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‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… is no mistaking the sign of the wave of Imperial unity’. [76] Whites had to be made to see the error of their ways: ‘If … of Natal Press, 1997), Chapter One …
EventThe National Party (Transvaal) is founded
… This finally emerged as the National Party that won the 1948 elections, became the ruling party of South Africa for …
EventFreedom Day is celebrated in South Africa
… Apartheid 'officially' began in South Africa in 1948, but colonialism and oppression of the African majority …
EventThe full citizenship of Coloured people is called for
… of White representatives. The National Party victory in 1948 saw Coloureds completely disenfranchised, with their …
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…
ArchiveTribute to Ottilie Schimming Abrahams (2 Sept 1937-1 July 2018) – some notes and memories by Heike Becker
… Struggle (Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2014), 76. ↵ [3] Marion Wallace (with John Kinnahan), A History of …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Bibliography
… Booker T. Washing- ton."journaloafrican« Studies "L (1975-76): 497-52.8. Dubow, Saul. Racial Segregation and the …
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… umbrella organization name, the SAIC. In September 1948, Dr. Naicker was elected as President of the SAIC and in …
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… of groups were brought together than ever before. Soweto ‘76 was a children’s revolution, but this time the UDF [United … of the old Defiance Campaign, of…
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… gone on to be a radio operator in the Israeli air force in 1948, came home eventually and opened his own place selling … My father hoped that I would join…
PlaceOld Magistrate’s Offices and Residence, Main Street, Simonstown
… yellowwood tree planted by the Resident Magistrate in 1948. One of the most popular exhibits at the museum with a …
EventBritain and Egypt sign the Suez Canal agreement.
… World War. At the outbreak of the Arab-Israeli War in 1948, Britain attempted to remove its presence from the …
EventNatal Indian Organisation delegation meets Premier Smuts
… by Naicker before a NIC conference in June 1947. In a 1948 speech before the Transvaal Passive Resistance Council …
The Reunited National Party is founded by Malan and Hertzog
… and Malan deputising him. This party went on to win the 1948 South African elections and would eventually be known as …
EventNumber of banned persons in South Africa totals 936
… the system of apartheid was implemented in South Africa in 1948, certain laws had to be put in place to maintain white …
EventSuppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950 approved in Parliament
… up in 1951, 1954, and yearly from 1962 to 1968. Between 1948 and 1991, the apartheid government banned more than …
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… collection of stories, Mafeking Road , was published. 1948 Cry, The Beloved Country (1948) is possibly the most famous novel to have come out of … of black…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… an increasingly racist government. In elections held in 1948, the National Party seized power and set in motion plans … began the passive resistance campaign…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… and discrimination. He spent six years at Wits, from 1943 -1948, but, owing to the dire circumstances under which he … on to the Transvaal Provincial…
ArticleLand, Labour and Apartheid
… would later be replaced with the policy of apartheid in 1948. The 1913 Land Act set aside 7.5% of the land in South …
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… as well as during the Apartheid period which begun in 1948. Race is defined as a social concept referring to a …
ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
… that he was not, in fact, a card-carrying member. 1948 The Path of Thunder is published in both England and the …
EventDr Albert Hertzog confirms that television would not be introduced in South Africa
… was the governing party of South Africa from June 4th 1948 until May 9th 1994, and was disbanded in 2005... …
EventCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart, first state president of South Africa, is born
… and became Minister of Justice when the NP won the 1948 election. In this capacity, Swart played a great role in …
PlaceSani Pass, KwaZulu Natal
… scenery, changing weather conditions. On 26th October, 1948, Godfrey Edmonds (an ex Royal Air Force , Spitfire …
Country Divided in Black and White by Holland Cotter, 1 July 2010
… South African facts. A resonant survey of his work from 1948 to 2009 at the Jewish Museum, records the everyday … “South African Photographs: David Goldblatt…
Chapter 20. Malan’s Road to a New South Africa - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… or workers' organisations. Mr. B. J. Schoeman, who in 1948 when the Nationalist Government came to power, was … the poorer for it". (Hansard, Vol. II, Col…
Address of the President of the Republic Of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Youth Day celebrations: Absa Stadium, Buffalo City Municipality
… to the character of the South Africa that the June '76 generation sought to create. Our youth today, during this … of their actions on the rest of humanity…
PlaceLutheran Church, Martin Melck House and Sexton House, Strand Street, Cape Town.
… and the rest of the complex was proclaimed on 29 April 1948. …
PlaceHuguenot Monument, Franschoek
… completed in 1945 at a cost of £22 000. On the 17 April 1948 marked the beginning or first Public viewing and an …