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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…
Document 76 - The Speakers’ Notes - A Brief Course on the Training of Organisers [Document found by the police during the Rivonia raid of 11 July 1963]
… as enjoyed by Whites, restriction of movement under the pass laws and the confiscation of the African land. The national …
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 …
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…
PlaceGardens Shul in Cape Town
… practiced, if at all! The strange irony of these religious laws was that Dutch Jews, who eventually became the majority … India Company, never attempted to…
Genadendal Historic Village & Museum
… small for the rapidly expanding congregation. The Khoisan laws of 1808 instituted by the Colonial Government only served to boost the Mission Station. Under…
Epidemics Affect Everyone By Elron Kleinhans
The smallpox epidemic is one that has raged the world over, killing countless numbers of people and wiping out entire ethnic groups and cultures, such as many…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… of the freedom of movement to seek work, with a pass system being introduced as the regulatory tool. 1811 … government introduces a series of so-called…
ArticleThe National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)
… anti-privatisation campaigns, challenging existing labour laws, and campaigns against unemployment. Most notably, NACTU …
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
… Post 1948: Institutionalising Apartheid & the Apartheid Laws When the Nationalist Party came to power in 1948, the …
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
… removals, banishments, the Group Areas Act and many more laws that made the lives of black people unbearable - are …
ArticleThe Wragg Commission (1885-1887)
… to be constructed on the estates for usage. Municipal by-laws prohibited the construction of thatched buildings and in …
The South African Human Rights Commission
… in South Africa, including the government, and all laws are subject to and must follow the Constitution. The …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939
… circulates a petition demanding the repeal of racial laws, and organises a demonstration in Cape Town. Mrs Z …
’I am not prepared to sell the birthright of the people to be free’
… freedom am I being offered when I may be arrested on a pass offence? What freedom am I being offered to live my life … What freedom am I being offered when I…
The Choice of Termination Act is Enacted by the Parliament of South Africa
… The act was dubbed one of the most “liberal abortion laws in the world”. It starkly contrasted with the access …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer
… abroad. it was the forerunner to the Defiance of Unjust Laws Campaign, organised jointly by the South African Indian …
The Indians of Natal: Resistance to Apartheid, 1971-1985 by Davinder S. Dhillon
… struggles from the early 1860s, against the racist laws that targeted them, to how by the 1950s closer …
EventMass Democratic Movement (MDM) begins their Defiance Campaign
… throughout the country. For example, the segregation laws of hospitals around the country were challenged by …
Chapter VIII - Treason - South African style 1
… within days hundreds of women marched in protest to the pass offices. They knew that they would be in illegal … taken into custody by the police before they…
Statement by Albert Luthuli to the council of the Institute of Race Relations, 19 December 1960
… of the white community. Mass arrests for offences under pass laws must interfere with smooth working in a factory or in a … Government, have armed the state…
Document 127 - 6 Point Communist Programme f c. 7 941)
… IS REALLY A PEOPLE'S WAR . During the war new Colour Bar laws and regulations have been introduced in this … NO SEGREGATION OR COLOUR BARS; NO POLL TAX, HUT…
Chapter 4 - Poor, yet generous Lesotho
… but the reading, they were duly shocked at the censorship laws of our country. They left behind the trauma and pain of … the local priest knew a communicant…
PlaceRhodes University, Grahamstown
… the distinction of having among the best undergraduate pass and graduation rates in South Africa, outstanding …
PlaceClanwilliam, Stellenbosch District
… in Clanwilliam. He was buried in a Cave in the Pakhuis Pass . During October, of each year a popular regatta is …
PlaceRosemount
… the Sardine Run at the beginning of June. 2)The Potter's Pass Nature Reserve WARNING: THIS IS A HIGH CRIME AREA, …
Amathole Mountain Region, Eastern Cape
… Katberg. It is a special experience to climb the Katberg Pass - a rather rough, untarred road - past incredible rocky …
Oudtshoorn, Western Cape
… It has many Tourist attractions like: The Swartberg Pass, through the Swartberg Mountains, is a very scenic …
Seweweeks Poort, Swartberg
… hardly feels the gradient changing and for cyclists, the Pass is a joy to ride from North to South. The Pass provides a considerable shortcut for travelers…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Foreword
… to the Ghetto Act, the 1952 Defiance of Six Unjust Laws, the Congress of the People, the birth of the Freedom … be committed to unity I in action against…