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ArchiveChapter 5 Last resort: armed resistance by Denis Goldberg
… African women in 1953 marched in protest against the pass laws being imposed on them. The government used its training … administration, to hand in a…
From Protest to Challenge: Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964 Volume 2
… of all race oppressions and discriminations, such as pass laws. In recent years it has succeeded in drawing into its … ministerial and other public offices…
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…
35. Colour legislation in the Orange River Colony
… that there are very great privileges reserved, by the laws referred to, to the wearers of a coloured skin, we may … to obtain exemption from liability to…
The ANC Women’s League in the Struggle for Women’s Rights in South Africa by Meghan Knapp
… 1913. The league worked at ‘ uniting African women against pass laws, rising food prices ’ and forms of discrimination at … in 1954 as well as the mass…
Document 119 - Non-European United Front of South Africa, Minutes of Conference held in City Hall, Cape Town, 8 to 10 April 1939
… land where they please and demands the repeal of existing laws under which Africans: Indians and Coloureds are already … future. Mr. Cookson: The Africans…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes
… roughly 7 percent of the land in 1936. The Native Laws Amendment Act (1937) aimed at bringing urban policy in … the land laws and the reserve system, poll…
ArticleContinued resistance and internal criticism 1920s and 1930s
… and called for changes, participated in the 1919 anti-pass campaign, and resisted the Hertzog Bills, which called …
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… which she denounced the violence, denounced discriminatory laws, affirmed the resisters' commitment and appealed to the … the ANC and were drawn into women's…
Chapter 12
… Charter-Bill of Rights. Then there was the National Anti-Pass Campaign Committee, the Unity Fact between the three … two of Dr. Xuma's political ventures:…
ArchiveChapter 6 Underground in Joburg by Denis Goldberg
… in response, introduced two savage new security laws, the 90-Day Law and the Sabotage Act. The new laws did … from the next higher level. I would therefore…
Document 38 - “How to Build o Revolutionary Mass Party in South Africa: A letter from the Executive Committee of the Communist International, “Umsebenzi, 12 December 1930
… the Riotous Assemblies Act, in open violation of slave laws, like the pass laws, refusal to pay taxes, etc. These processes now … nationalist movement; the…
ArticleHistory of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa
… will, the slave owners and the VOC needed a system of laws to ensure that slaves were kept in their subordinate … beatings like these were very common even…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Source-Based Questions and Answers
Based on the 2012 Grade 10 NSC Exemplar Paper: Grade 10 Past Exam Paper Grade 10 Source Addendum Grade 10 Past Exam Memo Source A: Source…
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
… , the Act was not entirely without precedent. The security laws of the 1950s and 1960s served as clear models for the … 1978, 155). Criminal Procedure Act…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Essay Questions
… trade was abolished. These slaves were subjected to Dutch laws, customs and were exposed to racist ideologies where …
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
… curtailing civil liberties and noted that these laws have fallen so thick in recent years that few are likely … the COP and adoption of the Freedom Charter;…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… disciplined and sustained protest campaign against pass laws, starting on 21 March. 19 March, Sobukhwe announces that the PAC would embark on a campaign…
ArticleTransition and negotiation, 1990-1994
… 'Laws do not make a better society, people do ... it is …
My Spirit Is Not Banned - Introduction by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… against blacks became the order of the day with laws such as the 1913 Land Act, which removed most black … and militant, particularly in campaigns such as…
Farewell Speech On Eve Of Imprisonment, February 29, 1948
… Nazi Elements Dr. Dadoo went on to trace how successive laws affecting the African and Indian people have led to … faith in the masses of the people. We have…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 102th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… BEEN NINETY-FIVE YEARS SINCE THE FORMAL PROTESTS AGAINST PASS LAWS, firstly by women in the Free State and also anti-pass campaigns organised in the…
Introduction - My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… against blacks became the order of the day with laws such as the 1913 Land Act, which removed most black … and militant, particularly in campaigns such as…
EventPiet Retief's Great Trek manifesto is completed
Piet Retief completes the manifesto that sets out the reasons why the Voortrekkers are leaving the Cape Colony. It is published in English in the Graham's Town…
GANDHI THE PRISONER
… yet invented the vast repertoire of so-called "security laws", that we had to contend with in our time. There was no … he refused to take out a registration…
Our Greatest Indian Leader since Gandhiji -Tribute to Dr. Gangathura Mohambry Naicker (From: Sechaba, second quarter), 1978
… arrogance of the white colonists found ready expression in laws denying them any semblance of civil liberties and … people: the great African Mineworkers`…
“Our Greatest Leader since Gandhiji”, By Dr Yusuf Dadoo
… arrogance of the white colonists found ready expression in laws denying them any semblance of civil liberties and … people: the great African Mineworkers`…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Intelligence Services Day 10th Anniversary Awards Ceremony and Inauguration of the Wall and Garden of Remembrance: Musanda, Tshwane: 24 November 2005
… in accordance with the Constitutional prescripts and the laws of our country, always respecting the privacy, dignity … undertaking to serve the Constitution,…
The Treason Trialists, 1956
… Jerry Dibanhlele Kotane, Moses M. Kumalo, Joseph M. 'Anti-Pass' La Guma, Alex Lee-Warden, L. B. (M.P.) Letele, Dr. …