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ArticleTimeline on the defacing of statues
… Howard Campus is splattered is white paint, covered in black cloth and has written papers stuck on it. 30 March, The … Town has its plinth draped with a…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… acts such as sexual intercourse between White and Black people. Amended in 1957 as Act 23. Suppression of … numbers, the government set up semi-urban…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… and segregating South Africa. The Khoikhoi, San and Black Africans under the British and the Afrikaner republics … farms. White farmers who allowed the…
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 Repealed by … 20 of the Mines and Works Amendment Act…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…
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…
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…
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…
ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
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…
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=…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…