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Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… claims. By 8 December this number had increased to 986. 1 November, Petition is signed by HJ Morket and 100 others, … November, Elections for the government…
Doing Oral History
… in their classes. Dr JM Wassermann Oral history project 1: Forced Removals from Roosboom Phase: Further education and … has a distinct eastern flavour due to…
Article16 June 1976 - Soweto Uprising
… whites. Nationally, pupil:teacher ratios went up from 46:1 in 1955 to 58:1 in 1967. Overcrowded classrooms were used … now effectively separated from white…
Sita - Memoirs of Sita Gandhi by Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie
… because there were the people who worked in the press for “Indian Opinion” founded by my Grandfather in 1903 and then … also left to pursue a life of…
Ahmed Timol: Three Documents by Politicsweb, 27 June 2017
… Timol’s brutal torture. Timol, a teacher at the Roodepoort Indian High School at the time, and Essop, a 3rd year medical … the various sections of the…
PlaceGarden Route, Cape Town
… The Tsitsikamma National Park , perched on a tumultuous Indian Ocean shore is one of South Africa’s most dramatic …
Passive Resistance in South Africa by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "Southern Africa in Transition by Davis, John A. and James K. Baker"(Pall Mall Press), London, 1966
… Gandhi and his philosophy. As early as 1907, he led the Indian community in South Africa in acts of passive … there were further passive resistance…
Document 121 - A. Mon (M. N. Averbach), “The Colour Bar and the National Struggle for Full Democratic Rights”, Workers’ Voice, 1, 2, November 1944
… Struggle for Full Democratic Rights", Workers' Voice, 1, 2, November 1944 To some people in the Left movement it … sprung from the loins of the Coloured…
46. The Gandhi-Smuts compromise explained
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … of the dialogue, which featured in the Gujarati…
86. Non-racial sport
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … requirements set by the Cricket Council in 1970,…
ArchiveThe Congress of the people
… that time it was only the ANC, the Coloured Congress, the Indian Congress and the Congress of Democrats. In Port … so brightly you know the ANC colours…
Storming: The Insurrections Ensemble by Marcus Grossman, September 2015
… them are keen on the disconcerting edge: not only where Indian ragas meet South African sound but where spontaneous …
District Six: 3,000 ex-residents on land claims waiting list by Diana Mellow (GroundUp), 23 September 2016
… the road were destroyed. Davids describes living close to Indian, African, and coloured neighbours as a child. “I went … regain their land, was established…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1948
… that Viscount Mountbatten, as Governor-General of the new Indian Dominion, should ask General Smuts to stop South …
ArchiveThe defiance campaign
… go ahead with the Defiance Campaign. We worked with the Indian Congress on that campaign. We decided it should start …
ArticleFederation of South African Women by Skylar Jayes
… Women’s League, the Coloured People’s Organisation, the Indian Women’s Organisation, Women of the Congress of … by illustrating how they were all mothers,…
ArticleA History of the Springbok Legion
… the Second World War.” (Neil Roos , Ordinary Springboks, p.1 ). Forced by deteriorating material conditions, resulting … on communism and socialism, trade…
ArticleHow the Group Areas Act shaped spaces, memories and identities in Cape Town
… did seven categories, i.e. Cape Coloured, Malay, Griqua, Indian, Chinese, other Asiatic and ‘other Coloured’, the last … Stories from Windermere’ African…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… Robert McBride 's sister Gwynneth is born. Coloured and Indian players are purged from African clubs. South Africa is … way to a remote military camp near a…
ArchiveCHAPTER 5 - Armed Propaganda and Non-Colaborattion, Rationalising weakness, August 1979 - December 1980 by Howard Barell
… had extensive political links into the Natal and Transvaal Indian communities and with popular organisations emerging in … around civic and welfare issues,…
PlaceAl-Azhar Mosque, Cape Town
… Six, which was labelled a 'whites-only' Area. Homes (1 800 of them) were razed to the ground and a hugely diverse … in 1907 and was appointed as Ustadh and…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… national constitutions. In its preamble and in Article 1, the Declaration unequivocally proclaims the inherent … Africans as members of the White, African,…
PlaceClaremont, a Suburb of Cape Town
… consisted of homeowners, as well as tenants from White and Indian landlords or the City Council. In addition, Indian property owners were forced to sell to…
A reply by Albert Luthuli to Mr. Jordan K. Ngubane`s attacks on the African National Congress, 5 June 1956
… has written most voluminously in several issues of the Indian Opinion making scathing and unjustified remarks about … freedom movement who at that time were…
First National Consultative Conference: The Freedom Charter revolutionary programme of the ANC, 26 April 1969, Morogoro
… who form the South African population. The Coloured and Indian people are, like the Africans, oppressed by the … waged by the African National Congress, the…
PlaceUniversity of Stellenbosch
… for degree courses not presented at the then Coloured, Indian and Black Higher Education Institutions, which came to …
Message over Radio Tanzania to the people of South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 26 June 1969
… we call on the workers and farm labourers; we call on our Indian and Coloured people, on all right-thinking and …
A Call to Action. Message over Radio Tanzania to the people of South Africa by O. R. Tambo, 26 June 1969
… we call on the workers and farm labourers; we call on our Indian and Coloured people, on all right-thinking and …
Document 37 - “Communist Election Policy Defined: National Conference Decision”, The Guardian, 8 January 1948
… as long as the vote is denied to the African, Coloured and Indian peoples, Parliament cannot be representative of the …
EventFirst enslaved people arrive in Cape Town
… of the rest of the VOC slaves coming from Madagascar, the Indian sub-continent, or south-east Asia. …