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ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… Licensing Ordinance - limited the right of appeal. ii) The Townships Franchise Ordinance - Indians lose municipal …
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
… put into place as a response to the ungovernability of the townships as the MK structures and front organizations, …
ArticleMetal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU)
The Metal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU) was established in April 1973 in with the assistance of the General Factory Workers Benefit Fund (GFWBF). It was…
ArticleVlakplaas and the History of Apartheid's Death Squad
Vlakplaas is the name of an undercover counterinsurgency division of the apartheid police that operated in the 1980s. Vlakplaas is also referred to as C, C1…
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
1799 2 March, British government lands troops in Algoa Bay. Construction begins on the building of Fort Frederick. 1803 Founding of Bethelsdorp. 1804 …
ArticleSharpeville
On 19 March 1960, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) called on Black South Africans to leave their pass books at home and thereafter gather peacefully at police…
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… rents and other services became commonplace in the townships. There were various other women's groupings both … social movements to organise against…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… bus boycotts in the Transvaal, nor the many eruptions in townships over lodger's permits, victimisations, rentals, and … were centred in the African trade…
ArticleFootball in South Africa
On 15 May 2004 in Zurich, Switzerland, Joseph (Sepp) Blatter, president of FIFA, world soccer's governing body, made an historic announcement: South Africa…
ArticlePeter Magubane Timeline 1932-
1932 Born in Vrededorp, South Africa. Matriculates from Western Native Township High School. 1954 Worked as a photojournalist for Drum Magazine, South…
ArticleA brief history of domestic service in South Africa
… African domestic workers and African employers in the townships of Soweto. [xv] Cock, J. 1980. Maids & madams: A … African domestic workers and African…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… in the East and West Rand as well as in the Alexandra townships and the rest of the country. 18 July, The …
ArticleOvercoming Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid by Bennett Gwynn
… property of their employer or in the government sanctioned townships created by the group areas act of 1950 (Group Areas …
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… for it provided them with unprecedented powers over townships. The lifting of restrictions imposed by the Group … unban organizations like the ANC, withdraw…
ArticleGertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… Africans were not allowed to live in the cities. These townships and reserves, built on dirt roads, lacked basic …
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… Ian McRae had headed the plan to expand electricity into townships, particularly regarding the rolling out of prepaid …
ArticleThe Freedom Charter Campaign
The adoption of the Freedom Charter by the Congress of the People was widely recognised both in South Africa and internationally as an event of major political…
ArticleThe Founding of the SANNC
After actively petitioning the National Convention and being ignored during 1910 and 1911, delegates to the South African Native Convention (SANC) decided to…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… 30 000 and 50 000 Africans from surrounding African townships march into the centre of Cape Town led by Phillip …
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
… Control over Africans within the reserves and the townships could thus be strengthened. To top it all, a tidy …
ArticleDistrict Six is Declared a ‘White Area’
“District Six is a blot which the government has cleaned up and will continue to clear up.”[i] - P.W Botha The memory of District Six, also known as…
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO): An Organisational Timeline
1952The African National Congress’ (ANC) Defiance Campaign against the South African Apartheid Regime, which in the following years inspires the establishment…
ArticleThe Congress of the People, Kliptown 1955
The adoption of the Freedom Charter by the Congress of the People was widely recognised both in South Africa and internationally as an event of major political…
ArticlePartial State of Emergency, July 1985
On 20 July 1985 the government declared a State of Emergency in 36 magisterial districts in the Eastern Cape and PWV (now Gauteng) areas. This was the first…
ArticleSouth African Defence Force (SADF)
Early years The history of the South African Defence Force (SADF) can be traced to the 1660s. When Jan van Riebeeck landed at the Cape in 1652, he had with…
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
… only 150 volunteers, and in Johannesburg and surrounding townships, the response was “negligible”.68 The PAC call was … Eastern Cape and in Durban. This was…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
… 30 000 and 50 000 Africans from surrounding African townships march into the centre of Cape Town led by Phillip …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… of implementÂing pass laws and administering African townships onto White municipalities; property rights are not …
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… the growing numbers, the government set up semi-urban townships for Black, Indian and Coloured population groups. …