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BiographyNithianandan ‘Elvis' Ganese Govender
… by a white magistrate and the yet unchanged pro-white laws of the country. He was released on bail by a magistrate …
Report of the Joint Planning Council of the ANC and the South African Indian Congress, November 8, 1951
… at the aforesaid Conference: (1) to declare war on Pass Laws and Stock Limitation, the Group Areas Act, the Voters' … agreed upon at the Joint Conference for…
BiographyOmar Badsha
… condemnation of the apartheid government's censorship laws. Badsha started working with the former Robben Island …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… announces, that it will embark on a campaign against the pass laws from Monday, the 21st March. March 21, The bloodiest … in an effort to disrupt the wave of…
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… fighting for. However this stigma did not remain, as the Pass laws in that late 1950s became severely enforced and the … to Black Sash member Mary Burton …
ArchiveBlack Sash / Sash
… human suffering, hardship and poverty. Issues such as the Pass Laws, migrant labour, forced removals, indefinite detention … experiencing problems as a…
ArchiveMinutes of the National Conference of the Black Sash held in Port Elizabeth
… regional reports, advice offices, court monitoring, Pass Laws, Influx Control, boycotts, unrest, closure of Rand Daily Mail, prisons, pensions, marriage laws…
EventBlacks in South Africa protest against segregation
… to mount a mass action against the passing of six unjust laws. The six laws were; Pass Laws, Population Registration Act, Suppression of … Action Database , …
ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… Some 8 000 Blacks are arrested for defying apartheid laws and regulations and the African National Congress (ANC) … front to oppose the National Party's…
BiographyPeter Moonsammy
Peter Moonsammy was born on 25 March 1928 in Market St, Johannesburg. Moonsamy was the elder brother of Paul and Dasu Joseph who were Transvaal Indian…
BiographyJon Lynton David Hrusa
Jon Lynton David Hrusa was born in Cape Town on October 24 1965. He matriculated from St Stithians College in the mid-1980’s and went on to study at Wits…
BiographyKewpie
Kewpie was a hairdresser and iconic queer figure from District Six. A gender fluid individual who identified by female pronouns, Kewpie was a seminal nightlife…
BiographyBoy Mvemve
… was there during the 1959 Potato Boycott and the 1960 anti-pass campaign. Boy Adolphus Mvemve, courageous and selfless …
BiographyElizabeth Komikie Gumede
Recorded as one of the most tortured women political prisoners under the apartheid regime, Elizabeth Komikie Gumede was born in 1921. Gumede served as an…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March, Pretoria, 9 August
… or passes for African women until the 1950s. Although laws requiring such documents were enacted in 1952, the … in the Western Cape. According to the terms…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… in Bantu World giving his support to the newly formed anti-pass campaign. Xuma agrees to act as trustee of the anti-pass campaign. April: Moses Kotane and…
Eventold Indian flower seller is fined for trading in a racially restricted area
… R24 or 60 days in prison for breaking the municipal by-laws. The young man was charged on 29 counts for resisting … guilty on 12 counts and not guilty on 17…
ArticleThe Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) 1995
… include forced removals and the expropriation of land, the pass laws, racial classification and related legislatives instead …
Nelspruit the Segregated city
… ensuing 150 years ”. In 1874, the Cape government passed laws that ensured residential areas in the Eastern Cape were … presence. After the conclusion of the…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline 1850-1889
… seekers from Southern Africa. 1880s The Boer Republics pass a number of laws that restrict the rights of Indian , Coloureds, Chinese …
ArchiveA Survey of race relations in South Africa: 1973
… Justice; Detention and trials under security laws; Guerrillas and movements-in-exile; Foreign affairs; … Group areas and hoiusing; Urban Bantu administration…
BiographySibongile Susan Mkhabela
The youngest child of Mozambican immigrants, Sibongile (Bongi) Susan Mkhabela (nèe Mthembu) grew up in Zola, one of the poorest areas in Soweto, Transvaal…
Chapter 10 - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… of 1960 the PAC leadership launched a campaign against the pass laws. The aim was for a mass turning-in of passes at police … on 21 March, to be supported by…
EventThe Security Council begins deliberations on the situation in South Africa
… where the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) staged an anti-pass demonstration outside Sharpeville police station near … They handed over their passes demanding…
ArticleBloemfontein Timeline 1824-2010
… of women from the urban Waaihoek Location protest against pass laws by taking a passive resistance stance, and refusing to … for which he was arrested and…
ArchiveMiscellaneous problems
… by Africans due to influx control and legislation such as Pass Laws. …
ArchiveNew worker regulations
… the Government has amended and supposedly relaxed the pass laws. …
Statement by Mrs. Gertrude Shope at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women in South Africa and Namibia, 11 August 1981
… They were then expected to accept the extension of the pass laws to African women. The pass is a document which is intended to regulate and restrict …
BiographyMary Dorothy Benson
… and 155 others charged with treason for opposing apartheid laws. This allowed her to meet many of apartheid’s opponents …
BiographyNadine Gordimer
… and the pain inflicted by South Africa's unjust apartheid laws. In December 1989, she testified in mitigation for …