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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 …
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 Worker strikes were suppressed through labour laws, pass laws (introduced in 1923 and repealed in 1986) and through …
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
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…
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…
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…
Event2000 Students march through Cape Town
… police brutality, inferior education and segregation laws, and called for the release of all political detainees. …
EventWorld No Tobacco Day is observed
… the average smoker spending R 400 a month on cigarettes. Laws discouraging smoking were introduced over the years and …
EventA memorandum containing a proposed constitutional dispensation is delivered to the CPRC
… nominated members. It had the legitimate right to make laws affecting Coloured people on finances, local government, …
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 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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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,…
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 …
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 …