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EventExpelled ANC leader abandons court action
… General Bantu Holomisa announced that he was abandoning a Supreme …
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 17 January 1977, Volume 83
… and Sighart Bourquin, Chief Director, Port Natal Bantu Affairs Administration Affairs Board in Durban, to the …
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… to apartheid in the 1960s was the General Laws Amendment Act No 76 of 1962 . Known as the Sabotage Act it created the offense of sabotage by equating it to ……
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… nationalist organisations sprang up. However, when the Act of Union of 1910 brought together the previously separate … legislation included the Franchise…
PlaceFort Klapperkop
… planning had been concluded, and in April the head of the "Bantu" workers had gone out to find workers, By the 9th of … with maize meal, meat and tobacco. …
ArticleForced removals on Highveld and "black spots", 1912-1991
… who, on the eve of the promulgation of the Natives Land Act of 1913 bought the farm Swartrand. Located outside the … of impending catastrophe expected from…
ArticleBiography of Mongane Wally Serote by Matthew Williams
… Consciousness Movement, Sophiatown, Soweto, 1967 Terrorism Act, exile, Nat Nakasa, Black Theatre, Fulbright Scholarship, … to a halt when he was arrested…
EventPrime Minister of Transkei George Matanzima is born
… a bloodless coup led by Defence Force Chief Major-General Bantu Holomisa. References: Gastrow, S. (1985). Who's Who in …
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 2: The first farmers in Southern Africa
… The first farmers in southern Africa were Bantu-speakers and archaeology shows that they entered … affiliation if they were not happy. The popular idea that…
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
… 400,000, but even this figure was seen as too low by the Bantu Administration officials, who estimated that the figure … wages were very low. Efforts by both…
ArticleSouth African Defence Force (SADF)
… and part-time. Legislation The South African Defence Act, signed in 1912 by General J.C Smuts , gave cognizance to … the South African Permanent Force. In…
Albert Luthuli`s speech to ceremony for presenting him the Christopher Gell Memorial Award, 21 October 1961, Port Elizabeth
… He flayed the havoc brought by the Group Areas Act and its application and his work in this field to expose … of resistance against the ruinous flood of the…
PlaceCato Manor, Durban
… by African traders and shack lords. The Group Areas Act In 1952, the Durban City Council acquired land from … White group area. After implementation of the…
ArticleThe African Union (AU)
… had not entirely faded as the AU’s Constitutive Act came into force in 2001, with the Act making reference to the fact that it was “inspired by the … the…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 26 October 1976, Volume 40
… Ignatius Wilhelm Ackermann, the Chief Director of the Bantu Affairs Administration Board for the Highveld region; …
ArchiveUDF Unites To Expose What Underlies Reform
… unites to expose what underlies reform. Ciskei Bantustans Bantu Detention Resettlement... …
EventRuben Xulu is born
… both stone and wood. He exhibited in 1965 and 1978 in the Bantu Inter Faith Art Exhibition and Mariannhill Art Centre, …
Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , “South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home”, International Socialism, 5, Summer 1961
… when it draws closer to the people of the reserves, will act as the natural leaders of the struggle for liberation. … a demonstration of protest. [....] The…
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 … be based on…
ArchiveThe Story of Jean Middleton by Grant Rohrmann
… house arrest and banned under the Suppression of Communism Act . [4] Since she could no longer teach or even associate … 1960s. The COD launched in…
EventWalter Sisulu celebrates 90th birthday
… Bezuidenhout Valley. He also attended night school at the Bantu Men's Social Club (BMSC) in Eloff Street Extension and … He found a temporary job as an agent…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… to repealing all provisions of the Internal Security Act that - (a) refer to communism or the furthering thereof; … of section 6 of the Republic of South…
ArticleWestern Cape Youth Uprising timeline 1976
… day the same riot squad threatened officials at the Bantu administration. 27 June, Further arson occurs on Langa …
ArticlePrehistory of the Port Elizabeth area
… other north. Archaeological evidence, however, shows that Bantu-speaking people were settled in the nearby Kei River …
EventNyanga school Principal's office burnt
… Johannesburg, rose in protest against the oppressive new Bantu Education policy of Afrikaans as a teaching medium in …
PlaceMalawi
… parts of Southern Africa. Between the 1st and 4th A.D, the Bantu people migrated to the region and they were followed by another wave of Bantu migration in…
ArticleKasturba Gandhi timeline 1869 - 1944
… as a "crime against humanity", and christens it "The Black Act". September 11, More than 3000 Indians gather at Empire … is passed. It is named the Transvaal…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Source-Based Questions and Answers
… Exam Memo Source A: Source: Author Unknown, “1913 Land Act”, Tshintsha Amakhaya, (Uploaded: Unknown), (Accessed: 26 … response to the implementation of the…
EventChoirmaster and composer Kumalo dies
… who was a founder member and first secretary of the Bantu Social Centre in Beatrice Street, Durban (YMCA), died …
EventPolitical Organisations are unbanned in Transkei
… The Transkei leader, Gen. Bantu Holomisa , announced the unbanning of the African …