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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…
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… race’). APDUSA referred to a report on the conditions of native Angolans under Portuguese colonial rule, warning that … them. The first of these was the…
EventJosiah Gumede is succeeded by Pixley ka Isaka Seme as ANC president
… for a convention of Africans to form the South African Native National Congress (SANNC). This organisation was …
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
… Colonial settlement Land wars The 'Frontier Wars' in the Eastern Cape Europeans … at the expense of the Khoikhoi and San , but later Xhosa land was taken as…
Harry Snitcher 1, Unite Against Segregation! Condemn the C.A.C. [1943]
… are linked up with the colour bar clauses in the Factories Act that was passed two years ago, with the undemocratic and … FRANCHISE, JUST AS THE AFRICANS…
ArticleSouth African Constitutional Development Timeline 1902 - 1997
… first constitution. 1909 19 August, The South Africa Act, South Africa's first constitution is passed by the … of black majority rule with their rallying…
PlaceNamibia
… merchant from Bremen, Franz Luderitz, bought up coastal land in the area in 1882. This resulted in Germany actively … issuing directives to chiefs and…
Document 11 - Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of Africa, Annual Conference Agenda, St Phillips School, Chapel Street. District 6, Cape Town, 18 January 1923
… to the dependents of the Port Elizabeth Victims in Native Disturbance, October 23rd, 1920. 4. Wages Board as …
ArticleAccount of events: Rand Rebellion 1922
… of heroism that move the proletarian heart, for the anti-native outrages committed in their name a week before. Here … indictment against capitalism [was]…
PlaceKwaMashu
… the sugar cane farmer and magnate who owned the land on which KwaMashu stands and who was a member of the … of the newly defined KwaZulu government. The…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
… and the African continent. Colonial conquest and rapid land dispossession was accelerated during this period. … launched by African people in response to…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1930-1939
… Interior, Dr D.F. Malan, introduces the Transvaal Asiatic Land Tenure (Amendment) Bill . The Bill contains three main … the Minister of Land, Oswald Pirow,…
Statement by Albert Luthuli to the council of the Institute of Race Relations, 19 December 1960
… it. It should be an occasion for all of the people of the land to join in a unifying celebration that will inspire … and aspirations. Well might some cynic…
ArticleZulu
… was a Zulu story written in English titled "A Talk on my Native Land" . In 1903 he concentrated in editing the newspaper … responsibilities and raised crops,…
Document 37 - “Communist Election Policy Defined: National Conference Decision”, The Guardian, 8 January 1948
… immediate withdrawal of the prosecution." Representation Act of 1936 was condemned as a vicious measure of racial … recognise that the stand taken by the…
EventGeneral J.C. Smuts (80), former prime minister of SA, dies
… by joining World War II. During the war, inspired by the Native Representative Council, the African National Congress …
Article16 June 1976 - Soweto Uprising
… that resulted in the introduction of the Bantu Education Act in 1953. The rise of the Black Consciousness Movement … Education which was integrated into the…
The White man’s task by Jan Smuts, 22 May 1917
… 1917. In it he gives some of the guiding principles of our native policy. GENERAL SMUTS said: I am deeply grateful to … not in honour of me, but in honour of…
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… during apartheid was the Population Registration Act No. 30 of 1950 . This Act divided the South African … and office jobs, and they had access to own the…
Constitution of the South African Native National Congress, September, 1919 [Extracts]
… expedient and desirable that a well-digested and accepted native opinion should be ascertainable by the Government and … the gospel of the dignity of labour;…
ArticleNdebele
… homeland of Lebowa, which consisted of several segments of land scattered across the northern Transvaal. Others, mostly … assigned to KwaNdebele. KwaNdebele…
PlaceGugulethu Township
… along with Nyanga in the 1960's. The Group Areas Act (1950) reinforced the policy of land dispossession and segregation in South Africa. In … group of…
PlaceOlivedale , Randburg
… a source of Power. What could be more appropriate to a native of Holland, than a Dutch Windmill. The Italians … developers of Olivedale Retirement Village…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott
… Going back to 1927 the Pact Government passed the Native Administration Act and included a ‘Hostility Clause’ which restricted any … generation exist. The…
Chapter 17. Afrikaner Nationalism and the Workers - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… To the mass of Afrikaner people, who were still on the land, trade unions were strange, alien organisations, which … diatribes following the accepted Nazi…
ArchiveLong live Ruth First by Gavin Williams, 17 August 2019
… teacher,” whose “whole life was essentially a political act.” I remember Ruth as elegant, forceful, efficient and … really peasants, able to subsidize mine…
1. The Way to Fox Street
… areas as well. Because Afrikaner farmers owned so much land that they could not farm it on their own, it was common … the fledgling Union government in 1914…
Chapter 10
… the dummy institutions: the Bungas, Advisory Boards, the Native Representative Council;(c) the African National … In his argument he linked up the labour…
Document 22 - Report of the first National Conference of Women held in the Trades Hall, Johannesburg, South Africa, 17 April 1954
… African, Indian and Coloured people. The Pass Laws , the Native Urban Areas Amendment Act with its vicious Section 10, have been responsible for … THE…
PlaceClaremont, a Suburb of Cape Town
… Claremont. Prior to forced removals under the Group Areas Act , Lower Claremont was a multi-racial and religiously … and ultimately became a Suburb of…