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ArticleA Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
… the ravages of the migrant labour system and the pass laws have left an indelible mark on the landscape of the …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… Union of South Africa consolidates existing Immigration laws of the pre-Union colonies and excludes immigration of … of land and railway regulations. 1918…
EventFollowing the infamous Treason Trial, ANC leader Chief Albert Luthuli is banished by the Apartheid Government for five years
… organised by the Congress Alliance to challenge apartheid laws (e.g. Pass Laws). His involvement resulted in a 2 year banning order …
EventUN Special Committee on Policies of Apartheid appeals for assistance to families of apartheid victims.
… they demanded to be arrested. This was in defiance of the pass laws. Unfortunately, theb situation turned violent as police …
ArchiveNatives (Urban Areas) Act, Act No 21 of 1923
… the exemption of coloured persons from the operation of pass laws; for the restriction and regulation of the possession …
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… South Africa, the government passed a series of security laws which enabled it to arrest, detain and imprison … (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC)…
EventSouth Africa celebrates the first National Women’s Day
… to the prime minister, JG Strijdom. The march against the pass laws was organised by the Federation of South African Women … that they would not be…
Document 33 - League of Atrican Rights, Announcement of Meeting, 25 August 1929
… free education for non-Europeans. 4. Abolition of Pass Laws. ROLL UP: ROLLUP'. THE CASE IS URGENT! …
EventLillian Ngoyi, well-known anti-Apartheid activist, dies
… women wing, ANCWL. In 1956, Ngoyi led a march against pass laws for women to the Union Buildings and personally knocked …
BiographyAnna Johanna Dorothea De Villiers
Anna Johanna Dorothea de Villiers was a linguist, writer, and educator. She born on 24 December 1900 on the farm Saxenburg, Kuilsrivier. She was the eldest of…
BiographyVejaynand ‘Vejay’ Indurjith Ramlakan
Dr Vejaynand Indurjith Ramlakan, more popularly known as 'Vejay', was born in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), South Africa in 1957. He matriculated at…
BiographyBongani Mnguni
Bongani Mnguni was a South African photographer and photojournalist who dedicated his life to exposing the brutality of the apartheid system. Mnguni was…
EventHuman Rights Day is celebrated for the first time in South Africa
… when a march by ordinary South Africans protesting the Pass Laws turned into a police-led bloodbath. The day marked a …
EventChief Albert Luthuli is banned for a further five years
… Campaign in 1952, a non- violent protest against the pass laws. Yet all these were menacing to the apartheid government …
ArticleCelebrating Freedom and Democracy
… The relationship between our Constitution and other laws The Constitution is a law passed by Parliament and it is the highest law in the land. All other laws…
EventCharges against 53 of the 76 Africans detained after the Sharpeville massacre are dropped
… fire on demonstrators, who were protesting against the pass laws in the township of Sharpeville, near Vereeniging in the …
BiographyMadi Gray
… help to protect you, just ask me and I'll give an extra pass for that day.” That enabled her to get in non-South …
BiographyReggie Vandeyar
… our unit. Their first attack was on the Johannesburg Pass Office, then the Fordsburg Post Office and the Bantu …
10 YEARS PROJECT
… Books of the Union of South Africa a large number of laws which cause my people tremendous hardship and suffering. The African people view these laws as…
BiographyJames la Guma
… advance of segregationist measures under apartheid laws. Indeed, he resigned his job as foreman at a Cape Town …
Control: 1910 - 1948
… Act extended labour controls in rural areas, introducing 'pass' laws to control the movements of rural Africans. This act … and national campaigns were…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1920 - 1929
… Lange heads the Asiatic Inquiry Commission to inquire into laws concerning the right of Asiatics to trade and acquire … first Indian Agent to South Africa. …
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… to be rigorously implementing the increasingly repressive pass laws and the plethora of influx control regulations. In the … the 1960s the apartheid state…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Glossary
… mentally or morally ‘undesirable’. [12] Nuremburg Laws - These were anti-Semitic and racist laws that were enacted in Germany by the Nazi Party. [13] … no…
EventThe launch of the Progressive Women’s Movement of SA
… by South African women to protest against the extension of pass laws to African women by the Apartheid government.The …
EventPrime Minister P.W. Botha announces Ciskei will become independent on 4 December 1981
… also went hand in hand with a stricter enforcement of Pass laws. Ciskei was declared a self-governing territory in 1972. …
Forming the Federation
… then because the women didn't want these passes. A pass is this little book that you must get when you are 16 … book. And you can only get a job where they…
Gold and Workers 1886 - 1924 by Luli Callinicos
… System Chapter 10 - How the mines got their Labour The Pass Laws Chapter 11 - The Compound System Chapter 12 - The Wage …
EventArchibald Gumede, former President of the United Democratic Front, is born in Pietermaritzburg.
… in 1955 and in the campaigns against the extension of pass laws to women. Gumede established his own law practice in …
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
… against group areas, race classification, forced removals, pass laws, migrant labour conditions and denial of African trades …