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African Claims in South Africa by Dr Xuma, ANC Conference, 1943
Including "The Atlantic Charter from the Standpoint of Africans within the Union of South Africa" and "Bill of Rights," Adopted by the ANC Annual Conference…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
1903 William Edward Durghardt Du Bois publishes The Souls of Black Folk rejecting the notion that Black people need western values be to accepted as citizens…
ArticleConstructing heritage and heritage resources
Constructing Heritage and Heritage ResourcesHeritage – our past, and where we come from – means different things to different people. Some people relate to the…
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
Introduction The strike by some 76,000 black miners in 1946 was one of the most significant examples of industrial action by black workers in South Africa…
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…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… of the accession to power of the Nationalist government in 1948 right up to the dying days of the eighties, a period of …
ArchiveAfrican Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960, by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… ed., Laws Affecting Race Relations in South Africa, 1948-1976, p. 175. "Strong Protest against New Pass Law", …
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 3 - The Rise of the ANC
… repression of the 1946 mine strike, followÂed by the 1948 NP victory, angered and radicalised broader layers of … the United Party and other capitalist…
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…
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 …
Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
… Defiance Campaign mass meeting The post-1948 period saw the African National Congress (ANC) …
Address by President Jacob Zuma, at the James Sebe Moroka Lecture, Northwest Province, 22 August 2012
… in 1944, was promoting a change in strategy and tactics in 1948 after the coming into power of the National Party. The …
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 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. …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Timeline
… first constitution 8 Jan 1912 Formation of the ANC 1948 National Party comes to power 1955 26 June, Adoption of …
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…
Chapter 6 - No more suppers for my comrades
From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 The raid into Lesotho, not only killed 12…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Preface
… first used the term “united democratic front” in July 1948 in his call for a new stage of the struggle. He clearly … arrest" tactics of the authorities in…
The Godliness of Apartheid Planning by Elizabeth Corrado, (University of Illinois), 5 October 2013
… Bible” was accepted by the Transvaal Synod of the NGK in 1948. While this Synod represented only a segment of the … and political rights of all whites). The…