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EventPW Botha states that the Soviets will not prevent South Africa from attacking ANC bases in Mozambique
… in strong condemnation by international governments authorities. This was particularly loud in cases in which …
EventBlacks boycott municipal elections
… elections were held on this date to elect segregated local authorities. For the first time elections for all areas, …
EventSamora Machel, president of Mozambique, dies in a plane crash
… on bad weather and others believing that the South African authorities were to blame. A day before Machel’s death, …
EventRoger Joyce Bushell, Auxiliary Air Force pilot famous for his escape from the German prisoner of war camp, is born in Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng)
… times. On his second attempt, he managed to elude the authorities for eight months. On his third attempt, in 1943, …
EventNaledi High School is founded
… Naledi High School, the site where historic anti-Bantu Education student uprisings were first felt, … Black unrest in Soweto schools was noticed by…
EventThe Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland collapses
… for action, and the resultant disturbances forced the authorities to declare a state of emergency. Nationalist …
ArchiveMemories of Trafalgar High, District Six by Warren Ludski
… go to Livingstone High. That was, until, the Group Areas Act kicked in and my family was booted out and I ended up in … reserving it for one section of the…
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
… won the tug-o-war match with officialdom and the military authorities who viewed him as a bit of a madman, and he was …
BiographyChristopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu
Christopher Daluxolo Mpofu (popularly known as Dali Mpofu) is a South African advocate, legal expert, and former African National Congress (ANC) stalwart…
Document 51 - W. P. van Schoor, “The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa A. J. Abrahamse Memorial Lecture, Cathedral Hall, Cape Town, 5 October 1950
… has continued until recent times despite the 1913 Land Act. Under the Voortrekker land and labour system the African … conquest which I have mentioned. The…
ArticleDebating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
In March 2015 students at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Western Cape, launched a student movement, namely #Rhodes Must Fall which focused on the…
BiographyAhmed Timol
… political songs. For those times, this was quite a radical act of defiance. After completing high school, in 1959, his …
ArchiveThe Life of Trevor Huddleston, Makhalipile (the Dauntless One) by Victoria Vandiver, 3 May 2018
… 1996). He also stated that, “I am still convinced that the Bantu Education Act was the most iniquitous of all apartheid laws. It sought … those of us who…
68. Passive resistance 1946-1947
… to the S.A.I.C. resolution to resist the 'Ghetto' Act and rallied solidly behind the Joint Passive Resistance … A. Pillay followed them into jail as leaders…
Gertrude 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 , and the Abolition of Passes and the ……
ArticleWhat has been the impact of the democratic transformation on the position of women within South African society? by Lucy Doyle
… system detrimentally restricts the ability of women to act contrary to the party line. As Goetz (1998, p251) … In particular ‘The recognition of Customary…
Apartheid power in crisis
… health of the hunger strikers forced the minister to act to defuse the situation. As a result of the pressure, the … 'illegal gatherings' and were approached…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
… The ANC condemns the "tolerant attitude the South African authorities have adapted to the violent activities of … approved for release under the US Freedom…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Essay Questions
Impact of Slave Trade and Colonisation on Indigenous Societies at the Cape Based on the 2012 Grade 10 NSC Exemplar Paper: Grade 10 Past Exam Paper …
Schlebusch Commission
… would prepare the way for a revolution in which the urban Bantu workers would have to take the lead’. As a result, … NUSAS were banned in terms of the…
EventResolute Treurnicht rejects waiving language policy
… unrest at Soweto schools being noticed by government authorities on 4 June, who reported it to the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development and of…
EventInternational Year of Mobilisation for Sanctions against South Africa is launched
… It further called on governments and responsible authorities to conform both to the letter and to the spirit …
EventSouth African woman, Janice Bronwyn Linden, is sentenced to death in China for smuggling drugs
… in the matter. We have been writing to the Chinese authorities, appealing to them to commute the sentence since …
Indian South Africans timeline 1950-1959
… activist, was named under the Suppression of Communism Act . He was jailed for thirty days during the 1952 Defiance … 1990 he was bound by the restrictions…
Chapter 9 - Conclusion
… secure their ancestral lands; his views on the Native Land Act and his subsequent visit to England in 1919-21; his … in Natal, and to the great satisfaction…
PlaceAthlone - or Cape Flats, Cape Town
… to as ''The Dumping Ground'', after the Group Areas Act was passed. In geological terms, the Area is essentially … for this infestation lay in decisions made…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… brought education to a halt. The youths began to act on grievances against the chiefs, demanding that they … three years before 1994. The teachers defied…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… ready to listen to its speakers, but the employers and the authorities were determined to prevent organisational … The meeting was banned in terms of the…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… NOTE of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, Act 200 of 1993 as amended; and TAKING NOTE of the unsigned … of the Constitution of the Republic…
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2013 submissions
… Project: Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act in South Africa Keri Lawson Keri Lawson is a freshmen … time. Project: 100 Year Anniversary…