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… war. He returned after the KwaZulu government had passed legislation that ensured the clear continuation of ethnic …

… in exploiting a window of opportunity allowed by existing legislation and acquire large tracts of land. Part of the … given chiefs immense political influence. The 1940s and 1950s were therefore marked by increased frustration on the … out of the urban areas. This it achieved by tightening legislation related to the control of rural communities. In …

… 1978. 1979 The Wiehahn Commission of Enquiry into labour legislation recommended the legalisation of African trade … Amendments. The Act served to consolidate all security legislation. Other security legislation passed were the Protection of Information Act, …

… 1920s and 1930s continued after World War II and into the 1950s and 1960s. What was seen as backward and uneconomic … no longer needed by the agricultural sector, and the 1964 legislation resulted in the growing removal of these tenants …

… officers had to take care of other essential services. Legislation to cover this was soon passed and recruiting …

… Party (NP) government's model for its urban apartheid legislation and policies. However, there are still glaring …

… then in 1956 or today. Issues that concerned women in the 1950s can be described as 'bread and butter' matters, such as … who did not belong to any political organisations in the 1950s started these structures. There was one organisation … within a year the town women's demands and the offending legislation was repealed. According to Wells, ‘Pretoria …

… Western Cape where he got a B.A. Because of the apartheid legislation, Nortje was educated at a Coloured college. … time, South Africa was in a State of Emergency and new legislation followed the Rivonia arrest of the MK executive. …

… rural society on the Highveld in ways envisaged in the legislation. The Act was transgressed not only by independent … research seem to have followed this trajectory. By the mid-1950s, even the most enterprising and driven sharecropper was …

… could lower the wages of all skilled miners. Anti- Indian Legislation Legislation was enacted in order to limit Indian … went off the gold standard. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Hillbrow went high-rise. In the 1950s and early 1960s, the apartheid government constructed …

… rhetoric, and decides not to proceed with anti-Indian legislation during the Second World War. October 8, At a … Modern Youth Society, flourishes during in the 1940s and 1950s." 1940 Electoral Laws Amendment Act of 1940 is passed …

… Although he was not personally disadvantaged by apartheid legislation due to his status as a white man, Heinz Klug used … in Durban called for and supported this discriminatory legislation since it aided whites in maintaining priority … some people and not others.” [viii] South Africans in the 1950s grew up in a time in which segregation was a part of …

… and the Internal Security Act were some of the pieces of legislation used by the Apartheid government to undermine the … to life in prison. After this trial other pieces of legislation were passed that would further restrict political … and others opposed to Apartheid. Some of the key pieces of legislation include Section 6 of Terrorism Act, passed in …

… 11) “Bantu Education or the Street” The first half of the 1950s was the formative period of apartheid and the … from the Western Areas of Johannesburg and new labour legislation – in which Africans were seen as “unfit for trade … to the new system. This last, in the legal-speak of the 1950s, was tactfully described by Professor Z.K. Matthews as …

… the government issuing an ultimatum that unless repressive legislation is repealed mass action will commence in …

… that a rebellion took place, which was quelled in the 1950s. Later on, families would continue to practice … their land or are preparing to do so, under restitution legislation. The few Pedi who still live as labour tenants on … have been promised some security of tenure by land reform legislation. Kinship Kgoro, or subdivisions of villages and …

… were eventually transferred to Boitokong. When homeland legislation came into force, Black people in Rustenburg lost … Marble Arch cinema in London, and annual exports in the 1950s reached 250 000 tons. The abundance of the stone …

… changing the constitution. Unsurprisingly they abandoned legislation that protected ‘Black Africans’ and passed …

… were brought under the 19th century Masters and Servants legislation, taxation policies for African tenants on … national struggles such as the anti-pass campaign of the 1950s, the struggles around the rejection of the homeland … struggles continued to feed into national campaigns of the 1950s and 60s, they did not lead to broad-based organisation …

… aside of those groups under the Gold Law or old Transvaal legislation. Section 9.2h empowered the Board to deal with … least 26 other cases relating to the interpretation of the legislation dealing with group areas came before the courts … be deprived of their livelihood because of the group area legislation. The Minister suggested that Indians set up …

… segregated public transport. These actions led to federal legislation eliminating discrimination in public … posts and the last remaining vestiges of discriminatory legislation was eliminated. In 1964, King Jnr. received the … had steadily applied increasingly discriminatory legislation in order to enforce the segregation of races and …

… the segregation of the country. He proposed to do this by legislation removing the limited franchise enjoyed by the … from the movement. The Rural Revolts: 1958-60 In the late 1950s there were several rural revolts in South Africa, … in West Africa. Tabata was scathing in the early 1950s in his (private) comments on Nkrumah and other African …

… maximum co-operation and unity in opposing apartheid legislation. October, The executive of the Transvaal Metal … to dissolve the Wage Board and forthwith replace it with legislation providing for a national minimum wage and the …

… after it had outlawed the ANC and introduced punishing legislation to curb likely covert activities. It would rather … First had stimulated his interest in Marxism. By the early 1950s, certainly during the Treason Trial, his youthful … government, which acted quickly in enacting more punitive legislation than it ever had before, the whites remained …

… it.” Thus, the Glen Grey Act came in the heels of previous legislation that had begun to use land as a tool to limit … to property qualifications. Consequently, any proposed legislation that sought to limit ownership to property … the country. It also laid down the foundation for other legislation which further entrenched dispossession of African …

… The period is marked by the introduction in the early 1950s of a series of landmark pieces of legislation, culminating, in 1953, with the Bantu Education …

… Movement was the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, which struggled for equal rights for … Rights Act 1964 Kennedy took a long time to put forward legislation to give African Americans their rights. The Civil … impact on us. I had actually gone to jail in the early 1950s as part of a civil rights campaign against segregation …

… responses to developments in the 1930s through to the 1950s that either strengthened their claim as ‘the … The effects of this were only felt fully during the 1950s, once the African National Congress (ANC) and … Act was the first of over one hundred pieces of similar legislation designed to give local authorities the means of …

… to require permits or passes for African women until the 1950s. Although laws requiring such documents were enacted in … Protests started as early as 1950 when rumours of the new legislation were leaked in the press. Meetings and …   [Accessed 24 October 2014]|SAHO. “The Turbulent 1950s ”“ Women as Defiant Activist” Available at …

… addressed to the Government to repeal all discriminating Legislation before or/on 29 February 1952. If this did not take place a mass contravention of such Legislation would be launched in all sections of the country. …