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BiographyJennifer Schreiner
… were detained under Section 29 of the Internal Security Act . Her experiences in detention and the trial that … were detained under Section 29 of the…
BiographyKeable Mote
… first Africans prosecuted under the Native Administration Act of 1927, which made it an offense to promote "hostility" …
BiographyStephen Tefu
… in 1961 on a charge under the Suppression of Communism Act. …
BiographyImam Abdullah Haron
… country is unique .... Under the Suppression of Communism Act, it suppresses anti-Communists - like the Duncans and … National Congress. By the mid-60s when…
BiographyHerbert Henry Curson
… He played an important role in formulating the Veterinary Act (Act 16 of 1933) and served on the Veterinary Council. For …
Alex Moumbaris
… without charge. Moumbaris was charged under the Terrorism Act in January 1973. He was found guilty of conspiring with … Trade unionist,charged under the…
BiographyWinston Monwabisi Ngozi
… of racial divide, and the enactment of the Group Areas Act was the most prominent example. Ngozi’s family was one of the families that suffered from this Act…
BiographyJosiah Tshangana Gumede
… system of government and laws, and most importantly, to act as a forum for airing grievances. In 1905, Gumede took up … ignored. Although the revised draft…
BiographyHelen Newton Thompson
… Black Sash she also protested against the Promotion of the Bantu Self-Government Bill, which forcibly removed blacks …
BiographyHarriet Ngubane
… reports and papers, Ngubane’s notable books include Urban Bantu Housing (1960), Body and Mind in Zulu Medicine (1977) …
BiographyGcinisizwe Sylvester Khwezi Kondile
… body is yet to be discovered. Kondile left behind his son Bantu, his mother Charity Kondile and his father Dumile …
BiographyNontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho
… which appeared in the Johannesburg newspaper Umteleli wa Bantu between 1920 and 1929. In a poem published on 2 …
Bellington Mampe
… detained for 140 days at the Worcester police station.The Act he was detained under and the cause of death were …
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
… to be deprived of their homes in the 1950 Group Areas Act. This act relocated all non-White Africans to segregated … his profession as a Teacher was heavily…
BiographyYvonne Bryceland
… included S tatements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act and The Road to Mecca . The former premiered at The … in Statements After an Arrest Under the…
BiographyPauline Podbrey
… that prompted their move was the Suppression of Communism Act and the Mixed Marriages Act. The family moved to England, and from there to Budapest, …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… to oppose anti-apartheid laws such as the Group Areas Act . May, Sam Kahn and Dr Yusuf Dadoo have restrictions … of the South African Coloured Peoples…
BiographyStanley Silwana
… the "hostility clause" of the 1927 Native Administration Act. …
BiographyWilfrid Edward Cooper
… who they got to know. In 1961 in terms of the Group Areas Act the Dudley’s were forced to move and in later years … of books. 1955 Handbook on the…
Constitutive Act of the African Union adopted by the 37th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Heads of State and Government, 11 July 2000, Lome, Togo
… Constitutive Act of the African Union adopted by the 37th Ordinary Session …
BiographyLawrence Ndzanga
… (SACTU),was detained under section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act on 18 November 1976. His wife Rita and twenty others were … Fort. He was charged in terms of the…
BiographyJames Steven Mzilikazi Khumalo
… to enrol in a three-year teacher’s training program at the Bantu Normal College in Pretoria, Gauteng. Following this he … In 2003, he was bestowed the Arts &…
Nikiwe Deborah Matshoba
… 1976 she was arrested under the Suppression of Communism Act and detained at the Fort in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now … her way to Durban ) under the Section…
BiographyAchmad Cassiem
… Cassiem and his teacher were charged under the Sabotage Act . Cassiem was sentenced to 5 years in prison, while … 1981, Cassiem was arrested once again under…
BiographyNtsikelelo Magwanya
Ntsikelelo Magwanya, aged 41, a resident of Peelton Location, Zwelitsha District, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape] was accused of hampering the Acting…
BiographyNadirshah Ardeshir Cama
… resistance struggle against the Asiatic Registration Act , denounced by the Indian community as the “Black Act.” That law, enacted in 1907, required Asians –…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… series of racist laws, notably the Population Registration Act, the Groups Areas Act, the Reservation of Separate … and general strikes against the…
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
… convention in reaction to the Suppression of Communism Act passed by the government. Dr James Moroka gave his first … of the ANC, and was banned by the…
BiographyJohnson Ngwevela
… first leaders banned under the Suppression of Communism Act in 1952, at which time he was chairman of the Cape …
BiographyJomo Kenyatta
… to claim is was simply a 'criminal' matter. On 8 April 1953 Kenyatta was sentenced to sevenManaging the Mau Mau, … to claim is was simply a 'criminal' matter…