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The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… Timeline pre 1900 1902-1910 1910-1924 1924-1939 1939-1948 1948-1960 1960-1994 1939-1948:- The Second World War and its … League is formed. The NP under…
BiographyMduduzi Richard Shabalala
Mduduzi Richard Shabalala (Mdu) Shabalala was born in Lamontville, Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) on 24 July 1965. His father was a prominent civic rights…
BiographyTraci Mackie
Traci Mackie was born to a working-class family, in an industrial village called Blackburn in Scotland. When she was nine years old, her parents decided to…
BiographyJeanette Carlson
Jeanette Levinson Carlson was born on 21 June 1929, in Muizenberg, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape Province). She was the youngest of Israel and…
BiographyGladys Thomas
Gladys Thomas born was in 1935 in Salt River, Cape Town. She was adopted by a family in Lakeside, Cape Town in Western Cape as she was an orphan. She grew up…
ArticleThe South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO)
… political influence. In the years leading up to the 1924 election, the South African Party (SAP), led by Louis Botha , … (LP) joined forces to defeat the…
EventApartheid becomes official policy
… On 26 May 1948, the Herenigde Nasionale Party (Reunified National … Havenga was appointed the Minister of Finance. When the 1948 election campaign started,…
BiographyNimrod Sekeramane Nathale
… Workers Union . Although he voted for the ANC in the 1994 election , he insisted that the massive vote for the party …
BiographyOmar Badsha
… on the political committee of the ANC's Western Cape 1994 election campaign. Unlike many other activists, he did not …
BiographyJanet Mary Cherry
… Council and in 1981 was one of the poll-toppers in the SRC election. She served as SRC Media Officer, and through this …
ArticlePolokwane/Pietersburg Timeline 1835-1995
… Signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging 1904 First Municipal election held. Pietersburg’s population made up of 3,276 … areas 1939 September, Outbreak of the…
BiographyTimothy Peter Jenkin
… Timothy Peter Jenkin was born in 1948, in Cape Town and educated at Rondebosch Boys' Prep and …
Polokwane the Segregated city
… Contents The Segregated City, 1910-1948 The Apartheid City A decade of Turbulence, 1976-86 … apartheid era Homeland politics The Segregated City, 1910-1948…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 3 - Afrikaner Nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Albert Grundlingh
… Afrikaner race policies, were quick to equate the post-1948 apartheid state with the Nazi state of the 1930s and … of Parliament were only to come much later…
ArticleThe History of May Day in South Africa
… was expected to make great strides in the coming general election of 1915. The outbreak of war in August 1914, … which consisted of white workers only. …
BiographyThembi Shange Nobadula
A stalwart of the African National Congress (ANC) and the liberation movement, Thembi Shange Nobadula was born on 23 December 1927. She was a woman who…
ArticleANC Women’s League (ANCWL)
… women as members at the Congress's 1943 conference and in 1948, the ANC Women's League was formed. The first official … conference in Rustenburg in 1997 and…
Evelyn Ntoko Mase
… [11] Mase and Mandela had three more children; Makaziwe in 1948 who died at nine months old, Makgatho in 1950 and …
BiographyZanemvula Kizito Mda
… was born in Herschel, Eastern Cape, South Africa, in 1948 to Rose Nompumelelo, a nurse, and Ashbey Peter Solomzi …
BiographyJudge Jan Hendrik Steyn
… stifled since the Native Land Act in 1913 and its post-1948 legislative extension. The strategy was ownership in all …
BiographyRobert Sobukwe
… combined to make Sobukwe more politically active. In 1948 Sobukwe and three of his friends launched a daily …
BiographyWilliam Andrew ‘Willie’ Hofmeyr
… worked full-time as part of a team that co-ordinated the election campaign for the region, particularly organising …
EventThe Group Areas Act comes into effect
… In 1948 the Nationalist Party won the general election on a platform of separate development. In 1950 the …
Chronology
… Laws Amendment Act Industrial Conciliation Act June , Election for Natives' Representative Council (NRC) December , … Dr. Y.M. Dadoo) begin passive…
EventGeneral J.C. Smuts (80), former prime minister of SA, dies
… Prime Minister on two occasions, from 1919 - 1924 and 1939-1948, General J.C. Smuts passed away at the age of 80 on his … advocated the policy of apartheid…
BiographyRenfrew Leslie Christie
At the age of 17, Renfrew Leslie Christie found himself in the South African Army. He was on guard at Lenz ammunition dump (east of Johannesburg), when he saw…
ArticleNew identities and the construction of heritage
… was adopted by the United Nations Organisation (UNO) in 1948. It is the basis for human rights protection and … In the same year that the UDHR was accepted…
ArchiveA Place In The City - The Rand On The Eve Of Apartheid by Luli Callinicos
… to gold-propped ears When the National Party won the 1948 election, white liberals were horrified. They saw the result … state the National Party set up when…
EventF.W. de Klerk is unanimously elected the new leader of the Transvaal NP
… leader of the National Party (NP) in the Transvaal. His election came after Dr Andries Treurnicht quit the party. At … the ruling party in South Africa as it…
BiographyRaymond Ackerman
… study commerce at the University of Cape Town. There, in 1948, he encountered WH Hutt, the teacher who was to give him …