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‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… the formation of the “multi-racial” Congress Alliance in 1953; and the 1955 Congress of the People and the adoption of … African news papers like Ilanga Lase…
BiographyAlfred Milner
… prime minister of the Cape Colony in 1898, tried to act as a mediator between Milner and Kruger, but Milner … taxation of dynamite, and the Possession of…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Disfranchisement of the Cape Native
… a century, producing a progressive, contented and sane Bantu population. Change of Spirit At the conclusion of the … pressed from the same quarter in 1909…
ArticleSouth Africa’s electoral history timeline 1910-2009
… of Apartheid policies, the Nationalist Party to power. 1953 An election that returned the NP to power, emboldening …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
… Committee. The Asiatic Land and Trading (Transvaal) Act is passed. It extends the 1939 law for two years but … of African Trade Unions, the Native…
BiographyTimothy Peter Jenkin
… rights. This was legal under Section 6 of the Terrorism Act, which allowed detention without trial for up to 60 days, …
BiographyJames la Guma
… after the passage of the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950. In the meantime, he was also involved in an …
ArticleBecoming human in southern Africa
… The Khoisan were not the only early residents of our area. Bantu-speaking people also arrived here hundreds of years … Africa around 250 AD from further…
Document 91. ‘April 6: People’s Protest Day’. Flyer issued by the ANC (Transvaal) and the Transvaal Indian Congress
… bullied because of our colour. Under the Coloured Voters Act, the Anti-Communist Law , the Bantu Authorities Act, South Africa is being made a fascist ……
PlaceLanga Township, Cape Town
… the Inter War Years the regulations of the 1902 Location Act were expanded to create a more formal structure for African Urban administration. In 1923 the…
EventThe first 'Bantustans' or 'homelands' comes into existence when the Transkei Regional Authority is instituted
… or 'homelands' came into existence when the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, De Wet Nel, opened the … dispossessed of their land access via…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1900-1909
… return to the Transvaal. The Immigrants Regulation Act (No. 22 of 1913) is passed in the Cape Colony and makes … applied with a vengeance. The Immorality…
Interview with Albert Luthuli by Studs Terkel, 6 May 1963, Chicago
… and forever remain what it was. To the current policy of Bantu education, advocating separate education for different … Africans must influence the…
ArchiveJordan Ngubane – forgotten founding member of the Congress Youth League by Sbonelo Radebe (Mail and Guardian), 10 January 2023
… than 376 articles. In 1943, Ngubane left Ilanga to join Bantu World as an assistant editor to Richard Victor Selope … on 27 March 1943, he was received by…
PlaceMohodi
… district. When the Apartheid government implemented the Bantu Authorities Act, it placed Chief Manthatha under a single tribal …
ArticleBloemfontein the Segregated city
… in any way. Later, a White representative was appointed to act as a link between management bodies and the government, … each established at least one such…
ArticleNational Youth Uprising
… at the beginning of 1975 was a directive from the Bantu Education Department that Afrikaans had to be used on …
Message to the People of South Africa by O.R. Tambo, 26 June 1968
… on May 1st, 1950. The violence of that murderous act was the violence of the pass laws, the Suppression of Communism Act, the Group Areas Act, the Bantu…
ArticleResponse to the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising by organisations in exile
… school level. Punt Janson, the Deputy Minister of then Bantu Education, was quoted as saying: “I have not consulted … Gabriel “Tokyo” Sexwale, were charged…
The Role of Women in the Struggle against Apartheid, 15 July 1980
… in the trade unions; under the Suppression of Communism Act, 56 trade union activists were banned by 1955; the … Since the founding of the African National…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… parliament. Repressive legislation The Internal Security Act, No. 74 of 1982 (ISA) is permanently in force (including … indistinguishable from the parent…
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… prominence when its members organised the boycotts against Bantu Education , and especially against the imposition of … of African schools in the period…
Chapter VI - HEAR US!
… the Western Areas Removal and the rape of Sophiatown. The Bantu Education Act had already been passed and on 1 April, the Department of … Verwoerd's infamous…
Report of the Joint Planning Council of the ANC and the South African Indian Congress, November 8, 1951
… war on Pass Laws and Stock Limitation, the Group Areas Act, the Voters' Representation Act, the Suppression of Communism Act and the Bantu Authorities Act; …
Learning about local history through pictures
… season Source : Adderley Street Christmas shopping in 1953 Source : Adderley Street festive season lights 2014 …
BiographySumboornam Pillay
… families lived together peacefully before the Group Areas Act tore the community apart. Her father had a major …
BiographySunny Girja Singh
… father had passed away by then. The notorious Group Areas Act of 1950 , the 1956 Treason Trial , and the arrest of …
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… [2] Thibedi was charged under the Native Administration Act of 1927 , but the case was ruled in his favour as the … Areas Act , the Separate Representation…
Hendrik Verwoerd: 10 quotes by Hendrik Verwoerd (Politics Web), 20 September 2016
… apartheid 3. Intermixture a recipe for conflict between 'Bantu' and 'European' “As a premise, the question may be put: Must Bantu and European in future…
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… to accept the Bantustan policy. BCM policies against Bantu education were being taken up at virtually every Black … School students were also impressed by…