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EventExtracts from one of South African President Thabo Mbeki’s most stirring speeches
… is a part of my essence. The stripes they bore on their bodies from the lash of the slave master are a reminder … eye and suffers the suffering of a simple…
EventApartheid becomes official policy
… On 26 May 1948, the Herenigde Nasionale Party (Reunified National … Havenga was appointed the Minister of Finance. When the 1948 election campaign started,…
The appointment of Judges
… , raised the question of the constitutionality of the death penalty For three days the judges heard arguments. The … of the case, in which Makwanyane had…
ArticleDr. Abu Baker Asvat timeline 1943 - 2012
… black consciousness organization formed after Steve Biko’s death and the banning of BC organizations. He is later … tradition, Asvat’s family buries him the…
Address by President Mandela at the opening of the 36th Annual World Boxing Council Convention Johannesburg, 26 October 1998
… benefits that accrue from the proliferation of controlling bodies, it is difficult to see how these can outweigh the … that seems to pervade the WBC family…
Document 50 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: The Trade Union Question (No division On this question) (1934)
… Labour Unions is, in general, one of the most reactionary bodies that ever existed in the ranks of the working-class. … against its causes. For this is a…
ArticleJames Sebe Moroka Timeline 1892 - 2012
… 1946 Moroka plays a leading role in denouncing the NRC. 1948 Moroka is re-elected onto the NRC. He attends …
ArticleEnuga Sreenivasulu Reddy Timeline 1924 - 2020
… National Congress (ANC) President-General Dr. A. B. Xuma, 1948 Reddy obtains his M.A. from New York University. 1949 26 …
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… equating it to treason and imposing a maximum penalty of death those found guilty. The most excessive piece of … court found the accused guilty, they could…
EventRand Daily Mail publishes exposé of conditions in Homelands
… government, the media and White perceptions of Black bodies during the time. “As the Black spot removals bring … was doing to the African people and the…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… It embraced a network of organisations including student bodies, trade unions, the Communist Party and sections of the … Act created sabotage as offence for…
ArticleBloemfontein the Segregated city
… even by a White person. Certain Non-White management bodies were allowed to function, but the state still had full control over such bodies and freedom of…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… Selbourne Marabastad Pretoria the Segregated city Post-1948 Legislation This period marks the beginning of the rise … a very segregated country, apartheid…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… connection to political activism and there were other ANC bodies with whom she was more intimately connected ● African … retired from politics completely. ●…
A tribute to Sam Ramsamy and others who fought apartheid sport by E.S. Reddy
… for international recognition of the non-racial sports bodies in South Africa. Their leadership was largely from the … appeals to Olympic Committees and…
ArticleInsurrections I: Tracks and Lyrics
… the scent of invisible footsteps into the valley of death I saw fleeing flesh leaving a trail of putrid smells … vampire teeth, life-jettisoned ancestors in…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… resistance. White politics took a dramatic new turn in 1948. The National Party won the whites-only election in 1948 and began systematically to entrench its…
ArticleA history of Apartheid in South Africa
… (NP) government and was introduced in South Africa in 1948. Apartheid called for the separate development of the … before the Afrikaner Nationalist Party…
ArchiveLegislation and race relations: a summary of the main South African laws which affect race relations
… laws which affect race relations. Acts from 1909 to 1948 include among others those relating to political rights, … the African Reserves, housing and…
BiographyNelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… Makaziwe would tragically pass away at 9 months old. In 1948, the National Party (NP) narrowly won a Whites-only … between the two was further exacerbated…
BiographySindiso Mfenyana
… was to head up a newly created Department of Professional Bodies, which was intended to spearhead the creation of ANC …
The Mountain Committee
… and finally an inquest was ordered. Relatives found the bodies of 11 men which had been left all day for dogs and …
EventConstructors make mass grave finding in Namibia
… of Namibia, which ended in 1990. It was not known how many bodies the grave contained. Constand Viljoen, who was chief … have buried guerrillas in mass…
Political executions
… for execution) Boesman, Mangena Jeffrey, 35 1989/09/29 Death of informer school teacher in Sterkstroom, Eastern Cape … 40 1989/04/20 Addo Youth Congress (…
Grade 4 Term 2 Timeline: Mahatma Gandhi
… partitioned into two separate states: India and Pakistan 1948 Gandhi announces fast to end Hindu/Muslim violence in …
Passive resistance in South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 2 June 1966
… House of Assembly - were all attacked by Africans as dummy bodies, and agitation for their boycott was started. … Malan`s Nationalist Party seized political…
ArticleNatal Indian Association (NIA)
… Association, and, The membership registers of both the bodies should be combined together and accepted as the … and to report their conclusions to their…
ArticleConclusion: Black Consciousness Movement
… It can be concluded that the death of Biko left a vacuum similar to the one created by the … ignored. Contrary to expectation in White circles that the death…
Political deaths in police custody 1984 - 1989
… Year Date Name Affiliation Place of death Description 1984 15 July Ngalo, Johannes (26) Parys … Anthony Katlehong Police informed victim's family of…
BiographyJames Steven Mzilikazi Khumalo
… completed his first composition – Ma Ngificwa Ukufa (When death is upon me). Ma Ngificwa Ukufa was a poem by Dr …