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Document 98 - “The All African Convention”, Umlilo Mollo /The Flame, 1, 2, October 1936
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew At the beginning of October 1936 the …
Call for papers: 100 years of the SACP
… South Africa until its banning by the apartheid regime in 1950, played a major role in South Africa’s liberation …
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…
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:…
South African and World leaders
South African leaders South Africa has a long and very rich history. Many different cultures and communities live side by side and even together in South…
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
This article was written by Ashley Schumacher and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project During the year of 1955 in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
PlaceBelmond Mount Nelson Hotel, Cape Town
… install a heated swimming pool for its guests. Since the 1950's the Hotel has continued to upgrade itself to keep up …
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 …
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…
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…