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Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1930-1939
… recognised that there was a need to fix a minimum for Black workers in order to protect the White workers? wages … Representation of Blacks Act No 12 of 1936…
ArticleAfrapix
… by Omar Badsha, Lesley Lawson and a small group of black and white photographers and political activists in … pooled their skills and resources to train…
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… being allowed to live there).The people in question were Black people for who opportunities to own land were severely … from their homes. Similarly, under…
ArticleRichard David Turner Timeline 1941 - 1978
… of Cape Town 1960 Changes to philosophy 1960 Sharpeville – black mass movement curtailed and white opposition groups … lecturer at Rhodes University 1970…
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… only to unskilled work, which was performed mostly by Black people (Dugard 1978: 85; Horrell 1978: 6). Repealed by … 20 of the Mines and Works Amendment Act…
EventThe Minister of Cooperation and Development, Dr. Piet Koornhof, announces the lifting of the '72-hour curfew'
… part of influx-control regulations that restricted black people's movement. In his statement he said that the …
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 110 of 1983
… participation of Coloured and Indian people and exclude Black people. The proposal maintained the central control of … convinced that they would deepen…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1900-1947
… South Africa accelerated the process of further squeezing Black people off the land. A series of draconian legislation … Masters and Servants Ordinance is…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… government’s secret police. Mandela was nicknamed the ‘Black Pimpernel’ at this time, and repeatedly frustrated the … invisible and unheard, removed by white…
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
… on successive governments to ensure a supply of cheap black labour for small businesses and farmers. From 1942 to 1945 wage differences between white and…
ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
Tribute to Prof Meer on her 80th birthday by Ari Sitas, 23 August 2008
… at 54 years of age, she embarked through the Institute for Black Research on a wave of action-research activities which … the 1959 Universities Act enforced…
ArticleFootball in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012
… side to tour abroad and for most opposition the first black team they played against. 1902 Durban ‘Bush Bucks' … “Kalamazoo” Mokone and David Julius become…
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… The period after the republic saw a radicalization in black politics. Afrikaners White South African politics had … J. 1999. Help-U-History Grade 12 . Cape…
Gertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… fulfilled her mother’s dream for her to become an educated Black woman in South Africa. Her journey led her to become a … of Documents Act of 1952, had begun…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… development in Johannesburg <a data-cke-saved-href="#Black residential development in Johannesburg" href="#Black residential development in Johannesburg" id=…
ArticleGeneral Factory Workers Benefit fund (GFWBF)
… political activist. During this period it was illegal for black workers to belong to a registered trade union, as a consequence black workers joined the…
ArticleAfrican National Congress (ANC)
… Bloemfontein, with the aim of fighting for the rights of black South Africans. The organization was renamed the ANC in … the establishment of apartheid, its…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… (showing different faces). The government and the black opposition moved even further apart. This trend was accentuated by significant shifts in both black…
ArticleThe 1913 Women’s anti-pass campaign in the Orange Free State
… particularly Bloemfontein passed the laws to regulate black people in 1893. For example Law 8 passed in 1893 … passes by male and female. In the location of…
ArticleLiberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)
… building a network of LPSA branches in Natal recruiting Black people to its ranks. Alan Paton president of the LPSA … after its formation, this changed over…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… South African daily] routinely avoided using pictures of black people unless they were rioting and which did not print … Africa's racist history was how to…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… a Kimberley schoolteacher, becomes the first South African Black woman to receive a Bachelor's degree. While on a choir … University in Cleveland. She also…
ArticleThe Natives Land Act of 1913
… of South Africa, which was accomplished in 1910. However, black people were excluded from meaningful political … that would consolidate their wealth while…
ArchiveThe Man Before Mandela by Steven Gish
… 1920) graduated from the U of M. The first western-trained Black physician to practice medicine in Johannesburg, Xuma (1893-1962) also became one of the most…
ArticleArmed Struggle, the anti-apartheid struggle accelerates 1984-1990
… killing thousands of people and destroying property. Some black people died from so-called black-on-black violence, and many others were killed by police …
ArticleSS Mendi
… Davies Image source The concept of training and arming a Black army was considered undesirable by the White government … the crew gave up their places on the…
ArticleHistory of elections in South Africa
… to vote. In the Cape Province, an important number of Black and Coloured men were allowed to vote under a … independence, and allowed elections in the…
ArticleDutch Reformed Church (DRC)
… South Africa according to race. The social segregation of Black, Coloured and White people was reflected in the … umbrella, thus making South African history…
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… the second Constitution. This also took away the rights of black people. In 1983 the government passed the third … Coloured and Indian groups. This…