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Document 119 - Non-European United Front of South Africa, Minutes of Conference held in City Hall, Cape Town, 8 to 10 April 1939
… by the landlords, because there was no justice in our law courts. Laws were administered properly where possible. Free … Coloured children were often brought…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 69th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1981
… - nearly 2,000 daily. Thousands are pushed through the law courts as political offenders, among them hundreds of Black … fronts. Hundreds have been tortured,…
Intensify the Revolution by O. R. Tambo The 'Morogoro Conference', Morogoro, Tanzania, 25 April – 1 May 1969
… such as Parliament or Provincial Councils, and in the courts, schools and the administration. The culture of the … There shall be equal status in the bodies…
Apartheid power in crisis
… the majority of arrests have led to a clogging up of courts as people are charged with various offences. In some instances special courts have sat until…
Address by I. B. Tabata, AAC Conference, December 16,1941
… are receiving more sympathetic consideration in the law courts or at the hands of the police? Can they point to …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Joint Sitting of Parliament to Report on the Processing of Some Presidential Pardons: Cape Town, 21 November 2007.
… in respect of individuals who have been sentenced by our courts for serious offences, both before and after the 10 May …
SAHO Milestones
… at the Nelson Mandela Foundation, depicting Apartheid-era courts as sites of struggle. The exhibition was on display at …
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Segregation Fallacy
… for his people certain districts and in circuit courts. (4) The proximity to the European of the Bantu with …
45. Mass meeting at the Empire Theatre, Johannesburg, 1906
… run away in fear. If the bill is passed, we will storm the courts and say, 'Arrest us.’ [Applause] Mr. Getta of …
ArchiveJordan Ngubane – forgotten founding member of the Congress Youth League by Sbonelo Radebe (Mail and Guardian), 10 January 2023
When the story of the founding of the Congress Youth League (CYL) — the forerunner of the ANC Youth League — is told, usually it is only Anton Lembede, AP Mda…
ArchiveBiography of Dorothy Nyembe by Thomas Boatman
An Unmistakable Figure In late December 1931, Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe was born and she would become one of the premier freedom fighters in the…
PlaceA History of Ottosdal and Letsopa
Precolonial and Early History Almost four hundred years ago, Khoe-San people moved into the interior of South Africa from the Cape (what is today the…
Archive2007 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2007
… to put more effort into improving the functioning of our courts, to increase the rate of reduction in case backlogs. … the justice system and generally…
ArticleThe Impact of Colonialism
… these areas be judged according to Western laws in Western courts. Reasons for colonisation A quick way to remember the …
The Role of Women in the Struggle against Apartheid, 15 July 1980
… Natal protested and more than 1,000 were convicted in the courts. The anti-pass campaign The courage and determination …
Statement at the International Conference on the EEC and South Africa by O. R. Tambo, Dublin, 27 January 1979
… the period under review hundreds have appeared in the courts of the law and long terms of imprisonment have been …
Interview with Archibald Gumede 29 July 1990
… they can do that. The problem is when they get to the courts, the court of law, you see you've got to justify what …
Archive2019 - Cyril Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 7 February 2019
… to ensure the better functioning of Sexual Offences Courts. We will improve the quality of services in shelters …
ArticleUniversity of Pretoria 2015-2016 Student Protests Timeline
… at the Pretoria Magistrate's Court today. We call for our courts to apply the rule of law without prejudice or favour … ↵ [106] http://www.iol.co.za/news…
ArchiveThe Emperor has no Clothes by Liz Timbs
On December 3, 2018, Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu celebrates 47 years since his coronation as Isilo (King) of the Zulus of South Africa. Zwelithini …
Americans for South African Resistance, 25 June 1982
… in Johannesburg against the arrest of ANC leaders. The courts were jammed with 2,000 people inside the building and …
ArchiveChapter 12 Hangings by Denis Goldberg
… paid the costs of the legal action we had brought in two courts. He simply told me that the legal fees and expenses …
Testimony of Bruno Mtolo, Johannesburg (Rivonia Trial), 15 January, 1964
… have appeared in? Mtolo: I have given evidence in other courts.... Berrange: I return now to the question I was …
Say It out Loud - The 1919 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 22nd April, 1919
… Court of Justice, if not elsewhere; and yet Judges in our courts are powerless at times to enforce their desire to see …
American Supporters of the Defiance Campaign by George M. Houser
… in Johannesburg against the arrest of ANC leaders. The courts were jammed with 2,000 people inside the building and …
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1982
… enemy guns cannot shoot out of existence, and which his courts cannot imprison. By "lifting" the ban in this manner …
Document 4 - B.M. Kies “The Background of Segregation”, Address delivered to the National Anti-CAD Conference, 29 May 1943
… better policemen to the people than the police and law courts themselves. The main bee in their bonnet was that the …
Chapter 28. I Fight Back - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… gatherings were of a "social nature", but what if the courts held that they were not? Swart's Gestapo is in the …
XII - Unanswered Questions
… have the last word. But in the final analysis, what of the courts? Do they still present a brake on police power? …
Document 37 - The Bill of Rights
… promote an efficient administration. 34. Access to courts Everyone has the right to have any dispute that can be …