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ArticleJohn Langalibalele Dube Timeline 1940-1950
… to protest against the imposition of the Natives Land Act. 1914 Dube publishes The Zulus' Appeal for Light in … funds for development. 1935 Dube founds the…
The Black Face of Apartheid
… SASO and BPC leaders were detained under the Terrorism Act, and the following year nine leaders of SASO and the BPC … and the repression instituted under the…
ArticleA History of Abantu-Batho Newspaper 1912-1931
… For instance, after the passing of the Natives Land Act in 1913 , the newspaper condemned the Act arguing that it had reduced Africans to “penury and …
ArticleCongress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa
… particularities of the 1993 Local Government Transition Act. According to Lungisile Ntsebeza, ‘As early as the early … was no provision in the 1993 Local…
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… Africa as a republic, to protest against the enabling act “should the minority government ignore this demand”. The … of the various restrictive measures in…
ArticleOn Trial: State versus Abram Fischer and Thirteen Others by Norman Levy
… Under the instructions of the special branch the prison authorities kept us apart from the common law offenders (as … with the rest of us under the…
BiographyAdrian Leftwich
Adrian Leftwich grew up in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape), in 1940 in a liberal Jewish family. His father was a doctor, and his mother gave…
Opening address by Albert Luthuli to the Twenty-second Biennial Conference of the South African Indian Congress, 19 October 1956, Gandhi Hall, Johannesburg
… the Nationalist Party Government, through the Group Areas Act and other kindred Acts, is robbing non-whites of their … as a result of the implementation of…
The turn to armed struggle
… ANC and PAC in April 1960 under the Unlawful Organisations Act . Severe state repression, the detention and banning of …
ArticleJames Sebe Moroka Timeline 1892 - 2012
… stay-at-home. Moroka delivers his first public address. 1951 February, Moroka represents the ANC at the founding of … 1952 Moroka is charged under the…
ArticleSharpeville
… retaliated by passing the Unlawful Organisations Act, on 7 April 1960, banning the ANC and the PAC. By 6 May …
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Thembinkosi Khumalo
… I understand the pain you felt as you squared off with the authorities who wanted to harm your precious black bodies. I …
PlaceXuxuwa, Eastern Cape
… in a skirmish, which led to the Frontier War of 1835. Some authorities argue that the name predates the chief, who would …
PlaceBethelsdorp, Algoa Bay -Eastern Cape
… Port Elizabeth, became a thorn in the side of the colonial authorities. Established for a group of about 600 indigenous …
EventPiet Retief’s Great Trek manifesto is completed
… resentment between the farmers and the British colonial authorities. The farmers argued that because the colonial …
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… set up the Indian National Council (NIC) supposedly to act as a link between the minister of Indian Affairs and the … families had suffered great hardship…
51. The ‘Satyagraha’ campaign ends
… by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The Indian Relief Act of 1914 and the Smuts-Gandhi Agreement of 30 June 1914 … 1906. The issue then concerned only the…
ArticleOrganisation of African Unity (OAU)
… unsuccessful due to obstruction by both the US and British authorities concerned with the future of their colonies. On … Charter. It was inconceivable that…
ArchiveNotes from meeting with Pete Hathorn and Ross Harker
… Harker pushing for the complete abolition of the Trespass Act of Section 1 of the Illegal Squatting Act …
ArchiveStatement by Social Welfare organisations
… to the proposed Amendments to the Internal Security Act and the Public Safety Act …
EventDaily Dispatch editor, Donald Woods is banned
… government enforced the Newspaper and Imprint Registration Act no 19, a version of an earlier act that required that all newspapers be registered and … with…
ArchiveCrossroads: Paper presented at National Conference 1980
… discussing permanent residence eligibility, Urban Areas Act, homelands, migrant labour, Group Areas Act, work permits, lack of utilities, health. …
Chapter 15. The African Worker-A Policeman and Pair Of Handcuffs Always Waiting - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… the Industrial Legislation Commission of Enquiry (U.G. 62, 1951, par. 151), in 1936 the per capita annual income of … his labour to some white master. In…
ArchiveThe Aliens and Immigration Laws Amendment Bill: Paper presented at National Conference 1984
… Conference on 16 March 1984 discussing Aliens Registration Act, Aliens Act, permanent residence, South African blacks as foreigners …
Chapter 9
… root of their trouble was not at all overstocking, as the authorities claimed, but under stocking. The stark facts … sham representation under the 1936…
Say It out Loud - A letter to the Coloured People of South Africa
… of an enlarged and enlightened nationality. But if the Act of Union be interpreted according to the narrow and … Transvaal immediately after the publication…
ArchiveThe Attitude of Coloured People Today: A paper presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1976
… discussing Apartheid, the vote, Representation of Natives Act, Separate Representation of Voters Act, Coloured Elections, race relations, Labour Party,…
EventForced Removals commence from District Six
… was declared a ‘White area’ under the 1950 Group Areas Act of the Apartheid government. Before the passing of the Group Areas Act, multiracial spaces such…
EventPublic places of recreation for whites only, are proclaimed
… in accordance with provisions of the Group Areas Act of 1950. Following the proclamation, blacks were … This proclamation was made 15 years after the Group…
PlaceNamibia
… allowed to vote for the Legislative Assembly and local authorities. A resident commissioner and magistrates … of Self-Government for Native Nations in South…