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Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… Immorality Amendment Act, Act No 21 of 1950 This Act was one of the most controversial pieces of Apartheid legislation. It … deportment and demeanour. Blacks…
EventAhmed Timol born on the 3rd Nov 1941
… and trained as a teacher. In 1964 he attended the funeral of Suliman 'Babla' Saloogee who had died in detention. This … 4 days later, on the 27th Oct 1971 he…
EventClements Kadalie dies
… Bandawe mission station in Nyasaland, now Malawi. After being educated at the Church of Scotland mission station, he was trained as a teacher. In 1915, he…
PlaceVanderbijlpark
… Vanderbijlpark is south of Johannesburg , on the banks of the Vaal River . It is considered an industrial city in … in 1947 and the town was proclaimed in…
PlaceLuckhoff High School
… With being established in 1935, the school is a very important part of the Stellenbosch Community. It has produced great South … committed to the principle…
Free Nelson Mandela - Margaret Thatcher
… back in London, I should like to give you a fuller account of the discussion of South Africa at the recent Commonwealth Heads of … South Africa. I received a…
Document 42 - “Boycott the Dummy Elections: 2 000 Demonstrate AT Mass Rally”, The Torch , National Edition, 1 April 1958
… greatest political rally on the franchise in the history of the Coloured people. It is conservatively estimated that … people were present. At 2.30 p.m…
PlacePhilip Irrigation Tunnel and Missionary Station, Hankey
… Three years after his arrival at the Cape, Superintendent of the London Missionary Society, Dr John Philip, paid a … For this purpose he purchased 1 427…
PlaceMuizenberg and Marina da Gama
… The Village of Muizenberg was established by the Dutch in 1743 as a … was named after Wynand Willem Muijs , Sergeant in charge of the post in 1844, and later…
ArticleJune 16 Soweto Youth Uprising timeline: 1976-1986
… According to the government-appointed Cillie Commission of Enquiry 575 people died. Police action resulted in 451 … and inquiry figures were disputed by…
ArticleConvict Stations & Labour in the Cape Colony
… Written by: FRANCO FRESCURA The exploitation of convict labour at the Cape during the Colonial era is closely connected with the work of John Montagu,…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… Centre. He excelled at boxing and shared his love of the sport with his son, Thembekile. He enjoyed visiting the cinema and became secretary of the multi…
Grade 12 - Topic 2 - Independent Africa
… powers carved up Africa amongst themselves. By 1914 all of Africa, except Liberia and Ethiopia, was under colonial … rule. Today, African countries are…
ArticleSefako Mapogo Makgatho Timeline 1861-1961
… in Transvaal (now Limpopo province). 1870 The death of the King of the Baostho Moshoeshoe I. 1878 Sekhukhuni at war with the … Africa Act, which brings the…
Circular Letter To Trade Unions, Progressive Organisations, Democrats And Anti-Fascists by Yusuf Dadoo, June 10, 1946
… law. The already so weak and feeble democratic structure of South Africa has received a further blow and our country's … threatened with cultural, moral and…
PlaceEshowe, Northern Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Coastal Forest . Eshowe actually means Ekowe, the place of Mushrooms: "Esikhowe seNkosi uCetshwayo!" Eshowe offers visitors a variety of unusual attractions,…
Indian South Africans timeline 1950-1959
… , a popular activist, was named under the Suppression of Communism Act . He was jailed for thirty days during the 1952 Defiance Campaign and detained under…
Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati
… from Ganyesa in Kagisano-Molopo area within the district of Bophirima, now called Dr Ruth Mompati District … she continued her schooling at Tigerkloof…
Document 83 “Native Bourgeoisie as a Class”, Umsebenzi, 16 February 1935
… as a Class", Umsebenzi, 16 February 1935 To the Editor of "Umsebenzi" In your issue of 2 February, there appeared an article under the heading, … of the…
Chapter XII - Can we be free?
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The State of Emergency was over. Lilian and I came out of gaol together on the morning of 31 August and climbed…
Chapter XV - House arrest
… furthering or were calculated to further, the achievement of any of the objects of communism. Because of this satisfaction he … stand. Defiantly we all had…
PlaceSouth Sudan
… Egypt attempted to colonize the region of Southern Sudan by establishing the Province of Equatoria in the 1870s. Islamic Mahdist revolutionaries … was then…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church Hall, Uitenhage
… The Dutch Reformed congregation of Uitenhage, the 10th oldest Dutch Reformed congregation in … the second oldest in the Eastern Cape is the distinction of…
PlaceShri Jagannath Puri Temple, Tongaat
… The property, with the Historic Indian temple thereon, being the remainder of Lot 79, Tongaat Township, situated in the Township of Tongaat, Province of…
ArticleCulture and Resistance Conference, Botswana, 1982
… were hosted by the Botswana National Museum in July of 1982 in Gaborone, Botswana as part of The Culture and Resistance Conference. The Culture and … by the…
EventB.J Vorster steps down as Prime Minster
… Balthazar Johannes Vorster stepped down as Prime Minster of South Africa after the holding office since 1966. John Vorster, as he became known, was a former…
The Durban Moment: Revisiting politics, labour, youth and resistance in the 1970s
… period in the early 1970s when Durban became the location of processes and events that were to impact significantly on the nature of the liberation struggle…
Covert operations
… From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman Up to this point … This is a process of selective…
Extracts from Mandela’s speeches by Sapa, 6 December 2013
… made many powerful speeches. Here are extracts from some of them FROM HIS ADDRESS to the conference of the Pan-African Freedom Movement of East and Central ……
Address by Mandela to the CBI conference London, 10 July 1996
… have been in the United Kingdom to savour the hospitality of the British people, particularly its highest representatives in Buckingham Palace. The warmth of…