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BiographyZainab Ebrahim Asvat
… stimulus for concerted resistance by passing the “ Ghetto Act ”, and the Indian people had struck for freedom.” …
BiographyJonathan Shapiro
… Front (UDF) . His arrest under the Illegal Gatherings Act caused some consternation in the South African Defence …
BiographyBhawani Sannyassi Dayal
… and Vryheid, and explained the implications of the Asiatic Act of 1927 to them. He visited the various coalmines in the …
BiographyGille De Vlieg
… house, initially under Section 50 of the Internal Security Act, and taken to John Vorster Square and then to the …
BiographyIshmael Mkhabela
… in Soweto and detained under the General Law Amendment Act of 1963. They were subsequently charged with terrorism …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes
… Lovedale Press, "The Lovedale Press: Literature for the Bantu Revisited," History in Africa, 6 (1979): 155-175) and … Satires, Book i, Satire 9. The…
BiographyDr Kwame Nkrumah
… and developing institutions of higher learning (Padmore, 1953). The 5-year plan required significant financing and … Padmore, George (1953), “The Gold Coast…
BiographyRonald “Ron” Press
… of the Schlesinger organisation. His first job in January 1953, after finishing his Ph.D. was as a chemist for African …
ArticleJohn Langalibalele Dube Timeline 1940-1950
… to protest against the imposition of the Natives Land Act. 1914 Dube publishes The Zulus' Appeal for Light in … funds for development. 1935 Dube founds the…
BiographyPremanathan “Prema” Naidoo
… Transvaal that was established due to the Group Areas Act . He attended the Central Indian School, which was … detained on 21 November 1981, under the…
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… literary activity still centred at newspapers, such as Bantu World. R R R Dhlomo's Plaatje's Mhudi was finally … picture of what it was like to live under…
ArticleThe Sedition Trial 1946 - 1948
… along with Dr Naicker , vigorously opposed the Ghetto Act which banned land transfers between Indians and … were charged with sedition under the Riotous…
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
… the financial responsibility of Black education. In 1953 government passed the Bantu Education Act that transferred Black education to the Department of …
BiographyLouis Botha
… adrift and accomplished it. The Volksraad decided to act on Botha's recommendations that the Uitlanders should be … convinced his cabinet ministers that it…
Statement by Albert Luthuli to the council of the Institute of Race Relations, 19 December 1960
… and aspirations. Well might some cynic say that the Act of Union was a triumph of the spirit of disunity and … of "separate development" by the sweet-tongued…
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
… up a devout Christian – The Hani family is Roman Catholic) 1953-1954 Campaign against Bantu Education ; some of Hani’s school teachers are active … Sibeko,…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… became actively involved in the nationwide boycott of the Bantu Education. Nontsikelelo Albertina was absolutely against Bantu Education and she threw…
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
… them ineligible for support under the Unemployment Benefit Act (No. 25 of 1937). Operating machinery in the industry … local strike against the separate…
BiographyProfessor Brij Maharaj
Prof Brij Maharaj was born in 1957 in Merebank, south Durban, Natal (now known as Kwazulu-Natal - KZN). His father, Bhurma Maharaj, was a shop assistant at a…
Luke Mazwembe
… detained under section 22 of the General Law Amendment Act No 62 of 1966 on 2 September 1976. He was reported to …
BiographyCarol Moses
… in grade 9. She was arrested under the Internal Security Act , when she led a United Democratic Front (UDF) march in …
BiographyS .G. Sekano Ntoane
S.G. Sekano Ntoane was born on 14 April 1904 in Hebron, Pretoria. He was the second of the six children of Levy Ntoane, a minister of the Berlin Lutheran…
BiographyMlungiseleli Velaphi
… them in line with Section 5 of the Military Veterans Act 18 0f 2011. …
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
… a law restricting Indian land ownership ( see pegging act and Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act ). Indian’s referred to this act as the …
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
… of laws were consolidated in the Native Administration Act of 1927, the title of which was later amended to the … that enforced systems of racial segregation…
Zulu Community
… offered by the city. Colonial authorities soon began to act against the settlements by legally entrenching the … the separation of citizens into so-called …
BiographyDikobe Ben Martins
… up to the time of his arrest in 1983 under the Terrorism Act he worked at the Community Care Centre and Edendale Lay …
BiographyCharles Nupen
… Beer. They were charged under the Suppression of Communism Act for the campaigns they had run (such as the 1974 …
Reverend Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile
… activities. Convicted under the Ciskeian Internal Security Act , he was subsequently sentenced to 11 years imprisonment …
BiographyDr Hoosen Mia Haffejee
… he was arrested by the Special Branch under the Terrorism Act on suspicion of being a trained saboteur and of plotting …