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ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… the Crown would for the first time in the history of the legislation of that Parliament by virtue of the phrase 'of … and efficient means whereby fair an…
ArticleThe South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO)
… so vigorously and effectively that by the middle of the 1960s, nearly every aspect of South African life was … Perhaps the most prominent piece of…
ArticleForced removals on Highveld and "black spots", 1912-1991
… In the early 1960s the Apartheid government moved swiftly to dislodge … rural society on the Highveld in ways envisaged in the legislation. The Act was…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… could lower the wages of all skilled miners. Anti- Indian Legislation Legislation was enacted in order to limit Indian … 1950s, Hillbrow went high-rise. In…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… that face them in the light of new pieces of apartheid legislation being introduced by the Malan Government. 11 … Riotous Assemblies Act No 17 is passed. In…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… of expected strikes at the end of May. Defence legislation is amended to enable use of the armed forces for … of the Women's Section of the ANC in Tanzania…
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
… of Indians in Transvaal towns, but despite restrictive legislation enacted in 1885, Indians continue to settle in … settled by people who were later…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… within a year the town women's demands and the offending legislation was repealed. According to Wells, ‘Pretoria … Stanford University, 1977. Women's…
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… vigorous police action and strict enforcement of security legislation resulted in hundreds of detentions (frequently … with the government's introduction of…
ArticleOrganisation of African Unity (OAU)
… former envisioned grandeur. The turbulence of the early 1960s pressed the notion of African countries presenting a … the Refugee Convention never filtered…
Biography of Arthur Nortje by Kangkang Yang
… 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…
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
… in the English language, reviewed the rash of recent legislation curtailing civil liberties and noted that these … “agitators” without trial. He also helped…
Indian Community in Lenasia
… and electricity. A Post Office was erected in the early 1960s, and a telephone exchange followed soon after. The … railway station, as well as a coal…
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… addressed to the Government to repeal all discriminating Legislation before or/on 29 February 1952, and if this does not take place a mass contravention of…
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… when they become independent during the period from the 1960s to the early 1990s. The Coming of Apartheid Key to … in the early 1950s of a series of landmark…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… evident in the 1950s as the government passing a series of legislation that divided people based on race. For instance, … an increasing tide of Independent…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… addressed to the Government to repeal all discriminating Legislation before or on 29 February 1952, and if this does not take place a mass contravention of…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… Inactive, if not dead in South Africa during the 1960s and beyond, both sections seem to have been revived in … the segregation of the country. He proposed…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… and the provision of food and clothes for slaves. The legislation outlaws public flogging, particularly of female … at Cape with John Fairburn as editor and…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… on the Paarl Revolt to parliament. He recommended passing legislation which would be applied retroactively to deal with … sentences in the state’s crackdown…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu Timeline 1918 - 2011
… 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…
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
… During the early 1960s, civil society was disempowered and social movements … African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) in the early 1960s the African…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… were eventually transferred to Boitokong. When homeland legislation came into force, Black people in Rustenburg lost … began to grow, and new townships were…
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… Smuts’ South African Party (SAP). One of the key pieces of legislation that the Pact Government agreed on was the need … to visit the husband. This was the…
ArticleGandhi and the Passive Resistance Campaign 1907-1914
… and the United States (the civil rights campaign of the 1960s). Gandhi himself was transformed by the struggles he … arrived on 10 July 1909, determined to…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… to the metropolitan population of the city right up to the 1960s, when the rapid growth of Soweto under apartheid … that time, the grassing over of the mine…
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… the apartheid policies that Malan had initiated through legislation. Malan passed the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages … membership following criticism from…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… as did the government’s effort to expand them. [35] The 1960s were characterised by the violent state repression of … for Apartheid interests. The high…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… should be taught in Afrikaans. Image source In the 1960s the pursuit of white domination led to a new policy of … particular outrage occurred in the second…