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Chapter 7 - Gumede keeps the bright fire burning, 1928-29
… without representation in parliament, we are surrounded by Pass Laws. We must not accept this oppression much longer. We must … When they erred and wept,…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… began implementing apartheid by passing a series of racist laws, notably the Population Registration Act, the Groups … Sharpeville massacre. 1950 Florence…
ArticleIndian Indentured Labour in Natal 1860-1911
… its people. In rural areas, British administrative laws and actions led to peasants? losing their land. The … labour was introduced into the Colony. Amongst…
South African Labour history
… any privacy and earning low wages.... read more "Labour Laws and Unions 1920's" Laws on labour passed by the two South African governments in …
ArticleLand Restitution in South Africa since 1994
… after 19 June 1913 as a result of racially discriminatory laws or practices the right to restitution of that property … not solved by the land claims…
Archive”Presidential Address” by Dr. A. B. Xuma
… of many statutory restrictions against him such as the Pass Laws, the Natives Service Contract Act, the Masters and … from benefits of certain labour awards…
Presidential Address, by Dr. A.B. Xuma, 14 December 1941
… of many statutory restrictions against him such as the Pass Laws, the Natives Service Contract Act, the Masters and … from benefits of certain labour awards…
Document 114 - (National Liberation League?), How To Work Among Urban Africans
… be strictly controlled by means of harassing and harsh Pass Laws, and they must not be taught anything or allowed … higher wages, better education facilities…
Presidential address by Alberth Luthuli to the Annual Provincial Conference of the Natal Branch of the African National Congress, 5 July 1956
… towards fascism, and despite the numerous oppressive laws passed during the last session of Parliament, Chief … stand against the Governments decision to…
Statement on Human Rights Year by Oliver Tambo, 01 June 1968
… - a crying indictment of all the practices, policies and laws of the South African State. For our people therefore, … within the country or leave the country…
Address by his excellency, President Jacob Zuma at the 50th Anniversary of the Mpondo Revolt of 1960, 07 June 2010, Ingquza Hill, Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape
… just be callous functionaries and conduits of oppressive laws. These laws enforced a discriminatory social and economic … measures were invested, which…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Matomela by Maximiliano Rubio
… vice president in 1954. [6] In 1950, rumors of new pass laws were leaked to the press. In that same year, … native’ in the near future will need to carry…
ArticleHistory of Slavery and early colonisation in SA timeline 1602-1841
… station, Zuurbraak was established at the foot of Tradouw Pass. The London Missionary Society sponsored missionary, … slave owners. Thus the British…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 1: World War II (1939 - 1945)
… rally held in Nuremberg in 1935, the Nazis announced new laws which institutionalized many of the racial theories prevalent in Nazi ideology. The laws…
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… white minority state consolidated its grip passing more laws to dislodge African people, who had survived land … and the Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
… children. In Germany, on the other hand, racial laws and eugenics policies were intended to achieve a … that had adapted to the environment and will…
Chapter 8- Gumede walks the ANC and SACP tightrope, 1930–46‘
… ways and means of defeating the new batch of racial laws of the Hertzog Government. The conference adopted a … scale. Gumede supported the militants’ call…
Document 120 - Draft Programme of the Communist Party of South Africa (c. 1940)41
… In addition the people are pided by discriminating laws and differential privileges. The Communist Party aims at … freedom, and socialism. The African is…
Document 18 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to the South African Federation of NativeTrade Unions, 20 September 1930
… I.C.U. a section of the A.N.C. etc., for resistance to the Pass Laws. A Conference on the campaign will be held at the …
Document 11 - Second letter from Nelson Mandela to Hendrik Verwoerd
… ten thousand innocent Africans were arrested under the pass laws and meetings banned throughout the country. Long before …
Chapter 2 - No equality under the Union Jack, 1900 - 1910
… features of White rule in Natal, in particular the Pass Laws, were unfulfilled. Africans were looking for outlets to … such as the proletarianisation of the…
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 6: The South African War and Union
… principles: that the country needed to put in place laws to limit black access to political power, and when Union … in the Union. The offensive gathered…
ArticleDefeat of the Liberation struggle
… the 1960s, the Government introduced a number of security laws, including the General Laws Amendment Act (90-day detention law) and later the …
The Ideology of the Black Consciousness Movement
… widespread civil unrest. It did this by passing harsher laws, extending its use of torture, imprisonment and … began to organise trade unions in defiance of…
PlaceAG Bain Monument, Grahamstown
… This is a bronze plaque on a cairn at the top of the Ecca Pass, 12 km South of Grahamstown. It was erected in 1964 by … writer and road-builder, who…
ArchiveChapter 4 Political activity 1950-1963 by Denis Goldberg
… to be able to be together in defiance of the wrongful laws and regulations against such natural solidarity. We felt … people to move into big locations or…
Document 61 - A. Mon [M. N. Averbach] 4 , “A Comment on Trotsky’s Letter to S.A.”, Worker’s Voice, 1, 3, July 1945 […]
… tax, and controlled in the cities by means of compounds, pass laws, etc. In short, the land question cannot be separated … in their outlook. In spite of the…
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… 1978: 2). 1924 The Smuts government both attempted to pass the Class Areas Bill and to form a Pact government. It … in cities and townships (Kirkwood, 2:…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 3 - The South African Constitution: Birth Certificate of a Nation by Hassen Ebrahim
… that our Constitution limits the government’s ability to pass legislation that in any way compromises a citizen’s … supreme law of the land, the yardstick by…
PlaceKeur River Bridge
… Situated on the Historic Montagu Pass this bridge was built in 1847. This solid bridge was … and built by Henry Ford White (who also built the Montagu Pass…