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EventGwen Lister is born
… activist. She was born in East London on 5 December 1953. After graduating at the University of Cape Town, Lister …
EventJomo Kenyatta, believed to be Mau Mau leader, is convicted
… shortly after the Lari massacre that happened on 26 March 1953 where close to 100 people were killed and scores of …
ArticlePassive Resistance Campaign Timeline
… a compromise with Smuts . Smuts agrees to repeal the Act as long as voluntary registration takes place. Gandhi … 22 June, Smuts makes Gandhi a new offer to…
ArticlePre-colonial history of Southern Africa
… San and Khoekhoe were in southern Africa when the first Bantu-speaking farmers arrived about 2000 years ago. … Farmers According to historical linguistics,…
ArticleBureau of State Security (BOSS)
… Hendrik van den Bergh though the Public Service Amendment Act (1969). The main aim of BOSS was to monitor national … purpose of BOSS was laid out by the…
African People’s Organisation (APO)
… publicised a draft constitution and a draft South Africa Act for a union. Two provisions particularly caused political … consternation amongst blacks. First…
EventCharlotte Maxeke dies
… , teacher, social worker, politician and founder of the Bantu Women's League of South Africa, died in Johannesburg at … her on another occasion as "one of…
PlaceUlundi, Kwa-Zulu Natal, (also known as Mahlabathini)
… . In 1959, the second step was taken with the passing of Bantu Self-Government Act . Eight Areas were thereby designated according to …
ArticleKingdoms of southern Africa: Great Zimbabwe
… Zimbabwe? The first people to live at Great Zimbabwe were Bantu-speaking. and the ancestors of the Shona people. They …
The Mountain Committee
… to carry out government policies through the channel of Bantu Authorities. The Pondos then found that news of their …
Archive of documents pertaining to Pixley ka Isaka Seme
… (PDF) How Congress Began - R.V. Selope Thema, Drum July 1953 (PDF) "Native Union" Article by Pixley ka Isaka Seme, in …
EventJournalist and political activist Selby Msimang dies
… of South Africa (LPSA), a multiracial party formed in 1953. Msimang was married twice and left behind four sons and …
EventJoshua Nkomo’s freedom of movement and association in Southern Rhodesia is restricted
… Rhodesia and Nyasaland. The federation became a reality in 1953-1963. …
ArticleCouncil policies and practice
… such as the abolition of Section 16 of the Immorality Act , the Mixed Marriages Act and drastic modification of the Group Areas Act .’ However, the council's…
ArticleWhy protect children’s rights?
… cane in terms of section 294 of the Criminal Procedure Act of 1977. The Constitutional Court had to decide whether … The case concerned section 18(4)(d) of…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - White Students and Black Students
… the auspices of the National Union of S. A. Students. A Bantu Christian like myself must also join in this feeling of … indigenous people of this our common…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 1 - The First Farmers by Jeff Guy
… of whites at the Cape in 1652. Then”¦ “ Meanwhile, several Bantu tribes were migrating southwards along the east coast. … related. They call this great…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… leadership wanted a 'respectable' gathering, that would act in a ' responsible' manner and pass anodyne resolutions. … CYL called for the boycott of schools…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa 1910
… form part of the laws of the eventual Union. South Africa Act 1909 and the denial of franchise to Black South Africans The South Africa Act of 1909 could be…
The Pioneers
… kind of education for blacks did not catch on until the Bantu Education Act of 1953 but it was very much part of the education debate of the …
Statement on Human Rights Year by Oliver Tambo, 01 June 1968
… pass laws and the Departure from the Republic Regulation Act prevent this. Africans do not have the right to a job and … in order to better their working…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… Second World War and its impact 1939 Aliens Registration Act No 26 is passed James Calata tours the union in the hope … Fietas, Johannesburg: The Asiatic…
Last of The Gandhians in South Africa
… in the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act of 1946 (the 'Ghetto Act ') - militants in the Transvaal and Natal Indian … continued to defy…
BiographyPieter Willem Botha
… over other forced removal activities under the Group Areas Act . It is difficult to assess what he really thought of …
BiographyAbdool Karrim Essak
… warnings in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act. Banning orders, at times coupled with house arrest …
PlaceAndalusia, Cape and Transvaal Border
… bought plots in 1838 and the Town was proclaimed in 1953 and named after General Jan Kemp, a former Minister of …
EventBarry Hough, SA literary critic and successful author of mainly teenage books is found dead
… Afrikaans teenage fiction. He was born in Johannesburg in 1953. He obtained a BA Communications degree from the Rand …
EventTwenty-four Kikuyu tribesmen are sentenced to death for the Lari massacre in Kenya
… Nine months after the Lari Massacre of 26 March 1953, twenty-four Kikuyu tribesmen were sentenced to death in … 2011]|Djacademe.wordpress.com (2011). ‘…
BiographyDieter 'Felix' Gerhardt
Born on 1 November 1935, in Berlin, Germany, Gerhardt joined the South African Navy after his father successfully persuaded naval chief Hugo Biermann to take…
PlaceClaremont, a Suburb of Cape Town
… Claremont. Prior to forced removals under the Group Areas Act , Lower Claremont was a multi-racial and religiously … and the like. Claremont proclaimed a …