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ArticleThe Mau Mau Uprising
… Maasai, the Kikuyu and the Kamba. The response from the native African populace was initially mixed between hostility … resistance to the intrusion of…
Women at the start of the 20th century
… movements, and in 1947 it demonstrated against the Native Affairs Commission, which wanted to remove squatters …
ArticlePeter Magubane Timeline 1932-
… Born in Vrededorp, South Africa. Matriculates from Western Native Township High School. 1954 Worked as a photojournalist …
The Founder: An Ambiguous Figure by Chris Saunders
… driving force behind the creation of the South African Native National Congress (which changed its name to ANC in …
Document 15 - E. R. Roux, Black and White Trade Unionism in South Africa, 28 July 1928
… South Africa, 28 July 1928 Until recent years there was no native trade unionism in South Africa. The first trade unions … number of Afrikaners. A few of the…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… were made to the 1979 Industrial Conciliation Amendment Act, but by 1983 the following major changes had been made: … South Africa is now willing to…
Article50 Facts on Africa
… and Petals of Blood, many of which were written in his native Gikuyu and then translated into English. His writings …
ArticleGrey Street Complex timeline 1800-1999
… 15 February, The estate of Aboobaker Amod Jhaveri buys land adjacent to the Juma Masjid to enable its expansion. … for occupation by the imam and his family…
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
… ambiguous role, bridging the legacy of Alfred Cronin and "native photographers" who subjugated Africans through … project in its voyeurism is highly…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter XII - End and Beginning
… purpose for which the people had been conquered and their land confiscated. We have said that the establishment of … and who, as High Commissioner, paved the…
Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… if it hoped to deliver the African majority into a free land. These young members felt that the ANC was far too … Tenure and Indian Representation Bill,…
EventFormation of the South African Native National Congress
… The South African Native National Congress (SANNC), later known as the Africa … in accordance with the newly passed Unlawful Organisations Act on 8 April…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… that is, to the worker's supposed income from his land. The evidence placed before the Commission of acute … The meeting was banned in terms of the Riotous…
EventArchibald Gumede, former President of the United Democratic Front, is born in Pietermaritzburg.
… 1914 in Pietermaritzburg. He studied at the South African Native College (now University of Fort Hare), but dropped out …
Mafika Gwala’s Books Catalogue
… government - 20th century - Apartheid ; Bantu Education Act, 1955 ; Immediacy of oppression ; Anti-Apartheid Movement … Commission ; Publications Control…
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
… be associated with someone who would be living in the land of his ancestors. Instead, Themba was constantly on the … to be deprived of their homes in the…
10th Annual Oral History Conference
… Northern Cape, under the theme “Centenary of the 1913 Land Act”. The theme speaks directly to the 1913 Natives …
ArticleAmericas by the 1500s
… John Cabot's explorations to America in 1497 or from what Native Americans called modern Nicaragua ie. Amerrique … it comes from an old Scandinavian saga and…
Message from President Jacob Zuma
… early as in 1892, in his public lecture entitled "Upon my Native Land", the founding President, John Langalibalele Dube, …
From Segregation to Apartheid
… harvesters and combines on farms, and the area of land under cultivation was expanding. With this process of … were not ignored. The 1964 Bantu Laws…
Document 40 - Anti-CAD, Why You Should Not Vote [1958]
… not been able to set up a Coloured Affairs Department to act as policeman over the Coloured people in the same way as the Native Affairs Department controls…
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… character of all this legislation, the Bantu Education Act was the measure that provoked the most prolonged … the new system, education would be transferred…
Say It out Loud - The 1929 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 1st April, 1929
… for it provided first for the disfranchisement of the Native in the Cape Province, and only then granted to the … would the A.P.O agree to any measure that…
ArticleThe Destruction of Sophiatown
… this. In 1950, the NP government passed the Group Areas Act, which designated specific areas for particular race … vision and strategy. In 1953 the NP…
PlaceAdams College, Amanzimtoti
… training school; he was later to be the first African to act as the head of the training college of African teachers … arrived in South Africa with the aim…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… For instance, the passing of the Suppression of Communism Act, Act, the Population Registration Act, the Groups Areas … that they would be incorporated later…
Some remarkable women who helped Gandhiji in South Africa by E. S. Reddy
… from these women to Gandhiji in the crucial period of 1913-14 - and they wrote many - is available in the Indian or … in the Transvaal against the Asiatic…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Introduction
… to relocate the family to Mphephetho in the Umbumbulu "native" reserve (situated mid-way between Pietermaritzburg … areas that comprised roughly 7 percent of…
Document 48 - “The Anti-C.A.D. and the Trade Unions”, The Torch, 1 April 1958
… Trade Union Movement in South Africa, as evidenced by the Native Labour Settlement of Disputes Act of 1953, which destroys the right to strike, places the…
PlaceSharpeville, Gauteng
… citizens, injuring 180 and killing 69 of them. This absurd act was known as the Sharpeville Massacre , many protests … was going to be Sharpeville, but…