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Chapter 10 - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… the government also introduced into parliament new legislation to enable it to ban the ANC and PAC. After days … minimum wage of £1 a day, and the repeal of…
ArticleThe Destruction of Sophiatown
… Party (NP) government's model for its urban apartheid legislation and policies. However, there are still glaring …
ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
… officers had to take care of other essential services. Legislation to cover this was soon passed and recruiting …
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… referred to as the "Ghetto Act". The aspect of the legislation defined areas where people of Indian origin … in the armed struggle, prison and exile life…
BiographyStephen Bantu Biko
… voice of Black liberation in South Africa between the mid 1960s and his death in police detention in 1977. This was the … pull out of NUSAS if the organisers…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Bibliography
… R. "African Townsmen.? South African Natives (Urban Areas) Legislation Through the Years." African Affairs 68 (271) … Class Character of South Africa's…
BiographyWinnie Madikizela-Mandela
… Winnie continued much as before, flouting racist Apartheid legislation and dumbfounding conservatives with her audacity …
ArticleSouth African Constitutional Development Timeline 1902 - 1997
… members of the ANC. The NP undertakes to review security legislation, to work towards lifting the state of emergency, … individual weapons will be licensed…
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… the Crown would for the first time in the history of the legislation of that Parliament by virtue of the phrase 'of … and efficient means whereby fair an…
ArticleThe South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO)
… so vigorously and effectively that by the middle of the 1960s, nearly every aspect of South African life was … Perhaps the most prominent piece of…
ArticleForced removals on Highveld and "black spots", 1912-1991
… In the early 1960s the Apartheid government moved swiftly to dislodge … rural society on the Highveld in ways envisaged in the legislation. The Act was…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Glossary
… ”” a document issued in terms of South African security legislation by which a person’s freedom of movement, … divisions. These policies were at their height…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… could lower the wages of all skilled miners. Anti- Indian Legislation Legislation was enacted in order to limit Indian … 1950s, Hillbrow went high-rise. In…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… that face them in the light of new pieces of apartheid legislation being introduced by the Malan Government. 11 … Riotous Assemblies Act No 17 is passed. In…
Document 38 - Certification of the Constitution; a summary of the judgment of the Constitutional Court
… in 1907 when led a batch of volunteers to defy anti-Asian legislation in the Transvaal. Non-violent defiance now …
ArchiveThe Final Prize - Contents and Preface
… when the apartheid government created the “enabling” legislation for perpetuating white rule. The Defiance … Act, described by Chief Luthuli as a “devil’s…
A Brief History of Niger - Part 1 by US Department of State
… of a constitutional referendum; the adoption of key legislation such as the electoral and rural codes; and the …
PlaceKronendal, Main Road, Hout Bay.
… Bierman. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 9 September 1960. Nowdays it has been …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… of expected strikes at the end of May. Defence legislation is amended to enable use of the armed forces for … of the Women's Section of the ANC in Tanzania…
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
… of Indians in Transvaal towns, but despite restrictive legislation enacted in 1885, Indians continue to settle in … settled by people who were later…
Chaskalson transcended his bias and loyalties by Tony Leon, 4 December 2012
… Party (SACP) drew attention to the fact that, in the 1960s and 1970s, Chaskalson was "an underground member of the … upheld the bulk of the most progressive…
Presidential Address to the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Natal Indian Congress, Durban, November 21, 1958
… in the Union for one of the avowed aims of this diabolical legislation is to enforce expatriation and pending which to … of cheap labour. The naked aim of…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter Three - By Riashnee Pather
… Pegging Act had expired that same year. The terms of this legislation for the most part upheld the stipulations of the … of the Group Areas Board. In return…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… within a year the town women's demands and the offending legislation was repealed. According to Wells, ‘Pretoria … Stanford University, 1977. Women's…
Black Reaction to Apartheid, 1948-1973 - Address to the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association by O. R. Tambo, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, 1973
… which resulted in bannings, the passing of new legislation intended to suppress this opposition, and a … of both political resistance and vicious…
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
… Zimbabwean poet Toby Tafirenyika Moyana: “all repressive legislation” impeded artistic work. Others fled because they … a wave of South African writers who…
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… vigorous police action and strict enforcement of security legislation resulted in hundreds of detentions (frequently … with the government's introduction of…
ArticleOrganisation of African Unity (OAU)
… former envisioned grandeur. The turbulence of the early 1960s pressed the notion of African countries presenting a … the Refugee Convention never filtered…
Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event
… situation had been developing in Soweto since the mid-1960s as a result of an accumulation of various grievances. … divisions. These policies were at their…