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ArchiveThe Final Prize - Contents and Preface
From the book: The Final Prize by Norman Levy “Everyone has a story”, Sephiwe, the librarian at the Robben Island Mayibuye Archive, said to me as he handed me…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Introduction
… We are not Alone: The Making of a Mass Movement, 1950-1960, Staffrider, Volume 8, Numbers 3 and 4, 1989, p.9. …
PlaceBishopscourt, Cape Town
Bishopscourt, Cape Town, was a prime example of the Group Areas Act's cruel impact, where non-white families (the Protea Village community) were forcibly…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the1940s by Mohamed Adhikari
… series of high-ranking posts in the United Nations and in 1950 was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role as …
Side By Side: The Autobiography of Helen Joseph
Helen Joseph is one of the most well-known South African women to campaign against apartheid. Her autobiography is being published on her 81st birthday and is…
Document 57 - Letter from the Communist League of South Africa to the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 13 January 1936
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 57 - Letter from the Communist …
Document 31 - Letter from E.R. Roux to Victor Danchin, 6 March 1929
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 31 - Letter from E.R. Roux to …
Document 19 - Communist Party of South Africa, Memo on S.A.F.N.T.U. (1930)
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 19 - Communist Party of South … Radical Tradition a Documentary History…
EventRay Alexander Simons, founder of Food and Canning Workers Union, arrives in South Africa
Ray Alexander Simons nee Alexandrowich arrives in South Africa from Latvia where she was born on 12 January 1913. After her arrival in the country she realized…
EventSupreme Court changes ruling on forced removals, traditionally
From 1960 to 1983, the apartheid Government forcibly moved 3.5 million Black South Africans in one of the largest mass removals of people in modern history…
EventThomas Titus Nkobi is born
Thomas Titus Nkobi was born in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in Southern Matabeleland. At the age of ten, Nkobi followed his father who was a migrant…
EventHarry Frederick Oppenheimer is born in Kimberley
Harry Frederick Oppenheimer was born in Kimberley on 28 October 1908 to Ernest Oppenheimer and Mary Lina Pollock. Oppenheimer completed his primary education…
The role of Cecil John Rhodes' British South African Company in the Conquest of Matabeleland
… ↵ [xxvii]Ibid. ↵ [xxviii]Southern Rhodesia 1890 – 1950; A record of Sixty years progress …
Control: 1910 - 1948
Intervention from Above: The 1913 Native Land Act "Awaking on Friday morning, June 20, 1913, the South African Native found himself, not actually a slave,…
ArticleOvercoming Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid by Bennett Gwynn
… sanctioned townships created by the group areas act of 1950 (Group Areas Act (South Africa [1950]). This act deterred the domestic workers unionisation …
ArticleThe 2nd Johannesburg Biennale
… as Santu Mofokeng’s Black Photo Album/ Look at Me, 1890-1950 and Penny Siopis’ My Lovely Day to much wider audiences. …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: Pre-1500
… BP = Before present, calculated backwards from the date AD 1950 4 000 000 BP Australopithecus: 'southern ape'. These …
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
… through petitions and deputations. In the period between 1950-1952, the ANC resorted to disruptive mass action, …
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
Racial segregation and white supremacy had become central aspects of South African policy long before Apartheid started. The notorious 1913 Land Act, passed…
ArticleDr G M 'Monty' Naicker - Timeline
… it ruled against their right to cross-examine witnesses. 1950 – The SAIC set up a Joint Consultative Committee with …
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
The Ndebele and the apartheid state When the Nationalist Party was elected to power in 1948 by a minority of the white electorate, their platform promised…
Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… else. According to the Population Registration Act of 1950 , every person had to be classified and registered as … on South Africa the 1980s. Resistance to…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… Women’s Movement in Action Protests started as early as 1950 when rumours of the new legislation were leaked in the … Town and Pietermaritzburg. In the…
Document 65 - Minutes of the meeting of the Workers’ Party of South Africa. Johannesburg Branch held at 90 President Street, Johannesburg, Friday, 24 July 1936 at 8 p.m.
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 65 - Minutes of the meeting of …
Document 58 - Letter from the Communist League of South Africa to the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 18 February 1936
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 58 - Letter from the Communist …
Document 40 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi to the Communist League of America’, 26 April 1932
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 40 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi … Radical Tradition a Documentary History…
EventWalter Sisulu, co-founder of the ANCYL and Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born
… the moving spirit behind all the great campaigns in the 1950's, as well as the transformation of the ANC in 1960-61 …
Document 70 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 26 August 1937
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 70 - Letter from the Workers' …
Document 95 - “Welcome The All-African National Convention! African National Convention Must Mark Beginning of National Liberation Movement”, South African Worker, 27 June 1936
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew The African National Convention must …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Bibliography
… Luli. We are not Alone: The Making of a Mass Movement, 1950-1960. Staffrider , Volume 8 Numbers 3 and 4, 1989, p 91. …