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ArticleThe International Criminal Court: Origins, Jurisdiction and the ‘African Bias’
… the “planning, preparation, initiation or execution of an act of using armed force by a State against the sovereignty, … a mandate from the United Nations. …
77. The South African Indian Council: an assessment from within, 1978
… appointed and fifteen elected by Indians serving on local authorities. The council's function was to advise the … The political struggles that ensued before…
EventAn application to the Pretoria Supreme Court, to declare the Freedom of Choice to Terminate Pregnancy Law unconstitutional, fails.
… Court to set aside the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act, arguing that a fetus has a right to life. The court … July 1998. The anti-abortion groups were…
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… the NIA leadership for collaborating with the white authorities to enforce voluntary segregation on Indians. 5 … arrested in July and convicted for violating…
EventParliament passes legislation separating the people of South Africa into four distinct races
… Coloured, and Indian) through the Population Registration Act No. 30 of 1950. It further voted to divide South Africa … the exclusive use of each race)…
ArticleThe Mendi Decoration of Bravery
… South African citizens who have performed an extraordinary act of bravery that placed their lives in great danger, or …
PlaceImizamo Yethu, Hout Bay
… from existing Property owners in Hout Bay forced the Authorities to make Formal Property available, for the …
PlaceNdabeni
… plague in Cape Town on 7 February 1901 when the civil authorities located a field hospital and an isolation camp on …
EventPeter Mokaba is born
… evade arrest, Mokoba was banned from attending school by authorities. Nevertheless, he completed his Matric in 1978, …
PlacePhillipton
… he married a Khoi woman, and clashed repeatedly with the authorities in their treatment of indigenous people. Accused …
EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs’ (CAD)
… apart. Some of these laws included the Mixed Marriages Act, the Immorality Act and the Group Areas Act. Though not aimed exclusively at "Coloureds", this …
EventSouth African Parliament votes to repeal the legal framework of Apartheid
… of four Acts, namely, the Population Registration Act of 1950, The Group Areas Act, the Land Act and the Separate Amenities Act. The repealing of these …
Article by Oliver Tambo - In the observer, 10 November 1985, London
… countries, including the United Kingdom, will continue to act in their various ways to help bring about genuine change … industrialists, editors, academics,…
Botha's British Allies by O. R. Tambo(Observer), London, 10 November 1985
… countries, including the United Kingdom, will continue to act in their various ways to help bring about genuine change … industrialists, editors, academics,…
The African Women`s Demonstration in Natal: Report by Albert Luthuli to the Natal People`s Conference, 6 September 1959
… took a peaceful presentation of grievances to competent authorities is most welcome and should be encouraged as a … regard. Protest demonstrations coupled…
Gender and deviance in South African industrial schools and reformatories for girls, 1911-1934 by Linda Chisholm
… normally passive. The official reasons the South African authorities gave for this violence were that delinquent girls … so much for their accuracy as for…
Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , “South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home”, International Socialism, 5, Summer 1961
… when it draws closer to the people of the reserves, will act as the natural leaders of the struggle for liberation. … of cattle, the dipping tanks, and, more…
EventNames of 303 banned people are published
… on whom banning notices under the General Laws Amendment Act of 1963 (the so-called 90 Day Act), consisting largely of amendments to the Suppression of…
EventAbortion legislation is passed
… passes the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy (CTOP) Act. The law allows women to terminate pregnancies on request … be public health and social problems in…
EventThe Aula, auditorium of the University of Pretoria, is opened by the Governor
… its centenary year in 2008. The University of Cape Town Act (Act 14 of 1916) and the University of Stellenbosch Act (Act 13 of 1916) had provided for the…
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
… he had been troublesome and fraternising with the colonial authorities, beyond his scope of authority, which were to …
Eventold Indian flower seller is fined for trading in a racially restricted area
… Africa by the apartheid government, including Group Areas Act, Immorality Act, Pass Laws and many others. Under the provisions of the Group Areas Act, urban…
"Apartheid - the Indictment": Paper Presented to the International Conference for Sactions agains South Africa by O. R. Tambo, April 1964
… of, drawn up, discussed, approved, and adopted as an Act of Parliament (No. 32 of 1961) by whites only, to the … "nation". They are "non-people", and are…
Paper Presented to the International Conference for Sanctions Against South Africa, 1 April 1964, London
… of, drawn up, discussed, approved, and adopted as an Act of Parliament (No. 32 of 1961) by whites only, to the … the "nation". They are "non-people", and are…
ArticleWomen and Children in White Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
… Emily Hobhouse , who tried her best to make the British authorities aware of the plight of especially the women and … and placed under house arrest by the…
ArticleBlack Concentration Camps during the Second Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
While the two main forces in the Anglo-Boer War 2 were White, it was not an exclusively White war. At least 15 000 Blacks were used as combatants by the…
Event13 year-old South African Native mineworker is published in a newspaper
… only in London. According to the Native Labour Regulation Act, it was an offence to employ a Native in a mine under the age of 18 years. This act was amended…
EventUniversity of Pretoria is established
… in Skinner Street, became an autonomous institution by Act No 1 of 1910, largely through efforts by General J.C. … established as an independent university…
48. Breach of the compromise
… promise that was made in connection with the repeal of the Act. I know now that the compromise is not to be respected by … and a conversation with reference…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the1940s by Mohamed Adhikari
… and loyalty and for this reason accepted the Nat. Rep. Act”¦. Seme’s presidential address (at long last!). Congress … most rudimentary provisions for water…