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BiographyWendy Heather Woods
… was banned for five years under the Internal Security Act , after the news of Biko’s murder in police custody was …
BiographyRaymond Hoffenberg
… he occupied the chair. This was considered an act of courage, and he occupied this position when the … find many expressions in his career, and it was his…
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…
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…
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…
PlaceAdams College, Amanzimtoti
… after him in the 1930's. During the implementation of Bantu Education from 1953, its name was changed to Amanzimtoti Zulu Training … training school; he was…
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…
ArchiveSummons for squatting
… of Klipfontein charged with illegal squatting under the Bantu Trust and Land Act. …
ArchiveThe Black Sash Johannesburg Advice Office Report 1975
… March 1975, discussing: Aid Centre, Pass Laws, Urban Areas Act, Bantu Affairs, forced removals, homelessness. …
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…
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, …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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, …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…