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ArchiveAll That Glitters - In the city by Emilia Potenza
… to some extent by the long-term effects of the 1913 Land Act. Effects of the 1913 Land Act The Land Act marked the end … labour both in the cities and on the…
PlaceSchmidtsdrift
… traced back to 1827 when it was declared a Crown Trust Land. Occupied by the Tswana-speaking Batlhaping and Griqua people. It was scheduled as the…
EventThe first 'Bantustans' or 'homelands' comes into existence when the Transkei Regional Authority is instituted
… rural areas ruled by local chiefs. They came to be called 'Native Locations' and Black South Africans were systematically dispossessed of their land access…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… movements, and in 1947 it demonstrated against the Native Affairs Commission, which wanted to remove squatters … bitter and disappointed about the recently…
BiographyChief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi
… that the government had not met its own Black Constitution Act of 1972 which required consultation with the people of … of legislation to be passed by the…
Document 38 - “How to Build o Revolutionary Mass Party in South Africa: A letter from the Executive Committee of the Communist International, “Umsebenzi, 12 December 1930
… (b) the attack of the bourgeois ruling classes on the native working masses and on the lower paid section of the … worsening of the conditions of the mass of…
Mission Stations - A-F
… the smoke. They are larger, and more commodious than the native huts. The Hartebeest hut is represented at Fig.5. The … the Cape Colony; from thence they…
'Opening Address' at Annual Conference of the South African Indian Congress by Dr. S. M. Molema, 25 January 1952
… beyond his wildest dreams in dispossessing them of their land, their liberty and their life, and ever since the … and no worthwhile united action was taken…
”Opening Address” at Annual Conference of the South African Indian Congress, by Dr. S. M. Molema, January 25, 1952
… beyond his wildest dreams in dispossessing them of their land, their liberty and their life, and ever since the … and no worthwhile united action was taken…
"Opening Address" at Annual Conference of the South Afri­can Indian Congress, by Dr. S. M. Molema, January 25, 1952
… beyond his wildest dreams in dispossessing them of their land, their liberty and their life, and ever since the … and no worthwhile united action was taken…
BiographyDimitri Tsafendas
… Naci. The following year, during a visit to Crete, the land of his ancestors, Tsafendas met former Greek partisans … the struggle for Mozambique’s…
ArchiveSouth Africa in World War One, 31 October 2018
… of conflict, the ANC (then still called the South African Native National Congress) halted its agitation against the 1913 Land Act ( WWI and the People of…
BiographyAndimba Herman Toivo Ya Toivo
… at St. Mary’s Mission School at Odibo. He was part of the Native Military Corps for the South African Defence Force in … of whom had deserted the…
Pamphlet by Professor Z. K. Matthews, published in November 1946
… in 1937 in terms of the Representation of Natives Act 12 of 1936. That Act formed pan of the Bills which the … he considered might be a comprehensive…
BiographySam P. Sesedi
Sam P. Sesedi was born in 1895 in Kimberley and qualified as a teacher in 1916. He later obtained a B.A. degree by private study at the age of 50. After…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1900-1909
… return to the Transvaal. The Immigrants Regulation Act (No. 22 of 1913) is passed in the Cape Colony and makes … that such titles are not be transferred to…
BiographyAlcott Skei Gwentshe
… Gwentshe was banned under the Suppression of Communism Act by the Minister of Justice from attending meetings for …
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Segregation Fallacy
… Union of South Africa as a solution of what is called the Native question. He suggested this many years ago, and has … 13, 1925, and embodied it in his four…
Chapter 4 - In search of Justice; Gumede in England, 1919-21
… elaborated upon the Africans’ invidious position in their native country: There is a great hope and a bright future for … to the natives the conditions which…
Chapter 15. The African Worker-A Policeman and Pair Of Handcuffs Always Waiting - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… by selling his labour to some white master. In 1913, the Native Land Act was passed, which divided the entire country into "black" …
BiographyMilwa Mnyaluza “George” Pemba
… ideology, saw his profession as inappropriate for a ‘native’, Pemba persevered with his work thanks to the support …
The significance of the Bulhoek massacre today by Sam Matiase, 11 May 2015, South Africa
… Sam Matiase says the ongoing struggle to reclaim stolen land is epitomised by the events of 1921 This Land, is ‘Holy … over black people then. Colonial …
Chapter One - From Abbotsdale to Kimberley
… and fiercely resisted the Dutch invasion of their land. The conflict led to the first frontier war from 1658 to … and a Board of Supervisors ('Opsieners')…
Edendale and the birth of the ANC, 06 January 2012
… nation under one political body called the South African Native National Congress. Later, in 1923, the name was … British government to object to the effects…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… inferior ‘tribes’ and thus should practise traditions in ‘native’ reserves. Whilst, on the other hand, in the settler … expanding commercial farms. In 1913,…
Chapter 5 - Who would deliver us from oppression? Gumede and African politics in South Africa,1921-1927
… I can assure you that here we feel the deepest interest in Native questions, and recognise the serious disabilities and … great pleasure to find myself once…
BiographyMichael Guthrie Scott
… to his discharge from the R.A.F. In 1943, his love for the land and people of South Africa led him to return.In South … Institute to become an Assistant…
BiographyLeslie Rubin
… legislation. Whenever he got up to speak, the Minister of Native Affairs, Dr Hendrik Verwoerd (considered the architect … out. Rubin resigned from the Senate…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… CPSA. March, The Lawrence Committee is inaugurated. All land and estate agents are invited to report any cases where … April, The Government passes the…
Africans’Claims in South Africa,
… of our country to the African position and status in this land of our birth—South Africa—because the Government and the … We want the Government of the…