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S.A shipwrecks and the National Heritage Resources Act
… can face a fine and prison sentence. The purpose of this legislation is to make sure that shipwrecks are conserved so …
EventThe Republic of South Africa is established
… normally have been granted, but because of South Africa's apartheid policy, it was vehemently opposed. Verwoerd then … elements, the South African government…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… 2935 6067 1939 4000 >3000 >7000 1946 8834 5653 14487 The Apartheid city A history of Pass Laws in South Africa Like all apartheid cities in South Africa,…
ArticleIndian Indentured Labour in Natal 1860-1911
… at the Cape were Indian from Bengal and South India. Legislation related to indenture The Natal Government had to revise its legislation prior to the…
ArticlePassive Resistance Campaign Timeline
… with Smuts and Fischer. June, “June, Anti-Indian Legislation: Immigrants Regulation Act (No 22 of 1913)” … suspend the Passive Resistance Campaign provided…
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… out of the organisation in 1956 because of its policy of apartheid. 1995 14 February, the Constitutional Court is … the end of their international sports…
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… fighting 'evil communism'. The USSR supported the anti-apartheid struggle. Throughout the Cold War, the United … from their European colonial rulers. In…
BiographyTaubie Kushlick
… the owners of British and American copyrights denied to apartheid South Africa. Although she had never performed in …
Presidential Address to the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Natal Indian Congress, Durban, November 21, 1958
… in the Union for one of the avowed aims of this diabolical legislation is to enforce expatriation and pending which to … to make our people impotent in the…
Group Areas Act and Its Effects on Indian People in Natal, May 1956 by Dr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker
… may be described as the high water mark of the Union’s legislation against non-European land rights in South Africa. … the white ruling group in South Africa…
Biography of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile by Brianna T. Hogg
… have had in politics, in addition to the fight against the apartheid movement and the rights for all people in South … music, arts Introduction Due to the…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… Marabastad Pretoria the Segregated city Post-1948 Legislation This period marks the beginning of the rise of apartheid. Although South Africa was already a…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… Coloureds and Indians were affected by implementation of apartheid. While the laws segregated society on the one hand, … galvanised different racial groups…
BiographyMarcus Solomon
… (ARM), and attacks on persons seen as agents of the apartheid state, in the case of Poqo . The NEUM leadership, … Left as the ANC and its allies began…
40 Years of Shop Floor Resistance in a Rubber Factory by Sithembiso Bhengu
… and now. The most significant discontinuity was the end of apartheid and its legislative and statutory measures and how …
EventMedical Association agrees to investigate Biko’s death
… of the health and welfare of detainees under security legislation, accused MASA of having ties with the apartheid regime. On 30 January 1985, the Pretoria…
EventCourt approves same-sex couple's right to marry
… to marry. The court ordered parliament to amend existing legislation within a year. This made South Africa the fifth … Congress, which under Nelson Mandela…
South Africa: Liberation and Reconciliation Role of International Solidarity, 8 April 2004
… the democratic elections in South Africa, and the end of apartheid rule, is being observed by people of many other … and to a new South Africa. They abhorred…
ArticleConvention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA)
… organisations that were united in their opposition to apartheid gathered in Durban to form the Patriotic Front. The … a white referendum . Although the ANC…
Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… Africa used this platform to raise their objections to apartheid. As a result, race surfaced as an international … issue. South Africa and the United Nations…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… National government was voted into power and instituted apartheid. This lead to an increase in the number of people being incarcerated due to petty and…
EventThe recommendations of the Riekert Commission (to investigate the employment conditions of Black workers) are tabled
… was established in response to a crisis faced by the apartheid state, as South African capitalism has been facing … the government set up a Commission of…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
… in the Freedom Charter, and non-collabortism with the apartheid state. 25 January, The next day the commision … with the government's introduction of the…
How cases reach the Constitutional Court
… as the result of the court below declaring a piece of legislation invalid, which requires confirmation by the … has the power to grant various remedies and…
ArticleXhosa
… practices. In addition to land lost to white annexation, legislation reduced Xhosa political autonomy. Over time, … of the workers in South Africa's gold…
ArticleForced removals on Highveld and "black spots", 1912-1991
… In the early 1960s the Apartheid government moved swiftly to dislodge numerous Black … rural society on the Highveld in ways envisaged in the legislation…
BiographyPatrick Chamusso
… Secunda power plant in the 1980s as a protest against the apartheid regime. But his work at the Two Sisters Orphanage …
Lindiwe Charity Nyembezi Mthembu
… a member of the ANC who turned to become an agent of the apartheid’s South African police. ↵ [2] According to the TRC …
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
… the country's black people by passing various pieces of legislation. It was the implementation of these repressive … December 16 continued to form part of…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… ANC safe houses, activists and camps. In addition, the apartheid government sought to complement its use force by … to intensify the armed struggle. As it…