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ArticleUnited Nations and Apartheid Timeline 1946-1994
… 1946 22 June, The Government of India requested that the question of the treatment of … of the United Nations. The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian…
Liberal Opinion/Reality
… Opinion (1961-1968) was published by the Liberal Party of South Africa which was established in 1953 by Alan Paton, … Liberal Party was forced to disband…
EventThe Bantu Homelands Citizenship Bill is passed
… passed, whereby every African is issued with a certificate of citizenship of his respective 'homeland'. The homelands in question at … 1, 2 million ha due to…
EventAllan Boesak is arrested
… Allan Boesak was arrested and appeared in court on charges of trying to enter a Black township without permit, but … to Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town, to…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… 1928 Fatima Meer was born in Durban, daughter of Moosa and Amina Meer. 1940s Established literacy classes … She spent one year at Wits University and became…
EventKenya lifts ban on sports links with South Africa
… to sports events in South Africa. This marked the end of Kenya’s 15 year ban on sports links with South Africa. The year 1991 saw many of South Africa’s…
EventSolly Sachs leaves South Africa
… untenable. This move followed after two notices in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act (1950) had been served on him on 19 May 1952 and his … Verwey, E…
EventANC celebrates 90th anniversary
… eight years post the first South African non-racial polls of 1994. ANC's National Executive Committee said in a statement; “Ahead of us lies a decade during…
EventSouth African actor, Ken Gampu, dies in Vosloorus
… At the time of his death at the age of 74, Ken Gampu was a well known veteran actor in South Africa. Gampu was the first South African actor to act in…
EventKing Mswati III buys another luxury car
… based newspaper, Times, reported that King Mswati III of Swaziland bought himself a luxury Maybach 62 sedan worth … despite his country's economic problems,…
"We have Decided to Liberate Ourselves": Address to the Royal Commonwealth Society by O. R. Tambo, London, 23 June 1986
… eight months ago to the day, in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas, Heads of State and Government of the Commonwealth countries … recalcitrance, Britain is…
ArticleHow Unique was Slavery at the Cape?
… Amersfoort , arrived in Table Bay with a valuable cargo of 174 slaves. Henceforth, the Cape entered the global stage of slaveholding societies. Slavery in…
THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE IS ON IN EARNEST, Durban, 12 December 1959
… Presidential Address to the 47th Annual Conference of the African National Congress Durban, 12 December 1959 The … of the knowledge required of leaders of…
ArticleWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa by Cait Chapman
… This article was written by Cait Chapman and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership … oppressions in the workplace during the…
EventANC leader, James Arthur Calata, dies
… secretary-general. In this capacity, Calata was signatory of the 1949 Programme of Action, though he found the proposal of the Youth League … suspended…
EventDurban mass meeting endorses Smuts and Gandhi agreement
… regarding voluntary registration, poll tax, recognition of Indian marriages and other matters. The preliminary … took place on 30 June 1914 through the…
ArticleSouth Africa and the United Nations, 1946-1990
… UNO South Africa and apartheid was placed on the agenda of the United Nations for the first time in 1946 by India regarding the treatment of people of Indian…
ArticleThe African Students Association (ASA)
… on 17 December 1961 in Durban under the auspices of the banned African National Congress (ANC). At the time of its formation, Durban was the centre of Black…
ArchiveTorture in South Africa
… This book discusses security law, terrorism Act, and politics generally in South Africa …
Black consciousness and the land question by Pandelani Nefolovhodwe, 17 March 2015, South Africa
… Introduction A Sowetan article of the 6th September 2013, states that 14% of audited land in South Africa is in the hands of the state, … become the basis of…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
… In the previous section, we have learnt about the origins of capitalism, however, we paid cursory attention to the racial character of that discourse. In…
EventMK operatives, Jerry Mosolodi, Terry Mogoerane and Thabo Motaung are executed
… and defended the attack on the police station as an act of liberation. It called for the MK operatives to be treated as prisoners of war under the protection…
EventAfrikaans Writer Breytenbach is sentenced
… years imprisonment for high treason under the Terrorism Act by the Pretoria Supreme Court. He had pleaded guilty for … apartheid in exile and was intended to…
EventSteytler launches a nationwide protest campaign against the General Laws Amendment Bill
… Dr. Jan Steytler, leader of the Progressive Party, which was later renamed Progressive … by the government on 12 May 1962 defining the crime of sabotage in…
EventUS opposes new sanctions against SA, believing they will be counterproductive to the transformation and negotiation process
… committee, United States (US) Assistant Secretary of State, Herman Cohen, said that the US strongly opposed any … prisoners and unban all political parties…
EventCiskei National Security Decree No 19 promulgated
… The government of Ciskei introduced the National Security Decree No 19 as an attempt to curb the pressure of the increasing calls for the end of the Ciskei…
PlaceGriqualand East
… The territory of Griqualand East is located South of the Colony of Natal , between the Drakensberg and … Griqualand was taken over in 1874, and although the…
PlaceOverberg District Municipality, Western Cape
… Atlantic and Indian oceans meet at the Southern-most tip of Africa. With its headquarters in Bredasdorp, the Overberg … C Municipality governing the four…
PlaceSouth End Museum, Port Elizabeth
… South End Museum Trust was started in 1999 when a group of people from the disadvantaged communities of Port Elizabeth and who had been affected by the…
PlaceCaledon Museum, Eastern Cape
… is split into two Buildings depicting very different parts of local History. The Victorian House, houses an abundance of artifacts that reflect the true…