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BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
… distinction of race, colour or sex. Revision of the land question in accordance with the above. Revision of the … arisen strongly as an issue with the…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… racism had been legislated by the government since the Native Land Act of 1913 that restricted all Africans to thirteen percent …
Bamboo Square: Documentary Narrative of the 'Indian and Native Cantonment' at the Point, 1873 to 1903 by Brian Kearney
… Bamboo Square: Documentary Narrative of the 'Indian and Native Cantonment' at the Point, 1873 to 1903 by Brian Kearney …
EventFormer Colonial Prime Minister John Merriman dies
… one of only a few members of Parliament who opposed the Native Land Act introduced in 1913, which drastically limited African …
BiographyElizabeth Mafekeng
… p 40]: Two policemen and Mr Johannes Le Roux, the Paarl Native Commissioner, made a call on Mrs Elizabeth Mafekeng in … Minister for Bantu Administration,…
BiographyMazisi Raymond Kunene
… Ann Bostock’s translation of Aime Cesaire’s Return to my Native Land. After his return to South Africa, Kunene lectured at …
BiographyMattheus Uys Krige
… Daily Mail, Die Suiderstem and Die Burger. Besides his native Afrikaans, he communicated in perfect English and had … in February 1933. The Campbells…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Albert John Luthuli
… of the United States of America towards a veritable "Land of the Free". In South Africa , however, the Nationalist … races and protect white minority rule…
BiographyMoses Mabhida
… 1923, into a poor family which was later forced off the land. Mabhida could not pursue his studies because of the … Heroes' Acre at Slangspruit,…
BiographyViola Hashe
… with deportation under Section 29 of the Urban Areas Act. No reasons were given for the notice except a vague … was done because in terms of the Industrial…
BiographyElijah Barayi
… (COSATU). Barayi worked briefly for the Department of Native Affairs but resigned as he felt it was in the …
BiographyGeorge Naicker
… clients, at what was known as the Ndabazabantu, the Native Affairs offices where pass laws were administered. In …
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bridging two worlds by Emilia Potenza
… rents on those who live on the crown lands. This was land owned by the government. It was a bit like the common … the Cap to form the Union of South Africa…
BiographyArthur Butelezi
… his income by doing odd sign-writing jobs, He painted 'native studies' and landscapes and was apparently able to … would distinguish them to some extent from…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… proposes to the Government that the survey of the mining land should be on the same basis and scale as the two parts … imposes a speed limit of 10mph in the…
Document 51 - W. P. van Schoor, “The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa A. J. Abrahamse Memorial Lecture, Cathedral Hall, Cape Town, 5 October 1950
… Labour Policy enshrined this attitude as a law of the land. This transformation within 70 years was brought about … a permanent outpost against the…
BiographyIsaac Lesiba ‘Bra Ike’ Maphotho
… a job at the City Council, working in the Department of Native Affairs, 'Bra Ike', as Maphotho is affectionately …
BiographyNaboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle
… of Dr D.F. Malan passed the Suppression of Communism Act in 1950, Mokgatle's 'political home' was destroyed as the …
ArticleThe Union of South Africa: Movement towards Republic
… any reconceptualisation of this role with regard to native peoples. Further the Boer societies rationalized their entitlement to land by characterising pre…
Appeal to the British public by Dube
… APPEAL TO THE BRITISH PUBLIC ABOUT THE NATIVE LAND ACT, 1913 by John Langalibalele Dube President, South African …
ArticleHeritage and identity of Provinces
… came to the Cape, they came into contact with the native Khoikhoi people. The two groups had very different … wars. The Dutch farmers also fought with the…
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… the deliberations of these constitution makers: the 'Native question', and the choice between a federal and a … report of the National Convention, the draft…
Remembering Sol Plaatje as South Africa’s original public educator (The Conversation), 05 October 2016
… State province. When he was 40 years old, he published Native Life in South Africa, his great expose of the ruinous effects of the 1913 Natives’ Land Act…
BiographyKing Dinuzulu
… annexed Zululand and the Zulu Reserve, extending the Native Law of Natal to the whole country. The Governor of … encroachment on every side deprived them of…
BiographyEdwin Thabo Mofutsanyana
Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana was born in the Witzieshoek area of the Orange Free State in 1899. He worked at various times as a teacher, a miner, and a full-time…
BiographyWilliam Frederick Nkomo
… 1937 Nkomo studied for a BSc degree at the South African Native College (Fort Hare). He also obtained his BA degree …
BiographyCharles Kwelemthini Sakwe
… and businessman, Sakwe was active in support of the Cape Native Voters' Association, and in 1927 he gave evidence before the parliamentary select committee…
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
… cleaning. Other segregation laws and policies included the Native Land Act of 1913 and the Pass laws . National Party victory 1948 …
BiographyM. N. Bhola
… she was the first woman prosecuted under the clause of the Native Administration Act of 1927 , which forbade the preaching of "hostility" …
BiographyChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli
… empathy with working people’s concerns, joining the Natal Native Teachers Union, and in 1928 was elected its secretary. … this period in South African…