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BiographyNeville Wilson Curtis
… They were both arrested under the Riotous Assemblies Act . After becoming NUSAS President in 1969 Curtis moved to …
BiographySheila Weinberg
… at the Johannesburg Fort prison under the 90 day Detention Act. At 19 years old, she was the youngest detainee in South …
BiographySylvia Neame
… the strain. Charged under the Suppression of Communism Act , Neame was convicted and sentenced to four years’ …
Article“The Dark and Heavy Shadow”: Gender Based Violence and Anti-Gender-Based-Violence Campaigns in South Africa
… does it affect? Gender-Based-Violence (GBV) is any violent act or action directed at a person on the basis of their … Ramaphosa continued and said that the…
BiographyNomadhlangala Cosy Europa Ndabezitha
… British assistance to abrogate the obnoxious Native Land Act of 1913. Her mother was a former Principal of Maquza …
BiographyGeorge Arthur Heard
… a magisterial inquiry in terms of the Criminal Procedure Act. Heard refused to testify, submitting that the ethics of …
BiographyMithrasagaran “Murthie” Naidoo
… May 1980 to 10 August 1980 under the General Law Amendment Act . Murthie was involved with the Parents of Detainees …
BiographyPieter Streicher Steyn
Professor Pieter Steyn was born in 5 January 1940 in Vryburg in the North West. He is currently a senior researcher at the Department of Chemistry and Polymer…
BiographyTlou Theophilus Cholo
… unit were captured and charged under the 1967 Terrorism Act in a trail that became as the “Great Pretoria Six”. His …
BiographyDavid Hepburn Craighead
… issuing banning orders under the Suppression of Communism Act to its leaders despite their strongly anti-Communist …
BiographyJames Randolph Vigne
… year he was also banned under the Suppression of Communism Act . When activities of the ARM were exposed, Vigne evaded …
BiographyPauline Podbrey
… apartheid legislation, in particular the Mixed Marriages Act , made life increasingly difficult for the couple, and in …
BiographyColine Williams
Coline Williams was born on 30 May 1967 and grew up in Bonteheuwel, a township in the Western Cape, South Africa. The eldest of three siblings, Coline, her…
Ahead of the Bushfire Festival: Five things you might not know about Swaziland
… , has come under increasing pressure. At various times the authorities have summoned its editors or journalists to … abuses are almost never brought to…
EventBlacks in South Africa protest against segregation
… The six laws were; Pass Laws, Population Registration Act, Suppression of Communism Act, Group Areas Act, Bantu Authorities Act, and Separate Representation…
ArticleFanakalo: the language of mining culture
… (‘language used by Europeans to servant “boys”’), Basic Bantu, Mine Kafir, Kitchen Kafir, Kitchen Zulu, [and] Isikula … 1966); and Phrasebook, Grammar and…
BiographyBoy Mvemve
Boy Adolphus Mvemve died a very violent death in exile in Zambia in 1974. He was 43 years of age at the time, operating under the nom de guerre John Dube (or…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1900-1909
… return to the Transvaal. The Immigrants Regulation Act (No. 22 of 1913) is passed in the Cape Colony and makes … applied with a vengeance. The Immorality…
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… recognition in the school. Their treatment by the colonial authorities was harsh. And then, to buy their obedience, they … pieces of legislation, culminating…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948
… student uprisings were against the introduction of the Bantu Education Act and 1990 provided a significant turning point with the … of African education from…
BiographyNarriman Gadija Bazier Samuels
… for coloured people forcibly removed under the Group Areas Act, Mitchells Plain became home to over 300,000 residents by … continued distributing bread in…
BiographyAdam Small
… regime, especially speaking up against the Group Areas Act and Population Registration Act . As a result, he became a nuisance to the apartheid …
ArticleForced removals on Highveld and "black spots", 1912-1991
… who, on the eve of the promulgation of the Natives Land Act of 1913 bought the farm Swartrand. Located outside the … of impending catastrophe expected from…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Glossary
… During the 19th century, the Abolition of Slavery Act ‘officially’ ended slavery in 1834. Cartographer: A … another country or civilization. Colonization: …
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO): An Organisational Timeline
… at the United Nations, but is intercepted by South African authorities and deported from South Africa to Namibia. 1959 … leaders are tried under the auspices…
BiographyJoseph Chamberlain
… dynamite, the immigration of women, the Possession of Arms Act, and the railway system, which had been extensively … been stabilized , and that to leave…
ArchiveUnited Democratic Front International Youth Year co-ordinating Committee: brief report to regions
… plan, ie the tri-racial parliament and the black local Authorities act …
ArticleChieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa
… chiefly lineages. Tribes were defined, tribal and regional authorities were created, and some of the chiefs were … was accountable to their subjects. The…
Thoko Phillip Mamogobo
… years under section nine of the Suppression of Communism Act No.44 of 1950 . This created a logistical nightmare for …
Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948
… must result not only in the engulfing of the ethos of the Bantu race in a black proletariat”¦but also, and inevitably, … kept in being by the new NP…