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BiographyAbdool Karrim Essak
… warnings in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act. Banning orders, at times coupled with house arrest …
BiographyPieter Willem Botha
… over other forced removal activities under the Group Areas Act . It is difficult to assess what he really thought of …
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… from African competition. In 1913 the Natives Land Act reserved most of the land for white ownership, forcing … wage labourers on land they had previously…
PlaceSt Saviours Church Anglican Church and Cemetery, Bowwood Road, Claremont
… 1871 respectively. Further additions were made in 1903 and 1953. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC …
EventDr. Silas Modiri Molema dies in Mafikeng
… and was served with banning orders by the government in 1953. He also served on the African Advisory Council, Joint …
EventJohnny Clegg, South African musician is born
… Johnny Clegg was born in England in 1953 to an English father and a Zimbabwean mother. He left …
EventKenya is granted independence
… including Kenyatta and Achieng Aneko were arrested. In 1953, Kenyatta was charged with leading the Mau Mau rebellion …
EventThe Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland collapses
… federation. The history of the federation dates back to 1953. …
XI - The Verdict
… this inquest centres on whether the evidence points to an act or omission on the part of the police, doctors or prison … officials, which led to the death of…
Africans’Claims in South Africa,
… We want the Government of the United Nations to know and act in the light of our own interpretation of the ''Atlantic … Transkei. (14) Mr. M. T. Moerane, B.A…
ArticleThe South African general elections: Introduction
… The South Africa Act passed by the British Parliament in 1909 combined the … the Orange Free State into the Union of South Africa. The Act, which served as…
Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, “The Opening Address at the Africanist Inaugural Convention”, 4 April 1959 [….]
… can ill state with brazen effrontery that the Native, the Bantu, the Kaffir is still backward id savage. But they still … Native Life in South Africa; Rose…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… declared unrest areas in terms of the Public Safety Act No 3 of 1953. Gazankulu: Immorality and Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Amendment Act No 6: Commenced:…
ArchiveChapter 3 University by Denis Goldberg
… of all schools, introducing a second-rate system of “Bantu education”, against which school-goers rose up in 1976. … completely. Towards the end of my final…
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad 1906 - 1990
… African government passes the Suppression of Communism Act , banning the CPSA. Communism was broadly defined in the … bodies in South Africa and not the…
Article1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
… carry passes or court arrest. 1890 The Orange Free State Act 29 is passed. This law "aims to provide against the … the South African Republic (Transvaal)…
PlaceSoweto, Johannesburg
… etc., they did this by using the infamous 'Urban Areas Act' in 1923. Soweto became the largest Black City in South … a student-led protest in South Africa…
ArticleRock Art
… origin. A transition occurred with the arrival of Bantu-speaking people, as some human figures were then …
The defiance campaign by M. P. Naicker
… session. These included the African Building Workers` Act, depriving African building workers the right to work in … of Voters` Act, the Suppression of…
ArticleThe Early History of Rugby in South Africa
… program. In 1950 the National Party passed the Group Areas Act defining the separate geographic areas within which … later they passed the Reservation of…
ArticleLand Restitution in South Africa since 1994
… since the promulgation of the Restitution of Land Right Act 22 is significant. The legal basis for land restitution … the 1996 Constitution and the…
Document 75 - A. Mon (M. N. Averbach), “The Historical basis for the Programme of the Fourth International Organisation of South Africa”, Workers’ 1944
… were wars of exterminations and expropriation against the Bantu, and warfare between the Boers and the British. But … forms of existence, especially the…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1920-1929
… Natal. They lose vote in boroughs. Industrial Conciliation Act - this Act provides for job reservation. 31 May, the Mayor of … progress in industry was…
ArticleIndian Indentured Labour in Natal 1860-1911
… for the third year. This was in accordance with the Natal Act No.14 of 1859 The Natal Colonial Government formulated … Ordinance No. 2, 1850, (Masters,…
ArchiveInterview with Peter Donald Hjul
… a leading figure in the Liberal Party, which existed from 1953 until 1968. Born in Northern Rhodesia in 1929, Hjul …
EventEdgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia.
… Stephen Garfield Todd was premier of South Rhodesia from 1953 till 1958. As a leader of a White minority regime during …
EventHelen Suzman is born
… she represented the United Party (UP) in Parliament in 1953. Six years later she founded the Progressive Party (PP) …
ArticleThe Mau Mau Uprising
… first half of the 20th century. The Crown Lands Ordinance Act of 1915 removed the few remaining land rights of the … against police and loyalists that…
The strangulation of activity
… government was in 1950 with the Suppression of Communism Act. It declared the Communist Party of South Africa to be … was lifted in June 1988 under the…
ArticleAnti-Indian Legislation
… laws were passed to this effect. The first law was Act 25 of 1891. Act 25 of 1894 followed by Act 8 of 1896 disenfranchised about 251 Asiatics of the vote. …