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Say It out Loud - Protest against the Women’s Enfranchisement Act, and the Franchise Amendment Bill, 1931
… Adhikari Protest against the Women's Enfranchisement Act, and the Franchise Amendment Bill, 1931 1 The above two … such progress that the Cape Colonists were…
Chapter 2 - Jewish Trade Unions in Cape Town 1903-1907: A Socio-Historical Study
… participated in the select committee on the Factories Act and escorted its prominent members around Cape Town's … to his advantage as cheaper labourers). 41…
Say It out Loud - The 1923 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 3rd April, 1923
… as the Cape of Good Hope he was confronted with the Native question. That was the chief difficulty he had to … robbing them of their cattle and driving them…
A lighthouse for African womanhood': Inanda Seminary, 1869-19451 by Heather Hughes
… there after that. Right up until the 1953 Bantu Education Act, virtually churches operated the only secondary schools … as the century wore on. Within each…
Say It out Loud - The 1912 Presidential Address, Johannesburg, Transvaal, 1st January, 1912
… Europeans may formulate what they euphemistically call a "Native Policy", then it is time that they, the Coloured … have their basis of union in the…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… series of racist laws, notably the Population Registration Act, the Groups Areas Act, the Reservation of Separate … 1951 30 March, The Group Areas Act comes…
Memorial lecture on the 26th Anniversary of the Lowveld Massacre presented by Comrade Jackson Mthembu ANC National Spokesperson, 15 March 2012
… never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another … the African National Congress then South…
Document 2 - Against the C.A.D. for Full Democratic Rights [1943]
… are striving for the full rights of a citizen in the land of your birth; and we know that you will reject the … Commission. Similarly, the Africans have…
EventPolitical activist, Professor ZK Matthews is born
… Committee and at the same time he became a member of the Native Representative Council, a purely advisory body that … generally frustrating, although he…
Chapter Three - The Black Republic Question and the Third Period
… actively engaged tend to throw the more difficult task of native emancipation into the background. The white workers … This was' be accompanied by the slogan…
Chapter 2 - From Crisis to Stability to Crisis
… aid from provincial authorities. While the South African Native College (later Fort Hare) offered a higher teaching … powerfully influenced the contents of…
A Helots’ Bill of Rights
… descent, must associate himself with the demands of the SA Native National Congress, representing for this purpose, we … equal rights with the other races,…
Mission Stations - I-L
… in 1835, had this to say about the Station: "The native town which lies at the back of the Missionaries' is … station was laid out by Mr Moffat, who to his…
Formation and launch of the UDF
… were led into an ambush at the corner of NY1 and NY111 (Native Yard 1 and Native Yard 111) where they were shot and killed. During …
ArticleA History of the Springbok Legion
… programs on communism and socialism, trade unionism, ‘Native, Indian and Coloured Affairs.’ This was aimed at … the decline of the SL. When the Suppression…
PlaceMeadowlands or Ndofaya, in Soweto
… removed from Areas like: Sophiatown and the Western Native Townships. The forced removals began on February 10, … The Johannesburg City Council, provided…
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
… strikes and civil disobedience. 1950 The Group Areas Act, the Population Registration Act, the Immorality Act and the Suppression of Communism Act … Moroka…
Biography of Arthur Nortje by Kangkang Yang
… separated including The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act (1949), the Immorality Amendment Act (1950), Group Areas … who penetrated the indigenous women…
Chapter 9 - Conclusion
… on behalf of Dinizulu to curb the Transvaal Boers' land hunger; his involvement with the petition of two Sotho … to secure their ancestral lands; his views…
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… ANC was compromised by its continuing participation in the Native Representative Council and the township Advisory … Sobukwe completes his studies and obtain…
2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location
… racial hostility, an offence under the recently enacted Native Administration Act. 22 His defence lawyer, CPSA chairman Sidney Bunting, … for several weeks…
ArticleCensus in South Africa
… regard to the African population. Legislation such as the Native Areas Amendment Bill and the Group Areas Act skewed official statistics and grossly…
Article‘Liberated’ Slaves? by Joline Young
… of the slave trade was formalised through the Slave Trade Act on 1 January 1808, when Britain declared the slave trade … been influenced by the benevolent…
Document 48 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: The Native Question (Majority) (1934)
… Allison Drew Document 48 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: The Native Question (Majority) (1934) The basis of the economic … There are about 1 1/2 million Natives…
ArticleA Spiral of Trials by Norman Levy
… in October 1942, it seemed as if the government would act. It appointed the Smit Commission which recommended that … the Chamber to implement the…
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… wrote a history of the Afrikaners, Die Geskiednis van ons Land in die Taal van ons Volk (The History of our Land in the Language of our Nation), published in…
ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
… vehemently. Their fears were not unfounded. In 1952 the Native Laws Amendment Act tightened influx control, making it an offence for any … been as…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… During the 1920s, the South African Native National Congress (SANNC) - which changed its name to … could only participate in local actions. Vague promises of…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Factories, New Workers
… people. In 1925 the Pact government passed the Tariff Act, protected local industry by taxing many more imported … cheap because it was based on migrant…
EventFormer SANNC President Sefako Mapogo Makgatho dies
… and a journalist. Makgatho joined the South African Native National Congress (SANNC) later renamed the African …