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ArticleSouth Africa and the United Nations, 1946-1990
… Court. The UN called on South Africa to lift all apartheid laws from Namibia and told the Trusteeship Committee to visit … for political prisoners and an end…
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
… own legislation. As a result of these conflicting laws, the status of customary law differed across various … v. Lake & Others, 1906) In response, these…
Apartheid - The early 1980s
… to apartheid in the early 1980s. Specific apartheid laws were relaxed or removed, such as laws regarding separate amenities (link to Gr 12 Segregation ……
ArticleLand, Labour and Apartheid
… society was broken up The government also introduced laws to protect white labour - reserving certain jobs for … to be looked after by other family members…
33. Restrictive legislation against Indians not warranted, 1897
… is beyond dispute, and however disagreeable may be to pass such legislation, it has been an imperative duty and must be undertaken. The Bill to amend the…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
… (AAC) and the African National Congress (ANC) meet and pass a resolution regarding World War II. They sympathise … Trade Unions, the Native Administration…
ArticlePeter Magubane Timeline 1932-
… Pretoria. 2006 Awarded Honorary Doctorate (Doctor of Laws (LLD) Honoris Causa) by Rhodes University, Grahamstown. …
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… as 'illegitimate'. He then proceeded to argue that the laws in place were equally draconian and that defiance of these laws was justified. The Rivonia Trial…
ArticleCustomary Marriages in South Africa: Understanding The Recognition of Customary Marriages Act of 1998
… of South Africa (1996), the parliament was authorised to pass legislation which would recognise customary marriages. … in terms of culture and religion and…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… further isolate the country’s black people through various laws and severe repressive measures. In addition, in the face … , where the government violently…
Document 2 - Against the C.A.D. for Full Democratic Rights [1943]
… be elected to the Houses of Parliament), by the Franchise Laws Amendment Act of 1931 (which gave every White male … any part of country - this implies the…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Essay Questions
An image of bold, selfless youth in late 1970s South Africa inspired by the black radical consciousness philosophy. Image Source Essay Question: To what…
ArticleJune 16 Soweto Youth Uprising timeline: 1976-1986
… to Soweto schools. 230 000 people were arrested for pass law offences. Funds for Bantu Education increased from … .Assemblies Act of 1956, and sections of…
EventWalter Sisulu arrested under the Suppression of Communism Act
… came the official implementation of apartheid. Repressive laws were soon introduced with a proposal to ban the … 1950 to protest against the newly…
PlaceDefence Force HQ, Pretoria- Artillery Barracks
… the plant being connected with the building. To enter you pass under a magnificent arch, and over this is hung a … a man has had for dinner. The corridors…
PlaceArtillery Road Barracks at the H.Q. of South African Defence
… the plant being connected with the building. To enter you pass under a magnificent arch, and over this is hung a … a man has had for dinner. The corridors…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Bantu and the Gospel
… it assumes that " these phenomena are subject to natural laws, and that it is possible by the application of certain … European missionary among the Bantu…
ArchiveThe world's only privately owned Catholic Church
… understandable that while meandering through Van Reenen’s pass, negotiating its dangerous terrain, a traveller is … village. Johnson is not perturbed by the…
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad 1906 - 1990
… to the UK in response to the implementation of new land laws in the Orange Free State, which had stripped black … action, which involved breaking unjust…
EventA proposed amendment to the Population Registration Act is made
… determined the implementation of many other racially based laws. One of the apartheid laws passed in the 1950s was the Group Areas Act, which …
PlaceThembuland
… equally to all male residents, regardless of race. Its laws also forbade any white settlement in traditional "Native … Gcaleka and Mpondo enemies. According…
Event90-Days Act comences
… The General Laws Amendment Act of 1964 (passed in 1963) or the 90-Day … only person on whom it is exercised. In 1964 the General Laws Amendment Act is…
ANC Press Statement presented by Oliver Tambo, 16 August 1985, Lusaka
… to refine the system of influx control, to modernise the pass laws and make them cost-effective so that more families can …
Call for United Front by Albert Luthuli, 5 November 1961
… step a national minimum wage of £1-a-day must be demanded. Pass laws and influx control, the cornerstones of economic and …
ANC Press Statement by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 16 August 1985
… to refine the system of influx control, to modernise the pass laws and make them cost-effective so that more families can …
Document 4 - ‘Our Annual Conference - An Inspiring Gathering’: report in the ‘South African Worker’
… Secondly, and also as a matter of urgency, to repeal the pass laws which demonstrate to blacks more clearly than anything …
Apartheid
… Photographs of scenes of South Africa. Photograph of a pass book. Information on apartheid. …
ArchiveApartheid dehumanizes
… from the apartheid era. Artwork of a black hand holding a pass book. …
PlaceWestern Cape Province
… slow down. Roads and passes carved by time Attakwaskloof Pass/ Vdiest (talk) (Uploads) , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Attakwaskloof Pass Used as…
EventNames of 303 banned people are published
… of 303 persons on whom banning notices under the General Laws Amendment Act of 1963 (the so-called 90 Day Act), … had been charged with contravention of the…