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PlaceBabanango, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… subsequent to the application of the Stock Limitation Act (1950) introduced by the state under the pretext of land … Farm workers’ or tenants’ evictions…
Desmond Tutu - Extracts from the letter to Prime Minister John Vorster dated May 6th 1976
… Click to read Class and Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 …
ArchiveBiography of Florence Matomela by Maximiliano Rubio
… African Women, becoming vice president in 1954. [6] In 1950, rumors of new pass laws were leaked to the press. In … East London, Cape Town and…
ArchiveOur Policy
… Our Policy: editorial in The Guardian, June 29, 1950. Discusses the suppession of Communism Bill …
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act in 1949 and in 1950 the Immorality Act became law. This year also saw the … Citizen Act in 1949, removed the British…
ArchiveInterview with Marumo Moerane
Oral interview with Marumo Moerane, on his experiences as a student at Fort Hare in the late 1950s
ArchiveInterview with Herby Govinden
Oral interview with Herby Govinden, on his experiences as a student and lecturer at Fort Hare in the 1950s
ArchiveInterview with Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri
Oral interview, conducted in Bloemfontein, with Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, on her experiences as a student at Fort Hare in the late 1950s
Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948
… the meantime the Suppression of Communism Act, passed in 1950, was basically being used against trade union activists … tried to recover lost ground by "out…
South Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, VolumeTwo 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew - Bibliographical note and further reading
… Publishers and London: Kliptown Books. Davids, Arthur (1950), "A Critical Analysis of I. B. Tabata's Book - The … Town: Forum Club, reprint . Discussion, 1,…
Chapter 12 - Blind alley of guerrillaism
… last six months," reported The Guardian (February 16, 1950), "bloody clashes between Africans and police have taken …
ArchiveImmediate prospect for SACP
… for SACP. It discusses the Suppression of Communist Act of 1950, the Freedom Charter, Sharpeville 1966. …
Nelspruit the Segregated city
… Nelspruit Extension Two and West Acres were established in 1950, and Extension Three came into being in 1954/5. …
ArticleTeachers League of South Africa (TLSA) conference in 1925
Background The establishment of the Teachers’ League of South Africa (TLSA) emerged out of increasing racial segregation in the Cape. While segregation had…
EventA resolution calling for Africans countrywide to stay at home, in protest against the Unlawful Organisations Act, is taken in Durban
… was taken during a rally held in Durban on 28 May 1950. …
ArticleDistrict Six is Declared a ‘White Area’
… this day the district was declared a White area under the 1950 Group Areas Act of the Apartheid government. [iii] …
Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU
… Trades and Labour Council, but without success. As late as 1950, the CP criticised the CNETU for rejecting affiliation … Simons and Simons, Class and Colour…
ArchiveMemorandum: a study in political heresy
Unauthored memorandum on the history of the Peoples Struggles and strategy and the tactics of the National Liberation Movement and the South African Communist…
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
… pounds in 1944, and passes the 30-million pound mark in 1950. 1932 An irrigation dam at Olifant’s Nek is completed. … a siren announces the beginning of the…
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… South African history that Sisulu led his political home. 1950 January, The ANC, together with its alliance parties, … non-whites were to stay away from…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… citizenship and the right of appeal to the Privy Council (1950). It scrapped God Save the Queen as one of the …
Indian Community
… Ghetto Act paved the way for the Group Areas Act passed in 1950, which proclaimed certain areas White. This meant that … in 1948. The Group Areas Act…
BiographyArchbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
… allowed him to join the Matriculation class. At the end of 1950, he passed the Joint Matriculation Board examination, …
PlaceSt. Wendolins Ridge, Pinetown
… Land, at St Wendolins fromm the Mission. Between 1930 and 1950 the Land was divided into 140 Plots and Sold to Resident Catholic Members. By 1950, there were…
ArchiveGroup Areas Development Act, Act No 69 of 1955
… areas and other areas defined under the Group Areas Act, 1950, and for the proper development of such areas, and for …
ArchiveConformity and conflict: Afrikaner nationalist politics in South Africa
Thesis sumitted to the Faculty of Social Studies, for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the Oxford University. This thesis includes chapters on the…
EventThe Group Areas Act comes into effect
… general election on a platform of separate development. In 1950 the government passed the Group Areas Act, a cornerstone …
EventMakhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi, trade unionist and community leader, dies
On 28 February 1980, Makhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi died in Orlando West, Soweto. Butshingi was born in the Transkei in 1906, and moved to the Transvaal in…
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… to the ANC’S National Executive Committee (NEC) in 1950 and, in 1951, Mandela argued against a united racial …
Biography of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile by Brianna T. Hogg
… http://www.dailymaverick.co.za McKune, G. Brummer, S. 06 Sep 2013. “Investigators: ‘Gold Fields bribed Mbete’. Mail …