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This extensive history through pictures gallery documents the role that women have played in the liberation and democratisation of our country from 1900…
ArticleSophiatown Timeline
… there. 1948 The Nationalist Party is elected to power. 1950 Hendrik Verwoerd is made Minister of Native Affairs. W.M. Eiselen is made Secretary of Native…
BiographyDulcie Evonne September
… of the Unity Movement of South Africa. During the 1950’s education had become one of the principal terrains of …
ArticleHow the Group Areas Act shaped spaces, memories and identities in Cape Town
… The cornerstone of the Group Areas Act of 1950 was to prevent interracial contact ‘as far as possible’ … as legislated by the Population Registration Act (30…
ArticleCongress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… 1955. This was a large, colourful and exciting event. In 1950, 26 June had been declared Freedom Day. In May 1950 the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA)…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1960 - 1969 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Number qualified 1978 Rand 3 695 27 08 1979 Rand 4500 11 06 1980 Rand 6500 19 06 1981 Rand 7 800 23 13 1982 Rand 14000 37 14 1983 Rand 16 … as defined by the…
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… the words of Hendrik Verwoerd, Minister of Native Affairs (1950-58) and Prime Minister of South Africa (1958-66), the … On four occasions between November…
ArticleBiography of Lindiwe Mabuza by Kayla Johansen
… [06 December 2016]. Upton, E. M. & Mabuza, L. 1995, ‘Born to … Studies, vol. 33 no. 2, pp. 431. Available from: JSTOR. [06 December 2016]. Franks, P. 2016,…
PlaceRondebosch Fountain, Main Road, Rondebosch.
… would be arranged with the City of Cape Town. 2015-08-25 06:02 TIYESE JERANJI …
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… them. It introduced the Suppression of Communism Act in 1950. However, in a determined reaction, the liberation … on which apartheid rested: Population…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… by the African National Congress Women's League (ANCWL) in 1950, and the women's march to the Union Buildings in August …
Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa
For more than 95% of the last 100 000 years, most people all over the world followed a hunting and gathering way of life. Until recently, people living by…
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… the city carrying one passenger was stoned. On 29 January 1950 yet another clash between police and residents broke … ANC and CPSA called for a stay at home…
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
… Contents 1910-1950 Apartheid ideology and implementation from 1950 Conclusion 1910-1950 By 1950, the population of New Brighton had grown from …
BiographyPoonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather (PR) was born in Mauritius in 1895. His grandfather settled in that country after emigrating from Tanjore in India in the 1840s. PR…
BiographyJomo Kenyatta
… once more, to Grace Wanjiku (who died in childbirth in 1950), and he took up the post of principal at the Kenya …
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather (PR) was born in Mauritius in 1895. His grandfather settled in that country after emigrating from Tanjore in India in the 1840s. PR…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… as result of a strong bond built up in exile post 1950. From the 1930s to the 1950s the CPSA engaged in mass … Bernstein and Brian Bunting. A banned…
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
An Invaluable Historical Source The literature on "life in Sophiatown" by a generation of prose writers, novelists, playwrights and poets is recognized as…
ArticleDrum Magazine
The establishment of Drum Magazine in the 1950s, notwithstanding the newly-elected Nationalist Party’s policy of Apartheid, reflected the dynamic changes that…
Declaration on Apartheid and its Destructive Consequences in Southern Africa
… freedom", Sunday Times . http://www.suntimes.co.za/2002/01/06/anc/anc10.asp . (Accessed 3 December 2004) …
PlaceOatlands, Simonstown
… 8,082.54 ZAR with exchange rate 18.6234 for today-2023/09/06) …
ArticleA history of Apartheid in South Africa
… pillars on which it rested: Population Registration Act, 1950 This Act demanded that people be registered according to … part of, and this caused some…
ArticleLand Restitution in South Africa since 1994
… Mar-05 79,696 n/a n/a 10,634 59,345 n/a n/a 20,351 Mar-06 79,696 n/a n/a 10,842 71,645 n/a n/a 8,051 Mar-07 79,696 …
ArticleDISA Archive
… the struggle for freedom during the period from 1950 to the first democratic elections in 1994, providing a …
PlaceClarens, Eastern Free State
Clarens, a small Town situated in the Eastern Free State which was established in 1912. The Village of Clarens, was a result of two Farms being sold: …
ArticleAllison Drew Collection
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew South Africa's Radical Tradition, a …
ArticleA history of Kwaito music
This genre of music started emerging in the 1990s. It is a mixture of a number of different rhythms from marabi of the 1920s, kwela of the 1950s, mbaqanga…
PlaceKenneth Stainbank Nature Reserve
The Kenneth Stainbank Nature Reserve lies just next to Yellowwood Park in Durban, an extension of The Durban Metropolitan Open Space System green lung in the…
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
Music Music was a central feature of the urban culture that developed in Johannesburg and in Sophiatown in particular. It was here that the most important…