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51. The ‘Satyagraha’ campaign ends
… Indians, the Free State and the administration existing laws. Only one of these points calls for comment here. In view of the promise of reasonable…
Event13 year-old South African Native mineworker is published in a newspaper
… the age of 18 years. This act was amended by the Natives Laws Amendment Act of 1952. …
EventThe existing ban on marriages between White and Black people (Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act (1949) is extended to White and Coloured people
… It prohibited sex between people of different races. These laws often split families, and entrenched racial division. …
Statement In Court By Dr. Dadoo And Dr. G. M. Naicker, When Charged With Aiding And Abetting Under The Immigrants Regulation Act Of 1913, February 26, 1948
… field of opportunity allowed it by scores of restrictive laws, has made an officially recognised contribution to the … of gaol life rather than submit to…
Document 37 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 29 November 1930
… I am afraid this campaign is again militating against the Pass Campaign, in which neither Wolton (the "Comintern …
PlaceWarden, Thabo Mofutsanyana Municipality
… Johannesburg to Durban travel rush is on, or when Farmers pass through daily on route to pick up or drop Farm Workers …
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… boycotts occurred frequently. One such example was an anti-pass campaign in Durban in 1930, during which the Durban …
ArticleAftermath: Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… as Paarl, Stellenbosch, Somerset West and Hermanus as anti-pass demonstrations spread. As an act of rebellion the passes …
ArticleHow do we find out about the history of a local area?
… one generation to the next. It is also an important way to pass heritage on from parents to children. Some people feel …
EventDutch Foreign Minister Luns is asked by the Johannesburg
… "irresponsible" utterances against the Union's apartheid laws and first to see that Holland "casts the beam out of its …
EventDennis Brutus is born
… ancestry, was classified as Coloured under apartheid laws. In the 1960’s he joined the Anti-Coloured Affairs …
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces the Group Areas Act will be repealed.
… the government had planned to repeal major apartheid laws. To mention a few, the Land Act of 1913, the Population … South African government will scrap major…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 2
… was the disagreement over the percentage needed to pass the final constitution, the issue of a second chamber of … consensus-decisions adopted by Codesa…
13 notable women in Cape Town’s history, 6 August 2015
… Buildings in Pretoria to petition against the country’s pass laws, we highlight 13 of Cape Town’s most notable women. 1. … year. She became an active…
EventIndependent African States resolve to impose sanctions against South Africa
… to the Government and companies registered under the laws of the Union of South Africa and to prohibit all South …
EventM.K. Gandhi is forcibly removed from a whites-only train carriage
… carriage on a train in Pietermaritzburg, for not obeying laws that segregated each carriage according to race. Gandhi …
EventPixley Seme, lawyer, journalist and co-founder of SANNC is born
… treatment after the South African War and the numerous laws being passed that controlled and restricted Black …
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
… or apartheid, curfews, locations and the South African laws may represent civilisation, and the liberation from them …
EventStudents at Lovedale strike against new Code of Conduct
… in the strike were warned that if they failed to pass their final examinations they would not be re-admitted …
ArchiveWomen and the Satyagraha Campaign
… this and other discriminatory measures and licensing laws; the women began to hawk without licences, inviting … released in February 1914. Some relief from…
Statement in Court by Dr G. M. Naicker and Dr Y. M. Dadoo, When Charged With Aiding and Abetting Under the Immigrants Regulation Act of 1913, February 26, 1948
… field of opportunity allowed it by scores of restrictive laws, has made an officially recognised contribution to the … of gaol life rather than submit to…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 4: A Heritage trail through the provinces of South Africa
… black people were encouraged to simply defy the apartheid laws, by breaking curfews, refusing to carry a pass book or deliberately using facilities reserved…
Khoisan Identity
… black population, such as not being required to carry a pass book. Nevertheless, so-called Coloureds remained subject … who lost their property as a result…
”South Africa - Time of Challenge” - Report to the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, October 1973
… economically independent of Black labour, the inexorable laws of economic development have destroyed the fantasies of … be far easier. The effect will be…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Introducing by Carol Hermer
… who qualified under Section 10 (1) of the Urban Bantu Laws to be permanent residents of Cape Town, and the migrant … of legal presence in Cape Town. The…
Chapter IV - Becoming an activist
… beginning of the Congress Alliance. The particular unjust laws chosen for protest were those relating to the pass system, the culling of cattle (a long…
EventAnti-apartheid activist, Norman Levy is born
… National Congress (ANC) campaigns against the unjust laws that led to the Defiance Campaign in 1952/3 and against …
EventRhodesia adopts new constitution
… Rhodesians the right to vote, eliminating discriminatory laws and agreeing to a general election whereby the …
EventDaily Dispatch editor, Donald Woods, arrives in Britain with his family
… seven times under the apartheid government's publication laws and sentenced to jail for revealing Security Police …
EventThe death in police custody of Ahmed Timol, political activist and underground operative, is confirmed
… the seventeenth person to die in detention under security laws. He was a member of the banned South African Communist …