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EventThe Republic of South Africa is established
… elements, the South African government adopted legislation which increasingly infringed on the freedom of …
The Legal Veneer
… such actions were clothed in the respectability of formal legislation. Long after apartheid was pronounced a crime … imaginable finally culminated in an…
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… aside of those groups under the Gold Law or old Transvaal legislation. Section 9.2h empowered the Board to deal with … least 26 other cases relating to the…
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… after it had outlawed the ANC and introduced punishing legislation to curb likely covert activities. It would rather … government, which acted quickly in…
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… a focus on only a certain number of legislations to all legislation that sought to take away rights from non-White … league. This fact concerned the Black…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… maximum co-operation and unity in opposing apartheid legislation. October, The executive of the Transvaal Metal … to dissolve the Wage Board and forthwith…
The strangulation of activity
… was one of the measures imposed in a spate of restrictive legislation following the Sharpeville shootings on 21 March, … paid heavily for criticism of the…
ArticleBureau of State Security (BOSS)
… J., (1994), “The Revision of South African Defence Related Legislation, the Military Disciplinary Code and Related … Available at http://www.ssa.gov.za…
PlaceTokai Manor House, Tokai Road, Tokai.
… a reformatory. It underwent extensive restoration in the 1960s and was declared a National Monument, under old NMC legislation on 8 September 1961. The…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… rhetoric, and decides not to proceed with anti-Indian legislation during the Second World War. October 8, At a …
ArticleWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa by Cait Chapman
… economy and its and other states political futures. In the 1960s, countries across the globe were coming together to try … rarely brought up as one of those…
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
… were banned, and by 1965 Sactu petered out. From the early 1960s onwards, the state brutally suppressed all political … in anti-apartheid resistance was…
ArticleA history of prison labour in South Africa
… the treatment of prisoners. In 1959, a major new prison legislation, Prison Act of 1959 , was introduced which was … soon changed in the post- Sharpeville…
PlaceRustenburg House, together with its Summer House, Main Road, Rondebosch.
… declared separately as National Monuments under old NMC legislation on 22 August 1941, and 3 June 1960 respectively. …
Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… The landscape of Black political activity in the 1960s was a very different one from that of the previous … by the state, fled into exile. A barrage of…
EventFirst Fietas Festival to celebrate the legacy of the community
… then the first removals of people from Fietas under racial legislation was to Ormando East in the late 1920's and early …
ArticleLiberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)
… the NP began enacting and implementing racially divisive legislation. This was met by strong opposition from the … while the LPSA chose to disband rather…
PlaceChatsworth, Suburb of Durban
… over Durban were moved to Chatsworth under the Group Areas legislation. The land had been expropriated from 600 Indian … its real identity as an Indian group…
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… movement of slaves and Khoikhoi were promulgated. Thus, legislation played an important role in the shaping of Cape … in the Cape moved to also regulate…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… Repression takes many forms, from the blunt controls of legislation to the more subtle controls of what has come to … the apartheid regime has empowered…
The Role of Women in the Struggle against Apartheid, 15 July 1980
… dissolved, the one that endured in spite of the new labour legislation of the 1920s was the Non-European Trade Union … demographic changes, coupled with the…
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
… government’s rule for 46 years were racially divisive legislation, and sheer brute force. The period from the 1960s to the 1980s was punctuated by the…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… due to petty and severe apartheid laws. Between the 1960s and the unbanning of the liberation organisations and … of the Suppression of Communists Act and…
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
… agitation in the European community and moves to enact legislation to segregate Indians. It was only at the third … membership were broken by state…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… addressed to the Government to repeal all discriminating Legislation before or on 29 February 1952, and if this does not take place a mass contravention of…
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
… many workers to the town to the point that, until the 1960s, it maintained its place as South Africa's third … working class character which it retained…
ArticleChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli timeline 1800 - 1967
… that face them in the light of new pieces of apartheid legislation being introduced by the Malan Government. 1952 …
ArchiveEleanor Kasrils: From Detainment to National Liberation by Nathan Greenhaw
… that supported increased racial segregation and apartheid legislation, took increasingly authoritarian measures to … of resistance against the government…
Chapter 2 - From Crisis to Stability to Crisis
… from the crushing of mass political dissent in the early 1960s to the re-emergence of mass popular action during the … despite Eiselen's recommendations, and…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… Marabastad Pretoria the Segregated city Post-1948 Legislation This period marks the beginning of the rise of … who could not be absorbed into Atteridgeville…