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ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
… The National Party (NP) , after its ascendance to power in 1948, radicalised it, however. These legislations took away … against Apartheid was launched in…
EventStompie Seipei’s murderer goes to jail
… The Rand Supreme Court sentences Jerry Richardson to death for the murder 14-year-old Stompie Seipei. Stompie … for being a police informer, a charge that…
EventBevil Rudd, the Olympic gold, silver and bronze medalist
… Daily Telegraph.[vi] Bevil Rudd passed away on 2 February 1948 in Kimberley, Northern Cape.[vii] End Notes [i] Bevil …
EventWalter Sisulu arrested under the Suppression of Communism Act
… ANC Secretary General. With the National Party victory in 1948 came the official implementation of apartheid. …
EventAfrican National Congress Youth League is founded
… developed a manifesto in 1944 and published a program in 1948. The ANC officially adopted this program in 1949, which …
EventP.W. Botha becomes Prime Minister
… been an article of faith for the National Party (NP) since 1948. The new prime minister told his fellow Whites that they …
EventAcclaimed South African poet Sheila Cussons dies
… in the first Stiebeuel anthology. Cussons went abroad in 1948 to Amsterdam with her husband CJM Nienaber where she …
EventBantu Women’s League protests against pass laws
… of the African National Congress (ANC) Women's League in 1948. …
EventEban Abba, Israeli statesman is born in Cape Town
… described him as "superb orator and witty debater." In 1948 Eban became Israel's United Nations (UN) representative …
Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
… Defiance Campaign mass meeting The post-1948 period saw the African National Congress (ANC) …
PlaceSt Cyprian’s School, Gorge Road, Oranjezicht
… minds, feed the souls, fire the maginations and train the bodies of the girls and young women who are entrusted to us. …
EventAnti-SAIC political rally ends in Lenasia
… to oppose the S.A.I.C elections. At the same time, similar bodies were formed in the Cape and by the NIC in Natal. The …
PlaceOost-Eind Primary School, 70 Meintjes Street, Trevenna, Pretoria
… this with the principals and the school governing bodies who have done little to accommodate children, …
Document 32 - League of African Rights, Petition, 1929
… National Congress, I.C.U. Communist Party and other bodies espousing native interests filled the Workers' Hall, …
EventWalter Sisulu celebrates 90th birthday
… school half way through standard five, shortly after the death of his guardian, Dyanti Hlakula. Johannesburg After … Albertina had five children: Max (born…
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… Committee (NEC), who became the Acting President after the death of Chief Albert Luthuli, assumed the leadership of the … drawn from several African…
EventThe first 'Bantustans' or 'homelands' comes into existence when the Transkei Regional Authority is instituted
… via the 1913 Land Act. Later, under apartheid (after 1948) the division and control were more rigorous and these …
ArticleLegacy: A Timeline of HIV/AIDS by Carlos Motta
… Health Crisis (GMHC) founder Larry Kramer. The “Silence = Death” project begins to appear on the streets of New York … Therapy (HAART) also becomes available…
Address to the 21st Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the OAU by O.R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 19 July 1985
… with the people. For all practical purposes the puppet bodies established by Pretoria to administer black townships … imperative. Most of those who served on…
The Role Of The Indian People In The South African Revolution: An Interview In 1968
… made the legal functioning of the SAIC and its constituent bodies, the Natal Indian Congress and the Transvaal Indian … community. This led to the formation…
EventThe first ‘Bantustans’ or ‘homelands’ comes into existence when the Transkei Regional Authority is instituted
… via the 1913 Land Act. Later, under apartheid (after 1948) the division and control were more rigorous and these …
EventThe UN General Assembly adopts resolution 1881, requesting South Africa to release all political prisoners
… With the inception of apartheid in 1948, numerous repressive laws limited the freedom and …
EventAlbert Luthuli is elected as an ANC President
… Party victory and the imple- mentation of Apartheid in 1948, the ANC launched the Programme of Action strikes and …
EventSouth Africa becomes a charter member of the United Nations
… takeover of the government by the National Party (NP) in 1948 led to friction between the UN and South Africa. The …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2 - Kitchener proposes establishment of concentration camps
… Nationalist Party (NP) seizing power in the elections of 1948. …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Timeline
… first constitution 8 Jan 1912 Formation of the ANC 1948 National Party comes to power 1955 26 June, Adoption of …
ArticlePlacing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review
… under the western imperialism and capitalism that crafted bodies of labour to serve the enrichment of an imperialist … no over-aesthetisation of the African…
Address at the Africa Regional Disability Consultative Conference Johannesburg, 6th May 2003
… of Human Rights as adopted by the United Nations in 1948. As we know, the United Nations has, since 1948 adopted many declarations and resolutions dealing…
77. The South African Indian Council: an assessment from within, 1978
… the S.A.I.C. in 1969 and remained a member until his death in February 1979. Source: Copy supplied by the late Dr. … of the S.A.I.C. and all locally…
Harry Snitcher 1, Unite Against Segregation! Condemn the C.A.C. [1943]
… them to-day. The Communist Party will co-operate with all bodies and persons who are fighting for these things, and it …