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BiographyAbdul Khalek Mohamed Docrat
… as a member of the CPSA under the Suppression of Communism Act. Docrat was, also one of the many Natal organisers of …
BiographyBaruch Hirson
… created by the oppressive Suppression of Communism Act . Hirson's participation in politics grew. With other …
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… walk out of the work places demanding wage increases. The Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act strips blacks of their South African Citizenship. Fietas, … No 90:…
BiographySolomon Kerzner
… Landscape: the way the scrawny veld of the Bophuthatswana bantu Stan, broken here and there by goats, chickens, and …
BiographyOmar Badsha
… shop assistant, sign writer/designer, and a member of the Bantu, Indian, Coloured Arts Group (BICA), the first black …
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu Timeline 1918 - 2011
… Albertina and Walter had their wedding reception at the Bantu Men's Social Centre in Johannesburg where Nelson … arrested on a charge under the Suppression…
ArticleList of people banned under Apartheid
… People banned under Apartheid Name Act/Section/Issued up to: (delivery date) Date on which … 1956. Reasons for Deposition furnished by the Minister of Bantu…
ArticleXhosa
… and Mpumalanga. Archaeological evidence shows that the Bantu-speaking groups that were the ancestors of the Nguni … expected to observe numerous taboos …
Schlebusch Commission
… would prepare the way for a revolution in which the urban Bantu workers would have to take the lead’. As a result, … NUSAS were banned in terms of the…
BiographyAaron Sipho Madondo
… trial in March 1978 on three charges under the Terrorism Act. According to the court charge sheet, the state alleged …
EventBishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
… when he quitted his teaching post in protest against the Bantu Education Act of 1953 designed to drastically reduce the education standards …
BiographyMichael Guthrie Scott
… passed the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act , commonly called the “Ghetto Act.” Building on the 1943 Pegging Act , which had restricted the…
ArticleSouth African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO)
… impact on the Coloured population included the Group Areas Act of 1950, the Population Registration Act of 1950 and the Separate Representation of Voters Act…
Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss
… Hospital, now Philani Clinic. He enrolled at Mgijima Bantu Community School, or Kwa Israel as it was known by the … Minister of Native Affairs, instituted…
BiographyCharles W H Kohler
… ordinary limited company in terms of the then Cape Company Act (Act 25 of 1892) with founding capital of £100 000 divided … had made serious representations…
'The People Accept the Challenge of the Nationalists' Statement issued by the National Executive of the A.N.C., April 6, 1963
… of our struggle in this period are the pass laws and Bantu Authorities. The notorious Urban Areas Act Amendment Bill now aggravates the already insecure … of…
BiographyAli Bacher
… that South Africa's isolation was far more than an act of malevolence by political malcontents. Through his work … where they planned to stage an illegal…
Rebecca Lan
Rebecca Lan was born in 1933 in Cape Town and grew up in Oranjezicht and Athlone. Her parents were immigrants from Lithuania who arrived in South Africa in…
BiographyJabulile Nyawose
… of Durban, designated under the apartheid Group Areas Act for Indians only, to discuss what they should do. They …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… Indian Legislation: The Public Servants Superannuating Act and Teachers Pensions Act. This furthers discrimination … regulations. 1918 Women's anti-pass…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… struggle and were implemented under the Separate Amenities Act. Image source The construct can be seen as a highly … and unequal social order. One of these…
BiographySydney Kumalo
… he began his studies at the Polly Street Art Centre in 1953. Kumalo began his career studying under Cecil Skotnes at …
BiographyBartolomeu Dias
… identified the original site on the foghorn knoll in 1953 and he recovered many fragments of the padrão at the …
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… bear the financial responsibility of Black education. In 1953 government passed the Bantu Education Act , which transferred Black education to the…
BiographyIsaiah Stein
… the first to be removed in this way under the Group Areas Act. He swiftly built homes that ensured some financial …
BiographyJoe Nzingo Gqabi
… term, he was re-arrested and charged under the Sabotage Act. He was convicted and sentenced to ten years’ …
BiographyBasil Coetzee
… Six was declared a White area under the Group Areas Act, forced removals that followed seriously disrupted the …
BiographyJean Clarice Middleton
… house arrest and banned under the Suppression of Communism Act . She could no longer teach, nor associate with more than …
BiographyAaron Mosibudi Mangena
… months in Port Elizabeth under Section 6 of the Terrorism Act. He was sentenced in October 1973 to five years in prison …
BiographyTeboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… and means of confronting and challenging the Department of Bantu Education. The students decided to stage a peaceful …