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BiographyFather Trevor Huddleston
… same year he was elected Archbishop of the Province of the Indian Ocean. Despite his church work, Father Huddleston …
BiographyDavid Livingstone
… on the Atlantic, reaching Quelimane (Mozambique) on the Indian Ocean by 1856. Moving along the Zambezi River, in 1855 …
BiographyStephen Bantu Biko
… proximity there were between White, Black, Coloured and Indian people by creating new residential areas, new parallel … PAC, and they engaged in frequent…
ArticleIndenture: A new system of slavery?
… Was the system of indentured Indian labour "a new system of slavery"?as Hugh Tinker … irrespective of the nature of the complaint." Polak's conclusions about…
59. The South African Federation challenges Congress over the settlement
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … situation it will be seen that the history of the…
BiographyDennis Brutus
… for the correct race group arrived. The Transvaal Indian Congress plotted to rescue him from hospital in a …
BiographyMolly Fischer
… in food raids and Violet Weinberg recalled Fischer, in an Indian store selling consignments of rice and sugar at the …
1947-Joint Declaration of Cooperation
… National Congress, Dr G.M. Naicker, President of the Natal Indian Congress and Dr Y.M. Dadoo, President of the Transvaal Indian Congress ("Three Doctors'…
BiographyAlex la Guma
… based on Lenin’s 1920 thesis on the national and colonial question (Mkhize, 134). Alex la Guma’s early exposure to …
BiographyAdvocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels
… the West Coast of South-West Africa (now Namibia) and the question of the rights to prospect for diamonds between the …
The Fruits of the 1973 Durban Strikes: A Powerful Black Trade Union Movement. Are they still on track or are they off the rails? by Johann Maree
… Witwatersrand and Cape Town, although there were also Indian students like Omar Badsha and Jay Naidoo as well as … Unions (SACTU) members. The paper proceeds…
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 110 of 1983
… of the recommendations was limited because they did not question apartheid. When Botha came to power he created a … parliament to include the participation…
70. The Durban riots, 1949
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … In most cases, under these circumstances, it becomes a…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
… National Congress. The population of Pageview is largely Indian and the area starts developing an Indian character. Mosques, temples and churches are … Denez…
ArticleSouth Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured
… rights of the individual”. Identity and portrayal A key question emerging is around the various ways that minority … music, dance and cuisine established the…
53. The significance of the settlement for the colonial-born India
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … As he rather profoundly remarked, the solution to the…
BiographyJeremy Vearey
… that area. When a section of Elsies River was designated Indian (Cravenby Estate) Vearey had his first exposure to …
BiographyJeanette Eleanor Kasrils
… disguised in a traditional Muslim outfit and Ronnie as an Indian businessman. In October 1963, with Julius First, who …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… Resuscitation Committee (CRC) to resuscitate the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) that had become defunct after a split … General Hertzog outlines his "solution"…
ArticleA Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
… needs of the White economy. The resolution of the land question in favour of White capital was thus central to the … without an equitable resolution of the…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939
… on Indians in the Transvaal. The South African Indian Congress meets at an emergency conference in … dominates the tenth annual conference of the South…
BiographyPetrus Nzima Nyawose
In the 1970s, Petrus Nyawose worked as a bouncer at The Paradise, a popular nightclub in Durban. Nyawose spent most of his working hours at the offices of the…
BiographyNarriman Gadija Bazier Samuels
Narriman Gadija Bazier Samuels, affectionately known as "Ma G" throughout Mitchells Plain, grew up during the height of apartheid in South Africa. While her…
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…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… labour supplies assured, and agreed on the fundamental question to give political/economic power to white settlers. … the 19th century, the Western-educated…
Document 17 - Letter from E. R. Roux to W.G. Ballinger, 19 March 1929
… I do not think you have seriously altered the main conclusions of my article. Of course we all believe we are … of the Communists to the I.C.U.? Your answer…
I have written it by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - International Support: UNO - 1948
… Passive Resistance Council of the Natal and Transvaal Indian Congresses 9 January 1948 In terms of the Joint … Ispahani and acquainted him with various…
Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… emerged in opposition to the white government, but the question then arose: Were all liberation movements well … was unable to implement its envisaged fare…
BiographyPregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender
… and social climate that once undermined her as an Indian woman living in apartheid South Africa, Govender …
EventThe African National Congress is found guilty
… ANC. The Motsuenyane Commission's report came to similar conclusions. Although its mandate was limited, the … whose rights had been violated. The ANC…