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Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
… Union and the Nationalist Party coming into power - (1910-1948). Jan van Riebeeck and his expedition of Dutch Calvinist …
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the ANC 1948 Tambo serves his law articles with a company of lawyers, … Ababa Delivers an address, Black…
ArticleA History of the Springbok Legion
… leave the SL. When the National Party (NP) seized power in 1948, its policy of Apartheid challenged the SL which had …
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… necessary after the National Party (NP) came to power in 1948, and racial segregation and discrimination was …
Prehistory of the Rustenburg area
… XII (1936-1956), the National Party came to power in 1948, and apartheid legislation began to be introduced. When …
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… was only the coming to power of the Nationalist Party in 1948 which temporarily stilled the voices of legitimate Black … and to establish permanent homes in…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott
… Introduction In 1948 with the election of the National Party and the …
ArticleThe 1913 Women’s anti-pass campaign in the Orange Free State
… when the Apartheid government that had come to power in 1948 began forcing women to carry passes. After visiting …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
… 1950s the National Party (NP), which came into power in 1948 introduced harsh and oppressive laws towards blacks. In …
ArticleLiberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)
… The ascendancy of the apartheid government in 1948 signalled a descent into institutionalized racism unseen …
Article1960-1966: The genesis of the armed struggle
… it was seeking also to trap liberals in its net. Between 1948 and 1991, the apartheid government banned thousands of …
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
1940s The oldest Human Immunodeficiency Virus-2 (HIV-2) jumps from animals to humans, according to a Washington-based study in May 2003. Some sources say…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1930-1939
1930 The Durban Municipality was a major employer of Indian labour, employing an average of 2 000 workers through the 1930s and 1940s. Municipal workers…
PUBLIC RESPONSE TO SAHO WEBSITE
… locate the core material on the anti-apartheid movement, 1948-1976 by typing in keywords such as Rivonia Trial, … SA history, mainly during the Apartheid…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… The National Party was elected in 1948 on the policy of Apartheid ('separateness'). This … was that segregationist measures passed before 1948 were less…
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… caused intense anger in Black communities. From 1939 to 1948 South Africa participated in the Second World War and … that Passes be abolished they remained…
ArticleDefining culture, heritage and identity
… the country according to rigid definitions of race between 1948-1991. These policies reached their apotheosis in the …
The genesis of the armed struggle, 1960-1966
… it was seeking also to trap liberals in its net. Between 1948 and 1991, the apartheid government banned thousands of …
ArticleOn Trial: State versus Abram Fischer and Thirteen Others by Norman Levy
This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 16) On Trial State versus Abram Fischer and Thirteen Others The change from…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
Documentary Photography is not encouraged because I think it threatens the core of what this country is about. It’s a very powerful medium, it touches on…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
9 July, The Executive of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) meets in Durban and appoints S.R. Naidoo as the SAIC's nominee to the Young Committee. Albert…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… World War Two. 5 The National Party won the election of 1948 on a platform that proposed an answer to this "native … audience. 40 When the Nationalists came…
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… accelerated when the National Party (NP) seized power in 1948. The NP led government began to vigorously implement the … pass laws in the Cape Peninsula, but…
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… racism, particularly with the advent of apartheid in 1948. Countless Jews played significant roles in labour and … its anti-Semitic approach as it geared up…
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… state When the Nationalist Party was elected to power in 1948 by a minority of the white electorate, their platform … the election to power of the…
Indian Community
… to the two year passive resistance campaign from 1946 to 1948 when several thousand Indians courted arrest. Despite the protests, the act was passed in 1948…
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… 1942 The White suburb of Danville is established. 1948 National Party comes to power under DF Malan. The White …
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… period is the National Party winning the white election in 1948 and the process of instituting formal apartheid. The …
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… to be, they were ignored. The reason is that after the 1948 general election the Nationalist Party (NP) emerged …
ArticleMiriam Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts by Connor Kirkpatrick
… in choir for school. However after apartheid started in 1948 Makeba dropped out of school. She started her first job …