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Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Desmond Tutu
… was when he quit his teaching post in protest against the Bantu Education Act of 1953 designed to drastically reduce the education …
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
… that of Coloured s. The Afrikaner Broederbond continued to act in secret, infiltrating and gaining control of the few …
EventSupreme Court changes ruling on forced removals, traditionally
… Coloureds were carried out to implement the Group Areas Act, which mandated residential segregation throughout the country. As a result of this Act, all…
PlaceMacfarlan, Village in the Eastern Cape
… in these Villages after the War of 1850, by the colonial authorities. The starvation and hardship caused by the … in these villages after the war of 1850 by…
EventSecurity police raid offices of the United Democratic Front
… and others were banned under the Unlawful Organisations Act. The UDF was launched at Mitchell's Plain in Cape Town. …
EventSwaziland welcomes SA’s offer to hand over parts of KaNgwane and KwaZulu
… was not properly consulted as stated in the homeland act. …
EventThe Pretoria Minute is agreed upon
… return of exiles, obstacles in the Internal Security Act and suspension of violence by the ANC as part of the …
EventSA beaches are opened to all racial groups
… further promised the scrapping of the Separate Amenities Act of 1953, which prevented the sharing of public facilities …
Address by His Excellency President Jacob Zuma on the celebration of Freedom Day, 27 April 2011, Union Buildings, Pretoria
… of millions of South Africans. The notorious Group Areas Act of 1950 designated residential areas according to race, … or so-called homelands. According to…
Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU
… to take up a grievance, to lead the workers themselves to act on it unitedly, that is the lifeblood of trade unionism. … how to respond to the government's…
”Apartheid Over Our Dead Bodies:” Speech, July 1948
… the united stand of the Indian people against the Ghetto Act, against all measures of discrimination which are … South Africa - the crisis is deepening and…
ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
… and an inconclusive peace was arranged. The Batavian authorities propitiated the resentment of the … agreement, the Xhosas occupied the 'neutral ground', an…
EventAssassination attempt on Kwame Nkrumah
… years previously he had passed the Preventive Detention Act, which he had used to imprison over 1000 of his political …
EventFormer South African Prime Minister Strijdom dies
… protest against the proposed amendments to the Urban Areas Act of 1950. …
EventThe Population Registration Bill is read for the first time
… the classification process. The Population Registration Act (No. 30 of 1950) , promulgated on 7 July 1950, made the … South African Stories - One: The…
EventMillions Regain SA citizenship
… Restoration and Extension of South African Citizenship Act No 196 of 1993 was part of a package agreed upon by the …
EventDepartment of Transport launches Be Legal campaign
… in terms of the National Land Transport Transition Act and to subject the whole industry to regulation and …
PlaceWindermere
… in Cape Town near the Ysterplaat airbase. The Group Areas Act of 1950 declared that the space be occupied by Coloured … They implemented legislation such as…
Say It out Loud - The 1939 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 11th April, 1939
… delegates my advice at the outset of this address is, "Act your part well; there all honour lies. " The solid … have been the introduction of the Industrial…
SASPU Focus
… 1982. This slogan called on students to understand, and act on, their university and their education. SASPU Focus …
EventThe new RSA Constitution Bill is read in parliament
… of Vice State President would be created to, inter alia, act as chairman of the President's Council. The Bill was …
EventAfrikaans Writer Breytenbach is sentenced
… years imprisonment for high treason under the Terrorism Act by the Pretoria Supreme Court. He had pleaded guilty for …
EventOver a thousand people are detained under state of emergency following the Sharpeville massacre
… were banned by government under the Unlawful Organisations Act. …
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and May Day – Some Key Moments
… injuring 30 people. [9] The Suppression of Communism Act , reported to be in response to these May Day protests, …
Black Reaction to Apartheid, 1948-1973 - Address to the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association by O. R. Tambo, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, 1973
… Representative Council, a body established through an Act which had also deprived Africans of the vote (i.e., the 1936 Act). These resignations had been…
EventTwo men are sentenced to death for petrol executions
… Mr Justice F H Grosskopf found no justification for their act and they were sentenced to death. …
EventKenya lifts ban on sports links with South Africa
… the country had just scrapped its race classification act. …
EventUN committee is barred to enter SA
… back and that it would involve the United Nations in an act of aggression. References: Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & …
EventSolly Sachs leaves South Africa
… after two notices in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act (1950) had been served on him on 19 May 1952 and his …
EventThe ANC and Government accept the Pretoria Minute
… return of exiles, obstacles in the Internal Security Act and suspension of violence by the ANC. The ANC later …