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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 …
BiographyDavid Joseph Webster
… involved in the struggle and his first anti-apartheid act was a protest in 1965 at Rhodes University , in …
BiographyMyron Peter
… Apr, 1986. Published photographs in the book “Organize and Act ” by Astrid Kotze. The book outlined the development of …
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…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… politics. The passing of the Suppression of Communism Act by the government in 1950 enabled the state to increase … trade unions the right to join political…
Nicodemus Kgoathe
… on 11th November 1968 under section 6(1) of the Terrorism Act and on 21 January 1969 was taken from the Silverton …
George Botha
… 1976 in terms of section 22 of the General Law Amendment Act No 62 of 1966.He was detained in connection with an …
BiographyElliot Mngadi
… 1964 Mngadi was banned under the Suppression of Communism Act. He was confined to the district of Ladysmith for five …
BiographyPaula Ensor
… banned in 1973 under the Suppression of Communism Act by the apartheid government. In May 1976, Ensor and her …
BiographyAlan McLeod Cormack
Alan Cormack, the youngest of three children, was born in Johannesburg in February 1924. His father was an engineer with the Post Office and his mother a…
BiographyDorothy Nomazotsho Zihlangu
… Town city centre to Langa Township under the Group Areas Act where she joined the African National Congress (ANC) …
BiographyLeonard Tebogo Tume
Leonard Tebogo Tume, known as Norman Nkosi, was born on 10 April 1957 in Galeshewe, Kimberly. He attended Barkly Road High School and after he left school in…
BiographyColleen Lombard
… were detained under Section 29 of the Internal Security Act , which allowed for incommunicado detention without the …
BiographyJacobus Wilhelmus Sauer
… parliament which was eventually passed as the Natives Land Act in 1913. He continued to serve as a minister in the Union …
BiographyOupa Ronald Madondo
… Madondo was detained under Section 6 of the Terrorism Act , and was released seven weeks later in September 1979. …
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… those which famously occurred under the Group Areas Act (and heavily influence urban landscapes today), it is … pegged it down and that’s final.” – The…
BiographyOliver Tambo
… in 1951, Tambo had to carry the workload on his own. In 1953, Chief Albert Luthuli was elected President of the ANC … after this the Congress of Democrats …
BiographyShaleen Surtie-Richards
Legendary stage, film, and television actress, Shaleen Surtie-Richards, was born on 7 May 1955 in Upington, Cape Province (now Northern Cape). She attended…
ArticleLand, Labour and Apartheid
… Africa was divided. In 1913 the government passed the Land Act. This Act decided how the land in South Africa was going to be … of protected labour remained…
ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
… organisations and people in the campaign. On 18 May 1953 the superintendent informed the Advisory Board of the … were forbidden by the location…
EventThe apartheid government agrees to eliminate racial segregation in theatres but not in cinemas
… city' were enacted, namely the Population Registration Act and the Group Areas Act . The first provided for the compulsory classification of … towns through…
ArchiveBothas emergency: legalized murder
… Copy of the Regulations in Terms of the Public Safety Act 1953. Black and white artwork of soldiers carrying machine …
EventChief Kaiser Matanzima is elected Chief Minister
… clan. He was a strong proponent of the Apartheid regime’s Bantu Authorities Act (1951).For his support of the Apartheid government, … and sixty-four ex…
ArticleIndian South Africans: 1924-1948 Legislation and Segregation
… 19 June 1913 the Union government passed the Natives’ Land Act that prohibited black people from owning or renting land … Trust and Land Act, or Native Trust…
BiographyJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
… marriage, and Coetzee was always grateful to Zuma for this act of kindness. In January 1994, Zuma was nominated as the … a National Key Point in terms of the…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… Viljoen is born in Cape Town. 1920 The Native Affairs Act The ANC supports the militant strike by African … in Johannesburg. Start of publication of Umteteli…
BiographyPixley ka Isaka Seme
… a serious challenge to the segregationist regime. The Land Act of 1913, intended to deny African farmers the only form … that impacted on their lives. Seme’s…
BiographyAubrey Levin
… before the Select Committee on the Immorality Amendment Act to illustrate his suggested ‘cure’ for homosexuality. His …
BiographyMaqashu Leonard Mdingi
… spells of detention under Section 6 of the Terrorism Act No. 83 of 1967. He travelled to Lusaka to deliver …