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January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 103th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… innocent citizens who were protesting against the unjust pass laws. We recall that it is thirty years since the ANC`s Kabwe … the oil price remains low, the…
EventAbolition of Racially Based Land Measures Act is adopted
… Measures Act 108 of 1991, which scrapped the segregation laws relating to the use and occupation of land. The new act made provision to repeal and amend laws…
EventNamibia’s constitution is ratified
… Africa from 1920 until 1990. This meant that South African laws applied to Namibia. These included the laws designed to entrench White minority rule. After…
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
… and civil disobedience in defiance against the Apartheid laws being instituted by the National Party Government. In a … community, and with the hopes of…
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… this period the Apartheid government passed a range of laws that prevented Blacks from bargaining with employers through negotiations. These laws remained in…
Don’t eat potatoes!
… farms at Bethel, how they used to take the boys for the pass offences and so on. If a boy did not have his pass the police would arrest him and take him to a…
ArchiveCourt Monitoring Report for Black Sash National Conference 1987
… Black Sash National Conference on 14 March 1987 discussing pass courts, influx control, migrant labour, violence, case …
Banishment
… me and he says, 'You can't be registered until you have a pass.' And so this pass business comes back again. I still didn't have a pass at that time and they…
ArchiveMeeting: twenty five years of Republic, the crisis continues
… Wed, 29 May. Artwork of a policeman checking the pass of a blck man next to him. …
Communist Party of South Africa, What is the Native Independent Republic? (1934)
… have chained him to his place by means of the pass system, have deprived him of the opportunity of freely … opportunity of freely selling their own labour…
ArticleChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli timeline 1800 - 1967
… African Native National Congress (SANNC) organises an anti-pass campaign. In Johannesburg alone, 700 arrests are made … Luthuli at the time of the Treason…
EventHajara Ibrahim appears before a Nigerian Islamic court to launch an appeal against her conviction for adultery
… Sharia law refers to a body of Islamic religious laws and deals with aspects of everyday life, such as … towards women is justified by the enforcement of…
ArchiveMandelas moment of truth at CODESA
… Africa - even the name belies its function) has come to pass; and for the oppressed the only truthful statement made …
PlaceCeres Road, entrance to Wolseley
… Ceres Road was located at the entrance to Mitchell's Pass, and adjoined the Village of Wolseley. Both were …
BiographyIsmail Jacob Mohamed
Professor Ismail Jacob (Josef) Mohamed was born on 27 July 1930 in Barkley East, Eastern Cape. His parents divorced before he was five years old. His mother,…
ArchiveThe Black Sash National Conference presidential Address held at Durban, 1978
… held at Durban on 13 Mar 1978, discussing: Apartheid, Pass offenders, prisons, housing, unemployment, forced …
BiographyPeter Henry Abrahams
… sister Margaret (Mattie). Margaret was fair enough to “pass” (as white) and was married to a Scott “I remember my …
EventCriminal Law Amendment Act No 8 commences
… other assistance for any organized resistance against the laws of the Union. In addition, the Act stated that anyone … was organised in protest against…
PlaceNaauwpoort
… in Ditsobotla, North West. The name is Dutch for 'narrow pass' or 'narrow gap'. In 2011 it had a population of 7848. …
Address by I. B. Tabata, AAC Conference, December 16,1941
… the chains tying down the African —the Colour Bar Laws, the Pass Laws and the Poll tax—we have been driven back to a … under which they are living…
EventSouth African Parliament repeals The Separate Amenities Act of 1953
… system of "petty apartheid," the name given to apartheid laws concerned with the regulation of day-to-day life, most … apartheid is sometimes compared with…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… the Defiance Campaign in 1953 in the wake of the Criminal Laws Amendment Act, and the continued presence on the statute … It called on them to speak of long…
Excerpts from Chief Luthuli’s evidence at the treason trial dealing with his understanding of a non-violent liberation struggle
… "To hinder and hamper the state in the enforcement of laws and themaintenance of peace and order?" There was no … say with the years it's becoming more rated…
"Racial Crisis in South Africa" . Address to meeting of Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, March 2, 1961
… women and children protesting against what is known as the pass law system were killed. They were demonstrating in a … and poverty of the African people…
Address to the Congress of the People - Libya Tripoli, 19 March 1999
… not be condoned by any religious, human or international laws. The Jamahyria pledges co-operation with the … procedures and the trial, within the framework…
ArchiveInterview with Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe
… 1959, jailed for several years as a result of the PAC anti-pass campaign, restricted to living in Kimberley and banned …
'We Go To Action': Statement on the Launching In Natal of the Defiance Campaign, August 30, 1952
… passive resistance against discriminatory and unjust laws in the Union of South Africa with the object and hope of … are going into action against…
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… examinations which he achieves with a first class pass 1940s 1942 Is unanimously elected as Chairperson of the … is with Us" Address on Receiving the Degree…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement (BCM)
… an international team to go to South Africa to examine laws relating to political prisoners and detention. By 18 …
Chapter 15. The African Worker-A Policeman and Pair Of Handcuffs Always Waiting - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… and economic development follows its own course and laws. There is nothing singular about the clothing industry … Native Labour Regulations Act .. …