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ArticleThe South African Communist Party and May Day – Some Key Moments
… (renamed the South African Communist Party (SACP) in 1953), in 1923, Sidney Bunting helped organise a modest May … injuring 30 people. [9] The Suppression…
The Godliness of Apartheid Planning by Elizabeth Corrado, (University of Illinois), 5 October 2013
… It was legislation like the Population Registration Act which shifted classifications from more flexible … nations. This was attempted through policies like…
Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati
… In the same year, she studied short-hand and typing. In 1953 she was employed by Mandela and Tambo Attorneys as a …
PlaceLookout, Uitenhage
… a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 21 August 1953. James Somers Kirkwood, an auctioneer from Port …
South African and World leaders
… anti-pass Women’s March in 1956 and opposed inferior `Bantu’ education. Her home in Orlando West in Soweto was used … women to be arrested under the General…
ArticleHarriet and the Bolton Hall Four
… banned for five years under the Suppression of Communism Act on 1 February 1974. Harriet organised a meeting to …
Historical Overview of Black Resistance, 1932-1952 - The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign by Ismail Vadi, New Delhi, 1995
… South African Indian Congress (SAIC) in the period 1950-1953 had served to transform the former into a mass movement … were officially excluded from the…
EventWomen protest against passes in the Free State
… was led by Charlotte Manye Maxeke, co-founder of the Bantu Women's League, the organisation that had organised the …
Hendrik Verwoerd’s response to the ‘Winds of Change’ speech
… no where else to go. We set up a country bare, and the Bantu came in this country and settled certain portions for …
ArchiveThe Final Prize by Norman Levy
… Prize: The Freedom Charter - Chapter 10 The Final Prize: “Bantu Education or the Street” - Chapter 11 The Final Prize: …
PlaceHopefield, Heritage Town in the Western Cape
… The horns of the buffalo have a span of 3 to 3.6 m. In 1953 Keith Jolly, an archaeologist working with Singer, …
II - The Life of Steve Biko
… Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa Stephen Bantu Biko was born in King William's Town, in the Cape … conditions in the black townships or of…
ArchiveAppendix 2 The Political Landscape of Cape Town, by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… reached their peak in 1952 in anticipation of the 1953 elections. Attempts to mobilise opposition among the … participation from the majority Coloured…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Introduction
… 1944 a group of young political activists gathered at the Bantu Men's Social Centre in downtown Johannesburg to launch … "It speaks for itself," he stated, …
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… in Johannesburg and charged under the Riotous Assemblies Act. By September, the government closed more than 70 Black … Workers Union. Both were charged under…
PlaceADAMS CALENDAR also known as: 'Blaauwboschkraal Stone Ruins'
… these strange shapes were cattle enclosures used by local Bantu people until they migrated in the 14th Century. … it was noted that these stone shapes aren't…
ArticleTimeline Interim Constitution 1991 to 1993
… became the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, Act 200 of 1993. The interim Constitution came into effect on …
Say It out Loud - The 1935 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1935
… 1902, was violently disrupted in 1910 by that iniquitous Act of Union with its foul blot. After that, as we know, the … deal. POPULATION 1932 European 1,000…
Address by President Jacob Zuma, at the James Sebe Moroka Lecture, Northwest Province, 22 August 2012
… on the government to repeal the Suppression of Communism Act, the Group Areas Act, the Separate Representation of Voters Act, the Bantu Authorities Act, the…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Protest and Resistence
… removing the independent small farmers. The 1913 Land Act accelerated the change from sharecropping to labour … money’. They were related to the Masters and…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter V - Political role of the mission
… role of the missionaries, in the subjugation of the Bantu tribes becomes apparent during the twenties thirties … But their most intensive operations were…
ArticleRand Rebellion 1922
… had evolved in the mining industry. The ensuing balancing act resulted in conflicts of interests between mine-owners … segregation. The first was the…
Grade 8 - Topic 2 - The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… the Witwatersrand 1886 onwards. Key Terms Annexation : the act of taking control of a country, region, etc, especially … renamed ANC); Satyagraha Campaign of…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa: Movement towards Republic
… Union. South Africa in 1929- Kimberly The South Africa Act of 1909 could be considered as an empowering of the … of South Africa were now finalised. The…
ArchivePetrus Mashishi
… in 1969 to be trained as an artisan in terms of the Bantu Building Workers Act of 1951. This Act provided for the training of African … In the early 1970s…
PlaceUganda
… is made up of Lake Victoria. Around 500 B.C. Bantu speaking people migrated to Uganda. Arab traders …
EventThe South African Football Association (SAFA) is founded
… This was followed by the formation of the South African Bantu Football Association (SABFA) and the South African …
EventA group of six White and several Black rebel army troops mounted another coup attempt on 21/22 November in Transkei, a Black ‘homeland’
… killed in the fighting with loyal troops of Major-General Bantu Holomisa, the leader of the ruling Military Council. …
EventSoweto students march against government’s language policy
… youth on that day, but also of those children who defied “Bantu Education”and took up arms in the struggle for freedom. …
ArticleAngolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Timeline of Events
… and invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the United Nations Participation Act,prohibiting any form of US aid to Angola except through…