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EventGertrude Shope, former president of the ANC Women’s League, is born
… afterwards left teaching as part of a campaign to boycott Bantu Education. In 1966 the ANC convinced her to leave South …
ArticleTruth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
… of the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act , No 34 of 1995, and was based in Cape Town. The mandate … were requested in accordance with the…
BiographyAdelaine Florence Hain
… wife Ann and baby David despite vehemently opposing his act of desperate resistance. Their duty to a friend came …
BiographyShirish Nanabhai
… and comrade Indres Naidoo. They were caught in the act of planting and detonating explosives at a railway signal …
BiographyAbdullah Abdurahman
Abdurahman, who was born in Wellington (Cape Town ) on 18 December 1872 and graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Glasgow in 1893.He return to…
BiographyGovin Reddy
… of the house and farm in the 1960s under the Group Areas Act , making way for the township of KwaDabeka and hostels …
PlaceMaynardville Open Air Theatre
… was also before the full implementation of the Group Areas Act later turned that part of Wynberg into an exclusively … on the Cape Flats [7] . The first…
PlaceMozambique
… since 2001. Between the 1st and 5th centuries AD, waves of Bantu-speaking people migrated from the west and north … is also called Chisena or Cisena, which…
EventHolomisa on corruption
… of accepting payments from Sol Kerzner. In May 1996, Bantu Holomisa, former ruler of Transkei and Deputy Minister …
EventEducationist George Molefe is born
… College in 1932. He was ordained in the same year in the Bantu Presbyterian Church and inducted to the Spookmill …
Chapter 3 - Gumede’s role in NNC and SANNC Politics, 1909 – 1919 ‘We pray that the people be allowed to live in peace in their own land’.
… rule. The two central issues were the Native Land Act and the Native Administration Act of 1917. What were … welfare societies. In 1919 he was elected…
PlaceNatures Valley, Garden Route
… a syndicate of nine families. A Township was declared in 1953. Electricity was connected only in 1986. Today the …
EventSouth Africa heeds United Nations call to assist Korea
… in the world to operate combat jet aircraft, in early 1953, when they began flying combat sorties in F-86F Sabres. …
Appeal To Students by Nelson Mandela
… Administrations and missionaries and is now vested in the Bantu Affairs Department so that it should conform with State … last year strikingly illustrated…
Chapter 12 - Blind alley of guerrillaism
… to keep on the non-violent plane," stated Lutuli in 1953. "We would earnestly request the powers that be to make … of women in Natal in 1959-60, in the…
EventChris Hani is born
… Secondary school lost their jobs for protesting against Bantu Education in 1954. He later moved to Lovadale …
PlaceZimbabwe
… settle in the area. They spoke languages belonging to the Bantu linguistic group , and are often referred to as Bantu … participate on the side of Britain in…
Freedom In Our Life Time - African Nationalism
… us."”Š 34 (d) Economic Basis: the fundamental structure of Bantu society is socialistic. There was, for instance, no individual ownership of land in ancient…
The Polly Street Era
… art. Skotnes himself only 'discovered' African art in 1953 when Egon Guenther (12) introduced him to the work of … by the policy of separate development. The…
ArticleConstitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996
… law as the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 200 of 1993 on 27 April 1994. Thus after the 1994 … South Africa was governed by an interim…
ArticleThe Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… created under the Extension of the University Education Act, Act 45 of 1959, became the breeding ground of Black …
Indian Community
… Indians from purchasing any municipal land. The Slums Act was passed in 1934 in order improve conditions and to … ‘slum clearance’ in the city. In actual…
III - Black Consciousness
… policy through many laws; through the Group Areas Act; which provides for total residential separation of … separate 'tribal' colleges””part of the whole…
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, submitted to the Annual Conference, December 15-17, 1950
… introducing two most notorious laws namely the Group Areas Act and the Suppression of Communism Act. 6. The Group Areas Act is designed to intensify the ……
Extract from a speech made at Heilbron on 16 August 1968
… that we, the Whites, the Coloureds, the Asians and the Bantu, will work out our own solutions here in South Africa. … those facilities have yielded results -…
EventJohn Langalibalele Dube is born
… married Nokutela Mdima Dube . He later founded the Natal Bantu Teachers Association, which was known as the Natal …
EventOupa Gqozo, military leader of the Ciskei, quells a second coup attempt
… allegations and Gqozo later apologised to Major General Bantu Holomisa, the ruler of Transkei. …
EventGerman action in Herero Revolt is condemned in the Reichstag
… Namibia, Botswana and Angola and were descendents of the Bantu people. It is believed that they moved south from Lake …
EventNaledi High School is founded
… Naledi High School, the site where historic anti-Bantu Education student uprisings were first felt, …
EventGeorge Pemba, artist and playwright is born in Port Elizabeth
… Bedford Competition. In 1944 he was commissioned by the Bantu Welfare Trust to paint scenes of Black tribal life. In …