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The Pioneers
… and a great admirer of Ntuli, had this comment for the 17-year-old prodigy: You will have to be careful that … wrong people and communists and come back…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… He agreed. The Commission held twelve meetings between 17 December 1932 and 22 February 1933. Citing copious and …
Hendrik Verwoerd: 10 quotes by Hendrik Verwoerd (Politics Web), 20 September 2016
… revenge.” Speech as Minister of Native Affairs, 5 December 1950 4. On the rationale for apartheid “My point is this … means.” Speech as Minister of Native…
”ASINAMALI”, WE HAVE NO MONEY
… 0d. £2 18s. 3d. in certain areas £1 13s. 0d. £2 11s.9d. 1950-51 Wage Determination £1 16s. 4d. juniors, under 18 …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Essay Questions
… exploiting people and exempt from paying taxes. [17] While the lower clergy was also employed as workers of … against the current voting system, the Third…
Document 76 - The Speakers’ Notes - A Brief Course on the Training of Organisers [Document found by the police during the Rivonia raid of 11 July 1963]
… Peoples OrganisaÂtion for Coloureds, which existed up to 1950, the South African Indian Congress, the Communist Party founded in 1921 and which was banned…
PlaceBishopscourt, Cape Town
Bishopscourt, Cape Town, was a prime example of the Group Areas Act's cruel impact, where non-white families (the Protea Village community) were forcibly…
INK: Making Access Visible, ASAI Print Workshops
… exchange. The exhibition opens on the 16th of February, at 17:00, with an opening address from Dr Greer Valley , Senior …
PlacePrestwich Memorial and Garden
During excavations for a new residential block in Cape Town in 2003, old bones were uncovered! These were decided to be unmarked graves of slaves, dating from…
EventIt is widely reported that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher criticised the ANC, calling it a terrorist organisation
The quote comes from a press conference held by the British Prime Minister at the Vancouver Commonwealth summit on October 17th. For years thereafter comments…
EventPortuguese navigator Bartholomew Dias erects the first stone cross on the South African coast
… in Portugal in December. The journey lasted 16 months and 17 days. In 1500, on a voyage between Brazil and the east …
PlaceVictoria and Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town
… cover Ships Wintering in Table Bay . On a Sunny September 17, 1860 Midshipman HRH Prince Alfred , who was Queen …
ArchiveThe Final Prize - Contents and Preface
From the book: The Final Prize by Norman Levy “Everyone has a story”, Sephiwe, the librarian at the Robben Island Mayibuye Archive, said to me as he handed me…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Introduction
… We are not Alone: The Making of a Mass Movement, 1950-1960, Staffrider, Volume 8, Numbers 3 and 4, 1989, p.9. …
EventAnton Fransch, ANC guerrilla, killed by the special forces of the apartheid regime
… died after a six-hour gun battle with the police on 17 November 1989 at a house in Athlone, Cape Town. A Riot …
BiographyJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
… of Vladimir Lenin but with his genitalia exposed. On 17 May 2012, the ANC released a press statement expressing …
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… under 'security' legislation has been in operation since 1950, whilst restriction of persons under emergency … of support is shifted from the state to the…
The role of Cecil John Rhodes' British South African Company in the Conquest of Matabeleland
… ↵ [xxvii]Ibid. ↵ [xxviii]Southern Rhodesia 1890 – 1950; A record of Sixty years progress …
Control: 1910 - 1948
Intervention from Above: The 1913 Native Land Act "Awaking on Friday morning, June 20, 1913, the South African Native found himself, not actually a slave,…
ArticleOvercoming Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid by Bennett Gwynn
… sanctioned townships created by the group areas act of 1950 (Group Areas Act (South Africa [1950]). This act deterred the domestic workers unionisation …
Side By Side: The Autobiography of Helen Joseph
Helen Joseph is one of the most well-known South African women to campaign against apartheid. Her autobiography is being published on her 81st birthday and is…
Document 57 - Letter from the Communist League of South Africa to the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 13 January 1936
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 57 - Letter from the Communist …
Document 31 - Letter from E.R. Roux to Victor Danchin, 6 March 1929
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 31 - Letter from E.R. Roux to …
Document 19 - Communist Party of South Africa, Memo on S.A.F.N.T.U. (1930)
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 19 - Communist Party of South … Radical Tradition a Documentary History…
EventRay Alexander Simons, founder of Food and Canning Workers Union, arrives in South Africa
Ray Alexander Simons nee Alexandrowich arrives in South Africa from Latvia where she was born on 12 January 1913. After her arrival in the country she realized…
EventSupreme Court changes ruling on forced removals, traditionally
From 1960 to 1983, the apartheid Government forcibly moved 3.5 million Black South Africans in one of the largest mass removals of people in modern history…
EventThomas Titus Nkobi is born
Thomas Titus Nkobi was born in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in Southern Matabeleland. At the age of ten, Nkobi followed his father who was a migrant…
EventHarry Frederick Oppenheimer is born in Kimberley
Harry Frederick Oppenheimer was born in Kimberley on 28 October 1908 to Ernest Oppenheimer and Mary Lina Pollock. Oppenheimer completed his primary education…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
… discovery approximately 7000 people were in the region. [17] Approximately a decade after the discovery of gold on … Natives and Land Trust Act (1936) and…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: Pre-1500
… BP = Before present, calculated backwards from the date AD 1950 4 000 000 BP Australopithecus: 'southern ape'. These …