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Cable to the United Nations Opposing Incorporation of South-West Africa, by Dr. A.B. Xuma, January 1946
… and economic rights her 8,000,000 Africans. 83 percent Land reserved for 2,000,000 Europeans only less than 17'/2 …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Special Focus: Wrangling between political groups - 1946
… is hard put to secure the collaboration of Indians on the Land Tenure Mr. A.I. Meer, a Joint Secretary of the Natal … were opposed to the struggle launched…
ArticlePre-colonial history of Southern Africa
… followers so that he was surrounded by uninhabited land. Consequently, the land appeared empty when Voortrekkers crossed the Vaal in …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1920 - 1929
1920 January, Gandhi wrote to the press on the South African Appellate Court's judgment in the case of the Krugersdorp Municipality vs. Mohamed Dadoo. The…
Speech on the Sixtieth Anniversary of the ANC, Lusaka by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1972
… moment of our lives? How can we talk of "ameliorating" the Land Laws which hand over nearly ninety percent of the land to 15 per cent of the population? Such…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Foreword
… Meer The 1946 Passive Resistance against the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Acts ushered in a … Campaign laid a Oasis for collective action…
Excerpts from discussions between a South African delegation led by Minister R F Botha and a United States delegation led by Deputy Secretary of State Frank Wisner on questions affecting southern Africa: Cape Town: 13 March 1986
Minutes of discussions held between the South African Government and the United States Government to discuss military and political solutions to achieve a…
ArchiveThe New South African Revolution by Prithiraj Dullay, 03 April 2017
… This insidious development met with outrage across the land. The president and his surrogates were untouched. The … corporate control of the economy. The…
STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA SADC CHAIRMAN ON THE OCCASION OF THE OFFICIAL CLOSING OF THE SUMMIT OF HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT OF SADC Chichiri Conference Centre, 8 September, 1997
Opening address by CDE Nelson Mandela on the occassion of the signing of a statement of intent to set up a national capacity for Economic Research and Policy formulation 23 November 1991
Message from the President of the Republic of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the Start of the 16 Days of No Violence Against Women and Children Campaign, 25 November 2003
Statement by Mrs. Gertrude Shope at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women in South Africa and Namibia, 11 August 1981
On behalf of the Women`s Section of the African National Congress and in the name of the entire oppressed and struggling people of South Africa, I wish to…
EventSANNC (ANC) meeting is attended by a large number of people
… convened to discuss the conditions caused by the Native Land Act of 1913 and to chart a way forward. Also in the …
EventBambatha Rebellion
… of unskilled labour. Most African people lived off the land as farmers, tenants on White farms or in reserves …
EventNongqawuse’s unfulfilled prophecy
… Many AmaXhosa held the belief that the true plotters were land-hungry colonial authorities. …
PlaceBeaufort West, Cape Town
… Municipality in South Africa! John Molteno bought some land in the arid, Beaufort area and successfully introduced …
Pamphlet by Professor Z. K. Matthews, published in November 1946
… Africans a real share in shaping their own destiny in the land of their birth. Admittedly these high hopes were not … by the Council is the inequitable…
PlaceGreat Brak Rivier
… for the toll but, being reluctant to move, he purchased land behind the toll-house and started up a general store. In …
Defining the term 'Bantu'
… and led to the systematic separation of people from their land. A publication in 1956 by J.P. Bruwer, Die Bantoe van …
EventAssassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
… result in a revolution and instability that would free the land of Habsburg rule. He was correct, and his actions …
EventWorld War I begins
… result in a revolution and instability that would free the land of Habsburg rule. He was correct, and his actions …
85. Charter for Change, 1981
… the possibility of establishing a people's democracy. THE LAND The land belongs to all the people, whereas at present a minority …
Address by His Excellency President Jacob Zuma on the celebration of Freedom Day, 27 April 2011, Union Buildings, Pretoria
… from work each day. Pre-dating apartheid, the colonial era Land Act allocated only 13 percent of the land to the African majority. To this day, we are still …
PlaceZululand District Municipality
… with the strength of the Zulu Nation , who fought for this land. It is this area which is rich in symbolism and … of both the Battlefields Route and…
ArticleThe Sedition Trial 1946 - 1948
… Naicker , vigorously opposed the Ghetto Act which banned land transfers between Indians and non-Indians. By the time …
ArticleA History of Abantu-Batho Newspaper 1912-1931
… people. For instance, after the passing of the Natives Land Act in 1913 , the newspaper condemned the Act arguing …
PlaceVenda
… the Country and were contained on a fraction of the usable land in the Republic. In 1973 Venda was granted …
PlaceNiewoudtville
… It was named after the Nieuwoudt family, who owned the land until 1897, when it was purchased by the Dutch Reformed …
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt's landscapes of high voltage by Melvyn Minnaar, 21 November 2014
… surveyed by his travelling lens is the wide and woeful land. But, as the title makes clear, his appraisal is charged … of power vis-à-vis the realities and…
PlaceKwaMashu
… the sugar cane farmer and magnate who owned the land on which KwaMashu stands and who was a member of the … of prolonged negotiation and planning for the…