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PlaceRotunda, Bay Hotel- Camps Bay
The Victorian Rotunda, a landmark in Camps Bay, is a beautiful, geometrical domed building, was the epitome of high society in Cape Town at the turn of the…
The Mission: A Life for Freedom in South Africa by Denis Goldberg
… – 1949 Chapter 3 University Chapter 4 Political activity 1950-1963 Chapter 5 Last resort: armed resistance Chapter 6 …
ArchiveInterview with Peter Donald Hjul
Oral interview with Peter Donald Hjul who was a leading figure in the Liberal Party, which existed from 1953 until 1968. Born in Northern Rhodesia in 1929,…
EventNathaniel Nakasa, South African journalist and writer, dies in exile
… [online] Available at www.sanef.org.za[Accessed: 06 July 2011] Anon, (n.d.), ‘Nathaniel Nakasa’from Pipl [online] Available at www.pipl.com[Accessed: 06 July…
Document 66 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 21 February 1937
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 66 - Letter from the Workers' …
Document 35 - Letter from John Gomas to the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, 29 October 1930
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 35 - Letter from John Gomas to … Radical Tradition a Documentary History…
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is released
… house arrest under the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950. Sobukwe was therefore prohibited from taking part in …
EventANC stalwart, Albertina Sisulu dies in Johannesburg
African National Congress (ANC) stalwart, Albertina Sisulu, a wife to former ANC Secretary, Walter Sisulu died at her Linden home, Johannesburg at the age of…
EventState of Emergency follows Sharpeville massacre
The government proceeded with the introduction of apartheid laws in the 1950s. An example of this was the hated pass law. This forced Black people to carry…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… of Mixed Marriages Act (1949) and the Immorality Act (1950), which made it illegal for people of different race … any time introducing the Population…
PlaceSteadville, Ladysmith
… interviews: Buthelezi, E. ”“ 01.07.2013 Cele, MTC ”“ 10.06.2013 Myeza, TQ ”“ 10.06.2013 Ndlovu, BI ”“ 01.07.2013 Ndlovu, SS ”“ 10.06.2013 Nyathi, G ”“ 08.01…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… under 'security' legislation has been in operation since 1950, whilst restriction of persons under emergency … of support is shifted from the state to the…
Oration by the President of the Republic of South Africa, Kgalema Motlanthe, at the funeral service of the late Cleopas Mododa Nsibande, 3 January 2009, Benoni
… and white. During its founding conference on the 05 and 06 March 1955, SACTU clearly signalled its advanced …
EventForced Removals commence from District Six
… day the district was declared a ‘White area’ under the 1950 Group Areas Act of the Apartheid government. Before the …
Indian Opinion
Indian Opinion, a weekly newspaper, was first established and produced by Mohandas Gandhi ("Mahatma"), M.H. Nazar and Madanjit Viyavaharik in 1903 in the Natal…
EventPolice open fire to disperse a rioting crowd in Cato Manor, Durban
Cato Manor, a shanty town, is situated 10 kilometres from the centre of Durban; it was named after Durban’s first mayor, George Christopher Cato. The area has…
EventMother Teresa arrives in SA to establish a missionary home for HIV/AIDS sufferers
… she left the mission to work in the slums of Calcutta. In 1950, she received permission from the Holy See to establish …
EventA few days after deciding to establish a Dutch newspaper in South Africa, the name De Burger is chosen
… of the National Party of South Africa. This changed in the 1950's, when then Editor Piet Cilliers clashed with Prime …
EventPublic places of recreation for whites only, are proclaimed
… in accordance with provisions of the Group Areas Act of 1950. Following the proclamation, blacks were prohibited from …
EventDouglas Portway, European-based South African artist, is born in Johannesburg
… he became part of the British abstract movement of the 1950’s and 1960s. Portway’s work is often classified as …
EventPassbook laws relaxed
In July 1986, South Africa was in a state of martial law, with a nation-wide State of Emergency having been declared in June of the same year. To counter the…
Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the 1940s
… series of high-ranking posts in the United Nations and in 1950 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role as … about 1,1 million in 1936 to approximately…
A Society for the “Advancement of Art”
… submitted work to SASA's annual exhibitions. However, by 1950, overtaken by rapid change, it came to be regarded as … which we associate the Society in the…
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
The global pervasiveness of racism and segregation in the 1920s and 1930s During the 1920s and 1930s, there were discriminatory policies in different parts…
Women at the start of the 20th century
It is only over the last three or four decades that women's role in the history of South Africa has, belatedly, been given some recognition. Previously the…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
Mass mobilization of the 1950s culminated in the Sharpeville massacre on 21 March 1960. Soon thereafter the apartheid government banned the African National…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… She was charged under the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950 for furthering the aims of the ANC – still a banned …
Chapter 3 - The Rise of the ANC
… Congress. Though the CP leaders played a role in the 1950-51 general strike calls, it was also leaders of the ANC … in calling the successful one-day general…
Debate in the House of Assembly during the second reading of the Immorality Amendment Bill on 23 February 1962
… past. Why does the hon. member not tell the House that in 1950 the third reading of the then Bill was passed by this … and it applied to actual carnal…
ArchiveInterview with Absolom Zithulele Cindi
… movement. Born in Alexandra township, Johannesburg in 1950, he attended Orlando West High School in Soweto in the …