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Chapter 26. Further Attacks-Passport Case - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… for the clothing industry, which contained the award of the arbitrators, on the grounds that it had a "closed … the employers, but Schoeman had hoped that…
PlaceBonteheuwel
… Bonteheuwel is a coloured Township situated North of Cape Town. It was created in the 1960's as a "Dumping … Site" for coloured people, who had been forced…
PlaceUmlazi
… History of Umlazi The history of Umlazi (or Mlazi) dates back to 1845 when British settlers … and Chief Albert Luthuli . Application of the Group Areas Act…
Chapter III - The world outside
… in house arrest, the 1960s inexorably became a decade of disgrace, of repressive legislation. Sadistic incarceration, even … government's response was…
EventSteven Biko is arrested.
… Stephen Bantu Biko was the first president of South African Student Organisation (SASO), a black … meeting and detained in Port Elizabeth under the Terrorism…
EventBishop Desmond Tutu leaves for the USA to meet with American President Ronald Reagan
… States had not. During the Reagan administration, a policy of constructive engagement with the apartheid government was … 1984, hoping to promote an economic…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… apartheid. This lead to an increase in the number of people being incarcerated due to petty and severe apartheid laws. Between the 1960s and the unbanning of…
African National Congress Women's League Constitution
… adopted at the 5th National Conference - July 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS Preamble Rules Rule 1 Name Rule 2 Aims and … no more than 2 persons, in order to provide…
EventAttempts of sabotage are made in Secunda
… Two strategic acts of sabotage, supposedly by the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK ), … Attempts of sabotage are made in Secunda …
EventThe Defiance Campaign against apartheid laws begins
… Following the adoption of a Programme of Action in the 1949 annual congress, the ANC began the … 1952 the Defiance Campaign, the most dramatic non-violent…
PlaceSastri College, 1 Winterton Walk, Durban
… V.S. Srinivasa Sastri , who was appointed as Agent of the Indian Government , to South Africa in 1927. Designed … by the Architect Hermann Kallenbach , a…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… a mere pittance lay down their lives to the familiar 'fall of rock' and who, at deep levels, ranging from 1,000 to 3,000 feet in the bowels of the earth,…
PlaceOriental Plaza, Fordsburg, Johannesburg
… plus food stalls. Established in the Johannesburg suburb of Fordsburg in the mid-1970s, when Indian traders from the … shopping precinct in the nearby…
EventA German gunboat, the Panther, reaches Morocco, increasing tensions between European powers
… On 1 July 1911, the deployment of the German gunboat, the Panther to Agadir, Morocco, … too heightened the tension in Europe. With the deployment of the…
ArticlePlacing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review
… story about three Xhosa men that is told in the setting of the mountains of the Eastern Cape during a period of the male Xhosa … African coming-of-age drama,…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… A series of legislations were passed by the NP led government in the … operate underground, some were banned or endorsed out of Cape Town while others were…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid: A Preliminary Study of Albert Luthuli, 1920s-1952s Dr Peter Alegi, Department of History, Michigan State University…
Chapter 28. I Fight Back
… the orders upon me at the union office was the first of a series of blunders on Swart's part. For many months the committee … in power, have wiped out every…
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1994
… the South African legislature approved the setting up of a multiparty Transitional Executive Council (TEC) to … parties registered. The 1994 elections marked…
Chapter 8. Capitalists without Money
… In 1928 the clothing industry presented a picture of primitive capitalism. There were about fifty factories on … roughly forty in Johannesburg and the rest…
ArticleBatavian Republic 1803-1806
… After the French Revolution, the newly founded Republic of France conquered the Netherlands in 1795. The Netherlands … became known as the Batavian Republic…
ArticleReactions to Silverton Siege 1980
… The Silverton and Soekmekaar verdict prompted a wave of protests against the death penalty and particularly the death sentences of Johnson Lubisi, Petrus…
13 notable women in Cape Town’s history, 6 August 2015
… the city it is today are so often overlooked. In the light of Women’s Day, on the 59th anniversary of the 9 August 1956 march of some 20 000 women on the…
ArchiveRobert Grendon: A Life Rediscovered, (Daily Maverick), 4 March 2024
… journalist, politician, talented sportsman and grandson of a famous Herero leader, Robert Grendon is one of the most … African, a full-length exposé of the…
EventThe first ‘Bantustans’ or ‘homelands’ comes into existence when the Transkei Regional Authority is instituted
… On 11 December 1963 the first of the 'Bantustans' or 'homelands' came into existence when the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, De Wet Nel,…
PlaceHout Bay East and West Forts
… Found on opposite sides of the Bay entrance, on the mountain. Origanally built to … experienced a difficult metamorphosis since the advent of the National…
ArticleThe Cattle Killing Movement
… 1. Introduction ↵ The value of history is derived from its obligation to view all factors … in the pre-colonial era to construct a truly reliable…
29. Removal to locations: the people are terrified
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … Pachai In a Notice published in the Staats Courant of 26 April…
PlaceNxuba (formerly known as Cradock)
… Cradock is a Historic Town that has retained much of its 19th-Century charm. Its beautifully restored Victorian … and Karoo-style buildings, combined with…
32. An unjust and uncalled-for Immigration Bill, 1894
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … Amendment Bill. It sought to amend the 1891 Immigration Act in…