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Helen Zille and the myth of the White Saviour by Panashe Chigumadzi, (Sunday Times), 19 March 2017
… system for their presence and their occupation of the land. The settlers, calling themselves the "Pioneer Column", … mind considerations of sufficient force…
ArticleThe Berlin Conference
… powers were slow to realise the benefits of claiming land in Africa and had mainly kept to coastal colonies. … Africa. The outcome of the conference was the…
ArticleGarveyism: Early 1900s philosophy
… the black South African experience. Thus the return of land to its ancestral owners became one of the central themes … struggling to eke out an existence on…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… the depression and to settle finally the question of the "Native Bills", which had remained unsolved because the … and General Smuts, his government and…
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
… education. In 1953 government passed the Bantu Education Act that transferred Black education to the Department of Native Affairs and fixed the government…
PlaceSteadville, Ladysmith
… the Bantu Affairs Department as the Principal Clerk to the Native Commissioner. He retired in 1931 after 32 years of … boards were officially set up under…
Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati
… Tigerkloof Institution of Education where she received her Native Lower Primary Certificate. In 1944 she started her …
EventThe SS Mendi began its journey from Cape Town to Plymouth
… were to be 10 000 people to serve in the South African Native Labour Contingent sent to France. The troops were … Yardley. The crew was numbered at 89. The…
ArchiveThe Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)
… to show why those who formed the Workers Party placed the land question at the top of their demands. Perhaps it came … [10] Burlak, who drafted the document …
Biography of Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana by Nick Mencia
… common experience is alto saxophonist and Port Elizabeth native, Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana. Throughout Pukwana’s career … and political agenda through their…
GANDHI THE PRISONER
… satyagraha which began in 1907 and reached its climax in 1913 with the epic march of 5,000 workers indentured on the … we had to contend with in our time…
Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 - Introduction
… the cigarette-makers' strikes were not as important as the 1913 tramways strike. It is not coincidental, however, that … and slaves. This extraordinary story…
3. The Communist Party of South Africa and the Communist International
… The CPSA had a difficult balancing act in broadening its appeal to Africans while remaining … was at the heart of the reasoning for the Independent Native…
PlaceFort Cox
… who then had total administrative powers over the land and its people, thus replacing the chiefs. The chiefs … with a view to establish what was then termed…
EventJean van der Poel dies in Cape Town.
… York Oxford University Press, 1951). Jean van der Poel, 'Native Education in South Africa', Journal of the Royal … 1935), pp. 313-331. Jean van der Poel, …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… Committee’ of lobbyists to be in contact with the Native Representative Council (NRC) at the AAC conference in … that rejected participation in advisory…
ArticleThe Sedition Trial 1946 - 1948
… along with Dr Naicker , vigorously opposed the Ghetto Act which banned land transfers between Indians and non-Indians. By the time … It remained in force…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 1 - The Uneven Development of Colonialism in South Africa by Jeff Peires
… were released from their contracts and were allocated land along the Liesbeeck River. They were known as the Free … as their mother country and the Dutch…
Address at the SANEF Conference on the Media, the AU, NEPAD and Democracy ,12 April 2003
… like to draw your attention especially to the Constitutive Act of the African Union. I am certain that you are familiar … which conveyed what, at the time,…
A growing urban African population
… comprising Sophiatown, Martindale and Western Native Township (later Western Coloured Township). In 1928 …
EventCommission on Native Education is appointed
… were to inquire into and to report on all aspects of native education. The recommendations of this commission formed the basis for the Bantu Education Act No…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1654-1899
… Indian labourers are also entitled to a gift of crown land and full citizenship rights. This proviso was later withdrawn with the proclamation of Act No. 25…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Tributes to Lembede After His Death
… boycott of all elections under the Natives' Representation Act of 1936. Those of us who shared his views give him the … who cannot think deeply, to be beyond…
Document 123 - Statement of Dr Y. M. Dadoo, Secretary, Non-European United Front (Transvaal), before the Court, 6 September 1940
… An African has to carry a number of passes, including (a) Native Service Contract Pass, (b) Permit to travel from one … many areas, and are, in effect,…
Document 65 - Z. Sanders (Zena Susser), “Aspects of the Rural Problem in South Africa”, lecture delivered to the Johannesburg Discussion Club on 1 December 1952, Viewpoints and Perspectives, 1, 1, 21 February 1953 [....]
… the depressed condition are lack of mobility and lack of land. This situation arises out of the present economic … has substance. Land reform could only be…
Document 52 - LA. Jordaan, “A Critique of Mr. W. P. van Schoor’s.The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa” Discussion, 1, 3, June 1951
… [....] One must certainly defend the tribes against the land robbery of the Dutch and the British, but to eulogise … the interests of the capitalist economy…
PlaceWindermere
… in Cape Town near the Ysterplaat airbase. The Group Areas Act of 1950 declared that the space be occupied by Coloured … migrants who were less entitled to…
Document 39 - “Walter Sisulu, “Boycott as a Political Weapon”, Liberation, 23, February 1957
… use as a recognised method of struggle against the Irish Land Act of 1880 There are outstanding examples from all over the … boycotts: the Alexandra bus…
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
… 1960 – The government passes the Unlawful Organisations Act which will allow the minister to ban any organisation … of the Extension of University Education…
EventThe first mountain zebra foal is born in at the National Mountain Zebra Park
… The Mountain Zebra is an endangered species native to South Western Angola, Namibia, and South Africa. … is being introduced to many of its former ranges…