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ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… 1948, the National Party-led government began implementing apartheid by passing a series of racist laws, notably the … by launching the Defiance Campaign and…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… The National Party was elected in 1948 on the policy of Apartheid ('separateness'). This 'separateness' put South … The Group Areas Act was fashioned as the …
ArticleWomen’s Rights and Representation
… Act from being regarded as spouses in the context of other legislation. But he held that the exclusion of people married under Muslim rites was clearly a…
ArticleWomens Rights
… Act from being regarded as spouses in the context of other legislation. But he held that the exclusion of people married under Muslim rites was clearly a…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… of a 30-year ban on the ANC, the PAC and other anti-apartheid organisations, the suspension of the death sentence … up of police officers which was used to…
ArticleThe history of Migrant Labour in South Africa
… mines. The migrant labour system is the evidence of how legislation was used to the benefit of mining magnates and … recruitments to South Africa as a form…
ArticleSouth African Defence Force (SADF)
… Africa dispatched 400 000 men, full-time and part-time. Legislation The South African Defence Act, signed in 1912 by … states of emergency (such as after the…
ArticleThe South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO)
… African National Congress (ANC) in its campaign against Apartheid . James la Guma and Reggie September were two of … sentiment among Afrikaners, and a…
The Bill of Rights
… or if necessary develop, the common law to the extent that legislation does not give effect to that right; and b. may … one or more grounds in terms of…
Liberation
… to know. We are the people who have borne the brunt of apartheid, of forced removals from our homes, of poverty in … in 1994.) The challenge to undo…
ArticleResponse to the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising by organisations in exile
… It became the major rallying point of the struggle against apartheid. Military Response: Camps in exile The incident … installations and the subsequent…
ArticleEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC)
… force" camps that could be as lengthy as three months. Legislation had also broadened the base of eligible White men … seeking political asylum and working…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
… an anomalous position within the politics of the anti-apartheid struggle. He brokered Zulu ethnic nationalism, feeding a measure of credibility into…
ArticleA history of prison labour in South Africa
… general. This favoured his eventual rehabilitation. Under apartheid, thousands of black prisoners, and those who had … the treatment of prisoners. In 1959, a…
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
… up its election victory with the introduction of new apartheid laws as well as the stricter application of existing discriminatory legislation such as the…
ArticleThe Destruction of Sophiatown
… Apartheid's Truimph Over Non-Racialism The destruction of … Nationalist Party (NP) government's model for its urban apartheid legislation and policies…
ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
… 1 040 police stations. South African riot police during Apartheid in the 1950’s. Source: www.capetown.at The most … of the country. South African riot police…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… importance on controlling imagery. As we have seen, the apartheid regime extensively legislated against inflammatory imagery, but as an aside to censorship…
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 … Party (NP) came to power, introduced…
ArticleHow the Group Areas Act shaped spaces, memories and identities in Cape Town
… to identities that were socially constructed through Apartheid engineering. The importance of these identities was … unwholesome ways. [ix] For many it meant…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline 1850-1889
1800s 1850 The Natal Legislative Council passes Law 14 of 1859 allowing the Government to import labour from India. 1860 16 November, The first batch of…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… the forging of a broad-based non-racial alliance against apartheid and white minority rule. Confronted by opposition … challenges that face them in the light…
Ruth First Untold by Jerry Saena
… assisted with her important role in the abolishment of apartheid. She wrote major articles and books that would aid anti-colonial and anti-apartheid…
ArticleThe Constitution
… the duties and responsibilities of citizenship. National legislation must provide for the acquisition, loss and … A Pan South African Language Board…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Albert John Luthuli
… to the non-violent resistance struggle against apartheid in South Africa . Not only did Luthuli become the … majority of South Africans perpetuated by the…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… 1994, and was disbanded in 2005. Its policies included apartheid, the establishment of a South African Republic, and … Pact Government’s greatest progress…
Biography of Arthur Nortje by Kangkang Yang
… in South Africa was marked by incredible racial tension as apartheid divided the nation. Caught in the middle of this … opposing forces of White and Black…
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, … (PF), a loose alliance of parties…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… segregation of Indians . It also recommends that existing legislation on Indians in the Transvaal be retained, but that … in a specified area along the coast…
ArticleAnti-Pass Campaign
… 3,1960, goaded the Nationalist Party by criticizing apartheid and proclaiming that "winds of change" were … freedom. The PAC opposed every piece of the…