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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…
EventDumisani Makhaye passes away
… observation. He was the first MEC in the country to pass away in office. A committee was set up by the ANC and …
Chapter Four - The Years with the CPSA: 1925 - 1935
… for the negotiation of labour disputes but excluded pass-bearing African men from its provisions; while the … thousands were sacked to make way for 'poor…
EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs’ (CAD)
… a separate identity, reinforced by the various apartheid laws that strived to keep racial groups apart. Some of these laws included the Mixed Marriages Act,…
ArticleSPEAK Magazine (1982 - 1994)
… menstrual cycles, pregnancy prevention and even abortion laws. SPEAK knew that many women had questions about these … make an informed decision about their…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1920-1929
… headed by Sir Johannes Lange, is appointed to inquire into laws concerning the right of Asiatics to trade and acquire … Commission, appointed in February…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Silkaatsnek begins
… There is a pass in the Magaliesberg known as Silkaatsnek It was here … sent two groups of 200 men to scale both shoulders of the pass, where the British had…
The oldest forms of human communication
… were books. It was a way for families and communities to pass on information about their past. This infographic …
ArticleCall for submissions: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa Conference
… The risk is that, as generations of cadres gradually pass on or their memory fades, their knowledge will be lost …
Why protect worker’s rights?
… control, job reservation, poverty wages and oppressive laws. Nevertheless, trade unions were an important source of … the 1980s Cosatu organised mass strikes…
Why protect rights of gays and lesbians?
… One of South Africa's most bizarre and notorious anti-gay laws was introduced after a police raid on a gay party in a … of these offences violated the right…
ArticleTransformation in Southern Africa Timeline 1700-1800
… 1775 Apprenticeship laws are promulgated at the Cape. 1800 A massive drought … eventually contributing to the Mfecane 1812 Apprenticeship laws are…
ArticlePoqo
… suppress any potential rebellion. Already strict security laws were strengthened when the Minister of Justice, B. J. Vorster , enforced the 1964 General Laws…
2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location
… evictions from white farms, stock restrictions and Pass Laws, and Africans in countryside towns, weary of tightened … could challenge unpopular laws and…
Address by President Jacob Zuma, at the James Sebe Moroka Lecture, Northwest Province, 22 August 2012
… of Voters Act, the Bantu Authorities Act, the pass laws and the stock limitation laws, and gave a deadline of 29 … like Mme Sina Keitsing. She was a veteran…
40. 1903 reviewed by Indian Opinion
… Act would mean a total repeal of the existing anti-Asiatic laws, and not an addition to the burden the Indians are … in South Africa, but we do contend that…
Say It out Loud - The 1912 Presidential Address, Johannesburg, Transvaal, 1st January, 1912
… free men and free women, who should be forced by coercive laws to work for others on such wages as those choose to pay … in the Cape Colony, every day of…
ArticleNelson Mandela: Father of the Nation
… they worked to end apartheid by abolishing apartheid laws, freeing civil rights protestors and unbanning political …
David Goldblatt: oblique apartheid look by Kenneth Baker, 5 December 2012
… mentioned there because it came under a different set of laws. But that fundamentally gives a framework for the … and they were everywhere. Ernest Cole had…
Archive`The struggle is my life`- Nelson Mandela press statement
… of our people are sent to gaol every month under the cruel pass laws? Why should we continue carrying these badges of …
Africans’ Claims in South Africa, 14 December 1943 by Alfred Xuma
… officials. 3. Freedom of residence and the repeal of laws such as the Natives (Urban Areas) Act, Native Land Act … freedom. 4. Freedom of movement,…
African Claims in South Africa by Dr Xuma, ANC Conference, 1943
… court officials. 3. Freedom of residence and the repeal of laws such as the Natives (Urban Areas) Act, Native Land Act … freedom. 4. Freedom of movement, and…
ArticleHistory of the ‘Indian Opinion’ newspaper
… 1906 onwards it became a vehicle for challenging state laws and urging defiance of these when these were clearly … - the devastating provisions of the Land…
EventSeparate Representation of Coloured Voters Act is passed
… struggle in courts and abortive parliamentary attempts to pass the Separate Representation of Coloured Voters Bill, the …
Post-detention weapons
… 841 people had been banned. 3. Bannings under the General Laws Amendment Act In 1962 the General Law Amendment Act, No. … African prisons. 2. Legislation…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… Africa was already a very segregated country, apartheid laws introduced after 1948 made segregation far more harmful to the non-White population. These laws…
50. The campaign resumed in 1913
… was soon disillusioned. The administration of existing laws specially affecting it grew steadily harsher. The Cape … Act, the Natal Licensing Act, the Gold…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… also seen as child molesters and this rhetoric was used to pass the Immorality Act amendments of 1968. Experiences of … towards issues it deemed deviant,…
Document 105 - John Gomas, “Cape Town: Liberation League Activities”, South African Worker, 17 April 1937
… The Government is passing oppressive and repressive laws against all sections - Natives, Coloured, Indian, Malay … the Non-European farmers will be excluded…
ArticleGandhi and the Passive Resistance Campaign 1907-1914
… self-government in 1893, the government passed a series of laws discriminating against Indians, requiring them to … them as a threat. Governments in all the…