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EventAnglo-Boer War 2 - Kitchener proposes establishment of concentration camps
… Nationalist Party (NP) seizing power in the elections of 1948. …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Timeline
… first constitution 8 Jan 1912 Formation of the ANC 1948 National Party comes to power 1955 26 June, Adoption of …
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…
Address at the Africa Regional Disability Consultative Conference Johannesburg, 6th May 2003
… of Human Rights as adopted by the United Nations in 1948. As we know, the United Nations has, since 1948 adopted many declarations and resolutions dealing…
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…
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…
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'…
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 …
EventThe full citizenship of Coloured people is called for
… of White representatives. The National Party victory in 1948 saw Coloureds completely disenfranchised, with their …
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…
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…
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…
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… umbrella organization name, the SAIC. In September 1948, Dr. Naicker was elected as President of the SAIC and in …
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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... …