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ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… account of his time in jail, was published. 1950 The 1950s was the decade in which the African National Congress … with massive treason trials for those who…
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
… literary expression had been popularized throughout the 1950s and earlier 1960s. The end of the fifties brought about … entertaining stories published in…
Gallery
… on the applicable image However, it was not until the 1950s that the Women’s struggle really gained momentum. In fact the 1950s is often referred to as the …
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… to achieve national liberation developed during the 1950s – and this bond extended into the exile years and … bond built up in exile post 1950. From the…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… then in 1956 or today. Issues that concerned women in the 1950s can be described as 'bread and butter' matters, such as … who did not belong to any political…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… Resistance to the pass laws intensified during the 1950s, and various protests took place. These included … aftermath of World War II and continued growing…
Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa
… have been forced to adopt a different way of life. In the 1950s, several thousand San people were still hunting large … several years living with the !Kung…
"Apartheid Spells Disaster", Report of the Central Committee of the Communist Party to the Party's National Conference, Johannesburg, 6 to 8 January 1950,29
ArticleBlack South African literature
… the first full-length published work of this kind. In the 1950s and 1960s, it was followed by several other … political Drum . Most of the best-known writers…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… it expanded its workforce considerably. By the mid-1950s, ESCOM had 13,000 employees. Many of these salaried …
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… urban settlement in South Africa during the 1940s and 1950s. The Western Areas was also the centre of political … 1934, from 12 000 to 24 000, and again to…
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… activist released at this time and active in NEUM in the 1950s and 1960s was Neville Alexander. This was at the height …
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… given chiefs immense political influence. The 1940s and 1950s were therefore marked by increased frustration on the …
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… musicians against the apartheid regime, from the early 1950s until the 1990s, focusing on the work of one artist … that was no luxury, since “it was not…
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… Settlement came from Boipatong Township established in the 1950s. With the apartheid government not providing new houses …
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
… rights of Black people in South Africa. However, in the 1950s and early 1960s the South African government reinforced …
From Segregation to Apartheid
… 1920s and 1930s continued after World War II and into the 1950s and 1960s. What was seen as backward and uneconomic …
ArticleThe missionaries
… of many Black women and men of South Africa in the early 1950s and 1960s, and naturally played a key role in mission …
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… health sectors. The Job Reservation laws passed in the mid-1950s protected most of the skilled jobs for Whites and …
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… laid down the foundation for the ANC’s campaigns in the 1950s. At the same time, rapid migration into urban areas … the passing of various racially…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… were particularly prominent in these campaigns. In the 1950s there was no distinct youth resistance to developments …
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… responses to developments in the 1930s through to the 1950s that either strengthened their claim as ‘the … The effects of this were only felt fully during…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… aftermath of World War II. Consequently, throughout the 1950s unrest in African, Coloured and Indian communities … apartheid. He became Native Affairs…
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
… defined the conduct of the struggle for liberation in the 1950s and 1960s were discarded and replaced by an approach … a distinct departure from the non…
ArticleWestern Cape Civic Association (WCCA)
… veterans who leading members of the ANC campaigns in the 1950s and MK activities in the 1960s. Some of the leading …
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… their lands. By all accounts they flourished, and by the 1950s Kgalabi's extended family settlement included the … begun visiting the Msiza at…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… Marble Arch cinema in London, and annual exports in the 1950s reached 250 000 tons. The abundance of the stone …
ArticleDrum Magazine
… The establishment of Drum Magazine in the 1950s, notwithstanding the newly-elected Nationalist Party’s … a job as a writer for the magazine. Towards the end…
ArticleWomen’s Role in the Negotiations by Nicole Dellaportas
… president of both the ANCWL and FSAW . ’ (The Turbulent 1950s, 2001) Women were actively starting to get involved in … social, legal and economic…
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… to new measures passed by the apartheid government in the 1950s. One of the factors that loomed large in the general … a year earlier. The May Day protest…