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ArticleUnited Women’s Organisation (UWO)
The United Women’s Organisation (UWO) was launched in April 1981 with 400 delegates from the Western Cape attending. Some of the women who pioneered the…
ArchiveThe Story of Jean Middleton by Grant Rohrmann
… [20] The National Day of Protest was held on June 26, 1950. It was the first nationwide strike. Both Africans and … Online. (2012). Jean Clarice Middleton…
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… Indians). [vii] However, it was the Group Areas Act of 1950 that formalised and rigorously implemented forced … enormous scale; from its promulgation on the…
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
… that they were going to be deprived of their homes in the 1950 Group Areas Act. This act relocated all non-White … pp. 19-29. Johnson-Castle, Patricia. …
EventParliament passes legislation separating the people of South Africa into four distinct races
… Indian) through the Population Registration Act No. 30 of 1950. It further voted to divide South Africa into separate … use of each race) through the Group…
ArticleThe South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO)
… legislation was the Population Registration Act of 1950. It was a law that placed every South African into one …
ArticleThe History of May Day in South Africa
… of all races. On the 64th Anniversary of May Day, in 1950, the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) called for … celebrated as Freedom Day in the future…
BiographyRobert Gabriel Mugabe
Robert Gabriel Mugabe was born on 21 February 1924, in Katama, a Jesuit mission station in the Zimbambe district, about 60km from Harare. He was the son of…
“Let us dream you, forbidden landscape”: the Storming project sings change, 17 July 2017
… anthem, ( https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2017-06-28-tracing-the-roots-of-the-decolonised-anthem/ ) receive …
ArticleDrafting of the Final Constitution
Introduction The transition from the Apartheid era to the new democratic dispensation was a powerful and fundamental process for South Africans. With many…
PlaceNamaqua National Park
Cultural HistoryThe cultural history of Namaqualand stretches back hundreds of thousands of years. Hand axes, presumably made by humans Homo erectus, have been…
ArticleHarriet Bolton and the Garment Workers Industrial Union
By the 1950s, Harriet Bolton began to help with organising work in the unions. From the late 1960s Harriet Bolton was an executive committee member of TUCSA. …
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
… in Soweto in 1989. Image source The Defiance Campaign of 1950-1952 was a turning point in the national struggle for …
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
Though first publicized as a respected medium for the liberation struggle in 1967, poetry and literary expression had been popularized throughout the 1950s and…
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
The NIC (Natal Indian Congress) was the first of the Indian Congresses to be formed. It was established in 1894 by Mahatma Gandhi to fight discrimination…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… Main apartheid laws in broad outline The period of the 1950’s can be described as “Petty Apartheid” where … to the South African Communist Party (SACP)…
EventDisbanding of Communist Party is announced
… days before the Suppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950 was approved in parliament in June 1950 and came into force on 17 July of that year. In 1950 the…
Port Elizabeth an Overview
The first formal settlement of the Algoa Bay region took place in 1776 when a number of farms were allocated to local Dutch graziers. In 1799 the British…
Article1973 Durban Strikes
Introduction On 9 January 1973, workers at the Coronation Brick and Tile factory, outside Durban, came out on strike. Immediately thereafter, workers from…
Durban Mayors and other city officials
… Leo Boyd (1947 - 49) Ken Clarke (1949 - 50) Percy Osborn (1950 - 54) RA Carte (1954 - 55) G Vernon Essery (1955 - 56) …
ArticleJames Sebe Moroka Timeline 1892 - 2012
… December, Moroka is elected president- general of the ANC. 1950 Moroka resigns from the NRC. 26 March, Moroka presides …
Polokwane an Overview
'Street soccer' game on a makeshift field, near Polokwane in the Limpopo Province. 2010. © Chris Ledowchowski The Limpopo Province was the scene of scores of…
EventSouth Africa heeds United Nations call to assist Korea
… On 25 June 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea in an attempt to bring … this call was ignored by the North Koreans, on 27 June 1950, the United Nations (UN…
BiographyChief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi
… nationalist liberation leaders such as Robert Mugabe . In 1950, he participated in student protests against the visit …
PlaceSeal Point Lighthouse, Cape St. Francis
… Commissioned on 11 May 1950 The Cape Seal lighthouse lies within the Robberg Nature … light on the South African coast, Commissioned on 11 May 1950 The Cape…
ArticleFootball in South Africa
On 15 May 2004 in Zurich, Switzerland, Joseph (Sepp) Blatter, president of FIFA, world soccer's governing body, made an historic announcement: South Africa…
ArticleBlack South African literature
The origins of Black South African literature in English lie in the Eastern Cape. The Glasgow Missionary Society founded the school of Lovedale at Alice in the…
ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
… being banned under the Suppression of Communism Act (1950). Then, in December 1958, SOYA and the New Era …
Event3 students from Johannesburg are the first to climb 'Devil's Tooth' in the Drakensberg Range
… and pinnacle rocks such as the Devil's Tooth. Until 1950, the Devil's Tooth was considered unclimbable, but on 11 August 1950 E. Scholes, D. Bell and P…
ArticleA Brief History of Pageview
… Mr. J.J. Page, the Mayor of Johannesburg at the time. In 1950, the Group Areas Act was passed and sections of Pageview …