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ArticleThe missionaries
… Authorities (iiNqila), the main purpose of which was to act as an appeal court regarding the chief’s rulings. The new … 1960, Pondo people opposed the…
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… 1951 August, A branch of the Land Bank opens in Nelspruit. 1953 Nelspruit Street names, previously numbered, change to … mayor, while Braam Raubenheimer…
BiographyMorgan Gonaseelan Naidoo
… P C Pelser, under the Suppression of the Communism Act. The Minister denied that this was at all related to his …
BiographyNise Bulelwa Malange
… Trustee and Vice chairperson of Arts and Culture Trust (ACT). She is also the former member of the board of the … A. Kotze.(1988) Organise and Act: The Natal…
BiographyElizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams
… Abrahams was banned under the Suppression of Communism Act for a five year period , restricted to Paarl and was not …
BiographyDavid Goldblatt
… facing removal in terms of the government’s Group Areas Act which forcefully removed people to new segregated …
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
… Republics of the Transvaal and Orange Free State, an act was passed by parliament in 1910 enacting 16 December as … townships to challenge the restrictions…
Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
… Cape. All were charged under the Suppression of Communism Act with promoting communism but were released on bail. Four … 15 leaders were also found guilty…
BiographyWolfie Kodesh
… the CPSA was banned under the Suppression of Communism Act . Kodesh was served with a banning order which prevented …
BiographyRebecca Makgomo Masilela (nee Kekana)
Affectionately known as ‘Magogo’ (meaning grandmother – a title bestowed to her for her motherly, nurturing character), Rebecca Makgomo Masilela (nee Kekana)…
EventHendrik Verwoerd becomes Prime Minister
… under his leadership parliament ratified the Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act in 1959. The Act classified black people into eight ethnic groups, each …
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Some Aspects of the Native Bills
… generosity legalised in 1854 and entrenched in the Union Act in 1909 as a prescriptive right to indigenous Africans by … will practice active Christian…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… been legislated by the government since the Native Land Act of 1913 that restricted all Africans to thirteen percent … as B.C. Paver, who founded the…
Verwoerd's Grim Plot by Nelson Mandela
… in if, black and white." - The Freedom Charter. "All the Bantu have their permanent homes in the reserves and their … - Dr. W. W. M. Eiselen, Secretary of…
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… with first the Khoikhoi and later the Xhosa people (a Bantu-speaking group to which Mandela belongs) into whose … crisis, in the following year the South…
ArticleGertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… state. By this time, policies, such as the Group Areas Act of 1950, the Population Registration Act, No. 30 of 1950 … into accepting unequal status’ (Sithole…
EventZulu King Zwelithini threatens to establish a separate Zulu state
… covering the KwaZulu homeland and Natal province as an act of insubordination against the government and African … of the Orange Free State and the…
ArticleAnti-pass campaigns, 1910s
… and disappointed about the recently passed Natives Land Act (1913), so tensions were high. On 28 May 1913 a mass … reference books and treated them with…
ArticlePeople and Culture of South Africa
… and the Khoi (‘Hottentot’) peoples, who herded livestock. Bantu-speaking clans that were the ancestors of the Nguni … the interior, after nearly annihilating…
ArticleGrade 12 - Civil Resistance in South Africa 1970s to 1980
… to weaken. It could no longer keep black people in their Bantu homelands or remove them from the white cities. The Bantu Homeland, sometimes referred to as…
ArticleFederation of South African Women by Skylar Jayes
… Simons, Hilda Bernstein, Pretoria, Nursing Amendment Act The role that women played in the fight against apartheid … Areas Act and the Population…
PlaceSteadville, Ladysmith
… It is believed that this was due to his involvement in the Bantu Affairs Department as the Principal Clerk to the Native … boards were officially set up…
EventFormer South African Prime Minister and State President John Vorster is born
… II. He became a member of the NP cabinet in the 1950s. In 1953 he was elected to Parliament as member for Nigel and was … enforcement of apartheid laws by…
BiographyBuzwe Stanley Mabizela
… was banned in April 1960 under the Unlawful Organisations Act. Mabizela did not complete his studies at the institution …
BiographyBaldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane
Dr Baldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane was born on 22 October 1941 at the Inchanga Roman Catholic Mission in Camperdown, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He…
EventThe SA government grants 'Independent' status to Venda
… racial segregation and the promulgation of the Promotion Bantu Self-Government Act,46 of 1959, the South African government granted …
ArticleOvercoming Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid by Bennett Gwynn
… government sanctioned townships created by the group areas act of 1950 (Group Areas Act (South Africa [1950]). This act deterred the domestic … Africa. A key…
EventBlack Wednesday, the banning of 19 Black Consciousness Movement Organisations
… for five months under section 10 of the Internal Security Act in Modderbee Prison. Further, the apartheid regime … time, authorities acted quickly after…
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… Africa. They are followed by Cushitic people (from north), Bantu speaking groups (from Central Africa), Nilotes (from … hectares from the Africans, and the…
EventAnti-apartheid activist, Norman Levy is born
… After the passing of the Suppression of Communism Act and the dissolution of the CPSA, Levy continued to … Campaign in 1952/3 and against the introduction of…