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BiographyMadibeng Chris Mokoditoa
… from August to December 1976 under the Internal Security Act . …
BiographyLefifi Tladi
… universities and schools. This was in response to the Bantu Education system and an attempt to undo its side effect …
BiographyBilly Lesedi Masetlha
… charges of contravening the Intelligence Service Oversight Act for allegedly withholding information from Inspector …
BiographyPoonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
… occupied a section of the house before the Pegging Act came into operation on 22 March 1943. On 16 April 1943 … first person to be arrested and charged under…
EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
… when he quitted his teaching post in protest against the Bantu Education Act of 1953 designed to drastically reduce the education standards …
BiographyPatrick “Bra Pat” Matanjana
… one of the first ex-prisoners to respond to the call to act as a tour guide at the new Robben Island museum. He died …
BiographyJundea Bolowa Tubakwa
… on 10th September 1968 under section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act and on 11th September hanged himself at the Pretoria …
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… June-3 July: Xuma address a Conference of the European and Bantu Christian Student Associations at the University … government later passes the…
BiographyFort Calata
… arrested and detained Calata under the Internal Security Act. Calata’s comrades Mathew Goniwe, Mbulelo Goniwe, head … four began in 1987 (Inquest No. 626/87)…
BiographyGordon Sprigg
… in the Cape to be disarmed. He had the "Peace Preservation Act" (1878), passed in 1878, causing uprisings across the territory. He applied the act in…
BiographyMapetla Frank Mohapi
… 1975, Mohapi was banned under the Internal Security Act and restricted to King Willliamstown, where he was later … families, he was banned under the…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… of school fees, and overseas sources. 1858 Education Act No. 14 is passed. It provides for the creation of … 7 December, A sit-down strike occurs at the…
BiographyHelen Kies
… under the recently promulgated “ Suppression of Communism Act ” in 1959, meaning he also had to step down from his role …
BiographyJean Bernadt (nee Alkin)
… a statutory communist under the Suppression of Communist Act. Consequently, she was arrested with other women and was …
BiographyEsdras Lusiba Ntloko
… was arrested and detained under Section 6 of the Terrorism Act of 1967. He was tried together with 12 co-accused, one of …
BiographyKenneth Hlaku Rachidi
… district of Johannesburg in terms of the Internal Security Act. Following the lapsing of these banning orders, he joined …
BiographyMichael Sedgwick
… for a number of months in terms of the Internal Security Act at Victor Verster Maximum Security Prison, outside Paarl. …
BiographyLennox Sebe
… under the Section 91 (b) of the Ciskei National Security Act. The government accused the union for being involved in …
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… a neighbour is Joe Slovo. Attends night school at the Bantu Men’s Social Club and takes driving lessons, getting to know the city better. 1934 The Slum…
BiographyAlexander P. Maduna
Little is known of his background except that he spoke Xhosa. When Clements Kadalie began to build the Industrial Commercial Workers Union (ICU) in Natal in…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1930-1939
… on proclaimed (mining) land. The Industrial Conciliation Act of 1930 Provided for the registration and regulation of … Act (also referred to as the Native…
ArchivePress statement on the Industrial Conciliation Act following a joint meeting between the Federation of S.A. Trade Unions, The Western Province General Workers Union, The Food and Canning Workers Union and The African Food and Canning Workers Union.
… Press statement on the Industrial Conciliation Act following a joint meeting between the Federation of S.A. …
Matthews Mabelane
… was detained in terms of section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act on 21 January near Zeerust while crossing into South … held by the security police in terms of the…
Sifundile Matalazi
… Umtata in the Transkei after being held for 112 days.The Act under which he was held was undisclosed. During the …
BiographyVusumuzi Vitus Mvelase
… Association; detained in terms of the Internal Security Act from Aug.-Dec.’76 and then banned; banning includes house …
BiographyHelen Zille
… against drugs, under the Regulation of Gatherings Act. Zille and her co-accused were found not-guilty four …
BiographyLillian Masediba Ngoyi
… the mid-1960s, she was jailed under the 90-day detention act and spent 71 days in solitary confinement. Her banning …
BiographyJames M. Thaele
… was forced to fight a charge under the Riotous Assemblies Act, from late 1930 lapsed into a period of relative …
BiographyAndries Raditsela
… police vehicle, and detained under the Internal Security Act. While in custody he was tortured, beaten and left …
BiographyStephanie Kemp
… and subsequently refused to speak it anymore. The Sabotage Act which was promulgated in 1962 sparked protests with … Kemp participated in a torch…