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Hundred years of resistance, E.S. Reddy, 29 January 2012
… resistance movement in which about a third of adult Indian males in the Transvaal went to prison. He had already ceased to limit his attention to the status…
Document 47 - “Answer to Government’s Apartheid Unions”, The Citizen. 1 3, 30 April 1956
… worker and employer, worker and apartheid industrial legislation and even between workers and the bribed, … in Cape Town - both unregistered, without…
Document 37 - The Bill of Rights
… or if necessary develop, the common law to the extent that legislation does not give effect to that right; and b. may … one or more grounds in terms of…
ArticleFanakalo: the language of mining culture
… acute difficulties of communication’. [28] When indentured Indian workers of the Natal sugar plantations arrived from … It is worth noting, however, that it…
EventThe Native Land Act is passed
… whites. This law incorporated territorial segregation into legislation for the first time since Union in 1910. The law … only to the Transvaal and Natal. In…
Slavery in South Africa
… blacks in the Cape, it would appear that those from the Indian sub-continent constituted about 31.7 percent in 1705, … 3.3 percent Bengal …
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… before the 1950s. It laid the foundation from which the anti-apartheid sport movement built its campaign to isolate … to the Groutville farming community and…
EventDurban mass meeting endorses Smuts and Gandhi agreement
… An Indian mass meeting in Durban unanimously endorsed the … regarding voluntary registration, poll tax, recognition of Indian marriages and other matters…
South African History Online and Principia College Partnership Project - 2018 submissions
… again and we hope you enjoy reading about these courageous anti-apartheid resisters. Victoria Vandiver Project: The …
What are the challenges that face the South African film industry?
… memory of the box office death of the worthy but dreary anti-apartheid films that have been made about us (albeit by …
South African Constitution 1996
… was the embodiment of the vision of generations of anti-apartheid freedom fighters and democrats who had fought …
The first martyrs of Satyagraha by E. S. Reddy
… to India and pressure was exerted by European creditors on Indian merchants to force them into insolvency. At the last stage of the satyagraha in 1913, when…
ArticleTreks & Land conflicts 1600s-1800s
… and retained their identity to a degree. In America many Indian nations were destroyed by the European desire to …
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
… 1960 would be the "Year of the Pass", with a nation-wide anti-pass campaign to start on 31 March - the anniversary of the 1919 Anti-Pass Campaign 16 March…
‘Where Do Whites Fit in?’: The portrayal of Black Consciousness and its effects on white liberals in Burger’s Daughter by Rebecca Trout
… to almost any white person involving themselves in the anti-apartheid effort. Through an examination of Burger’s … to involve themselves directly into some…
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… from the Western Areas of Johannesburg and new labour legislation – in which Africans were seen as “unfit for trade … on a white pupil and just over half the…
ArticleSudan’s Revolution
In December 2018, protesters took to the streets in response to austerity measures[i] imposed by then Sudanese president Omar al Bashir. Bashir had…
82. The President’s Council
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … colleagues and friends, I am a South African. I am not…
EventAmichand Rajbansi is fired from Parliament
… African President P.W. Botha fires the government's only Indian Cabinet Minister, Amichand Rajbansi, with effect from … 1989. He also removes him from the…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1970-1979
… the telephone wires, smashed windows and doors and dumped anti-government leaflets in the yard. 7 December , Robert … imposed an arms embargo on South Africa…
59. The South African Federation challenges Congress over the settlement
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … speech of Abdul Karim is reproduced below. Source:…
A tribute to Indres Naidoo by Glen Moss
… Naidoo Born: 26 August 1936 Died: 3 January 2016 Transvaal Indian Congress, Umkhonto we Size, African National Congress, … the heavily curried spaghetti…
Eye of the Needle - Notes by Richard Turner
… University for Indians on the grounds that it is not an Indian organizaÂtion, there can be little doubt that a … each of the twelve groups (nine black, one…
EventBhawani Sannyassi Dayal dies
… Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal, journalist and campaigner for Indian rights in SA, died in Ajmer, India. Dayal was one of the organisers of the Indian strike led by…
PlaceGrey Street Complex
… Grey Street is the teaming business and residential Indian sector of the Durban City Centre , and is also the educational, cultural and business heart of;…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
… of working people and other social reformers to demand legislation regulating child labour. Union organizing and … goals of challenging child labour,…
PlaceStone Chapel, Tokai, near the Porter Reformatory School
… in 1880. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 27 December 1985. Although fortifications … It was declared a National Monument…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… or the Freedom Charter was written. The South African Indian Congress described the Congress of the People “as of … and a new call for the abolition of…
PlaceManenberg, Cape Flats
… the marginalized communities (Coloured, African and Indian) are located on the edges of the City. The roads, the … had a long and strong tradition in being…
PlaceWellington Road 23 -25 and Mortimer Road 7
… It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 6 September 1985. …