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ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… the country. The Afrikaner National Party won the 1948 general election under the slogan apartheid, meaning …
ArchiveBiography of Amina Desai by Cole Deal
… With the rise of apartheid in 1948, millions of Africans were left to suffer in South …
ArticleKenyan Timeline
The earliest human ancestors (Homo erectus and Homo habilis) have their origin in East Africa more than 2 million years ago. Several human remains have been…
ANC NGC 2015 Resolutions on International Relations
1. Introduction The important task of our National Democratic Revolution (NDR) is to grapple with the complex and ever-changing world order. The balance of…
Document 6 - Report of Delegation to All-African Convention and Unify Conference 16-17 December 1943. Presented to 2nd National Anti-CAD Conference, 4-5 January 1944
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 6 - Report of Delegation to All-African…
Post-detention weapons
… Act When the National Party government came to power in 1948; it preferred to use the wide-ranging provisions of the … which govern political activity in…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Bibliography
… in the Development of Afrikaner Nationalism , 1934-1948. Johannesburg, Ravan, 1983. Pampallis, John. Foundations …
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
… 1930 a new factory is opened in Harrower Road and in 1948 its operations move to Neave Township. August, The … bread is suspended, and only permitted again…
Chapter 7 - SANSCO:The Ideology and Politics of Non-Racialism, the Freedom Charter and National Liberation
My concerns in this chapter are two-fold. The first is to sketch the formation of SANSCO in late 1979. The second is to analyse SANSCO's ideology and politics…
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… historians have often neglected those aspects of the pre-1948 city (and, more accurately, the city before the forced … apartheid policy is Deborah Posel, The…
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… In 1953 the NP fought its first general election after its 1948 victory. OPSA switched its support from Hertzog to DF … a daily. Volksblad was edited by Van…
PlaceKhorixas, Town in Namibia
… David Levin later purchased the land in 1948 and gave it the name Twyfelfontein. Situated 100 …
Bibliographical note and further reading
… Evolution of the Policy Towards the Indians in Natal, 1943-1948' (M.A., Univ. of Natal, 1982). Indian politics after … M. Carter's The Politics of Inequality…
PlaceInanda, Phoenix
… life to fight injustice and call for peace. On 30 January 1948 Gandhi was assassinated by a Hindu fundamentalist. …
ArchiveThe Snape Building Political Demonstration at the University of Cape Town in 1966 by Andrew M. Colman
In the late afternoon of Wednesday, 21 September 1966, I took part in a small political demonstration on the campus of the University of Cape Town (UCT). It…
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 12) A Charge of Treason When detectives invaded the Congress of the People on 26…
Now You Have Touched the Women - African Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960 by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… ed., Laws Affecting Race Relations in South Africa, 1948-1976 , p. 175. (6) "Strong Protest against New Pass …
ArchiveSonia Bunting: Continuous Compassion and Adamant Activism by Jack Lucas
Innate resilience in conjunction with unmatched passion forms a characteristic that proves to be unstoppable, yet the rarity of this combination stems from the…
ArticleIndentured Indian labourers and their struggle for citizenship in South Africa by Dr Brij Maharaj
… a key issue in the National Party election manifesto in 1948: “The party holds the view that Indians are a foreign …
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi: the Zulu nationalist who left his mark on South Africa’s history
… can take a huge toll on lives. Under apartheid In 1948 Buthelezi enrolled to study history and “Bantu …
Invitation to the TB Davie Memorial Lecture
… Thomas Benjamin Davie, who served the university from 1948 to 1955. Davie was a fearless defender of the principles …
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… (NP) came to power following the general elections in 1948, but its impact could be felt. The NP came and …
From Segregation to Apartheid
… itself. The nationalist regime that came into power in 1948 offered a hard solution to this crisis. Instead of …
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… a leading advocate of the Africanist thinking in the ANC. 1948 August, Godfrey Pitje, a lecturer in the Department of …
ArchiveCHAPTER 8 - Leading from behind Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 by Howard Barrell
- Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 Victory is the sum total of the resolution of a whole succession of problems, a whole succession of factors. So …
Images That Preserve History, and Make It : ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography by Holland Cotter (The New York Times), 20 September 2012
… on the idea that modern South African photography began in 1948, with the legalizing of apartheid — compulsory racial … war that went on for more than four…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 22 April 1976 during the Prime Minister’s Vote
… that someone has to try to accomplish this task. On 14 May 1948 the State of Israel came into being under the leadership … of Mr. David Ben-Gurion. A few…
In memory of Archbishop Dennis Hurley by Phyllis Naidoo, 16 September 2009, Durban
… was long before The Nationalist Party came into power in 1948! I recall teasing Hurley about white seats at St … humility? He acknowledged that it was a…
Chapter 12 - Blind alley of guerrillaism
… drove far beyond an attack on political activists. In 1948 in South Africa there were 37 executions: between 1960 …
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt photographie les zones grises sud-africaines by Le Monde, 15 June 2017
… sans doute pas prédit la ségrégation raciale instaurée en 1948, au moment même où l’Europe semblait s’être débarrassée …