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EventHansi Pauline Pollak, welfare worker and social activist, is born
… of welfare services for the World Council of Churches from 1953 to 1954. She was also involved in working for the South …
EventFirst postage stamp in Africa is issued in the Cape Colony
… the Cape Triangular stamp was later issued on 1 September 1953, which included the original design on a rectangular …
ArchiveThe Life of Trevor Huddleston, Makhalipile (the Dauntless One) by Victoria Vandiver, 3 May 2018
… 1996). He also stated that, “I am still convinced that the Bantu Education Act was the most iniquitous of all apartheid laws. It sought … heels in and spoken…
Women’s Food Committees in Cape Town during the 1940s
… for food and simultaneously extend the CPSA creed. By mid-1953, membership of the club had reached over 7 000. Women …
Document 52 - LA. Jordaan, “A Critique of Mr. W. P. van Schoor’s.The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa” Discussion, 1, 3, June 1951
… slaves with Hottentots, Hottentots with Bushman and the Bantu with the Cape coloured people. And how does he attempt … of slavery. History, however, has it…
ArchiveDurban Advice Office Annual Report to National Conference 1973
… Rorced Removals, Pass Laws, work permits, housing, Bantu Administration Boards, legal assistance. …
ArchiveAfrican family housing in urban areas
… governing the control and supervision of an urban Bantu residential area and the many hardships that these …
ArchiveSoweto Students Representative Council
… parents to resist the take over of community schools with Bantu education …
EventJohn Tengo Jabavu is born
… John Tengo Jabavu, Bantu newspaper editor, preacher and the second Black …
PlaceDie Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerkgebou in Du Toit Street, Pretoria
… wall. He died at age 32 near Brandfort due to fever. In 1953 decisions were made to alter the church to mitigate … the electric wiring, switches and wall…
ArticleTimeline — Land Dispossession and Restitution in South Africa - 1995-2013
… stakeholders. 22 March, The Land Reform (Labour Tenants) Act 2 (LTA) is passed. The Act aims to provide “for security of tenure of labour tenants … labour…
ArchiveSquatters in the Western Cape- Conference Paper presented at National Conference 1978
… 1978 discussing housing, demolishing of squatter camps, Bantu Affairs Administration Board, legal aid. …
ArticleThe San
… San populated South Africa long before the arrival of the Bantu-speaking nations, and thousands of years before the … to a totally different language family…
ArchiveThe Black Sash National Headquarters Report 1976
… Demonstration, international visitor, Advice Offices, Bantu Welfare Trust money, President's Report. …
Interview with Mr. Mbongwe
… Oral interview with Mr Mbongwe, Senior Clerk, at the Bantu Affairs office. The audio quality of this interview is …
ArchiveA reply to J G Matthews article: Africans an
… Africans and Non-European Unity. Published in Inkundla Ya Bantu, 22 October 1949. …
ArticleAfrica Timeline
… of Palestine and Nubia. 1000 BC The expansion of the Bantu people begins. Bantu languages originated in West Africa and began to spread … Experts believe…
ArticleThe formation of the SANNC/ANC
… to propose ways of objecting to the draft South African Act, and the Union constitution. The SANNC meeting convened … republics were rapidly dashed as…
ArchiveThe Black Sash National Headquarters Annual Report 1976 to 1977
… Campaign, magazine, research projects, Women for Peace, Bantu Welfare Trust, regional visits by President of Black …
”Some Basic Principles of African Nationalism.” Article by A. M. Lembede, in February 1945
… us'. d) Economic Basis: The fundamental structure of Bantu Society is socialistic. There was for instance no individual ownership of land in ancient Bantu…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - Introduction by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… between the white Boer Republics and Britain, an act passed in the British Parliament created the Union of … were entitled to vote in parliamentary elections…
Introduction - My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… between the white Boer Republics and Britain, an act passed in the British Parliament created the Union of … were entitled to vote in parliamentary elections…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 11 February 1977, Volume 105
… transcript of evidence from Samuel Moss from the West Rand Bantu Administration Board, to the Commission of Inquiry into …
ArticleHistory of elections in South Africa
… 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,…
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee
… alia, [with the] amendment of the Suppression of Communism Act. This Act was bitterly opposed at all its stages by the African … of the last vestige of token…
The National Anthem
… of Section 4 of the Constitution of South Africa , 1996 (Act 108 of 1996) and following a proclamation in the … also acquired the copyright and this was…
ArticleDefeat of the Liberation struggle
… State. The Government passed the Unlawful Organisations Act on 7 April 1960, banning the ANC and the PAC. By 6 May … of security laws, including the General…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 3 March 1977, Volume 124
… from David Thebehali and other members of the Urban Bantu Council in Soweto, to the Commission of Inquiry into …
ArchiveFrom conscience politics to the battlefield
… force in South Africa. The Party was formed in May 1953 as a non-racial political party . Initially, it …
EventCongress of the People starts in Kliptown
… National Congress (ANC) Queenstown regional conference in 1953. It was endorsed by the ANC national conference held in …