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ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… South Africa (CPSA) was formed. 1923-1927 First apartheid laws are passed. The separation of residential areas by race … Between 1950 and 1970 1400 people…
”Joint Declaration of Cooperation.” Statement by Dr. A. B. Xuma of the ANC, Dr. G. M. Naicker of the Natal Indian Congress, and Dr. Y. M. Dadoo of the Transvaal Indian Congress, March 9, 1947
… 5) Guaranteeing freedom of movement and the abolition of Pass Laws against the African people and the Provincial barriers …
EventMandela signs SA Constitution into law
… 1960 police opened fire on a crowd demonstrating against pass laws in Sharpeville, Vereeniging. On 2 February 1990 the …
PlaceLanga Township, Cape Town
… pupils to aspire to become nurses, teacher and ministers. Pass Museum Inside a dingy relic, at Langa's old pass office . This is where black people had to…
Document 38 - Certification of the Constitution; a summary of the judgment of the Constitutional Court
… By E.S Reddy The "Campaign of Defiance against Unjust Laws" - launched jointly by the African National Congress of … in 1948 and had enacted a series of…
Document 92 “Communist Party of South Africa Plenum Held from 5th to 8th April 1936”, Umsebenzi, and 16 May 1936
… in particular for the repeal of such anti-democratic laws as the Pass Laws, Masters' and Servants' Act, Colour Bar Act, etc. 11. …
ArticleElizabeth Davenport: A teacher and member of the Black Sash by Cole Morgan
… National Party representatives in the Senate in order to pass the Separate Representation of Voters Bill. As a part of … manner that she could. During these…
Conflict among civic organisations
… because of social divisions which were driven by the pass laws and the enforcement of migrant labour practices. The …
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… countries like South Africa, the United States and Europe, laws which guarantee civil rights are written down. Examples … Act, which made it illegal to force…
EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years' imprisonment
… for incitement of Blacks to urge the repeal of pass laws. Sobukwe led a peaceful Black march to Orlando police …
PlaceConstitution Hill Museum, Johannesburg
… “anti-establishment” and those who simply violated the pass laws of the time. (Many ordinary and famous people were …
PlaceNdabeni
… of the township came labour supply regulations and pass laws. These regulations forced unemployed men in the city to …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… headed by Sir Johannes Lange, is appointed to inquire into laws concerning the right of Asiatics to trade and acquire … Convention held in Kimberly to…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
… This period began with the intensification of the anti-pass campaign, which resulted in the banning of the ANC and … (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress …
Address by Selby Msimang, President, Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of South Africa, July 23, 1921
… which Shakespeare had envisaged in Shylock. They made such laws as would convert a Christian to Atheism. Study the laws for the distribution of land, the…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… 'Decade of Defiance'. 1950 Florence Matomela leads an anti-pass demonstration resulting in the burning of passes in Port … a broad anti-nationalist front to…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the official opening of the Bram Fischer library at the legal resources centre Johannesburg, 27 September 1996
… human rights. The series of major test cases against the pass laws did not only benefit vast numbers of people by expanding … movement, but they also…
Pamphlet by Professor Z. K. Matthews, published in November 1946
… provided for in Act 12 of 1936, the policy embodied in our laws relating to Natives in urban areas and the system for … or other he did not think it fit and…
ArticleThe Women’s Charter
… hereby declare our aim of striving for the removal of all laws, regulations, conventions and customs that discriminate … for Women: We resolve to struggle…
Search for a United Front against racism
… Speaking at the Second National Conference of the Anti-Pass Committee held in Johannesburg on Sunday, Dr A.B. Xuma, … in their struggle against the Ghetto…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Search for a United Front against racism
… Speaking at the Second National Conference of the Anti-Pass Committee held in Johannesburg on Sunday, Dr A.B. Xuma, … in their struggle against the Ghetto…
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… Group of the TIC against discriminatory licensing laws in Johannesburg. Here they sold their produce without a … helps organize the 'Campaign of Defiance…
ArticleStructure of Government in South Africa
… The legislature - Parliament To legislate means to ‘make laws'. The legislature, or Parliament is where our elected … Parliament (MPs) meet to discuss…
ArticleIndenture: A new system of slavery?
… subjected to the most inhuman treatment, there being no laws to protect them. If the slave married a slave woman, his … be arrested as a "deserter," unless…
ArchiveAppendix 3 The Freedom Charter
… for and to stand as a candidate for all bodies which make laws; All people shall be entitled to take part in the … and contempt shall be a punishable crime;…
Document 23 - The Freedom Charter adopted at the Congress of the People at Kliptown, Johannesburg on 25 and 26 June 1955
… for and stand as a candidate for all bodies which make laws; All the people shall be entitled to take part in the … and contempt shall be a punishable crime;…
Note on meeting with Mr. Sam Nujoma -1983
… for and to stand as a candidate for all bodies which make laws; All people shall be entitled to take part in the … and contempt shall be a punishable crime;…
Appendix - The Freedom Charter
… for and to stand as a candidate for all bodies which make laws; All people shall be entitled to take part in the … and contempt shall be a punishable crime;…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… the ANC and formed the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). Anti pass campaign was by the PAC organised in 1960 that ended in … Cape Town left the country just…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… 1960 21 March , In a peaceful anti pass march led by the PAC at Sharpeville, the police open … nation-wide strike in protest of the Sharpeville massacre…