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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…
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…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1950 - 1959 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Subsequently, the Circle, approached the Department of Indian Affairs [Division of Education] to introduce Arabic at … * Muslim women were not emancipated; *…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… from a wide range of backgrounds, including Black, Indian, Malay, Chinese and the children of mixed race … Act was the first of over one hundred pieces of…
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…
‘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…
ArticleTreks & Land conflicts 1600s-1800s
… and retained their identity to a degree. In America many Indian nations were destroyed by the European desire to …
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:…
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;…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
EventNIC calls for Passive Resistance against Ghetto Act
… Natal Indian Congress (NIC) led by Dr. G. M. Naicker, met in an … against the Ghetto Act or The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act no 28 of…
EventM K Gandhi, pioneer of the SA Passive Resistance movement and leader who led India to Independence, is born
… India. In 1893 he accepted a year-long contract from an Indian law firm work in Natal, South Africa. His time in … government and was also the co-founder of…
EventThe Durban Supreme Court cancels the SA government's announcement concerning reclamation of the Ingwavuma region
The Durban Supreme Court cancelled the South African government's announcement of 18 June 1982 concerning the repossession of the Ingwavuma region, KwaZulu…
EventGroote Kerk pulpit is officially inaugurated
… 1841. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 28 September 1962. Beside the church’s great …
PlaceWellington Road 23 -25 and Mortimer Road 7
… It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 6 September 1985. …
PlaceCE Froelich Shop, 58 Voortrekker Road, Pearston
… It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 9 October 1987. …
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Simonstown
… It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 18 February 1977. …
PlaceMuritai House, 22 Sophia Street, Oranjezicht
… It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 12 May 1989. …