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From Segregation to Apartheid
… in the first four decades of the 20th century were, by the 1940s, increasingly under threat however, as African … began to change. The labour shortages of…
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… World , a black literary newspaper, was founded. 1940 The 1940s saw the beginnings of a flowering of literature by … Abrahams, an important voice who began…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… Women's Council (AWC), which was established in the mid-1940s. The AWC became active in issues relating to squatter … by the 1920s (and the increased rapidly…
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
… has. The experiences of Sophiatown's community in the 1940s and 1950s have been captured for posterity by Can …
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… capacities at the request of municipalities from the mid-1940s. [25] Bill Freund has posited that the establishment … and this was to expand in the coming…
ArticleTimeline of the Labour and Trade Union Movement in South Africa 1940 - 1959
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… had hitherto given chiefs immense political influence. The 1940s and 1950s were therefore marked by increased …
South African Labour history
… Union Movement 1930's and 1940's" During the 1930s and 1940s attempts at organising workers into trade unions became …
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… Church. Equally disconcerting to the government during the 1940s was the growing number of youth in the townships not …
ArticleThe missionaries
… and Ellen Kuzwayo attended mission schools. In the early 1940s most Black teachers, nurses, pastors, interpreters, …
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
… section of the University College of Natal in the 1940s that NUSAS became a non-racial organisation. NUSAS …
ArticleThe history of labour movements in Namibia
… Background During the 1930s and 1940s, there were few black workers organisations in Namibia …
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… already a state within a state by the end of the 1940s, saw it as its mission to think and dream for the … their connections with the street fighters of the…
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… into Cape Town through influx control. Thus, by the 1940s, racial segregation was in full swing in Cape Town as … implement the policy of racial segregation…
The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
… existing factories to diversify their output. By the late 1940s there was a spurt of industrial growth with the … White and Coloured labour, but later,…
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat
This is a list is part of the The ANC and the turn to the armed struggle: UMkhonto we Sizwe, MK Feature. Unknown |1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s …
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… The 1940s saw a growth of African nationalism that positioned … also set up the first crèche in Langa township. The mid 1940s were also a period of food…
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… and the role of jazz music in general. As early as the 1940s, jazz had emerged as the favored genre of the elite in …
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… African urban settlement in South Africa during the 1940s and 1950s. The Western Areas was also the centre of … by 20 percent in neighbouring Johannesburg in…
Nelspruit the Segregated city
… unemployed Blacks contained in the reserves, which by the 1940s began to experience severe malnutrition, infant …
The adoption of the Freedom Charter
… or non-professional background than the politicians of the 1940s. UDF meeting, mid 1980's, probably Soweto. Photograph …
ArticleHarriet Bolton and the Garment Workers Industrial Union
By the 1950s, Harriet Bolton began to help with organising work in the unions. From the late 1960s Harriet Bolton was an executive committee member of TUCSA. …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Essay Questions
… national movement for rights of all citizens until 1930s, 1940s South African Native National Congress (now known as … on the World Stage. In workshop on…
ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
… their marriage and have their first child, a son. Early 1940s Abrahams becomes acquainted with George Pandmore and … the Fifth Pan-Africanist Conference in…
Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… black people and segregation. Resistance and campaigns The 1940s in South Africa were characterised by political and … also came from the Women's section of…
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
The African People’s Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA) was launched in Duncan Village outside East London in March 1961. The launch followed a…
ArticleInkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
… of Zulu kings. Buthelez's IFP The dawn of apartheid in the 1940s marked major changes for all Black South Africans. In …
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
1500-1800 This period is marked by the advent and growth of the Atlantic Slave Trade affecting West Africa, Central and East Africa. On the Southern African…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… in the African National Congress (ANC) ranks during the 1940s, Mandela was viewed as a major thorn in the side of the …
ArticleZulu
… the early twentieth century. The dawn of apartheid in the 1940s marked more changes for all Black South Africans, and …