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PlaceGrey Street Complex
… of a special notice of the Group Areas Act , passed in 1950, the Nationalist government whittled down the boundaries …
ArticleGandhi and the Passive Resistance Campaign 1907-1914
… people were deported to India in April, and a further 26 in June 1910. Six thousand Indians left the province. …
Images That Preserve History, and Make It : ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography by Holland Cotter (The New York Times), 20 September 2012
Photography is the common language of modern history. It’s everywhere; and everyone, in some way, understands it. No institution presents and parses that…
PlaceMandela Capture Site, Howick in Kwa Zulu Natal
"To see this sculpture of Mandela!" Visit the Capture Site between Nottingham Road and Howick in KwaZulu-Natal. In 2012, to mark the 50th anniversary…
PlaceCastle of Good Hope, Castle Street- Cape Town
… were laid on 2 January 1666. It was completed on 26 April 1679 when the old fort was finally evacuated. The …
PlaceNewlands Cricket Stadium
… of International cricket , with SA winning 18 out of 26 tests and 25 out of 30 ODIs played at Newlands between …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: Lord Methuen, British general, destroys the village of Schweizer-Reneke
… and dysentery, especially amongst the children. Eventually 26 370 Boer women and children (81% were children) died in …
15. My son Gyapershad was decoyed
… Unao, Uttar Pradesh, wrote to the Government of Bengal on 26 March 1905 saying that his son had been ‘decoyed’ and was …
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… law. 1949 Walter Sisulu is elected ANC Secretary General. 1950 At birth South Africans are classified and registered in … arrest, and prohibition on…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Strategic Debates, the ANC - SACP alliance and the Soviet Union. Convenor: Tshepo Moloi.
… Party of South Africa (CPSA) was virtually outlawed in 1950 by the introduction of the Suppression of Communism Act …
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… units, and 1742561 units by 1945, to 4083752 units in 1950, after which Eskom set up substations and became the … pounds in 1944, and passed the 30-million…
PlaceSenteeko Dam
Senteeko Dam, officially "My Own Dam" near Barberton, Mpumalanga, South Africa, is facing an imminent risk of failure due to severe erosion and undercutting of…
ArchiveSouth Africa and the Communist International : A Documentary History, Volume 1 : Socialist Pilgrims to Bolshevik Footsoldiers 1919-1930 edited by A. Davidson, I. Filatova, V. Gorodnov and S. Johns
… Letter from D.I. Jones to M. Rakosi, 23 May 1922 Document 26 Letter from S.P. Bunting to General Secretary, Comintern, … Document 34 Documents of Fourth…
EventJoyce Mashamba passed away
… yet been disclosed to the public. [i] Born on 25 September 1950 in Mulamula, Limpopo, Mashamba was described as an …
EventThe South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) introduces its first national news service
… African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and by 17 July 1950 a commercial radio service was established, with daily …
Document 21 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 27 October 1930
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 21 - Letter from S. P. Bunting … Radical Tradition a Documentary History…
Document 11 - Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of Africa, Annual Conference Agenda, St Phillips School, Chapel Street. District 6, Cape Town, 18 January 1923
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 11 - Industrial and Commercial …
Document 5 - “Trade Union Notes”, The Bolshevik, March 1920 (Extract)
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 5 - "Trade Union Notes", The …
Document 2 - Letter from the Cape Labour Party to James Ramsay, 12 August 1908
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 2 - Letter from the Cape …
EventKen Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian author and environmental activist, is executed
… that of the crude oil extraction in the region. Since the 1950's, Oganiland had been dumped with oil waste, causing …
EventFormer South African Prime Minister and State President John Vorster is born
Former South African Prime Minister and State President, Balthazar John Vorster was born in in Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape on 13 December 1915. Vorster began…
Bush Radio mourns, Professor William T. McClain (1923-2011)
… of Indiana. His first interest of South Africa began in 1950”²s when he went to study at the School of Oriental and …
ArchiveCongress Resister 1983 - 1989
Congress Resister was published by the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC), which was formed at the turn of the twentieth century by Mahatma Gandhi. It was not…
The Durban Strikes and the making of the Political Struggles in South Africa by Vuyisile Msila
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference When the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU) was formed in…
PlaceSchmidtsdrift
… the 1913 Natives Land Act. The threat of relocation in the 1950's forced some of the Griqua families to identify as …
Regional Formation Schools.” Report in SASO Newsletter, September 1970
… adopted at a conference held at Pietermaritzburg on 25 and 26 March 1961. This conference was attended by 1 500 … All-In African Conference held in…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence with family
… makes me forget all my problems. I become full of love. 26 October 1976 I feel sad that I write letters to you and you never receive them. 26 May 1978 You…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1920-1929
… commenced on 30 September 1927. It was later extended in 1950 to include a ban on sexual relations between whites, …
Defining the term 'Bantu'
… Kerke in Suid-Afrika. (Bloemfontein: N. G. Sendingpers 1950), p. 140. [10] K. Van der Waal. “Bantu: From Abantu to … Kerke in Suid-Afrika. N. G. Sendingpers,…
Chapter 6 - ‘Direct Action’ on the Shop-Floor: The Denver Engineering Strike, 1919 - 1920
… to accept the accusation that he victimised workers. 26 He defended himself by claiming that productivity was at a … of Census and Statistics, Special…