the land with our bare hands and we planted the seeds of … you to continue and make democracy thrive. Don…
Chief Dingiswayo
… they separated as Godongwana wished to proceed to the land of the Mthethwa because he had learned of his father's … this time, Zwide and Sobhuza quarrelled…
ArchiveRocket HQ traced, Emielia Jaroschek, Rand Daily Mail, 15 March 1982
BiographyMoses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida
… children in a rural family that was later forced off the land.Mabhida could not pursue his studies because of the …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - The Early Years at the Rand
… of the different ways in which people lost the use of the land and entered wage labour. This happened over a number of … on the Rand in 1886 speeded up the…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… town. They could not own property here, only rent it, as land could only be white owned. Promotion of Bantu … and resentment. People lost their homes, were…
ArticleDutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… what they had seen at the Cape – plenty of water, fertile land and lots of wild animals. The VOC was the wealthiest and … As the settlement grew, the…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… could only participate in local actions. Vague promises of land repossession and liberation came and went. The ICU …
ArticleThe Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) 1995
… which include forced removals and the expropriation of land, the pass laws, racial classification and related …
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 1: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
… were also able to force the Khoi and San off their land. Because of this, many South African San people either … that the Khoi-Khoi livestock always had…