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ArchiveBiography of Florence Matomela by Maximiliano Rubio
Her collegue in the anti-apartheid struggle, Hilda Bernstein, describes Florence Matomela as ‘a woman who gave out warmth and life like the African sun, full…
ArticleA timeline of Zuma-Gupta issues from Nenegate to the firing of Pravin Gordhan
1993 The Guptas arrive in SA. 1994 The Guptas establish Sahara Computers. The Guptas fund Essop Pahad’s publication, The Thinker. 2002 Jacob…
ArticleSouth African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO)
… The National Party (NP) , after its ascendance to power in 1948, radicalised it, however. These legislations took away … against Apartheid was launched in…
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Legislatures and Governance, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
Electoral System Noting 1. The commissions discussed the different options outlined in the discussion document on Legislatures and Governance for a National…
42. Petition from Indians at the time of Union
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai This document, dated 10 July 1909, was submitted…
UCT Summer School 2020
Please note the following history related courses will be offered at the 2020 UCT Summer School. Local and South African History MASSACRE ON THE…
ArchiveBarberton Prison by Sloane Fuller
While the South African press readily covered stories of those having committed acts of treason or communism during the apartheid era, little attention was…
EventThe full citizenship of Coloured people is called for
… of White representatives. The National Party victory in 1948 saw Coloureds completely disenfranchised, with their …
EventThe National Party (Transvaal) is founded
… This finally emerged as the National Party that won the 1948 elections, became the ruling party of South Africa for …
EventFreedom Day is celebrated in South Africa
… Apartheid 'officially' began in South Africa in 1948, but colonialism and oppression of the African majority …
31. Cape traders protest against the Hawkers’ Licences Act
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Act 35 of 1906, which dealt with hawkers'…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 European Societies
Important events and systems in European Societies during the 1600’s Robb Schultz, “Europe leading into the 17th century (1600’s)”Image Source The…
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… umbrella organization name, the SAIC. In September 1948, Dr. Naicker was elected as President of the SAIC and in …
GEAR and Neo-Liberalism (Part 2) by Thabo Mbeki, 28 March, 2016
V During the whole period when GEAR has been challenged “from the left”, the assertion was made that GEAR sought to replace the RDP. I am certain that there…
EventSuppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950 approved in Parliament
… up in 1951, 1954, and yearly from 1962 to 1968. Between 1948 and 1991, the apartheid government banned more than …
PlaceOld Magistrate’s Offices and Residence, Main Street, Simonstown
… yellowwood tree planted by the Resident Magistrate in 1948. One of the most popular exhibits at the museum with a …
EventBritain and Egypt sign the Suez Canal agreement.
… World War. At the outbreak of the Arab-Israeli War in 1948, Britain attempted to remove its presence from the …
EventNatal Indian Organisation delegation meets Premier Smuts
… by Naicker before a NIC conference in June 1947. In a 1948 speech before the Transvaal Passive Resistance Council …
The Reunited National Party is founded by Malan and Hertzog
… and Malan deputising him. This party went on to win the 1948 South African elections and would eventually be known as …
EventNumber of banned persons in South Africa totals 936
… the system of apartheid was implemented in South Africa in 1948, certain laws had to be put in place to maintain white …
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
The 1967 Terrorism Act was one the most important pieces of legislation passed by the South African apartheid regime. Though the Act’s stated purpose was to…
Lecture by the President of the ANC, President Jacob Zuma, on the occasion of celebrating the life and times of the tenth President of the ANC President Nelson Mandela, 10 July 2012, Limpopo
… gentlemanly in their approach to the struggle. After the 1948 election victory of the Afrikaner-dominated National …
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… collection of stories, Mafeking Road , was published. 1948 Cry, The Beloved Country (1948) is possibly the most famous novel to have come out of … of black…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… and discrimination. He spent six years at Wits, from 1943 -1948, but, owing to the dire circumstances under which he … on to the Transvaal Provincial…
ArticleLand, Labour and Apartheid
… would later be replaced with the policy of apartheid in 1948. The 1913 Land Act set aside 7.5% of the land in South …
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… as well as during the Apartheid period which begun in 1948. Race is defined as a social concept referring to a …
ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
… that he was not, in fact, a card-carrying member. 1948 The Path of Thunder is published in both England and the …
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… signed in Washington D.C. on 1 January 1942. In 1948 the National Party (NP) came to power, introduced the …
ArticleCape Schools Join the Revolt
The school students in Cape Town reacted to the news they heard of events in Soweto. A teacher at one of the Coloured schools was later to write: 'We haven't…
EventDr Albert Hertzog confirms that television would not be introduced in South Africa
… was the governing party of South Africa from June 4th 1948 until May 9th 1994, and was disbanded in 2005... …