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EventDadoo and Naicker are charged
… Naicker were charged with contravening Section 20 (r) of Act No. 22 of 1913, the Immigrants Regulations Act. They were accused of wrongfully and unlawfully…
EventZwelakhe Sisulu is arrested
… 9 (1) and Section 10 (1) a of the Internal Security Act. This Act provided for unlimited detention without trial. He …
Indian passive resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948 by E. S. Reddy
… of Gale Street and Umbilo Road in Durban. The Ghetto Act came into force on 2 June.Passive resistance began on 13 … seven women, pitched tents in defiance of…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 108th Anniversary of the African National Congress by Cyril Ramaphosa, 8 January 2020
… the skills that our people and economy need. We must act with urgency and purpose. While we dare not ignore the … and 1950s, Resha was frequently targeted by…
EventChristian Institute declared an affected organisation
… an affected organisation under the Affected Organisation's Act of 1974. This Act served to weaken organisations opposed to the apartheid …
EventThe new ochre-red, white and green tri-colour of the Transkei is adopted
… in 1976. Section 4 of the Transkei Constitution Act of 1963, an Act of the South African Parliament, made provision for the … Transkei flag is set out in…
EventLiberation struggle activists, Gwala and Mothopeng are released from Robben Island
… of the ANC in 1960 under the Unlawful Organisations Act, Gwala became active in underground structures of the ANC … with scores of ANC members and charged…
ArticleNUSAS Wages Commission Timeline 1971-1973
… as the minimum wage level by January 1973. University authorities agreed to the recommendations only after students …
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
… group that intervened in the ongoing conflict between authorities and students. In 1977 a group of journalists …
ArticleThe Freedom Charter
… All bodies of minority rule, advisory boards, councils and authorities shall be replaced by democratic organs of …
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament, 1983-1984
… to focus on the planned elections for the Black Local Authorities (BLAs) and other local government in the …
EventA list of people prohibited from attending gatherings is published in the Government Gazette
… Under the provisions of the General Law Amendment Act of 1962 a list of 102 persons prohibited from attending … movements were banned under the Unlawful…
Chapter IV - Becoming an activist
… I had begun my work at the Medical Aid Society in March 1951. It took me a little while to learn about this new work, … Sachs. In May 1951, the Separate…
EventSisulu is served with two notifications
… two notifications in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act (Act 44 of 1950) . In terms of these notifications Sisulu was …
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…
PlaceWest Coast National Park and Postberg Reserve
… as a marine Reserve in terms of the Sea Fisheries Act in 1973 and later in 1985, was proclaimed Langebaan … including coordinated efforts by NGO's and…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 1 - Rural Change and the Future of South Africa by Rachidi R. Molapo
… this period. What was the impact of the 1913 Natives Land Act? Three years after the formation of the Union of South … by the whites-only Parliament ”” the…
EventAn inquest into the death of Ernest Dipale finds no-one criminally liable for his death
… death. Dipale was arrested under the new Internal Security Act and charged with furthering the aims of a banned … person to die in detention. The Internal…
ArticleHealth and welfare
… of the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy (CTOP) Act . The law allows for termination of pregnancy on request … beyond that point. Since the passing of the…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… 30 people ... read more The Suppression of Communism Act was still scheduled to go ahead, so on 20 June 1950, only a few days before the Suppression of…
Marikana Commission of Inquiry
… Police Commissioner Ria Phiyega who were pressured to act, were accused. A day later after the killings the …
Marikana Commission of Inquiry
… Police Commissioner Ria Phiyega who were pressured to act, were accused. A day later after the killings the …
ArticleRichard David Turner Timeline 1941 - 1978
… trial of 9 Black Consciousness leaders under the Terrorism Act 1976 Soweto riots 1978 8 January, his wife Foszia visits …
ArticleMarikana Commission of Inquiry
… Police Commissioner Ria Phiyega who were pressured to act, were accused. A day later, after the killings the …
ArchiveRobert Shell: A tribute By Martin Plaut, 05 February 2015
… Throughout Rob's long career he had a habit of rubbing the authorities up the wrong way. Nowhere more so than at Rhodes, …
Women’s liberation by Zanele Dhlamini (Mbeki)
… necessity to crush them. "By the Women's Enfranchisement Act of 1930, which gave the vote to white women only (despite … of various government anti-Black…
ArticleA Spiral of Trials by Norman Levy
… in October 1942, it seemed as if the government would act. It appointed the Smit Commission which recommended that … unions be recognized under the…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - ‘Locations’ For Labour
… of workers, how they did it, and why. The Urban Areas Act The first major response by the South African government … the government passed a law, the Natives…
EventGandhi leaves South Africa
… and Gen J.C. Smuts led to the passing of the Indian Relief Act, by which the £3 tax on ex-indentured Indians was … were enabled to join their parents in…
34. Further immigration restrictions, 1903
… Officer at Durban of the working of the present Act, it appears that only one hundred and fifteen Asiatics … of the Immigration Officer would go to show that…