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Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… was unable to implement its envisaged fare hike. The 1946 Indian Passive Resistance Campaign Dr GM Naicker, President of the Natal Indian Congress, addresses…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… A meeting is held between the Nationalist Bloc, Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) leadership and the Indian Agent-General, Sir Benegal Rama Rau, to unite the ……
BiographyPieter Willem Botha
… Party support. Furthermore, he did not award Coloured and Indian moderates with real partnership in the new Tricameral …
BiographyShaka Zulu
… area of south-east Africa between the Drakensberg and the Indian Ocean, a region populated by many independent Nguni … built a far bigger KwaBulawayo, a…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… group which was affiliated to the NEUM. 1944 Raised £1 000 for the famine relief in Bengal 1946 Her political … at the age of 17 when she was a high school…
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… another boost. Afrikaner women, like their African, Indian and Coloured counterparts, began to enter the labour … industrial sector. Segregation legislation…
ArticleBantu education and the racist compartmentalizing of education
… whites. Nationally, pupil:teacher ratios went up from 46:1 in 1955 to 58:1 in 1967. Overcrowded classrooms were used … now effectively separated from white…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… 27, Dominion Party 8, Labour Party and the Socialists 1. But as Bunting points out: "The enormous majority... was … Simons state "of all those in the…
ArticleDevelopments leading to the New Dispensation
… ‘grey areas’ were beginning to emerge, where African, Indian and Coloured people took up residence in formerly … were Afrikaans speakers. The appeal of the…
BiographyStephen Bantu Biko
… proximity there were between White, Black, Coloured and Indian people by creating new residential areas, new parallel … that all the White students went…
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… Wanterer . Not unexpectedly Byrne went bankrupt in 1850. 1 August, Death in office of Martin T West, first … meeting was held in Durban to propose the…
ArticleGandhi and the Passive Resistance Campaign 1907-1914
… as Maureen Swan has demonstrated, was not the initiator of Indian political activity in Natal and South Africa. Indian traders and middle classes had already…
BiographyIsmail Jacob Mohamed
… campaign (which the then Government introduced for the Indian and Coloured communities) as soon as he was strong …
The 1980s and the crisis of Apartheid
… of South Africans classified 'Coloured' and ' Indian ' but excluded Blacks. Blacks were seen to have … (Coloured representatives) The House of Delegates …
ArticleInsurrections Ensemble
… you create music that can find a home on both sides of the Indian Ocean beyond the cliché of “fusion”? Are Indian forms compatible with their African…
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
… bloodlines constituting ‘coloured’ or Camissa, - white, Indian, Cape Khoena, amaXhosa, Griqua and Nama and he has a … to appearance and association. His…
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
… are different. Already the names – African, Coloured and Indian – are practically out of date; they no longer … the subsequent developments that came with…
Speech delivered on the condolence motion in honour of the late Ebrahim "Cas" Saloojee in the national assembly – 5 February 2009
… people. Cas spearheaded the formation of the Johannesburg Indian Social Welfare Association (JISWA), and served as its … Under the banner of the revived…
ArticlePondoland
… area is situated on the South African coast of the Indian Ocean , in the Eastern Cape Province. The boundaries …
ArticlePassive Resistance in South Africa
… Africa is seen as, largely, led by M K Gandhi and the Indian Congresses campaigns. However, this form of passive … Gandhi and the Passive Resistance Campaign…
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 110 of 1983
… parliament to include the participation of Coloured and Indian people and exclude Black people. The proposal … for Coloured people and the House of Delegates…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Diverse Culture Artistic and Linguistic Heritage
… Khoisan people. South Africa’s Asian population is mostly Indian in origin and is largely based in kwaZulu-Natal . … These are English (9.6%), Afrikaans (13…
Article1913 Satyagraha Campaign Resumes
… reproduced below, A.M. Cachalia, chairman of the British Indian Association, explains to the Secretary of the Interior … another issue: marriages contracted…
ArticleHigh Farce in the House
… one NPP MP voting to support military conscription for Indian youth because he could not read Afrikaans, the … Areas Act, the Labour Party opposed the…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… Venture in Brakpan, will facilitate the re-processing of 1.7 billion tonnes of gold tailings to refine a further 15 … could lower the wages of all skilled…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… 1950 - 1960 In Fietas, Johannesburg, the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) initiates and implements the 'Decade of … They are prevented from speaking in eight…
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… Fatima, at Nursery Road, Fordsburg. He attends the Newtown Indian Primary School. 1940s Kathrada meets Yusuf Dadoo , … 1945 -1946 Kathrada is a founding…
ArticleFootball in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012
… Club (Whites-only) is established. 1880 African and Indian soccer clubs are active in Durban and Johannesburg … SAFA affiliates to the English Football…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Democrats (COD)
… South African Communist Party (SACP) , the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) , banned members of the Communist … (ANC) South African Communist Party (SACP…
Participants in CODESA (1,2, Working Groups and Administration)
… Advisory Com mittee] MR R.F. Botha [SA Government, CODESA 1] Geoff Budlender [Rapporteur of Sub Group 2 in Working … 1 and 2] Professor H.M. Coovadia …