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EventFirst celebration of International Women’s Day
… against apartheid as well as the historic 1956 anti-pass march by thousands of South African women. Visit our …
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 3 - What is Your Name, Age, and Whose Slave are You? by Rayda Jacobs
… took control? The Cape came under British control in 1806. Laws were passed in London in 1807 to end the slave trade, … legal to own slaves. By the 1820s,…
ArticleTimeline — Land Dispossession and Restitution in South Africa - 1995-2013
… reform process claiming that he had never heard of any laws dispossessing people of their land. The Land Claims … system was the result of a grid of…
EventThe National President of the Black People’s Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness
… In particular, students were protesting against apartheid laws that restricted and dictated their education. The black …
EventNelson Mandela is free
… Mandela's release followed the relaxation of apartheid laws - including the unbanning of leading liberation …
EventFrederick Lugard, British colonial administrator, occupies Kano, West Africa
… British considered traditional rulers as subject to their laws, they also felt justified in removing rulers who posed a …
Event15 000 applications for gold mining permits received per week in Johannesburg
… deeply divided along both colour and social lines. Racist laws enabled the white-owned mining companies to control …
Address to the Annual Conference of the Natal, 23 November 1951
… our domestic needs, the culling of our stock, the influx laws that prevent us from taking employment in towns, the … main points only: In the last session of…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… their rights under the prevailing system of government and laws, and, most importantly, to act as a forum for airing …
ArticleThe role of traditional leaders during Apartheid
… entitled to the position by the natural and traditional laws of succession. The Governor-General was also empowered …
ArticleTowards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid
… and values of a society subjected to unjust and oppressive laws. There were also artists who did not belong to any …
ArticleMoses Kotane Timeline
… South Africa amid persecution due to the new South African laws. February, Kotane attends Afro-Asian conference in Moshi …
A Brief History of Niger - Part 1 by US Department of State
… 1957. In addition to removing voting inequalities, these laws provided for creation of governmental organs, assuring … released political prisoners,…
Manifesto of the emigrant farmers By Piet Retief, 1837
… by the emancipation of our slaves, and the vexatious laws, which have been enacted respecting them. We complain of … We make known, that when we shall have…
Biography of Lionel Ngakane by Rod Reyna
… staying or sleep within the city limits due to apartheid laws at the time. [viii] This serves as an ironic reminder … before they are one year old because of…
ArchiveEFF 2019 Election Manifesto
… its Parliamentary participation to table the following laws, which will fundamentally change the economic … equal redistribution to all. 3. The EFF…
The Role Of The Indian People In The South African Revolution: An Interview In 1968
… in bondage. In the course of their struggle against unjust laws, and for the redress of their grievances, the Indian … South Africa Freedom Day), and the…
PlaceGhwarrie Poort
… Cape include the high-altitude, treacherous Naude's Nek Pass (the highest point in South Africa), the more moderate … Hoek Passes, and the scenic but remote…
EventSouth African Parliament votes to repeal the legal framework of Apartheid
… in South Africa had been subject to exceedingly unjust laws designed, firstly to subjugate them and incorporate … [Accessed on 18 June 2013]| BBC News…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Introduction
… people live? Through what struggles and processes did they pass to become the decisive human force they are today? A … force based on a system of black…
Document 36 - Letter from E. R. Roux to the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, 18 November 1930
… that the publicity given to the demonstration by the Anti-Pass Conference and by the capitalist press plus whatever we … by way of meetings, leaflets,…
Polokwane the Segregated city
… and DF Malan was made prime minister. The NP began passing laws that would provide the architecture for the apartheid … affairs, passing various new statutes…
For Richard Turner by Peter Sacks
… When I left, you thought me still evasive, trying to pass off my own fear of suffering as a form of wisdom. I'd …
Appeal For Funds For New Age, January 1956
… passes and suffer all the indignity and oppression of the pass system. Our Coloured people stand to lose their voting …
EventArthur Elias Letele, medical doctor and prominent ANC leader who went into exile in Basutoland, dies
… Letele persuaded a number of volunteers to defy apartheid laws, and this led to his first arrest. Later in the same …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 1 - Rural Change and the Future of South Africa by Rachidi R. Molapo
… the reasons that the government of the day was willing to pass this bill was that black tenant farmers could produce … intensified its control measures…
ArticleThe Politics Behind Water
… Black South Africans without running water as previous laws made it difficult to access natural resources. [2] The …
Nadine Gordimer`s key note speech - Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award
… of prison were everyday experiences for them under pass laws and innumerable other racist restrictions which for …
Congress of the People - I was there
… everywhere was first and foremost about the iniquitous pass laws, then about Bantu Education, forced removals, high …
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Archive”Social Conditions Among Bantu Women and Girls”. Address by Charlotte Maxeke at the Conference of European and Bantu Christian Student Associations at Fort Hare, June 27-July 3, 1930 [Extract]
… womanhood. Many of the Bantu feel and rightly too that the laws of the land are not made for Black and White alike. Take … or if he does happen to know the…