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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…
BiographyFrank Alexander Landman
… with a Banning Order under the Suppression of Communism Act,1950 effective from 9 October 1961.The terms of his … being forced to move out of Fairview by the…
Bathandwa Ndondo
… and Shabalala complied with the requirements of the TRC Act in that the two applicants made full disclosure of the … because he did not satisfy the…
Vella Pillay
… almost naturally led me to join the communist party, an act which enabled me to acquire a larger view and an … by the all-white parliament which was called …
ArticleInkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
… marked major changes for all Black South Africans. In 1953, the South African Government introduced the homelands, … and provide for the gradual development…
BiographyDaniël Francois Malherbe
… became Die meul dreun (The mill rumbles) in 1943. One-act plays like Die uur van die rooi maan (The hour of the …
BiographyJanet Mary Cherry
… she was detained under Section 29 of the Internal Security Act and held in solitary confinement for three weeks without …
BiographyAdvocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels
… by the government, including the Suppression of Communism Act , which led to the persecution and imprisonment of many, …
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… 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…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of President Nujoma of Namibia Cape Town, 13 May 1996.
… township complex of Soweto began a protest march against a Bantu Education Department regulation that Afrikaans be used … Verwoerd had thought of it more…
Archive”I am Albertina Sisulu”, Interview from Blue Portraits
… in 1944 to Mr Sisulu I joined the Women's League. And in 1953 the government decided to give our children what they call Bantu Education. We as women wouldn…
ArticleWhen, why and where the first African farmers settled in Southern Africa
… The African farmers who moved to southern Africa were Bantu-speakers. They are the ancestors of many South African … of animals. They introduced crop…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Cross-roads of Native Policy
… of a virgin land. To the early English missionaries, the Bantu and Hottentots were brothers entitled to equality of … anthropologists from afar. The physical…
ArticleSouth African Student Organisation (SASO)
… blacks from defying restrictions of the Group Areas Act, which limited Blacks to 72 hours in a white area. Being told how students should act annoyed Biko…
Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event
… a police state. In June 1962 the General Laws Amendment Act No 76 (which came to be known as the Sabotage Act) was … B.J. Vorster, the former Minister of…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event by Phil Bonner
… a police state. In June 1962 the General Laws Amendment Act No 76 (which came to be known as the Sabotage Act) was … B.J. Vorster, the former Minister of…
PlaceImbali Township, Pietermaritzburg
… the City of, Pietermaritzburg . In 1964 the Department of Bantu Affairs in partnership with Pietermaritzburg … of the Area. Blacks that were affected by the…
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
… community. Each year an overseas tour was organised. In 1953 NUSAS was a member of International Union of Students … NUSAS were against White domination and…
PlaceCiskei
… authority was subject to the Magistrate's Court. The Bantu Authorities Act of 1951 withdrew their remaining power, bringing them … to their people, but to…
Iron Age Kingdoms of Southern Africa
… Iron Age technology was transmitted across Africa by Bantu-speaking people who migrated to the south from North … the groups they met, which is why many…
Message by Albert Luthuli, 1 May 1955
… country the people are being haunted by the Group Areas Act; they are being removed in the Western Areas of … of the Nationalists, particularly as expressed…
72. The Defiance Campaign, 1952
… Pass laws, stock limitation regulations, the Group Areas Act, the Separate Representation of Voters Act, the Suppression of Communism Act, and the Bantu…
Document 40 - Anti-CAD, Why You Should Not Vote [1958]
… not been able to set up a Coloured Affairs Department to act as policeman over the Coloured people in the same way as … for apartheid, for segregation. Every…
BiographyNelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… era, this had evolved into something new. The induna would act with the chief’s authority at the mine compounds, … arrested and charged under the Suppression…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew
… "Boycott of Elections under the 'Representation of Native Act'", Freedom, 6, 5. September-October 1947 Document 35 - … to the Johannesburg Discussion Club on…
National Council of African Women (NCAW)
… social conditions for Africans. It apparently absorbed the Bantu Women's League (BWL) and Charlotte Maxeke , who had …
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Hertzogian Segregation VERSUS The Cape Native Policy
… the shape of the Civilized Labour Policy; the Colour Bar Act of 1926, and his series of four Native Bills. Under the Civilised Labour Policy the object is to…
Document 22 - Report of the first National Conference of Women held in the Trades Hall, Johannesburg, South Africa, 17 April 1954
… need for and possibilities of such an organisation, and by 1953 it was possible to call the women together at a National … people. The Pass Laws , the Native…
ArchiveThe Black Consciousness Movement and Steve Biko By Jonathan Ansumana
… society, and a distorted history taught by whites. In 1953, the Bantu Education Act had been passed. This law ensured that Black children had …
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… the ANC resolution on a similar theme taken in December 1953, at its annual conference in Queenstown.3 At the … in 1953 in the wake of the Criminal Laws…