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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 projectWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
The National Party was elected in 1948 on the policy of Apartheid ('separateness'). This 'separateness' put South Africans of different racial groups on their…
BiographyZubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet
… , Transvaal (now Gauteng ). Mayet began writing in the mid-1950s while at high school. She studied for two years at a …
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
By 1980, the Black Consciousness organisations were in a gradual decline and struggling to avert state repression. Congress-inspired traditions were also re…
BiographyAlois Mate
… However, on the contrary, resistance continued into the 1950s. Mate's order was revoked on 8 April 1964, the reason …
ArticleA Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
Anyone who travels over the vast expanse of South Africa is immediately struck by the great variations in its landscape and the differing contexts and…
The Liberation Struggle documents: 1990s
BiographyHumphrey Phakade “Pax” Magwaza
… to strengthen their apartheid policies. From the early 1950s, Lamontville was a nursery and a microcosm of the …
BiographyBoas Moiloa
… , was a key figure in the Bahurutshe resistance of the 1950s. He was from Linokana Reserve (Zeerust), Marico …
ArticleNelson Mandela Awards 1960s - 2000s
Awards 1960s 1964 Elected Honorary President of the Students' Union, University College, London. 1965 Elected Honorary President of the Students'…
BiographyHarold Wolpe
… (SACP) represented several anti-apartheid figures in the 1950s and 1960s in political cases in court and helped plan …
Indian South Africans timeline 1950-1959
Indian South Africans Timeline: 1950-1959 1950 A.K.M. Docrat, a popular activist, was named under the Suppression of Communism Act. He was jailed for thirty…
BiographyReginald Dudley Forde
… Movement of South Africa in which he became active in the 1950s. From 1959, he held various positions such as Area …
BiographyWilfrid Edward Cooper
… the next fifty-five years. They set up home in the late 1950s in Palmboom Road, Newlands, Cape Town and lived there … academic of note, having lectured on…
BiographyC. S. Ramohanoe
C. S Ramohanoe was a provincial President of the Transvaal African National Congress (ANC) from 1944 to 1950 and later head of the faction known as the…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
July, Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of South Africa (ICU) is established as national Black trade union in Bloemfontein. 11 September, Gerrit…
BiographyElijah Barayi
… and an able speaker. He was arrested in the early 1950s for his participation in the Defiance campaign .He was …
BiographyBarney Simon
… working under director Joan Littlewood in London in the 1950s. After returning to Johannesburg, he supported himself …
BiographyMakholeka Matthews Meyiwa
… in the trade union and anti-apartheid movement during the 1950s. After the formation of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), he …
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…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
1980 is declared the Year of the Charter, marking the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Freedom charter in 1955. 1980 SACTU declares the year as…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
1970 11 June, It is announced that Security Police have arrested the leader of the Soweto Students’ Representative Council (SSRC), Dan S. Montsitsi in…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
1960 1 January, Minister of Bantu Education assumes control of University College of Fort Hare.African students are prohibited from attending formerly "open…
BiographyVuyisile Mini
… across the Eastern Cape during the increasingly repressive 1950s. Mini was tasked by the South African Congress of Trade … Stevedoring and Dockworkers' Union…
Conclusion: A Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
In all countries where market-assisted land reforms have been undertaken, the outcomes have been disappointing. In the case of Southern African countries such…
Labour and Mining Revolution 1886-1940s
The discovery of a diamond on a farm in the British controlled Cape Colony in 1867 and of gold in the Afrikaner “Boer” controlled Transvaal Republic…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
1940 Dr. A.B. Xuma is elected President-General of the African National Congress (ANC). Walter Sisulu joins the African National Congress. The population…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
1910 Anti-Indian Legislation: The Public Servants Superannuating Act and Teachers Pensions Act. This furthers discrimination against Indians. Anti-Indian…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1900s
1900 7 May, Paul Kruger addresses the volksraad for the last time before being forced to travel on the Delagoa line to Machadodorp, where he lives on his…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
1990 Nelson Mandela is released from prison. 27 townships declared unrest areas in terms of the Public Safety Act No 3 of 1953. Gazankulu: Immorality and…