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BiographyAmbrose Makiwane
… Joe Slovo . That same year the ANC was offered a piece of land at Kongwa, 400 kilometres south of the Der es Salaam, …
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
… liberation struggle against the encroachment of African land and African sovereignty. History has promoted two images … of their day to day activities and…
BiographyEpainette Nomaka Mbeki
… social upliftment to the community. An ardent supporter of land tenure reform in the Transkei, Ma Mbeki has chosen, to …
References and links: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
BiographyRobert Gabriel Mugabe
… the same year, he appealed to Britain to donate money for land distribution but money was promised on the condition … amendment that required Britain to pay…
ArticleWomen’s Rights and Representation
It was not until the introduction of the Bill of Rights that all women in this country received formal recognition as equal citizens. South African women …
ArticleANC Origins and Background
The African National Congress (ANC) was formed in 1912 as a result of many grievances. This included black dissatisfaction with the South Africa Act of 1910…
ArticleSilverton and Soekmekaar trial
On 14 April 1980 the nine accused appeared in the Pretoria Magistrate's Court in one of the most highly publicised South African guerrilla trials, the…
ArticleCouncil policies and practice
The council was divided, with verligtes and verkramptes pulling in different directions. It was subsequently also schizophrenic in its approach to reforms,…
ArticleArts and Cultural Organisations
South Africa History Online has embarked, with the support of the NIHSS, on researching the role of the arts under apartheid. We hope that our work will…
BiographySaul Msane
… ask the government to revoke the draft bill of the Natives Land Bill. J.W. Sauer*, the Minister of Native Affairs, gave …
BiographySolomon Kalushi Mahlangu
… National Congress (ANC) in 1979. The 5000 hectare piece of land was located in the city of Morogoro, Tanzania. The area … ANC veterans of the highest calibre…
Provincial government and symbols
Go to the places section of the SAHO site, and read about the South Africa’s nine provinces. Also visit SAHO feature on national symbols. …
BiographyIsmail Chota Meer
… of 1946 by Indian South Africans against the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act that laid the seed …
BiographyMarion Monica Sparg
Marion Monica Sparg was born in East London and was one of six children. She grew-up in a white middle-class English-speaking South African family in the…
BiographyPeter Henry Abrahams
… we had proof that the rest of the white Christians of our land were not like the fathers and the sisters. The equation … women who seemed untouched by the…
BiographyChief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi
… of legislation to be passed by the Assembly, placing the land of the Zulu Kingdom under the custodianship of the King. … before the elections, placing what…
ArchiveSA Air Force operation, Pretoria bombing a 'crucial warning', Rand Daily Mail, 23 May 1983
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… leadership challenged the harsh, segregationist Asiatic Land Tenure and Representation Act (the so-called Ghetto Act) … by the government. This law…
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… of businesses such as Mohamed Dadoo’s and the Asiatic Land and Trading Act of 1919 was enacted to stall the success … the passing of new Bills. On 5 October…
BiographySir. Theophilus Shepstone
… with neighbouring tribes as well as providing extra land for Natal's surplus refugee population. Seeing that he … Mnyamana insisted the Zulu nation would not…
BiographyTheophilus Shepstone
… with neighbouring tribes as well as providing extra land for Natal's surplus refugee population. Seeing that he … Mnyamana insisted the Zulu nation would not…
BiographyJacob “Dancing Shoes” Morake
Jacob Morake was born on 8 December 1955, and grew up in Central Western Jabavu in Soweto near Johannesburg. He was 10 years old when, one bitterly cold night,…
EventSwaziland welcomes SA’s offer to hand over parts of KaNgwane and KwaZulu
The Swaziland government welcomed South Africa's offer to hand over parts of KaNgwane and KwaZulu to Swaziland, since, it claims the territory is historically…
BiographyBettie du Toit
… struggle of South Africa. She protested the Asiatic Land Tenure Act , also known as the Ghetto Act, and was one …
BiographyOupa Joshua Gqozo
… it despite Judge Willem Heath probe into Ciskei government land deals. Gqozo is married to Corinthian Nomziwakhe and …
BiographyJan van Riebeeck
… from said contracts on the condition that they worked the land and sold their produce to the company. These settlers …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Protest and Resistence
… Clash between strikers and police, 1913 Newcomers from the land The rapid development of the Rand brought regular waves … a series of droughts, diseases and…