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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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
PlaceNamibia
… allowed to vote for the Legislative Assembly and local authorities. A resident commissioner and magistrates … of Self-Government for Native Nations in South…
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…
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
… closed when the administration refused to implement Bantu Education . After this, he attended the Totomeng Lower … priesthood. His application for travel…
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 …
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…
ArchiveStatement by Social Welfare organisations
… to the proposed Amendments to the Internal Security Act and the Public Safety Act …
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…
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…
Document 37 - The Bill of Rights
… observances follow rules made by the appropriate public authorities; b. they are conducted on an equitable basis; … or practices is entitled, to the…
ArchiveThe Snape Building Political Demonstration at the University of Cape Town in 1966 by Andrew M. Colman
… Cape Town (UCT). It was broken up violently by university authorities, and I still have a copy of a two-page “Witness … unlawful” (allegedly contravening the…