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EventFormer ANC president, Z.R. Mahabane, is born
Clergyman, teacher, politician and president of the African National Congress (ANC) Zaccheus Richard Mahabane, who combined politics and Christian ethics to…
EventGovernment's final consolidation of 'homelands'
The Nationalist party government announced its intention to consolidate the total number of separate 'homeland' areas from 113 to 36. The homelands were…
EventFormer South African Prime Minister Strijdom dies
… against the proposed amendments to the Urban Areas Act of 1950. …
Document 112 - Note from Claremont branch of the National Liberation League of South Africa, 26 March 1938
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew National Liberation League of S.A. The …
EventWomen Draw up a Petition against Pass Laws
Black women in what was then the Orange Free State protested when they were included in Pass legislation previously reserved for African men only. The…
Address by his excellency, President Jacob Zuma at the 50th Anniversary of the Mpondo Revolt of 1960, 07 June 2010, Ingquza Hill, Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape
… Magxagxa, the first man to die from the shooting here on 06 June 1960, the man who ironically was shot while hoisting …
History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Africa: 1932 - 1949 History of Muslims in South Africa: 1950 - 1959 History of Muslims in South Africa: 1960 - 1969 …
EventRiots erupt in East London, Eastern Cape
… in Johannesburg and other major city centres. The period 1950 -1952 was marked by a commitment to militant African …
EventSolly Sachs leaves South Africa
… two notices in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act (1950) had been served on him on 19 May 1952 and his arrest on …
EventGovernment’s final consolidation of ‘homelands’
The Nationalist party government announced its intention to consolidate the total number of separate 'homeland' areas from 113 to 36. The homelands were…
EventLife magazine is banned in Egypt after publishing an unflattering article about King Farouk
… best writers and cartoonists in the world. In the April 10 1950 issue of the magazine, it featured an article about King … Herald- Journal 11 May 1950 Ban…
EventIraq boycott SA government’s apartheid policies
… the previous year under the Unlawful Organisations Act of 1950. …
2002 Introduction By Jordi Martorell
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Lessons of the 1950s addresses all the main questions of revolutionary strategy and tactics and…
ArchiveThe National Committee for Liberation (ARM), 1960-1964: sabotage and the question of the ideological subject
Thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the MA degree in History at the the University of Cape Town by Andries du Toit. The dissertation gives…
Document 33 - League of Atrican Rights, Announcement of Meeting, 25 August 1929
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 33 - League of Atrican Rights, …
EventSisulu is served with two notifications
… in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act (Act 44 of 1950) . In terms of these notifications Sisulu was directed …
EventAcademic and ANC politician Z.K. Matthews dies
On 12 May 1968, South African academic, African National Congress (ANC) politician, and Botswana's first ambassador to the USA and envoy to the UN, Zachariah…
EventAfrikaans author, Lulu Latsky is born
… handwritten on blocks of writing paper. From 1943 until 1950 or 1951, she acted as the children's science editor for …
EventIraq boycott SA government's apartheid policies
… the previous year under the Unlawful Organisations Act of 1950. …
EventDrum Magazine calls for the release of all political prisoners
… against black people by the apartheid regime during the 1950’s. The magazine has since distanced its self from …
EventA UN report estimates the number of people who have HIV/AIDS in Africa at 50,000
A United Nations report estimates the number of people who have HIV/AIDS in Africa at 50,000. The report came five years after the Centre for Disease Control…
EventUN and OAU take a stand against Apartheid policy
An International Conference on Sanctions against South Africa was hosted by the United Nations (UN) and the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) at UNESCO House…
EventThe 41st annual conference of the ANC in Queenstown gets underway
… and the South African Indian Congress (SAIC). The period 1950 -1952 began with a commitment to mass action and to …
A Place of Freedom
Phoenix represented an island of freedom in a society that moved from informal segregation in the early years of the twentieth century to full-blown apartheid…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew
… 18 - Letter from C. I. R. Fortein to John Gomas, 29 April 1950 Document 19 - K. A. Jordaan, "The T.A.R.C. Debacle", Discussion, 1,1 [June 1950] Document 20 -…
Mandela’s membership of the Communist Party: what needs to be reassessed by Tom Lodge
The evidence that Stephen Ellis refers to about Mandela’s membership of the Communist Party is pretty definitive. It is based upon recollections of party…
The Durban Moment: Revisiting politics, labour, youth and resistance in the 1970s
The Durban Moment: Revisiting, politics, Labour, youth and resistance in the 1970s. 22-24 February, 2013 Rhodes University Grahamstown, South Africa The Â…
ArchiveAn investigation into the effect of race and politics on the development of South African sport (1970-1979)
… of white and non-white sport in South Africa to 1950; A synopsis of the development of white and non-white …
ArchiveAn investigation into the effect of race and politics on the development of South African sport (1970-1979
… of white and non-white sport in South Africa to 1950; A synopsis of the development of white and non-white …
Rethinking the William Fehr Collection
The William Fehr Collection had been on exhibition at the Castle – more or less unchanged – from the 1950s. The core of the collection comprises historical…