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David Goldblatt, once and future freedom hero by Rebecca Davis (Daily Maverick), 28 November 2012, South Africa
… photography. Goldblatt began his photographic career in 1948, the year the National Party first took power, and for …
PlaceSouth End Museum, Port Elizabeth
… vibrant, harmonious pirit was all but crushed when, in 1948, the National Party was Elected to Power and the …
PlaceRooigrond
… move Africans from Machaviestad, but this was not done. In 1948 the government issued the first notice of the state’s …
THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE IS ON IN EARNEST, Durban, 12 December 1959
… Nationalist Party Government since it came into power in 1948, is the largest in the Unions history. The number … design it has been working on since it…
ArchiveThe Black Consciousness Movement and Steve Biko By Jonathan Ansumana
… furthest south is called South Africa. It is the year 1948. A law promoting Apartheid has just been passed. A … of the majority group. This belief system did…
ArchiveBiography of Dorothy Nyembe by Thomas Boatman
An Unmistakable Figure In late December 1931, Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe was born and she would become one of the premier freedom fighters in the…
ArticleOn Trial: State versus Abram Fischer and Thirteen Others by Norman Levy
This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 16) On Trial State versus Abram Fischer and Thirteen Others The change from…
The Detention Weapon
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman A number of observers and students of repression around…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
Documentary Photography is not encouraged because I think it threatens the core of what this country is about. It’s a very powerful medium, it touches on…
Chapter 11 - Negotiating the final constitution
The adoption of the final Constitution concluded some of the most successful negotiations in recent constitutional and political history. The most striking and…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
9 July, The Executive of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) meets in Durban and appoints S.R. Naidoo as the SAIC's nominee to the Young Committee. Albert…
Statement on Human Rights Year by Oliver Tambo, 01 June 1968
… the Declaration by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948 had a special significance. The failure of South Africa …
ArchiveHugh Lewin, 1939–2019, RIP by Jennifer Malec, 17 January 2019
… St John’s College in Johannesburg, which he attended from 1948 until 1957, and whose school history block is now named …
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… World War Two. 5 The National Party won the election of 1948 on a platform that proposed an answer to this "native … audience. 40 When the Nationalists came…
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… accelerated when the National Party (NP) seized power in 1948. The NP led government began to vigorously implement the … pass laws in the Cape Peninsula, but…
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… racism, particularly with the advent of apartheid in 1948. Countless Jews played significant roles in labour and … its anti-Semitic approach as it geared up…
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… state When the Nationalist Party was elected to power in 1948 by a minority of the white electorate, their platform … the election to power of the…
Indian Community
… to the two year passive resistance campaign from 1946 to 1948 when several thousand Indians courted arrest. Despite the protests, the act was passed in 1948…
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… 1942 The White suburb of Danville is established. 1948 National Party comes to power under DF Malan. The White …
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… period is the National Party winning the white election in 1948 and the process of instituting formal apartheid. The …
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… to be, they were ignored. The reason is that after the 1948 general election the Nationalist Party (NP) emerged …
ArticleMiriam Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts by Connor Kirkpatrick
… in choir for school. However after apartheid started in 1948 Makeba dropped out of school. She started her first job …
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… Show is held on the grounds of Hoerskool Nelspruit. 1948 The National Party win the general election and begin to …
Checkmate for apartheid? July 199 1 - June 1992
… power From the moment the National Party came to power in 1948, it set about erecting an edifice of laws and structures … of the strategy of grand apartheid…
Chapter 9
… decide how they should own their land. "(Minutes, N.E.U.M. 1948). In the Transkei the AmaXesibe (Mt. Ayliff) threatened … held fast to their decision to…
The Legal Veneer
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman The apartheid government always had an obsession with…
Freedom Charter sold out the dispossessed by Motsoko Pheko (The Sowetan), 2 Feb 2012
… extremely poor and an 80% black majority. In 1943, 1944, 1948 and 1949, the Congress Youth League had formulated four …
Appendix 1: Freedom Fighters On The March: A Message From Dr. Y. M. Dadoo To The Indian People
… ahead. Since the advent of the Nationalist Governmentin 1948 our people have marched hand-in-hand with the African …
Document 38 - Certification of the Constitution; a summary of the judgment of the Constitutional Court
… the apartheid regime which had come to power in 1948 and had enacted a series of racist and repressive laws. …
Doing Oral History
… project 3: The impact of apartheid on peoples' lives - 1948-1960 Phase : General Education Certificate(GET) - Grade … the period between the National Party…