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BiographyMzwakhe Mbuli
… or “Education Hijack,” a poem about the status of Bantu education at the time. Finally, some of the lyrics …
Sadecque Variava
… activists were put on trial, charged under the Terrorism Act. Variava was one of the 13 activists charged. The others …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… were made to the 1979 Industrial Conciliation Amendment Act, but by 1983 the following major changes had been made: … independent states (SRR 1981: 203)…
ArticleANC Women’s League (ANCWL)
… resistance to passes. In the light of these events, the Bantu Women's League (BWL) was formed in 1918, as a branch of … against passes for black women…
ArticleAbram Fischer Timeline 1908-1975
… ten years). 1943 February - March, Travels to Maseru to act in a case regarding a royal succession dispute. 16 June, … strike. All are charged under the…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Segregation Fallacy
… to urge with constant seriousness the segregation of the Bantu in the Union of South Africa as a solution of what is … the problem that equally confronts the…
ArchiveAfrican Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960, by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… campaigns against forced removals under the Group Areas Act and against inferior "Bantu" education for African children. The alliance organised … Africans…
BiographyHarry Garuba
Harry Garuba was born in Akure, southwestern Nigeria, in 1958. [1] At the young age of seventeen he was accepted to study English at the University of Ibadan…
BiographyIrene Menell (nee Manderstam)
Born in 1932, Irene Menell (nee Manderstam) spent her early life moving from one place to the next, completing her primary and secondary schooling in the…
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… against the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act, which is commonly referred to as the "Ghetto Act". This Act seeks to give Indians limited…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1930-1939
… June, The Transvaal Asiatic Land Tenure (Amendment) Act, Act No. 35 of 1932 becomes law. The Transvaal Asiatic Land … was immediately co-opted onto the…
BiographyHenry Burton
… 302). With Burton’s help Merriman managed to pass ‘an act preventing usury and achieved useful reforms in …
BiographyPeter Clarke
… Town had become an ‘affected area’ under the Group Areas Act. But it was only when an official came knocking on the …
BiographyChris Ledochowski
… Village who were forcefully removed under the Group Areas Act . This first portrait project was to define his approach …
Opening address by Albert Luthuli to Conference on Unemployment, Low Wages and Poverty, 21 October 1961, Durban
… fatherland. It is in this light that fake institutions - Bantu Authorities, Indian Advisory Boards, Coloured Advisory Councils, Bantu School Boards, bodies…
ArchiveA Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai
… to the 1895 arbitration decision 28. The Dealer’s Licences Act is an attempt to weed out smaller traders 29. Removal to … 31. Cape traders protest against…
Now You Have Touched the Women - African Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960 by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… campaigns against forced removals under the Group Areas Act and against inferior "Bantu" education for African children. The alliance organised … Africans…
BiographyDr. Abu Baker Asvat
… out of the area due to conflict over the Group Areas Act. Afterwards, they moved to their home in Lenasia which … they were outside the boundaries of the…
Prehistory: Pre colonial farmers in Gauteng
… Climate Click on image to enlarge About 1800 years ago, Bantu-speaking people brought a new way of life to South … Early Iron Age. Both languages are…
PlaceKwaMashu
… of the newly defined KwaZulu government. The Group Areas Act KwaMashu is one of the first of Durban’s townships that … with the implementation of the…
BiographyIsmail Jacob Mohamed
… In 1976, they were arrested under the Internal Security Act and detained at Caledon Square, Cape Town and later … under the Preventative Section of the…
ArticleThe New Group
… Its last exhibition was held in Cape Town in 1953, after which it disbanded. …
ArchiveThe defiance campaign
… very bad laws. They were the pass laws; the Group Areas Act; the one that said you could only own so many cattle and no more; the Bantu Authorities Act which…
Black Peoples Convention - National Leadership
… Elected at the formal inauguration of SASO in July 1969 Bantu Steve Biko - President 1969 - 1970 Vuyelwa Mashalaba – … Trust Fund G. LIST OF MEMBERS WHO DIED…
Chapter 15. The African Worker-A Policeman and Pair Of Handcuffs Always Waiting - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… his labour to some white master. In 1913, the Native Land Act was passed, which divided the entire country into "black" … of the population-and the balance…
"What I would do if I were Prime Minister" by Albert Luthuli, 5 February 1962, Chicago
… reducing it. This is the effect of the Group Areas Act and the Native Resettlement Act, only to mention a few of … of colour and race. Non-white education -…
PlaceNqamakwe
… and traditionally spoke a Xhosa language (one of the Bantu languages). The Mfengu or the descendants of refugees … the Transkei and Ciskei , at Xhosa expense…
BiographyStella Nyanzi
… President under section 24 and 25 of the Computer Misuse Act of 2011. Subsequently, she was released on a non-cash …
BiographyFanele Mbali
Fanele Mbali was born on 1 December 1937 in a village called Eqolweni. Mbali’s father, Charlton Babana Mkhonto and his brother William Ntozakhe decided on the…
BiographyMary Butcher Turok
… was also imprisoned for three years under the Explosives Act as he left his fingerprint on a bomb he placed after he …