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EventThe African National Congress (ANC) calls a meeting to chart a way forward for the Defiance Campaign
On 29 July 1951 the African National Congress (ANC) called a meeting in Johannesburg. Executives from the South African Indian Congress (SAIC), the African…
EventThe apartheid government agrees to eliminate racial segregation in theatres but not in cinemas
… In 1950, the two major pieces of legislation designed to create …
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…
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… CPSA. First and Slovo’s first daughter, Shawn, is born. 1950 First and Slovo are among the first 600 to be ‘named’ …
ArticleMoses Kotane Timeline
… be the basis of all ANC actions until its banning in 1960. 1950 June, Kotane moves from Cape Town back to Johannesburg, …
ArticleFederation of South African Women (FEDSAW)
The Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW or FSAW) was launched on 17 April 1954 in Johannesburg as the first attempt to establish a broad-based women’s…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
The TIC (Transvaal Indian congress) was first called the TBIA (Transvaal British Indian Association) which was founded in 1903. The organization was later…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… of its policy of apartheid. Group Areas Act (No: 41) 1950 The Group Areas Act was passed into law in 1950. After its passing, the Act permitted the…
EventMoïse-Kapenda Tshombé becomes the Prime Minister of the Congo
On 10 July 1964 MoÁ¯se-Kapenda Tshombé, leader of the Confederation of Tribal Associations of Katanga, became the Prime Minister of the Congo (now known as…
Notes on the Life of Ernest Cole 1940–1990 by Gunilla Knape
This book and exhibition are an attempt to construct a clear picture of Ernest Cole, a complex man whose work is little known, especially in his own country,…
EventNuclear Test Ban Treaty signed
Representatives of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain sign a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons in…
EventKader Asmal, political activist and future Member of Parliament, is born
Kader Asmal political activist, human rights lawyer, former Minister of Education (1999-2004) and of Water Affairs and Forestry (1994-1999); is born in Stanger…
EventThe SA author and journalist, Herman Charles Bosman, shoots and kills his stepbrother David Russell during a quarrel
… editor of South African Opinion and Trek (1944-9). In 1950, Bosman began to write humourous short stories for the …
EventSouth African Parliament votes to repeal the legal framework of Apartheid
… of four Acts, namely, the Population Registration Act of 1950, The Group Areas Act, the Land Act and the Separate …
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… business rights to a large part of this suburb and, by 1950, property investors had begun to show interest in its … of White opinions prevailing at that time…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… , 22 August, [Accessed 06 October 2011] Trewhela, P, (2010), Inside Quatro: … its clamp down on political activities in the country. In 1950 the Communist…
ArchiveRemembering Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for music of the day by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 23 January 2018
… Kirk Douglas’s acting and Harry James’s trumpet, in the 1950 movie “Young Man With A Horn”. Masekela saw the film as …
ArticleA History of Lückhoff High School, 1932-1969
… additional classrooms were provided by the beginning of 1950. [xxxix] Even though the school was granted additional … thereof. [xliv] However, because of the…
Chapter 2 - Jewish Trade Unions in Cape Town 1903-1907: A Socio-Historical Study
… The Story of South African Zionism (Menorah Book Club, 1950). See Louis Herman, "Cape Jewry before 1870," in Saron … the Amalgamated Society of Tailors,…
EventOlive Shisana was born on this day
… town of Pietersburg, South Africa, on the 27th of November 1950. [1] She holds a BA degree which she obtained from the …
PlaceWits Art Museum
… the Nelson Mandela Bridge . Its’ collections begun in the 1950’s and was known as the first collecting institution that …
SASPU National, 1980 - 1987
SASPU National was one of two publications produced by the South African Students Press Union (SASPU), the other being SASPU Focus. A non-profit newspaper,…
Document 67 - Letter from the African Metal Trades Union, Johannesburg, to the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 21 February 1937
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 67 - Letter from the African …
EventPAC’s leader, Potlako Leballo confirms that Poqo is the organisation’s military wing
… 7 April 1960), but the CPSA was banned earlier in 1950 under the Suppression of Communism Act, and re-launched …
PlaceKwaMashu
The development of KwaMashu Township, in the KwaZulu-Natal province and located some 19km north of Durban, resulted from the mass resettlement of the slum…
Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, “The Opening Address at the Africanist Inaugural Convention”, 4 April 1959 [….]
… "History of Despotism" Series, The Torch, 30 January 1950; Ordinance 50, 1828; Selborne Memorandum on the Union of … House of Assembly, 13 March 1945; The…
Bibliography: Missionary settlement in southern Africa
… and SHEPHERD, RHW. 1954. South African Missions, 1800-1950. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons. DELAGORGUE, Adulphe. …
ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… ANC starts to follow a militant approach for its cause. 1950 The African National Congress (ANC) begins the year with … government introduces the Suppression…
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
In August 1960, Dugmore Boetie fled South Africa and entered Bechuanaland (present day Botswana) on foot. He was part of a flow of “discontented young men”…
PlaceAlgiers, Capital of Algeria
Presumed to be named after the Harbour City, on the West side of the Bay of Algiers, Capital City of Algeria. Algiers is the urban area of Ganyesa, which is a…