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ArticleAnti-Indian Legislation
… being appointed to investigate Indian immigration laws, yet six years later he became one of the strongest … be an Asiatic Colony. As part of the anti-Indian…
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…
Key players in the various passive resistance campaigns
… Govan Mbeki Albie Sachs Freda Troup Patrick Duncan Anti-Pass Campaigns 1960 Nelson Mandela Albert Luthuli Robert …
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
BiographyAdelaine Florence Hain
Anti-apartheid activist Adelaine Hain who was successively jailed, banned and exiled to Britain in Pretoria in the early 1960s died peacefully on 8 September,…
BiographyAbdullah Abdurahman
Abdurahman, who was born in Wellington (Cape Town ) on 18 December 1872 and graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Glasgow in 1893.He return to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
BiographyMatthew Goniwe
… Jacques Goniwe. Jacques was the first person to burn his pass book in Cradock as part of the ANC’s Defiance Campaign …
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…