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ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… Town based Trotskyists who stressed the centrality of the land question and the demand for the vote in their programme. … agitation among the African people…
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 …
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…
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]…
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,…
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 …
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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;…
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…
ArticleNdebele
… homeland of Lebowa, which consisted of several segments of land scattered across the northern Transvaal. Others, mostly … assigned to KwaNdebele. KwaNdebele…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Helen Zille and the myth of the White Saviour by Panashe Chigumadzi, (Sunday Times), 19 March 2017
… system for their presence and their occupation of the land. The settlers, calling themselves the "Pioneer Column", … mind considerations of sufficient force…