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Eye of the Needle - Preface by Richard Turner
… as "non-white" cannot vote for a Parliament that writes laws for 100 percent of the population; thus every law is … by Africans among the hundreds of…
ArchiveHamba kahle Jennifer Davis 1933-2019
… played a key role in convincing the U.S. Congress to pass economic sanctions against South Africa over President …
PlaceCalitzdorp, Route 62
… (to the South) and the Mountains of the Huisrivier Pass (to the West), which surrounds Calitzdorp’s. This is a …
PlaceDiamond Hill Battle, Garden of Remembrance
… still willing to fight on. They assembled at Donkerhoek Pass, which today carries the modern N4 highway through the …
EventGideon Scheepers executed
… as to whether a British military court was competent to pass a sentence of death on a prisoner of war while the war …
16. Advice to a son about coming to Natal
… papers. Natal Archives. My dear Joseph, I have got a pass for you to come to Natal which I am sending to Mr. Leach …
PlaceWupperthal Mission Station, Clanwilliam
… place which surprises any traveler descending the steep Pass into the Valley. Excellent ' veldskoen ' (known …
ArticleKasturba Gandhi timeline 1869 - 1944
… South African Union. Anti-Indian statutes could become laws throughout the new union, replacing more lenient British laws. July-October, Kasturba is…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 6
… remove the anomaly between the marriage and the immorality laws. What the immorality law forbade was made legal by the … is no need for alarm," he wrote, "I…
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… the country. Worker strikes were suppressed through labour laws, pass laws (introduced in 1923 and repealed in 1986) and through …
ArticleUnited Nations and Apartheid Timeline 1946-1994
… June, A non-violent "Campaign of Defiance against Unjust Laws" was launched by the African National Congress and the … shooting at peaceful demonstrators in…
Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948
… measures tightening the chains of the passbook and racial laws around the black majority, and by an assault on living … strikes and near-uprisings - against…
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
… and uniform as well. Workers claimed that a week could pass without a job becoming available. Permanent drivers were … face of the tightening of the job…
Chapter 9. The Struggle against Sweating - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… All South African labour laws have objectionable features which cause bitter … each of the four provinces in South Africa enacted its own laws. One of the…
EventZola Budd of SA and Mary Decker of the USA collide accidentally during the 3000m in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics
… was competing under British citizenship due to apartheid laws in South Africa, and Decker,was representing the US. …
EventWWI: battalion consisting of ‘Cape Coloured men’, called the Cape Corps, is established
… on the hill, making it impossible for British soldiers to pass. They needed to be dislodged. The Cape Corps broke …
EventMohandas K. Gandhi is arrested as he leads a march of Indian miners in South Africa
… all Indians in the Transvaal were required to carry a pass. Under Gandhi's leadership, 3000 Indians protested …
EventMass funeral for those killed at Sharpeville commemoration
… the same name in Cape Town, which is known for the anti-pass march held there on 21 March 1960, the same day on which …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1946
… 'whites commit mischief. It is wrong. It is bad enough to pass an unjust law, but it is worse to let white people take … the agitators have become the…
Chapter 14 - Epilogue: lessons from the negotiating table
… was sovereign, which meant that Parliament was entitled to pass virtually any law it wished. This changed only when the … supreme law of the land, the…
Say It out Loud - The 1913 Presidential Address, Kimberley, Cape, 11th October, 1913
… I made that prediction, ere we find the Union Parliament pass the Natives' Land Act, which creates conditions, if not … also a revival of persecution in the…
ArchivePress cuttings-repression of youth
… pupils, students and teachers were held under the security laws, a handwritten document regarding Emma a student at DH …
Foreword, By Nelson Mandela
… militant passive resistance against General Smuts's racist laws. He struggled relentlessly for the rights of all South …
EventThe Minister of Justice, Police and Prisons, Jimmy Kruger, received a report of a police investigation into Steve Biko’s death
… South African police service and detention practices and laws. The two countries demanded that an international …
EventMark Thatcher arrested
… Thatcher was charged under South Africa's anti-mercenary laws in connection with an alleged coup attempt in Equatorial …
EventBlack, Coloured and Indian churches issues a statement on Immorality Act and the Mixed Marriages Act
… Act and the Immorality Act were among the first major laws of the apartheid government. In 1949 mixed marriages …
FREEDOM IN OUR LIFETIME, Durban, December 12-14, 1958
… and to see how this forebodes further oppressive laws for non-whites and a consequent further interference and … who in any way showed their courageous…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter XII - End and Beginning
… that there must be class legislation, that there must be Pass Laws and Peace Preservation Acts (depriving Africans of guns) … With the ground thus prepared,…
Group Areas Act and Its Effects on Indian People in Natal, May 1956 by Dr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker
… Native Trust and Land Act, 1936, are some of the primary laws directed against the African population. 4. To the … land rights. As far as the Indian…