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… the 1920s slums and mensetaal (People's language) of the 1940s and 1950s. This language is made up of Afrikaans and a …

… Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay. By the late 1940s the African American intellectual leadership of the … of many Pan-Africanist advocates, as in the late 1940s and early ’50s, the United States was in the midst of a …

… 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 the 1930's and 1940s were now turning into labour surpluses. The large … into wage labour. Farmers, who in the 1930s and early 1940s were desperate for unlimited supplies of labour, now …

… 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 writing in the 1940s, was of mixed-race descent. His early novel, Mine Boy … 1947 Another South African writer who emerged in the 1940s, Herman Charles Bosman, has become one of the country's …

… has. The experiences of Sophiatown's community in the 1940s and 1950s have been captured for posterity by Can …

… 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 in the 1930s and 1940s), with women such as Ray Alexander, Hetty McLeod, … in the late 1920s and 1930s, began to escalate in the 1940s and will be discussed in the next section. Women in the …

… 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 years. In the late 1940s, gold mining consumed 59% of all electricity. To meet … complex became increasingly delicate. From the late 1940s, ESCOM’s coal contracts in the Northern Transvaal …

… Union Movement 1930's and 1940's" During the 1930s and 1940s attempts at organising workers into trade unions became …

… had hitherto given chiefs immense political influence. The 1940s and 1950s were therefore marked by increased …

… Church. Equally disconcerting to the government during the 1940s was the growing number of youth in the townships not …

… and Ellen Kuzwayo attended mission schools. In the early 1940s most Black teachers, nurses, pastors, interpreters, …

… Background During the 1930s and 1940s, there were few black workers organisations in Namibia …

… section of the University College of Natal in the 1940s that NUSAS became a non-racial organisation. NUSAS …

… 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 1940s and the effects of the Broederbond’s silent power on … political when expedient. Their efforts in the 1930s and 1940s to preserve the Afrikaans taal helped to mobilize many …

… 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, during the 1930s and 1940s, Africans were drawn into the factories in large …

… 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. Up until the 1940s there were few prosecutions for violating pass laws in … people from the city became undisguised racism. By the 1940s and 1950s Cape Town was a segregated city. Segregation …

… 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 shortages in Cape Town … enough to overturn the system of racial segregation in the 1940s. In May 1948 the National Party (NP) led by DF Malan in …

… or non-professional background than the politicians of the 1940s. UDF meeting, mid 1980's, probably Soweto. Photograph …

… and the role of jazz music in general. As early as the 1940s, jazz had emerged as the favored genre of the elite in …

… 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 the ANC in the 1940s. In 1943, women were allowed to become full ANC … set up. Alexander Bus Boycotts The first campaign in the 1940s took place in Alexandra Township. There were two bus …

… 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 the later 1940s; post-World-War-Two unemployment rates and low African …

… their marriage and have their first child, a son. Early 1940s Abrahams becomes acquainted with George Pandmore and … the Fifth Pan-Africanist Conference in Manchester. Late 1940s Throughout this time his reputation as a writer as well …

… unemployed Blacks contained in the reserves, which by the 1940s began to experience severe malnutrition, infant …

… African struggle against apartheid, especially in the 1940s. As a result of this newspaper's close ties to the ANC, …