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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…
ArchiveLong live Ruth First by Gavin Williams, 17 August 2019
… teacher,” whose “whole life was essentially a political act.” I remember Ruth as elegant, forceful, efficient and … really peasants, able to subsidize mine…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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, …
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…
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…
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,…
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…
A growing urban African population
… comprising Sophiatown, Martindale and Western Native Township (later Western Coloured Township). In 1928 …
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 …
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…
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,…
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 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…
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…
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…