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EventThe Population Registration Bill is read for the first time
… process. The Population Registration Act (No. 30 of 1950) , promulgated on 7 July 1950, made the Group Areas, Immorality and Mixed Marriages …
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…
EventThe ANC calls for a day of protest and observes this day as 'South Africa Freedom Day' for the first time
… In 1950 the apartheid government introduced the Unlawful … Act and the Suppression of Communism Act. In March 1950 the African National Congress (Transvaal),…
EventA proposed amendment to the Population Registration Act is made
… to be issued to all races. This Act was first passed in 1950. It defined racial groups relatively loosely. The …
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad 1906 - 1990
… to members of the South African Communist Party. June 26, 1950 The South African government passes the Suppression of … He helps to re-form the party in the…
Chapter 27. The Police State in Action
… but lacked the courage and vision to resist reaction. In 1950, when C. R. Swart, Nationalist Minister of Justice, … introduced the Suppression of Communism…
EventNumber of banned persons in South Africa totals 936
… of Mixed Marriages Act (1949) and the Group Areas Act (1950), laws such as the Suppression of Communism Act (1950), and the Riotous Assembly Act (1927) were…
EventAllen Kwela was born on this day
… musical style. When he moved to Johannesburg during the 1950’s he met musician Spokes Mashiyane. They collaborated … later credited with the breakthrough of…
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
The Black People’s Convention (BPC) was an umbrella organisation of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). BCM had its origins in university campuses, mainly…
ArticleDefiance Campaign 1952
… including Oliver Tambo , Sisulu's successor. The period 1950 -1952 began with a commitment to militant African …
Chapter 4 - The role of the Communist Party in the ANC by Richard Monroe
… Chapter 4 - The role of the Communist Party in the ANC In 1950 the Communist Party, faced with banning under the … a lead from it in the struggle to…
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
The fruit-canning industry in South Africa can be traced to the late nineteenth century, when the first jam factories opened in Paarl and Stellenbosch in the…
BiographySindiso Mfenyana
… in Noupoort during school holidays. The Group Areas Act of 1950 had been encroaching on the lives of non-White South …
EventSA cartoonist, Daniel Cornelis Boonzaaier is born
… until the 1940s. Boonzaaier died in Cape Town in 1950. In 1973, his work was included in the exhibition ‘South … Boonzaier - South African Artist, Paintings…
ArticleHIV/Aids Origins
When? The first recognised cases of AIDS occurred in the USA in the early 1980s (see timeline) and the origin of Aids and HIV has puzzled scientists ever…
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… 1950s. Among others, two pieces of legislation passed in 1950 played a pivotal role in enforcing residential racial … Africa. The first was the Population…
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… election and begin to institute apartheid policies. 1950 Nelspruit Extension Two and West Acres are established. 1950- 1970 A mini population boom began in…
EventThe South African Government passes the Group Areas Act
… Act of 1949 as well as the Immorality Amendment Act of 1950. All these acts were designed to bring about the … and White South Africans lived side by side. …
PlaceChatsworth, Suburb of Durban
… This paved the way for the Group Areas Act of June 1950, which proclaimed certain areas for Whites only. This … Manor, Clairwood and Magazine Barracks, and…
The Black Homeland Citizenship Act of 1970
During Apartheid, starting from the late 1950s the South African Government attempted to divide South Africa into a number of separate states, called homelands…
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… account of his time in jail, was published. 1950 The 1950s was the decade in which the African National …
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
By the early 1980s, the Congress movement was becoming established as the most effective force in the fight against apartheid throughout the country. With the…
ArticleWomen’s Role in the Negotiations by Nicole Dellaportas
This article was written by Nicole Dellaportas and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Women’s Role in the…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
On 16 December, 1961, Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) was launched as an armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). The formation of the MK Umkhonto…
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
The 1980s saw escalating state repression and mass detentions. In a frenzy of desperate reaction, the government declared a series of back-to-back states of…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… a more assertive and impatient attitude into the ANCWL. In 1950 rumours were also rife that the new government was … the anti-pass campaign. Women and the…
Submissions by the McGill University students 2014
… and Selected Related Pieces Legislation Group Areas Act of 1950 Dixson Pushparagavan Dixson Pushparagavan was born in …
ArticleTimeline of the History of Rugby in South Africa
… in South Africa after winning the national elections. 1950 The National Party enacts the Group Areas Act defining …
ArchiveChapter 11 - SACTU in the Congress Alliance
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 11 - SACTU in the Congress Alliance Despite the isolation and consequent defeat of…
PlaceMaynardville Open Air Theatre
… founding was actually several years earlier (1 December 1950), by an Athlone School Committee. This earlier history … of Wynberg into an exclusively white…