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Document 2 - Against the C.A.D. for Full Democratic Rights [1943]
… Union protested strongly against the Colour Bars in the Act Union whereby only Europeans could be elected to … sections of the population" by the South…
ArchiveReport
… the Western Province, youth, women, the Labour Relations Act and trade unions, ANC leadership in the Western Province, … of the Coloured people and…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Joint Sitting of Parliament to Report on the Processing of Some Presidential Pardons: Cape Town, 21 November 2007.
… of the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act, (TRC Act) 1995. Among other things, the TRC Act created the political and moral climate for the …
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
… closed when the administration refused to implement Bantu Education . After this, he attended the Totomeng Lower … priesthood. His application for travel…
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…
EventRioting erupts in Soweto
… again banned public meetings under the Riotous Assemblies Act, until the end of August. Click here to read our past This Week in History about the Riotous…
EventNatal votes for the formation of the Union of South Africa
… Africa. During the following year (1910), the South Africa Act was approved in Britain granting power to the White … Africans, Asiatics (mostly Indians) and…
ArchiveThe trial of SASO/BPC detainees
… activities in terms of various sections of the Terrorism Act (No 83 of 1967) and General Law Amendment Act (No 56 of 1955) …
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
… them ineligible for support under the Unemployment Benefit Act (No. 25 of 1937). Operating machinery in the industry … Bibi (1999), “Ray Alexander was a…
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
… Republics of the Transvaal and Orange Free State, an act was passed by parliament in 1910 enacting 16 December as … townships to challenge the restrictions…
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
… and an 'inferior race'. The Aborigines Protection Act 1909 established camps to provide a place for the 'doomed … of human rights. It was racially…
Call for United Front by Albert Luthuli, 5 November 1961
… for the Non-White peoples through the establishment of Bantu Authorities, Urban Bantu Councils, Coloured Advisory Boards and Indian Affairs …
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…
Search for a United Front against racism
… for oppression and domination. The Native Representation Act of 1936 was not only a misrepresentation of the Africans, … is not new to the African community…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Search for a United Front against racism
… for oppression and domination. The Native Representation Act of 1936 was not only a misrepresentation of the Africans, … is not new to the African community…
50. The campaign resumed in 1913
… though then vetoed, was repassed almost as the first Act of the Responsible Government, and became known as Act 2 of 1907. As the measure was considered by…
ArchiveBiography of Moses Mabokela Chikane
… he was detained under section 28 of the internal security act from the 28 August to September and also detained on 23 April 1985 under section 29 of the…
EventJustice Minister, Jimmy Kruger, announces mass arrest
… figure stood as follows: 123 under the Internal Security Act; 217 under the Terrorism Act; thirty-four were jailed for their protection as …
"Future of the Africanist Movement" Questions and Answers Y R. M. Sobukwe, in The Africanist, January 1959
… establish a single authority in place of the many tribal authorities of Natal, were, we say, steps in the direction of … overthrow of white domination. That…
Grade 4 Term 2 Timeline: Mahatma Gandhi
… 1914 1919 The British government passes the Rowlatt Act in colonial India, indefinitely extending the use of …
Glossary: Learning from Leaders
… Jewish spiritual and relgious leader. Represent Stand for; act as a substitute for. Republic A country which is not …
ArticleThe Langa March, 30 March 1960
… and the PAC were banned under the Unlawful Organisations Act of 8 April 1960. Both organisations were deemed a serious …
EventBophuthatswana decide not to publish report of Smith Commission
… between the Winterveld community and the Bophuthatswana authorities culminated in a meeting of between 5 000 and 10 …
EventThe burghers were victorious in their struggle against Cape Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel and his officials
… Husing and Adam Tas sent a petition to Amsterdam via authorities in Batavia, accusing the Cape officials of …
STRIKES AND INDUSTRIAL ACTIONS
… militancy of African workers. The Suppression of Communism Act of 1950, designed in part to weaken the trade union … Participants Prosecutions 1950 33 8 878…
EventSeretse Khama is re-united with his British wife
… This was in terms of the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No 55 of 1949 enacted by the apartheid government. The Act forbade marriages between Whites…
IV - The Death of Steve Biko
… last time on 18 August 1977 and Section 6 of the Terrorism Act. On 14 September, the Rand Daily Mail carried the report … becomes deep dismay when the…
ArticleDutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… the store of weapons. Then they planned to talk to the authorities about peace and freedom for all slaves. They … treated them. He told them that he had…
The Detention Weapon
… security legislation 1963. The General Laws Amendment Act, No. 37 was passed. Section 17 provided for up to 90 days … has been a great deal of reluctance on…
THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE IS ON IN EARNEST, Durban, 12 December 1959
… in the passing of such bills as the Promotion of Bantu Self-Government, the Extension of University Education, … are valued by all people in the land. One…