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Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the 1940s
… Party of South Africa (CPSA) organised mass protests, pass burning campaigns, trade union activity and strikes. The … if one takes into account that the…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 3
… the executive of the South African Indian Congress to pass a resolution urging them to reconsider their decision. … Politics makes strange bedfellows. But…
Document 29 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 5 December 1928
… I lost the addresses you & Rath gave me. [-] S P Bunting Pass this letter on to Col. C[-J & CI - or rather, send them …
ArchiveSurvey shows ignorance about big moments in South Africa’s history – like the Sharpeville massacre (TheConversation.com)
… hated identification document, known as a “dompas” (dumb pass), that the apartheid regime forced black people to …
Archive2022 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 10 February 2022
… in which our democratic Constitution was born, in which laws of transformation and progress have been passed, in … done in strict accordance with the…
EventApartheid becomes official policy
… the British Empire. It represented an oppressive system of laws and regulations that kept Africans inferior to Whites. …
2004 Gruber Justice Prize: Arthur Chaskalson
… process, by challenging the implementation of apartheid laws. Recognized as an expert in constitutional law, Justice …
EventSASO founder and Black Consciousness leader, Steve Biko dies in detention
… of South Africa's detention practices and repressive laws. Two years later a South African Medical and Dental …
ArticleThe Impact of Colonialism
… included various functions of government such as making laws, issuing currency, negotiating treaties, waging war and … control of new areas by force and…
PlaceFordsburg and the Oriental Plaza, Johannesburg
… Muslims, Hindus and Christians! Where they burned their ‘pass’ documents. (These were the identity documents that all … cauldron and this event was the first…
PlaceSuurbraak, a Settlement in the Overberg Municipality
… It is situated in a Valley at the foot of the Tradouw Pass , about 250 kilometres from Cape Town . It was founded … Langeberg Mountains just down from the…
Document 51 - W. P. van Schoor, “The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa A. J. Abrahamse Memorial Lecture, Cathedral Hall, Cape Town, 5 October 1950
… cheap labour, Rhodes introduced a stringent curfew and a pass. With Kimberley as its industrial hub, the troops of the … paved the way for a united white…
Interview with Africa Report by Oliver Tambo, 01 March 1981, New York
… rents, low wages, inferior education, land hunger, the pass laws, the absence of freedom of worship, and the right to …
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the Constitutional Assembly on the occasion of the adoption of the new constitution Cape Town, 8 May 1996
… voice to the yearning of millions. And so it has come to pass, that South Africa today undergoes her rebirth, cleansed … Our pledge is: Never and never again…
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, submitted to the Annual Conference, December 15-17, 1950
… of a police state by introducing two most notorious laws namely the Group Areas Act and the Suppression of … Province is fighting hard against the…
Document 57 - Lionel Forman, “Self-Determination in South Africa: A Contribution to Discussion”, Liberation, 37, July 1959
… from the proportion which is too dark, or too proud, to pass and what is so ironical is that the Coloureds are one of … they can have no fear of being…
PlaceUniondale
… to Nieu-Bethesda and the unique Owl House; Prince Alfred’s Pass takes you down to Plettenberg Bay and Knysna on the …
PlaceBarrydale, Cape Overberg
… Valley, close to where the Northern exit of the Tradouw Pass winds through the Mountains to meet Route 62, the … approach Barrydale from the Garden Route…
PlaceHerold, Route 62
… The little Hamlet lies right on the Montagu Pass cradled by some of the most majestic Mountain scenery in … dates back to the 1860's, is visible from the…
ArticleThe Natives Land Act of 1913
… of territory, over time proclamations were made and laws were enacted by both the Afrikaners and the British to … by the colonial government- the Cape…
EventPresident Cyril Ramaphosa appoints Justice Raymond Zondo as Chief Justice
President Cyril Ramaphosa has, in accordance with Section 174(3) of the Constitution, decided to appoint Deputy Chief Justice Raymond Zondo as the next Chief…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1800s
… of the freedom of movement to seek work, with a pass system being introduced as the regulatory tool Jobe of … government introduces a series of so-called …
PlaceMcGregor, Western Cape
… does connect the Village with the N2 via the Stormsvlei Pass, but the tar peters out a little way beyond the village … the famous McGregor to Greyton walk…
PlaceSutelong a township in the West of Mortele, Pretoria
Sutelong is next to Sutelong and is located in Bojanala Platinum District Municipality, North-West, South Africa. People Percentage: Black African people are…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
… Langa Commissioner's Court in Cape Town where thousands of pass law offenders have been sentenced. The blast causes … the state of emergency, the repeal of…
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… any of the three other groups, and although the Immorality laws prohibited inter-racial mixing between all four groups, … It was found that, as their elderly…
Indian Community
… envious and prompted them to influence the government to pass numerous laws that would restrict the Indian trader’s right to a …
PlaceNgoye University of Zululand, Richards Bay
"Community Engagement at the University of Zululand is rooted within the African philosophy of Ubuntu which is guided by the principles of reciprocity,…
The diary of Maria Tholo - November 2 - December 1 by Carol Hermer
… rather than belief. For example, if I'm with my in-laws I must show respect. If I'm alone I might be walking … I was in the bus yesterday and they were…
EventWalter Sisulu celebrates 90th birthday
… Police Station because "something was wrong with his pass-book". He had to pay a ten shilling admission of guilt … of South African Women (FEDSAW) and was…