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ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1900-1947
… land in prescribed areas were passed. The Natives Land Act, Urban Areas Act,The Native Trust and Land Actand the Trading and … “to reduce by gradual process…
EventThe Pondoland Revolts
… and self-government of Transkei, initiated by the Bantu Authorities Act of 1951. During a protest gathering in the district of … and a commission of inquiry…
ArticleKwaMsiza - A Ndebele village
… this land was expropriated to make way for an airport in 1953, they were relocated to the District of Odi, where they … Msiza. The family remained at…
EventBlacks in South Africa protest against segregation
… The six laws were; Pass Laws, Population Registration Act, Suppression of Communism Act, Group Areas Act, Bantu Authorities Act, and Separate Representation…
ArticleThe Destruction of Sophiatown
… this. In 1950, the NP government passed the Group Areas Act, which designated specific areas for particular race … to that of Central government vision and…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… for breach of contract under the “Masters and Servants Act”. The ANC launches a labour campaign and threatens to … strike. The police kill 18 persons in…
EventPAC’s leader, Potlako Leballo confirms that Poqo is the organisation’s military wing
… were banned in April 1960 under the Unlawful Organisations Act (commenced 7 April 1960), but the CPSA was banned earlier in 1950 under the Suppression of…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March, Pretoria, 9 August
… Cape. According to the terms of the Native Laws Amendment Act, women with Section 10(1)(a), (b), or (c) status were not … Africans were preparing for the…
Notes for address by President Nelson Mandela at a breakfast of the Raadzaal Rotary Club 17 September 1994
… is the Communist Party? Lesson 4: What will be Done in the Bantu Republic?", Umsebenzi, 17 March 1934 In our last lesson we spoke of the Bantu or Native…
BiographyBoy Mvemve
Boy Adolphus Mvemve died a very violent death in exile in Zambia in 1974. He was 43 years of age at the time, operating under the nom de guerre John Dube (or…
ArchiveSummons for squatting
… of Klipfontein charged with illegal squatting under the Bantu Trust and Land Act. …
BiographyNarriman Gadija Bazier Samuels
… for coloured people forcibly removed under the Group Areas Act, Mitchells Plain became home to over 300,000 residents by … continued distributing bread in…
ArchiveThe Black Sash Johannesburg Advice Office Report 1975
… March 1975, discussing: Aid Centre, Pass Laws, Urban Areas Act, Bantu Affairs, forced removals, homelessness. …
ArticleAnti-Pass Campaign
… the eastern Transkei, resentment against the imposition of Bantu Authorities touched off a series of fierce reprisals by … with the sending of deputations to…
ArticleArts and Cultural Organisations
… (PACOFS) Performing Arts Council of the Transvaal (PACT) Bantu Dramatic Society The Baxter The Company Federation of … South Art Initiative (ASAI) The Arts…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… Africa was occupied by Khoisan people in the west and Bantu speaking people in the east. 1652 Jan van Riebeeck … 1912 African National Congress was formed…
ArchiveMinutes of the Black Sash Annual National Conference held in Johannesburg
… discussing: Minutes of previous conference, S.A.B.C., Bantu Education Act, regional reports, finances, membership drive, …
Polokwane the Segregated city
… for the apartheid system: the Population Registration Act, the Group Areas Act, amongst others. Pietersburg’s MP, … who now fell under the local council as…
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
… activists such as Charlotte Maxeke , the leader of the Bantu Women's League (BWL), also had close links with the … decline in the late 1930s, and was later…
Debate in the House of Assembly during the second reading of the Immorality Amendment Bill on 23 February 1962
… Non-White had ever lodged an objection to the Immorality Act. I have listened attentively to the attitude of the hon. … actual carnal intercourse between a…
Khoisan Identity
… never been restored to them. Since the Land Restitution Act of 1994 does not make provision for land which … and with colonial slave populations, as well as…
ArchiveHousing Crisis in Soweto with particular reference to the increase in rentals: Conference Paper presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1978
… Conference on 14 March 1978 discussing increased rentals, Bantu Affairs Administration Act, lack of housing, qualifications for housing, separation …
Control: 1910 - 1948
… Intervention from Above: The 1913 Native Land Act "Awaking on Friday morning, June 20, 1913, the South … Land Acts (1913 & 1936). The forerunner to the 1913…
ArchiveTwenty years of our lives: Opening Address presented at the Black Sash National Conference in Cape Town
… segregation, political education, multi-racial society, Bantu Education Act, Race Relations, Pass Laws, representative councils, …
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… women who had borne the brunt of the pass laws decided to act. Drawing inspiration from the first meeting of the South … State and other areas as well…
BiographyJoseph Chamberlain
… dynamite, the immigration of women, the Possession of Arms Act, and the railway system, which had been extensively … been stabilized , and that to leave…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… to implement apartheid. 1940 Electoral Laws Amendment Act of 1940 is passed. The act provides for the compulsory … an address at the Mendi Memorial…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… 1960 1 January, Minister of Bantu Education assumes control of University College of Fort … and a six-month suspended sentence. Unlawful Organisations Act…
Thoko Phillip Mamogobo
… years under section nine of the Suppression of Communism Act No.44 of 1950 . This created a logistical nightmare for …
ArticleThe South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO)
… Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO) was formed in 1953 at a Coloured People's Convention in Cape Town. The … segregationist legislation was the Population…