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ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… to the metropolitan population of the city right up to the 1960s, when the rapid growth of Soweto under apartheid … that time, the grassing over of the mine…
”ASINAMALI”, WE HAVE NO MONEY
… (SACTU's) most successful achievement in the 1950s and 1960s. Demanding a legislated, national minimum wage of … of SACTU's major work throughout the rest…
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… the apartheid policies that Malan had initiated through legislation. Malan passed the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages … membership following criticism from…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… as did the government’s effort to expand them. [35] The 1960s were characterised by the violent state repression of … for Apartheid interests. The high…
ArchiveBiography of Ruth First by Cole Deal Ruth Demissie
… repression by the apartheid government who would pass legislation as a way of suppressing resistance. At the height … of the prominent resistors of apartheid…
ArchiveCourt Transcript of statement from the Dock of Nelson Mandela, Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964
… expressing opposition to this principle had been closed by legislation, and we were placed in a position in which we had … in a decision which was taken to…
Chapter 3 - SASO: The Ideology and Politics of Black Consciousness
… For white South Africans the late 1960s was a time of political calm, rising living standards, … at Fort Hare, applied to the black institutions of the 1960s…
The Role Of The Indian People In The South African Revolution: An Interview In 1968
… campaign for all-out resistance against all discriminatory legislation conducted by the younger progressive group among …
ArchiveDeborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo
… Africans, Deborah Matshoba’s life was shaped by apartheid legislation. Deborah Matshoba’s family was forcefully removed … to Saleem Badat, “in the political…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of President Nujoma of Namibia Cape Town, 13 May 1996.
… it did precisely that (see page 379). But in the late 1960s and early '70s it began to show distinct signs of wear … At first glance, it seemed a good move:…
Chapter III - The world outside
… While I was living encapsulated in house arrest, the 1960s inexorably became a decade of disgrace, of repressive legislation. Sadistic incarceration, even…
ArchiveSonia Bunting: Continuous Compassion and Adamant Activism by Jack Lucas
… sentiment within South Africa and passed a series of legislation items that aimed to outlaw the practice of … support for the AAM died down until 1973. In…
Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , “South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home”, International Socialism, 5, Summer 1961
… United Party pegging act. Indians in Natal opposed the UP legislation which denied them land outside certain areas, and … a government that was arrogantly…
XIII - The Courts
… and practices in the Terrorism Act and other repressive legislation undermines the rule of the judiciary and … by the authorities has dwindled and vanished…
ADDRESS AT THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT, 13 June 2001
… the Cape Ordinance 50, which sought to ensure that future legislation in the Cape does not discriminate on the basis of … a non-racial co-educational school…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… should be taught in Afrikaans. Image source In the 1960s the pursuit of white domination led to a new policy of … particular outrage occurred in the second…
Address of the President of the South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the 38th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association - Africa Region Conference (CPA), Cape Town 27 July 2007
… we all know, after the wave of independence mainly in the 1960s a combination of factors that brought about numerous … that not all our countries have passed…
ArticleBiography of Mongane Wally Serote by Matthew Williams
… government passed one of the most significant pieces of legislation during apartheid. The reason the apartheid …
ArticleThe Western Cape Farm Workers Strike 2012-2013
… in English and is payment in alcohol) was outlawed in the 1960s, there are still farmers who practice this system of … Labour Relations Act of 1995.” A…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the International Conference in solidarity with the frontline states and Lesotho, Lisbon, 25 March 1983
… and colonialism in southern Africa... In the early 1960s, African and other countries identified apartheid as a … and to ensure its implementation through…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 2 - Explaining the Miracle by Max du Preez
… squashed by the police, using wide-ranging security legislation. In March 1960 policemen killed 69 people and …
ArticleSouth Africa and the Olympic Games
… is sports bodies did not comply with government policy, legislation would be introduced to compel them to do so. In …
Address by Nelson Mandela on behalf of the ANC delegation to the Conference of the Pan-African Freedom Movement of East and Central Africa Addis Ababa, January 1962
… were tremendous. Our organisations were outlawed. Special legislation had been rushed through parliament empowering the …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes
… areas). The body could deliberate and offer advice on legislation affecting Africans in the European Parliament and it could propose legislation on African…
Conservative Revolutionaries - Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town 1963-1973 by Robert Erbmann, Oxford University, 2005
… Introduction The 1960s are often described as a unique period of activism, in … works dealing with student radicalism and unrest in the 1960s, encompassing…
South Africa: Liberation and Reconciliation Role of International Solidarity, 8 April 2004
… A large bipartisan coalition in the Congress supported the legislation. When President Reagan vetoed the legislation, despite appeals by Republican Senators…
THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE IS ON IN EARNEST, Durban, 12 December 1959
… interest of white supremacy and domination. Adding on to legislation of previous governments it has fully armed itself …
ArticleIndenture: A new system of slavery?
… to go. By Law 14 of 1859 (in addition to subsequent legislation) the British Government introduced labour … employers of Indian labour as well as for…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 21 May 1962 during the second reading of the General Law Amendment Bill
… activities and tried to render them harmless by means of legislation, the communists here are organized in cells at a … restriction on communists in the past…
ArticleThe Mau Mau Uprising
… existing policies of repression and even proposed new legislation to reduce the rights of the indigenous people …