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BiographyDiana Ferrus
… was thus published in the French law (a first in French history) that made it possible for her remains to be …
BiographyJohn Maxwell Coetzee
… a pervasive question in his work: Is it possible to evade history? To do so he employs the character of a discredited …
BiographyTerry Bell
… qualifications International law Politics Economics History Creative media practice. …
BiographyGcinisizwe Sylvester Khwezi Kondile
… End Notes [1] Moosage, R., 2018. Missing-ness, History and Apartheid-era disappearances: The figuring of … Accessed [2022, July 18] Moosage, R., 2018…
ArticleKasturba Gandhi timeline 1869 - 1944
… the case, he decides to remain in Natal to help the Indian community facing the Indian Franchise Bill. 1894 August 22, Creation of the Indian Natal Congress…
ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
… in Durban in 1939 where he finds a small room with an Indian family. In Durban Abrahams becomes involved with the … while working as the editor of a…
67. The Xuma-Naicker-Dadoo Pact, 1947
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … with Africans. In 1943, a conference of the South African…
BiographyJosiah Tshangana Gumede
… had opened up the territory to further White settlement. History has shown that Gumede’s fears were well-founded. The … thought into the ANC. It was an…
PlaceFordsburg and the Oriental Plaza, Johannesburg
… The multi-ethnic suburb has a fascinating and turbulent history. “Fordsburg was always a working class suburb,” Rich … spirit of activism prevented this…
PlaceGrey Street now Yusuf Dadoo Street, Durban-City Centre
… are aware that Durban has the largest concentration of Indian people outside of India! Originally brought in during … as store owners and artisans. Some of…
58. Congress has sold our rights
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … Pachai Moonsamy Naidoo charged that the South African Indian…
59. The South African Federation challenges Congress over the settlement
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … speech of Abdul Karim is reproduced below. Source: Indian Views…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… was one of the first drastic rights infringements for the Indian and Coloured populations (Marquard, 1969: 163). … layer in controlling the movement and life…
PlaceHindu Tamil Institute Building, Durban
… it was initially known as the Hindu Tamil Government Aided Indian School, founded on February 27, 1914 and originally … HTI Building at 90 Cross Street. The…
57. The Agreement does not touch the root of anti-Asiaticism
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … public information that the general approval given to the…
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
… it today is deeply informed by two vital documents in the history of fight for human justice: the Universal Declaration … for equality and justice to have…
SAHO Milestones
… 2000 June - Registration of SAHO as an NGO South African History Online (SAHO) was established in 2000, as a … Settlement, a farm from which the longest…
EventThe African National Congress (ANC) calls a meeting to chart a way forward for the Defiance Campaign
… meeting in Johannesburg. Executives from the South African Indian Congress (SAIC), the African People Organisation (APO) … fact launched on 26 June 1952 by…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 2 - The Beginnings of Globalisation by Jeff Guy
… by The Department of Education Turning points in history are not fixed. We decide when they occur, to a large … By the eighth century they had links with…
17. Latief insists on his right to travel by any train
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … insisted that the agreement arrived at between the British…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… were used to control the movement of African, Coloured and Indian people, ensuring the provision of a cheap labour … the first passive resistance campaign…
ArticleThe Empire of Mali (1230-1600)
… of Mali was one of the largest empires in West African History, and at its height, it spanned from the Atlantic … that he caused great inflation lasting a…
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… restricted any and all movement. Indians played for the Indian community; Colored bands played jazz for their … to play together; you have to have a permit…
2. Moothen pleads for his wife to be returned
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … had the following letter written to the Protector of Indian…
BiographyMzwakhe Mbuli
… Thomas Mapfumo in Berlin. Mbuli also wrote and narrated a history of apartheid in South Africa for BBC Radio which was … written by Nicholas Frid and forms…
14. Suicide among indentured labourers
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … the most serious and persistent of all, was suicide. The Indian…
ArticleThe Sedition Trial 1946 - 1948
… The history of the struggle against racial oppression and … and became the biggest political trial in South African history, surpassing the trial of those…
ArticleThe formation of the SANNC/ANC
… agents. This meeting was the most significant in the history of Black protest politics as it was the first joint … and indicated that Blacks were capable of…
BiographyPitika Ntuli
… Ntuli believes that monuments play an integral part in the history and cultural identity of a country, as well as …
BiographyDaniël Francois Malherbe
… He drew from his own youth, Biblical and national history and tended to represent reality only vaguely in order …