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EventEllen Kuzwayo becomes the first Black woman to receive an honorary degree from Wits University
… and taught for a few years until the government introduced Bantu education. Kuzwayo lost her desire for teaching and … detained for five months under the…
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…
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…
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, …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
BiographyJohn Jacques William Aitchison
… against the draconian security legislation ( Sabotage Act of 1962 and 90 days detention of 1963 ). …