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Khoisan Identity
… the Khoisan peoples lost many of their claims to land, land which largely has never been restored to them. Since the Land Restitution Act of 1994 does not…
BiographyCharles Templeman Loram
… published as The Education of the South African Native (1917), was long the standard work on me subject. … of education for more than a decade, then served…
ArticlePolokwane/Pietersburg Timeline 1835-1995
… 1912 Founding of the African National Congress 1913 First Native Land Act passed 1914 Formation of National Party Railway …
71.The Group Areas Act
… by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai When the Group Areas Act was passed in 1950, all Indian political organisations … of the African people have been…
BiographyMakomba Ngomane
… [now Mpumalanga Province]. They were to be relocated on Native Trust land elsewhere in the Barberton district. Several meetings … Chief, Makomba Ngomane, was…
ArticleA history of Soweto
… example Kimberly, black people were forbidden from owning land to prospect for gold. Prospective rights were for whites … alternative earnings by coming to…
ArticleAnti-pass campaigns, 1910s
… bitter and disappointed about the recently passed Natives Land Act (1913), so tensions were high. On 28 May 1913 a mass … their fate in their own hands. An…
BiographyNokutela (nee Mdima) Dube
… Dube , the first President General of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC- later renamed the African … education in the United States, later…
BiographyMoses Josiah Madiba
… the latter two qualifications from the South African Native College (later University of Fort Hare). Madiba's … advisor. He represented the TTU on the…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
… representing the ANC, the APO , the Indian Congress , the Native Voters Association, the Bantu Union and religious and … Indian Congress meeting where the…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1930-1939
… Congress (TAC) hosts anti-pass meetings in the Western Native Township. 19 May, White women over the age of 21 are … 3.1% to 1.4%. 21 May, The Riotous…
BiographyPhilemon Pearce Nokwe
… at Crown Mines.) Nokwe then proceeded to the South African Native College (University of Fort Hare) where he obtained a … for five years under the…
BiographyFlorence Elizabeth Mnumzana
… of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) (Western Native Township Branch), and in 1964 she joined the executive … of the Federation of South African…
ArticleThe Influenza epidemic
… the 13 and 18 September with members of the South African Native Labour Contingent (SANLC) on board. It was established … Africans the epidemic came after…
BiographyVictor Poto
… Pondoland, attended Healdtown and the' South African Native College (later Fort Hare), and was installed as …
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… and Black in South Africa. 1931 Xuma testifies before the Native Economic Commission and Liquor Commission. 21 October: … government later passes the…
BiographyGerard Bhengu
… the sponsorship of Dr D. M. Malcolm, Chief Inspector of Native Education in Natal and Mr S. R. Dent, Inspector of Native Education. He was taught by Reverend…
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… short of labour at the Cape. The Khoikhoi had lost their land to the colonisers in the late 1700’s and were forced to … area of discrimination and in 1911…
BiographyViolet Margaret Livingstone Ballinger
… with her family in 1904. She was a member of the white Native Representatives Council (NRC) in the 1930s, and … a motion calling for new direction in the…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Protest and Resistence
… Clash between strikers and police, 1913 Newcomers from the land The rapid development of the Rand brought regular waves … removing the independent small…
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… those which famously occurred under the Group Areas Act (and heavily influence urban landscapes today), it is … . Examples of pre-apartheid legislation…
The Indian People In South Africa: Facts: About The Ghetto Act
… the huge population of Indians own only 4 per cent of the land. There, the City Council spends £ 7. 3. 4 per head on … in many ways today in South Africa…
Ruth Alexander
… correspondents after Schreiner’s departure for Britain in 1913, with Alexander visiting Schreiner in London in 1920. … because of its increasingly retrograde…
BiographyDr Arthur Elias Letele
… Province. Following this, he studied at the South African Native College, which later became Fort Hare University, and …
ArticleThe formation of the SANNC/ANC
… from the four provinces attended the South African Native National Convention (SANNC) in Waaihoek, Bloemfontein, … to propose ways of objecting to the draft…
BiographyLeonard (Len) Lee-Warden
… Leonard (Len) Lee-Warden was born in 1913. A linotype operator, he came to South Africa in 1936 … represent them in Parliament in 1954. He then served as…
BiographyIssy Heymann
… Africa. In 1935, he became an executive member of the Native Trade Assistance Union and in 1936, he joined the … African Communist Party (SACP), executive…
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… policy long before Apartheid started. The notorious 1913 Land Act , passed three years after South Africa gained its … to work – and they had to leave when…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… to be banned under the Riotous Assemblies (Amendment) Act. He is exiled to Durban for a three-year period. Molly … May, Anti-Indian Legislation: The…
BiographyGeneral Jan Christiaan Smuts
… Army in 1941. During World War Two (WW2), inspired by the Native Representative Council, the African National Congress …