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ArticleHighlights for 2013
… South African History Online believes that history is made every day and to that effect we have compiled … representation of women in leadership for the…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1930-1939
… conditions in locations, but actually expropriates Indian property. Under the pretext of Sanitation, the Act is … Minister of Interior empowered to exempt…
ArticleHow Unique was Slavery at the Cape?
… from India and the East Indies spoke a combination of Indian and Indonesian dialects as well as Portuguese. … was solidified. Islam was introduced to the…
Women at the start of the 20th century
… the last three or four decades that women's role in the history of South Africa has, belatedly, been given some recognition. Previously the history of women…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Report on Delegations, Publications and Organisations of the PRC
… Africa, particularly the "Ghetto" Act, and to advise the Indian delegation at the United Nations. Working under … discussions with Pandit Nehru and other…
EventTrader and art collector Habib Rajab is born
… to the political and educational development of the Indian community. In 1968, at the inaugural meeting of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC), he was…
PlaceCape Point and the Lighthouse, at the Southern Point of the Cape Peninsula
… a visitor drawn to the area because of its rich maritime history. The new lighthouse is at a lower elevation (87 … of the Atlantic Ocean and the warm Agulhas…
PlaceIsipingo, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… blessed with a fascinating mix of Cultures and a unique History. This vibrant Town is conveniently located near the … Secondary. “The population in Isipingo…
Document Center at UKZN. “Burning of the Passes” from the collection of Ela Gandhi, MP. Assention no. 1889-23
… no wish on my part or on the part of the leaders of the Indian community to seek for anything more than fair … acceptable to you, I venture to suggest that…
Dunbar, Thibedi, Sigamoney: Three figures in the IWW in South Africa by Red Jack (libcom.org), 08 January 2012
… the discrimination being applied against the Coloured and Indian minorities. From June 1917, Dunbar was part of an ISL … Lazarus Emanuel Sigamoney was the…
ArchiveWomen and the Satyagraha Campaign
… Indian women join Gandhi's passive resistance campaign Before union, at the turn of the century, conditions for Indian families were very restricted. The…
”Apartheid Over Our Dead Bodies:” Speech, July 1948
… of yours is but an indication of the united stand of the Indian people against the Ghetto Act, against all measures of discrimination which are inflicted…
The Indians of Natal: Resistance to Apartheid, 1971-1985 by Davinder S. Dhillon
… OF THESES This thesis highlights the ebbs and flows of the Indian minority's struggles against the systematic and … Africa, the thesis seeks to capture the…
ArticleThe Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896
… is most notable for being the shortest war in recorded history, lasting less than three-quarters of an hour. The … in 1963. Endnotes [i] Knappert, J. (1992)…
EventSAIC Executive meets in Cape Town
… South African Indian Congress (SAIC) Executive met in Cape Town and pledged … delegation to New York to assist in the preparation of the Indian case before…
The Fruits of the 1973 Durban Strikes: A Powerful Black Trade Union Movement. Are they still on track or are they off the rails? by Johann Maree
… significance. It changed the course of South African history. This paper is going to argue that the fruits of the … Witwatersrand and Cape Town, although…
Farewell Speech On Eve Of Imprisonment, February 29, 1948
… on to trace how successive laws affecting the African and Indian people have led to police rule in the case of the … Africans and to the Ghetto Act of 1946…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… November, Elections for the government-appointed SA Indian Council see only 10, 5% of the electorate turn out to … in November. December, Eviction notices…
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… “Towards a People’s History…” South African History Online (SAHO) is a non-partisan people's history … Omar Badsha is a South African artist and activist of…
Address to a Joint Session of the Parliament of Pakistan Islamabad, 4 May 1999
… non-racial, non-sexist South Africa. Pakistan's proud history of solidarity with struggles in Africa against … Islamic heritage. That heritage is a vital…
Freedom movement in South Africa: Its International impact by E.S Reddy
… Africans from the Mediterranean Sea in the north to the Indian and Atlantic Oceans in the South.” Many of the … influence on far away lands across the…
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
… poignant accounts of the township's and South Africa's history in the last sixty years. Many of them were linked to … the authors themselves. The stories…
ArticleDefinition of Natural and Cultural heritage sites
… use of technology or reflect important stages in human history. A place where humans settled and used the land in a … World Heritage Sites must show major…
10. Seedat writes to his brother in India
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … is informative about aspects of early South African Indian life…
Archaeology: A Way of Rediscovering the Past
… ask different questions about the past. Knowledge of history grows and broadens as more archaeologists find … school students in South Africa only learnt…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Albert John Luthuli
… Awards In 1960, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee made history by awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Albert Luthuli … Luthuli's Nobel Prize came at a critical…
Article1973 Durban Strikes
… turning point in the long struggle of Black, Coloured and Indian workers to build non racial trade unions and to open …
The turn to armed struggle
… (MK). MK members came from the ANC, SACP, South African Indian Congress (SAIC) and the South African Coloured Peoples …
General Factory Workers Benefit Fund (GFWBF)
… the 1973 strike wave. Alongside semi-skilled African and Indian workers, new layers of workers, unschooled in trade …
EventGandhi leads Satyagraha Passive Resistance Campaign
… Porbandar, Gujarat, India, the internationally prominent Indian campaigner, Mohandas Gandhi, led the 1906 Satyagraha … by the Transvaal Assembly. The law…