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EventJazz veteran Dorothy Masuka dies
… release more songs until one of her songs about apartheid laws was banned. She then went into exile where she spent …
PlaceLuckhoff High School
With being established in 1935, the school is a very important part of the Stellenbosch Community. It has produced great South Africans. OUR VISION Lückhoff…
ArticleTimeline of the Bulhoek Massacre
… to offend him by disregarding his wishes and obeying the laws of men”. May, Whites see the Israelites defiance in …
ArticleA History of the Springbok Legion
… accepted the NP’s victory and began supporting white laws and white constitutionalism. After the victory of the NP …
ArticleEarly African Civilisations: Ancient Egypt, Nubia and Swahili
… the Nubian language. The Nubians also wrote down their laws, letters and other documents. These writings are a …
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1930-1939
… Conciliation Act No 28 of 1956. The Black (Native) Laws Amendment Act No 46 of 1937 Prohibited acquisition of …
ArticleIndian South Africans Timeline 1910-1919
… Regulation Act of 1910 consolidates existing immigration laws of the pre-Union colonies and excludes immigration of …
PlaceCogmans Kloof Road (between Ashton and Montagu)
… in the Area around the beginning of the 18th Century. The Pass was constructed by Thomas Bain from 1873 - 1877 and … 1873 that Thomas Bain finally took over…
PlaceGariep River Mouth, Namibia
The Orange River, Southern Africa’s longest waterway, rises high in the Drakensberg Mountains of Lesotho, only 195 km from the Indian Ocean. Flowing 2 300 km,…
The Battle of Square Hill
… [iv] In order to be accepted the men who applied had to pass very ‘stringent stipulations’ [v] and within six weeks … defensive positions and create a gap…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… extra money according to the number of children that pass. Black schooling becomes a separate responsibility … declared the end of the primary school course…
ArticleCo-operation and conflict on the Highveld
… didn't satisfy everybody. The view from the Khubelu Pass leading to Thaba Bosiu. Source: …
Document 24 - E. R. Roux, Thesis on South Africa, presented at the Sixth Comintern Congress, 28 July 1928
… native agriculture is prevented as far as possible, the "pass" system is introduced. These are the distinguishing … Thuku, a series of demonstrations against…
68. Passive resistance 1946-1947
… have become during the year, as evidenced by the anti-pass conference at Johannesburg last year, the African … launching of the campaign and the different…
Statement submitted to the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, on the occasion of the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners, 11 October 1979
… of sentence for those sentenced under its security laws. Ever since then the Special Committee against Apartheid … people under 18 were detained in terms of…
Ernest Cole: Brave photographer who exposed horrors of apartheid from within by Teo Kermeliotis, (cnn.com), 5 January 2015
… black men arrested for being in white areas without a pass; of downtrodden mineworkers enduring humiliating …
PlaceGroot Brakrivier, Mossel Bay Local Municipality
Great Brak River (Afrikaans: Groot-Brakrivier) is a Coastal Village which nestles in, the Garden Route. Situated midway between George and Mossel Bay. …
ArticleThe Seriti Commission
Background Terry Crawford-Brown petitioned the Constitutional Court in 2011 to compel former president Jacob Zuma to establish a commission of inquiry into…
ArticleTrevor Andrew Manuel and Economic Freedom Fighters - High Court of South Africa - Gauteng Local Division - Johannesburg
REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA IN THE HIGH COURT OF…
Testimony by Moosa Muhammed Moolla before the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Commission on Human Rights, Dar es Salaam, 22 June 1967
… defiance, known as the Campaign of Defiance against Unjust Laws, and it was an open act of civil disobedience in which … took part and were carted off to…
Executive summary of the statement of the National Executive Committee of the ANC delivered by President Jacob Zuma at the 100th anniversary of the ANC, Mangaung 8 January 2012
… full franchise, freedom of movement, abolition of pass laws and the removal of discriminatory and oppressive … commander-in-chief. In response to this, the…
Black ViewPoint - The New Day by C.M.C. Ndamse
… they have moved from strength to strength, defying 'ghetto laws' and paralysing restrictions. I am inviting the … to turn his attention more and more to the…
Africa and Freedom, 1961
… of his ability. To remain neutral in a situation where the laws of the land virtually criticised God for having created … its social system, its politics,…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2012
… full franchise, freedom of movement, abolition of pass laws and the removal of discriminatory and oppressive … commander-in-chief. In response to this, the…
EventGovernment tables the third Constitution of the Republic of South Africa before the House of Assembly
In 1983 the South African government passed the third Constitution of the Republic of South Africa. The Conservative Party opposed the Constitution, while the…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985 by Sean Field
… rights were still severely limited under apartheid labour laws. For example, it was very difficult to have a legal … People protesting against apartheid…
Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985
… rights were still severely limited under apartheid labour laws. For example, it was very difficult to have a legal … People protesting against apartheid…
PlaceClaremont, a Suburb of Cape Town
… first group in Lower Claremont to fall victim to apartheid laws instituted by the government – one of these laws was the Black Land Act of June 1913 . The…
’Appeal for action to stop repression and Trials in South Africa’, Statement at the meeting of the Special Political Committee of the General Assembly, New York, 8 October 1963
… in fact that they have contravened a law, or a group of laws which have been enacted for the express purpose of … suppressing the aspirations of the victims…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki on the Occasion of the Celebration of Workers Day, Swellendam, Western Cape, 1 May 2006
… surely as government to make sure that all of these laws that we have approved and that have been intended to protect the working class of our country; that…