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ArticleSharpeville Timeline
… not being suspended to appease the unfounded protests of Bantu agitators, but because the jails can no longer …
ArticleResponse to the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising by organisations in exile
… school level. Punt Janson, the Deputy Minister of then Bantu Education, was quoted as saying: “I have not consulted …
ArticlePrehistory of the Pretoria area
… reach the necessary high temperatures. Culturally, Bantu-speaking people in the recent past compared the …
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… provided the context for the Defiance Campaign was the Bantu Authorities Bill, marketed to the nation as a new … and village councils, and endowed them with…
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… African government launched a development programme for Bantu Radio in order to foster separate development and … for the Bantustans. Though the government…
Khoisan Identity
… and with colonial slave populations, as well as with Bantu-speaking farmers and white settlers. This created a … languages (which include English, Afrikaans…
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
… control through enforcing pass laws, the implementation of Bantu education, and forced removals under the Group Areas …
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… of Voters Act, the Suppression of Communism Act and the Bantu Authorities Act. The Defiance Campaign laid a …
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi: the Zulu nationalist who left his mark on South Africa’s history
… apartheid In 1948 Buthelezi enrolled to study history and “Bantu administration” at Fort Hare University . In 1949 he …
Afrikaner
… the indigenous Khoi and San and also from the south-moving Bantu-speaking peoples whom they would later encounter deeper … was declared the sole medium of…
ArticleNguni Stick Fighting
… or term Nguni is the collective name for ethnic groups of Bantu people residing in the Southern Africa. These groups …
Artist groups and educational facilities (1960-1980)
… establishment of this kind for Africans. According to ‘Bantu World’, Mohl described his objective as follows: ‘Our …
ArticleInkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
… and provide for the gradual development of self-governing Bantu national units. The first Territorial Authority for the …
ArticleTeachers League of South Africa (TLSA) conference in 1925
… Riebeeck celebrations and the impending implementation of Bantu Education. The TLSA urged teachers not allow students …
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… laws passed to regulate them. The first of these was the Bantu Authorities Act of 1951 , which created traditional …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… in Johannesburg. Start of publication of Umteteli wa Bantu, African newspaper linked to the Chamber or Mines. 1 … Moosa is born in the Strand, Cape Town…
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
… As late as 1947 Leveson introduced his exhibit "Meet the Bantu: A Story in Changing Cultures" by saying: These photographs are intended as an introduction to…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
… African Congress of Trade Unions (Sactu) meeting at the Bantu Social Centre warned that 'there must be no Tshombes … Paton . 16 December, Ronnie Kasrils led…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu Timeline 1918 - 2011
… Albertina and Walter had their wedding reception at the Bantu Men's Social Centre in Johannesburg where Nelson … 1955 FEDSAW was actively involved in the ANC…
ArticleFederation of South African Women by Skylar Jayes
… Areas Act and the Population Registration Act as well as Bantu Education (Britton 23). FEDSAW based their argument against the Bantu Education on that fact…
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… in the Black Consciousness (BC) movement was Stephen Bantu Biko, who was the main force behind the growth of the … the riots, schools were closed by the then…
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… the separation of citizens into so-called ‘White’, ‘Bantu’, ‘Coloured’ and ‘Asian’ suburbs. Apartheid legislation …
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… so profound it can still be seen today. Verwoerd’s 1953 Bantu Education Act established an inferior education system … government denied funding to mission…
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
… activists such as Charlotte Maxeke , the leader of the Bantu Women's League (BWL), also had close links with the …
ArticleIndian South Africans: 1924-1948 Legislation and Segregation
… Trust and Land Act, or Native Trust and Land Act, the Bantu Trust and Land Act and the Representation of Natives … the South African Native Trust, which…
Anti-Indian Legislation 1800s - 1959
… a system of electoral colleges, to the Senate. 1952 The Bantu (Abolition of passes and Co-ordination of Documents) … for separate public facilities for…
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
In the 1980s the National Party witnessed a renewed national and international pressure to initiate political reform. The Apartheid government accelerated its…
ArticleSouth African Student Organisation (SASO)
… the apartheid educational system for black people (Bantu education system). In July 1971, SASO adopted the …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1970-1979
… under Section Six of the Terrorism Act. 26 March, The Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act No. 26 comes into force. It …
ArticleDrum Magazine
… abroad to make evident their success in managing the 'Bantu'. The content consisted mainly of tribal preaching and …