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Oration by the President of the Republic of South Africa, Kgalema Motlanthe, at the funeral service of the late Cleopas Mododa Nsibande, 3 January 2009, Benoni
… during his youth days as it is today. In 1953 the Native Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act was promulgated thus superseding the 1942 War Measure. … and…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Bibliography
… Interim Constitution of the Republic of South Africa , Act 200 of 1993. Republic of South Africa (RSA). The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa ,…
History Wars, Wars in history & other Southern African histories
… the Rebellion of 1914; the protests against the Natives Land Act; the end of the Satyagraha campaign; and the use of the …
ArchiveClass, Consciousness and Organisation: Introduction by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
EventDisbanding of Communist Party is announced
… was made a few days before the Suppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950 was approved in parliament in June 1950 …
Pridekit - Enoch Sontonga
… 8 January 1912, at the first meeting of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC), the forerunner of the …
Document 15 - “Ruth First , “Progress in Unity Talks: African Organisations Agree Principle”, The Guardian , 23 December 1948
… referred to its policy of the boycott of the 1936 Native Representation Act, for instance.) The Convention's chief spokesman, Mr. I. … We want to go to the…
EventKing George V visits the SANLC
… The South African Native Labour Contingent were recruited and employed to …
EventLabour Party Colonel Creswell’s move to support the war wins majority
At a special conference of the South African Labour Party (SALP), Colonel Creswell’s move to support the war won majority votes. Prior to this special…
Passive Resistance in South Africa by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "Southern Africa in Transition by Davis, John A. and James K. Baker"(Pall Mall Press), London, 1966
… bullets, Africans fought grimly in defence of their land and their national independence. The armed struggle was … Representative Council, the Transkeian…
Biography of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile by Brianna T. Hogg
… and Sol T. Plaatje,decided to establish the South African Native National Congress on January 8, 1912; later named the …
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… demanding wage increases. The Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act strips blacks of their South African Citizenship. Fietas, … state, but he will continue to make…
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… Police often invaded the school premises if the Native Affairs Department felt that principals were failing … Organisation members were charged under the…
35. Colour legislation in the Orange River Colony
… above the age or estimated age of sixteen years, of any Native tribe in South Africa, and also all Coloured persons, … referring to locations. The marginal…
ArticleThe Cattle Killing Movement
… vulnerable to British governance coveted by aspirations of land, labour and the subjugation of the indigenous people of … well-being, to see them through…
Beerhalls in Soweto from Soweto Heritage Survey Final Report compiled by Steven Lebelo and Elsabe Brink for the National Monuments Council, Northern Region
… City Council JCC) opened a beerhall in Western Native Township (WNT) in 1939. Sensing that their illicit … introduce the system in Johannesburg. Lastly, "the…
PlaceCape Province- 'Province of Good Hope' or previously the- Cape Colony
… came to the Cape, they came into contact with the native Khoikhoi people. The two groups had very different … wars. The Dutch farmers also fought with the…
ArchiveJonas Gwangwa embodied South Africa’s struggle for a national culture by Gwen Ansell
… Politics shaped Gwangwa too. The 1954 Bantu Education Act ended Father Huddleston’s St Peters, but not before the …
ArchiveThe All-African Convention: The Awakening of The People by I.B. Tabata
… to run dummy (segregated) elections under the fraudulent "Native Representation Act" whereby three white judas-goats (as they were …
PlaceConstitution Hill Museum, Johannesburg
… Africa’s Constitutional Court, the highest court in the Land, which can be found within the Constitution Hill … (1899-1902); the Number Four Prison Block, a…
Document 51 - Leon Trotsky, Remarks on the Draft Theses of the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 20 April 1935
… revolution is unthinkable without the awakening of the Native masses; in its turn it will give them what they are so … Congress in Nationalist slogans in…
ArticleA Culture of Survival
… destiny by hard work and sacrifice, by education and native ability, by snatching from the table of occupation … quickly, and swearing at somebody or other. …
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 2
… the Agreement gave in the Industrial Conciliation Act, and the Wages Act. One of these assurances was that … alongside a European for your studies, why not…
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… of the Commonwealth . 17 November, The Restitution of Land Rights Bill is passed by President Nelson Mandela and … of National Unity and Reconciliation…
PlaceKruger National Park
… of Portugal in the ZAR as well as a superintendent of the Native tribes in and around the Schoemansdal area. His … ' Boer' (Afrikaans) town, Ohrigstad,…
PlaceKenya
… of indigenous ethnic groups and the reallocation of their land to European settlers. The 1950’s saw the dawn of a … a few years later in 1903 precipitated a…
ArchiveElizabeth van der Heyden by Allison Drew
… or 1 am. But as the impact of the 1950 Group Areas Act began being felt in uprooted communities and intensified … The NEUM had campaigned against the 1953…
From retirement to parliament
… of our country to the African position and status in this land of our birth - South Africa - because the Government and … We want the Government of the…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959
… They found a legal loophole in the Riotous Assemblies Act, to attend 'private conferences' in spite of their ban. … Authorities Act, No. 68 of 1951 , which…
ArchiveThe Black Consciousness Movement and Steve Biko By Jonathan Ansumana
… with sticks and stones. Over time Blacks, dispossessed of land and natural resources, then commodified as cheap labor, … history taught by whites. In 1953,…