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Images That Preserve History, and Make It : ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography by Holland Cotter (The New York Times), 20 September 2012
… on the idea that modern South African photography began in 1948, with the legalizing of apartheid — compulsory racial … war that went on for more than four…
Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939
… affairs, reported two months before the 1938 General Election that the United Party was still "a coalition rather … Government's position has been so…
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… support. 4 March, Natal’s Indians were to hold the annual election of the NIC, where they hoped to boot out the … People (NAACP), and Progressive Citizens of…
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM)
… and English colonisers. Following its victory in the 1948 elections, the National Party (NP) dominated all White … Dutch and English colonisers. Following…
ArticlePassive Resistance in South Africa
… 1907-1914 Indian passive resistance in South Africa, 1946-1948 Defiance Campaign 1952 The Anti-Pass Campaigns 1960 …
BiographyTeboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini
Teboho MacDonald "Tsietsi" Mashinini was born on 27 January 1957 in Central Western Jabavu, Soweto. Mashinini was the second son of Ramothibi, a lay preacher…
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… in Kenya. 1961 February – KANU wins the first general election under the new constitutional dispensation, taking 16 … is re-elected as President in Kenya's…
ArticleNo Land, No House, No Vote Timeline
… No House, No Vote’ campaign against the 2006 municipal election in Durban. The campaign began with a march to Durban … political party forgets about our…
ArticleThe Interim South African Constitution 1993
… between National Party which ruled South Africa since 1948 to 1989 and African National Congress (ANC) which was … Africans saw their first one-person…
ArticleOliver Tambo Speeches 1971-1979
… 8 January 1972 1973 " Black Reaction to Apartheid: 1948-1973 ". Address by Oliver Tambo to the Annual Meeting of …
The start of mass campaigns
… Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner In 1948, the same year that I joined the ANC and the trade union the Nationalists won the election and…
BiographySefako Mapogo Makgatho
… by a vote of 73 to 52 to Simon PetrusMatseke. This election marked the emergence of two factions in the …
ArticleGrade 12 - The Cold War
… ‘ Iron Curtain’ speech 1947: Marshall Plan is announced 1948 : February, Communists take over Czechoslovakia 1948 : June, The ‘Berlin Blockade’ begins…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1800-2014
… release, his forgiveness of his captors, negotiation, his election victory and his willingness to step down after one …
Nelson Mandela Family Tree
… 1945, died 13 July 1969 aged 24) Makaziwe Mandela (died 1948 aged nine months) Magkatho Lewanika Mandela (born 1950, …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer
… the Passive Resistance Councils: Natal and Transvaal 1947- 1948 Report on Delegations, Publications and Organisations of … on the Campaign 1947 - Press…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… and discrimination. He spent six years at Wits, from 1943 -1948, but, owing to the dire circumstances under which he … on to the Transvaal Provincial…
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… who play a role in their country by participating in an election. Secret ballot: A ballot is the piece of paper that …
A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group
… and the Apartheid state When the Nationalist Party won the 1948 election Afrikaners acceded to state power, and they used … from the assumption of power by…
Article1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
… sympathisers from the Transvaal. 20 October 1946 At a mass election meeting over 12,000 people, from all over Transvaal, … 1947 The Transvaal Indian…
Formation and launch of the UDF
… Memorial. Source: http://www.dacpm.org On the day of the election on 9 September 1989, more than 20people were killed … staged a stay a massive stay away in…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Essay Questions
… "The Economic Policy of The Soviet By Isaac Deutscher 1948". Marxists.Org. https://www.marxists.org/archive/deutscher/1948/economic-policy.htm. [11] …
ArticleLesotho Timeline
… constitution after the BNP (23 seats) loses the January election to the Basutoland Congress Party (BCP, 36 seats); … becomes prime minister after the LCD…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… Introduction In 1948 the National government was voted into power and … but no one was executed. After the first democratic election in April 1994, a new…
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
… engaged in these talks. President Thabo Mbeki. The 1994 election paved the way towards a new democratic dispensation … eligible voters, 19.7 million voted…
EventIndia complains in 1946 against racism in South Africa
… Indian government document put to the United Nations in 1948 (Document 2 - Letter dated 12 July 1948 from the representative of India to the … the treatment…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… ESCOM’s output increased by five times between 1933 and 1948. Part of this growth was due to ESCOM taking over … of coal into oil. In the annual report of…
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
… Apartheid ideology and implementation from 1950 Post 1948: Institutionalising Apartheid & the Apartheid Laws When the Nationalist Party came to power in 1948…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… Congress (ANC), uses the votes of women to ensure his re-election as president of the organisation. 1934 Sarah … at the International Women's Day Meeting in…
ArticleIndian women workers, Durban’s clothing industry and the GWIU
… improve contact with workers. The union held a week-long election process for shop stewards, to guarantee that the …