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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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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 ……
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
PlaceMohodi
… district. When the Apartheid government implemented the Bantu Authorities Act, it placed Chief Manthatha under a single tribal …
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…
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…
BiographySumboornam Pillay
… families lived together peacefully before the Group Areas Act tore the community apart. Her father had a major …
ArticleNational Youth Uprising
… at the beginning of 1975 was a directive from the Bantu Education Department that Afrikaans had to be used on …
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…
Learning about local history through pictures
… season Source : Adderley Street Christmas shopping in 1953 Source : Adderley Street festive season lights 2014 …
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; …
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…
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…
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…