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Biography of Barry Gilder by Sofia Pullen
… was in power from 1948 to 1994 and created unfair laws in order to segregated Coloured and Black South Africans … March 21, 1960, five thousand South…
ArticleSophiatown Timeline
… is made Secretary of Native Affairs. 1950-52 Six apartheid laws are passed: the Group Areas Act (1950), the Stock … The “Defiance Campaign” against the six…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Protest and Resistence
… Hardship and control A Scene showing hundreds of anti-pass demonstrators. Most newcomers found themselves squeezed … and pushed up the rents. Added to these…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1900-1947
… for a court order forcing the Registrar of Deeds to pass the transfer. The judgment established the principle … in order to deal with squatting and enforcing…
PlaceAddo Heights, Uitenhage
… where succulents grow'. This is an official Pass as logged on the Government maps, but when you drive it, … which cartographer had the courage to name this…
ArticleLetters: Albertina Sisulu
… sons to study hard because it will be a disgrace if you pass examinations and they fail. I have spoken to many people … I want the photos of all of you,…
ArticleWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa by Cait Chapman
… racially oppressed groups within South Africa. Apartheid laws were crushing the economy within the … the state (South Africa History Online). Ultimately,…
Opening address by Albert Luthuli to Conference on Unemployment, Low Wages and Poverty, 21 October 1961, Durban
… unemployment, now most acute and severe, most stringent pass laws that needlessly land in gaols thousands yearly, influx … opposition to separative and…
For Africanisation of the Party Letter from Moses M Kotane in Cradock to Johannesburg District Party Committee dated February 23, 1934.
… System. The Native Indenture system. The special penal laws which make it a crime for a native to absent himself … against all the workers, white and black…
In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
… and Europe. By the mid-1980s, civil protests and the new laws that forced foreign nationals to participate in the … * The consumer population was too small:…
Speech on the Sixtieth Anniversary of the ANC, Lusaka by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1972
… kind of dialogue can we have with people who have passed laws which bind us, hands and feet? How can we talk about "relaxing" the hated Pass Laws which…
Launch of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… of sabotage: “Our first target in Durban was the Durban pass office. Billy, Curnick, Bruno and myself went to plant a … planted this bomb at the door of the…
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
… this crucial time in their development, as they strive to pass from their primitive way of life into the stream of the … circulation of 450, 000 copies per…
Americans for South African Resistance, 25 June 1982
… of the beginning of the Defiance Campaign against Unjust Laws of South Africa, sponsored by the African National … themselves to "declare war" on apartheid…
Chapter I - Twenty thousand strong we marched
… carrying letters of defiant protest against unjust laws, against the hated pass system, against passes for African women. We represent … of passes. Raids,…
ArticleHuman Rights and the South African Constitution
… in South Africa, including the government, and all laws are subject to and must follow the Constitution. The …
ArticleNapoleon Bonaparte
… d’etat or military takeover. He now had the power to make laws, appoint government ministers and declare war. He ruled … democratic) way, but reformed and…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… and announced a new campaign, the Defiance of Unjust Laws Campaign, to commence on 26 June. 27 April, Walter … Cape, had courted imprisonment for defying the…
ArticlePublic Protest in Democratic South Africa
… service delivery protest, protest against undemocratic laws or land distribution has become integral part of the … various communities. There are other…
Slavery and Emancipation of Slaves
… trade in the British Empire. In the Cape, Amelioration laws that were aimed at improving the welfare of slaves in … by the British government was appointed…
ArticleThe Homelands
… from the South African political system under the many laws and policies created by Apartheid. The idea was to … but they were not completely independent…
Women’s liberation by Zanele Dhlamini (Mbeki)
… to them as members of a supreme White race. Divorce laws, laws governing succession, illegitimacy and … apartheid. They live in constant fear of arrest under…
Message over Radio Tanzania to the people of South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 26 June 1969
… land, driven us out of our homes, enslaved us under their pass laws. They live like lords on the wealth of our country and …
A Call to Action. Message over Radio Tanzania to the people of South Africa by O. R. Tambo, 26 June 1969
… land, driven us out of our homes, enslaved us under their pass laws. They live like lords on the wealth of our country and …
Sadecque Variava
… of South Africa. He was taken to Modderbee Prison under laws allowing for preventive detention. Many prominent …
Pretoria Socialist Society
… Books of the Union of South Africa a large number of laws which cause my people tremendous hardship and suffering. The African people view these laws as…
Document 28 - Brian Bunting, “Problems of the Multi-Racial Conference”, Liberation, 28, November 1957
… under the lash of the colour bar that are hounded by the pass laws, deprived of the right to live a normal life by section … the industrialists and finance…
South African Constitution 1996
… is the supreme law of the land, against which all other laws are judged. The constitution made provision for the …
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM)
… population with an ever increasing plethora of oppressive laws, designed to suppress the majority of the population. … population with an ever increasing…
The Industrial Workers of Africa, 1917-1921 by Bikisha Media Collective
… their movement controlled by the internal passport, or "pass law" system that affects every black working man, their … to unionise in order to win higher…