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Document 85 - E. R. Roux, “The Native Exploiters: A reply to ‘A. Z.”’, Umsebenzi,20 April 1935
… our Party to my knowledge has ever talked about a "United Bantu Nation," and A. Z.'s polemic on this point is simply … to prove that there are exploiting…
75. 1960: We are at a turning-point in the history of our country
… and he was introduced to certain chiefs and members of Bantu Tribal Authorities in the Transkei including Pondoland, … into South Africa. At the same time…
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…
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…
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 …
BiographyMorgan Gonaseelan Naidoo
… P C Pelser, under the Suppression of the Communism Act. The Minister denied that this was at all related to his …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…