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ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bridging two worlds by Emilia Potenza
… Potenza An industrial revolution was affecting the lives of everybody living in Southern Africa. By the 1920s, one or more members of nearly every family…
EventAbortion legislation is passed
… African National Assembly passes the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy (CTOP) Act. The law allows women to terminate pregnancies on request within the first…
STRIKES AND INDUSTRIAL ACTIONS
… A strike teaches workers to understand what the strength of the employers and what the strength of the workers consist … militancy of African workers. The…
BiographyMarcus Solomon
… 1939. His father, a waiter by profession, was a Hindu born of Tamil parents from Sri Lanka, although his paternal … was Christian. His mother, classified…
BiographyCecyl Esau
… , Cape Province (now Western Cape Province), the youngest of four children. His father was a veteran of the Second World War and that experience had a…
EventA conference is held in Geneva, Switzerland (1949) to revise the original Geneva Conventions.
… The Geneva Conventions, are comprised of four treaties and three protocols, which establish the standards of international law for the treatment of civilians…
EventChief Kaiser Matanzima is elected Chief Minister
… Chief Daliwonga Kaiser Matanzima was made paramount chief of the emigrant Thembu clan. He was a strong proponent of the Apartheid regime’s Bantu Authorities…
Eventold Indian flower seller is fined for trading in a racially restricted area
… Africa by the apartheid government, including Group Areas Act, Immorality Act, Pass Laws and many others. Under the provisions of the Group Areas Act, urban…
‘God Made the White Man, God Made the Black Man…’: Popular Racial Stereotyping of Coloured People in Apartheid South Africa by Mohamed Adhikari (South African Historical Journal, 55), 2006
… Man, God Made the Black Man…’: Popular Racial Stereotyping of Coloured People in Apartheid South Africa by Mohamed …
’The beast is in the open’, Statement by Oliver Tambo at the International Conference in solidarity with the struggle of the Namibian People, Unesco House Paris, 13 September 1980
… International Conference in solidarity with the struggle of the Namibian People, Unesco House Paris, 13 September 1980 …
Letter replying to letter from the Prime Minister’s office and statement of intention to launch defiance campaign, from Dr. J. S. Moroka and W. M. Sisulu to Prime Minister D. F. Malan, February 11, 1952
… to letter from the Prime Minister’s office and statement of intention to launch defiance campaign, from Dr. J. S. …
Next to the Man, and Not Forgotten: Gay McDougall And the Southern Africa Project Of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, 1963-1994 by Myra Ann Houser
… Forgotten: Gay McDougall And the Southern Africa Project Of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, …
Toast remarks by the President Jacob Zuma to the official state banquet held in his honour on the occasion of the state visit to Uganda, 25 March 2010, State House Entebbe, Uganda
… as my delegation. We wish to convey the warmest greetings of the government and the people of South Africa to Your Excellency, and to the government and the…
ArchiveFederation
… is hereby published for general information. By order of His Excellency the High Commissioner and Administrator of the Transvaal. WE Davidson, Acting…
BiographyMattheus Uys Krige
… be counted among the most dynamic literary figures of the 20th century. He distinguished himself as an author, … and lecturer. He also served as contributor…
51. The ‘Satyagraha’ campaign ends
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The Indian Relief Act of 1914 and the Smuts…
ArchiveNotes from meeting with Pete Hathorn and Ross Harker
… Notes of a meeting held between Pete Hathorn and Ross Harker pushing for the complete abolition of the Trespass Act of Section 1 of the Illegal Squatting Act…
ArticleTimeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s
… 1960 Mar- Norman Phillips of the Toronto Star was detained 3 and '/2 days for trying to … authorities. (Merrett:42) Apr 5- Patrick Duncan, editor of Contact…
EventDaily Dispatch editor, Donald Woods is banned
… government enforced the Newspaper and Imprint Registration Act no 19, a version of an earlier act that required that all newspapers be registered and conform…
ArticleHealth and welfare
… South Africa is a country of relative prosperity, with vast resources and a modern … and widespread poverty and deep inequalities - the legacy of apartheid…
Griqua
… Introduction The arrival of the Boers and the colonial masters to the area known as Griqualand West, denied the Griquas the opportunity of following their…
Griqua community
… people’s history is not directly intertwined with that of Bloemfontein, however their history had an important influence on the history and development of…
EventForced Removals commence from District Six
… The memory of District Six , also known as Kanaladorp (kanala is a Malay … word meaning ‘help one another’), is marked by the event of 11 February 1966. On…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… 90th anniversary. Initially known as the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), the party changed its name to the … 1953, after it had been forced…
ArticleRichard David Turner Timeline 1941 - 1978
… 1941 Born in Cape Town of British parents c. 1947-58 At school in Cape Town 1953 … school 1959 Registers for BSc Engineering at University of Cape Town 1960…
Mission Stations - T-Z
… ourselves face to face with a gentleman about thirty years of age, with a long light beard. He looked at us at first … the following: "Thaba Bossiou…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… from prison. 27 townships declared unrest areas in terms of the Public Safety Act No 3 of 1953. Gazankulu: Immorality and Prohibition of Mixed …
Chapter 10 - A framework for negotiating the final constitution
… THE GENERAL ELECTION ON 27 APRIL 1994 was the product of negotiated agreements to bring an end to conflict and … nominated by political parties in proportion…
56. The Cape Town Agreement is welcomed
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … themselves. It was considered best to keep the British…
38. The Natal Franchise Bill, 1894: Do not make our sons pariahs
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … A new Bill was introduced in 1896, and passed into law as Act 8…