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ArticleSouth Africa’s Diverse Culture Artistic and Linguistic Heritage
… Khoisan people. South Africa’s Asian population is mostly Indian in origin and is largely based in kwaZulu-Natal . … women in society, war victories and…
Article1913 Satyagraha Campaign Resumes
… reproduced below, A.M. Cachalia, chairman of the British Indian Association, explains to the Secretary of the Interior … another issue: marriages contracted…
ArchiveDeborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo
… of segregation placed an inhumane burden on African, Indian, and Couloured people of South Africa. The government … much of the praise missed one critical…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes
… areas). The body could deliberate and offer advice on legislation affecting Africans in the European Parliament and … Second World War, Dr. Xuma had…
Why is sexual violence so endemic in South Africa and why has it been so hard to combat? by Jessica Clarke
… Abstract This essay will firstly lay out government legislation which is meant to protect women’s rights, arguing that the legislation itself is progressive…
ArticleLiberation Struggle in South Africa
… histories, resources and further reading lists, legislation listings, timelines and galleries. …
PlaceStation Building, Point Road, Durban
… It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 10 August 1979. The Old Durban Railway Station … vicinity of the Railway Station are known…
PlaceRiverside Mosque and Mausoleum, Umgeni, Durban
… It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 17 October 1980. - As soon as Hazrath Soofie … of the Umgeni River in Riverside, a stone’s…
PlaceShri Jagannath Puri Temple, Tongaat
… The property, with the Historic Indian temple thereon, being the remainder of Lot 79, Tongaat … situations. Declared a National Monument under old NMC…
EventBritain and Egypt sign the Suez Canal agreement.
… As the easiest link to both the Mediterranean and the Indian Oceans, the canal was of great strategic importance. … Britain refused to withdraw from the…
Document 10 - Letter from Nelson Mandela to Sir de Villiers Graaff, leader of the United Party
… every articulate group amongst the African, Coloured and Indian communities, who constitute the majority of this … have clearly decided to talk it out. The…
BiographyDr Kwame Nkrumah
… in 1930. During this period Nkrumah became introduced to anti-colonial resistance movements and ideologies, notably …
BiographyPeter Hlaole Molotsi
… that needed an immediate response. The PAC prepared for an anti-pass campaign whereby they would mobilise people to …
BiographyHorst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt
… payment to prevent her from becoming a martyr to the anti-apartheid cause. In 1975, Kleinschmidt was detained … Anti-Apartheid Activist, leader within and…
ArchiveEleanor Kasrils: From Detainment to National Liberation by Nathan Greenhaw
… that supported increased racial segregation and apartheid legislation, took increasingly authoritarian measures to … South African government greatly limited…
South African and World leaders
… in jail he became an important symbol for human rights and anti-apartheid campaigns all over the world. People held … and nurse and one of the most important…
ArticleHigh Farce in the House
… one NPP MP voting to support military conscription for Indian youth because he could not read Afrikaans, the … Areas Act, the Labour Party opposed the…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… the apartheid government adopted extremely repressive legislation, creating a legal framework to deal effectively … leadership of underground networks. The…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew
… for Full Democratic Rights [1943] Document 3 - National Anti-CAD Conference Agenda, Oddfellows Hall, Hope Street, … of Segregation", Address delivered to the…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott
… against Apartheid. Brockway was a British politician and anti-war activist who worked throughout his life on anti-colonialism as well as other humanitarian…
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… boxing by Blacks. Between the 1880s and 1910s, African, Indian, and Coloured football associations and leagues … which opposed apartheid in sport. From 1961…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… November, Elections for the government-appointed SA Indian Council see only 10, 5% of the electorate turn out to … the longest in South African history. 1988…
ArticleThe Natives Land Act of 1913
… it.” Thus, the Glen Grey Act came in the heels of previous legislation that had begun to use land as a tool to limit … of African people and segregation…
ArticleHuman Rights and the South African Constitution
… additional powers and responsibilities by other national legislation. Since its inauguration on 2 October 1995, the …
Nelson Mandela Letter to the United Party, 23 May 1961
… every articulate group amongst the African, Coloured and Indian communities, who constitute the majority of this … have clearly decided to talk it out. The…
Address by Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe to the 25th Anniversary celebration of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), 1 December 2010
… 2010 is also the 150 Anniversary of the arrival of the Indian Indentured Labourers in South Africa. The contribution of the Indian community to the melting…
ArticleThe Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial, 1984
… the United Democratic Front (UDF), the Transvaal or Natal Indian Congress (TIC and NIC) or affiliated organisations. … based on the accused singing…
ArticleNo Land, No House, No Vote Timeline
… mayor, Obed Mlaba, which was heavily repressed. [3] The Anti-Eviction Campaign also boycotted the Cape Town municipal … a protest for free basic electricity…
Gallery
… greatly influenced by women’s roles in local socialist and anti-colonial movements, as well as by the suffrage movements … referred to as the ‘decade of the…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Democrats (COD)
… South African Communist Party (SACP) , the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) , banned members of the Communist … (ANC) South African Communist Party (SACP…