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Testimony of Bruno Mtolo, Johannesburg (Rivonia Trial), 15 January, 1964
… Berrange: How many sentences have you served? Mtolo: In 1950 there were several charges that were taken as one. I am … Mtolo: Yes. Berrange: That was in…
Nelson Mandela’s leadership: The early years (Part 1) by Raymond Suttner, 4 June 2018
… (although the Communist Party was declared illegal in 1950). Interestingly, Sisulu was ahead of his comrades in …
Chapter X - Final word
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph Right up to the morning of 1 July, I did not know what to expect. Even before the bans were due to expire I was…
ArticleA Culture of Survival
It was a struggle to survive in the city. Workers' wages did not keep pace with the cost of subsistence, and most black families lived below the bread line. …
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… the resistance, Doctors Dadoo, GM Naicker and Dr. Goonum. 1950 Was one of the keynote speakers at a mass meeting held …
The genesis of the armed struggle, 1960-1966
Introduction Sharpeville shortly after the shootings © Museum Africa. The 1960s marked an important watershed in South Africa's struggle against apartheid…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… under 'security' legislation has been in operation since 1950, whilst restriction of persons under emergency … of support is shifted from the state to the…
Remembering Nadine Gordimer (The Conversation), 15 July 2014
The passing of Nadine Gordimer is a tremendous loss, both to South Africa and to the literary world. For me, and others who knew her, it will also be an…
Curry and the South African Revolution by E. S. Reddy
Dr. Yusuf Dadoo once told me that Nelson Mandela had Indian friends in college and used to visit Indian homes. He would not accept the food they offered until…
ArchiveHow the apartheid regime burnt books – in their tens of thousands, 24 October 2018
On the advice of the State Librarian one fine day in the 1970s, a truck transported thousands of books and magazines from Pretoria’s Central Police Station to…
Albie Sachs: From freedom fighter to justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court by Morris Arvoy
Albie Sachs, an internationally known human rights activist and top judge in South Africa, suffered solitary confinement and exile and survived a bomb attack…
4. Conclusion
… voted to dissolve itself at a meeting in Cape Town in June 1950 before the Suppression of Communism Act became law. …
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… there or visiting someone in the area (Horrell, 1978: 3). 1950 Introduced in February, the Population Registration Act, No. 30 of 1950 made racial…
Passive resistance in South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 2 June 1966
… of the political situation at any given time. On May 1, 1950, eighteen Africans were killed by the police during a … campaign for universal adult suffrage…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… native location's residents against dominance, 1904 to 1950." Historia 57, no. 1 (2012): 22-41, p.33. April 1928: … holds almost continuously until the party…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 4 Essay Questions and Answers
… Original Sources . (Shuter & Shooter: Pietermaritzburg, 1950.) [12] N. Worden, J. Bottaro, P. Visser, P. “In Search … Original Sources . Pietermaritzburg:…
The significance of the Bulhoek massacre today by Sam Matiase, 11 May 2015, South Africa
… on the land question and traces it as far back as from 06 April 1652. The land issue is the most critical pillar of …
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… He became known as the “Father of Namibian poetry.” [10] 1950 Naro and his Clan: The Lost World of the Bushmen by … it was first published in its English…
ArchiveWinnie Madikizela-Mandela: Revolutionary who kept the Spirit of Resistance alive by Shireen Hassim (The Conversation), 3 April 2018
No other woman – in life and after – occupies the place that Winnie Madikizela-Mandela does in South African politics. A stalwart of the African National…
The Role Of The Indian People In The South African Revolution: An Interview In 1968
… were conducted, such as the stay-at-home on May 1, 1950, the stay-at-home on June 26, 1950 (the first South Africa Freedom Day), and the Defiance …
Document 36 - Letter from E. R. Roux to the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, 18 November 1930
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 36 - Letter from E. R. Roux to … Radical Tradition a Documentary History…
PlaceMozambique
… area. Patrick Chamusso was born in Mozambique in 1949 (or 1950) into a rural family, with his father working as a …
ArchiveEleanor Kasrils: From Detainment to National Liberation by Nathan Greenhaw
… Act of 1963 and the Suppression of Communist Act of 1950 , but she was not detained without suspicion. Eleanor … to Democracy: South Africans Telling Their…
ArticleThe Cape Malay
… Africans. According to the Population Registration Act of 1950, South Africans were divided into four distinct … here. With the introduction of the Group…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… acts with censorship implications were passed between 1950 and 1959. 41 Much of the legislation used terms similar … censorship was the Suppression of…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
Britain, Diamond mining and increasing labour control and land expansion Before South Africa's vast mineral wealth was discovered in the late nineteenth…
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… because of the Suppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950, banned him from trade unions, placed him under house … Communist Party of South Africa before it…
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
The opening moment of education in South Africa coincides with the foundation of the colonial experience at the Cape in 1652. Six years after the Dutch East…
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
Traditional authorities were indispensable in the application of the provisions in the 1913 Natives Land Act in areas of rural South Africa designated as …
ArticleMiriam Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts by Connor Kirkpatrick
Miriam Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts Abstract: Miriam Makeba is a Grammy award-winning singer. She is from Johannesburg and dedicated her life to…