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ArticleThe Mfecane: Understanding a Period of Transformation in Southern Africa
… the Transkei and Ciskei - at Xhosa expense and in order to act as a buffer against further Xhosa resistance to colonial … agropastoral farmers - the…
Chapter 10
… have had the affairs of Kaffirland in our own hands."(See "Bantu, Boer and Briton,"by W. M, Macmillan.) Then we have the … . . and recognition of the status…
EventNames of 303 banned people are published
… on whom banning notices under the General Laws Amendment Act of 1963 (the so-called 90 Day Act), consisting largely of amendments to the Suppression of…
EventAbortion legislation is passed
… passes the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy (CTOP) Act. The law allows women to terminate pregnancies on request … be public health and social problems in…
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
… that kept thousands of students away. The Department of Bantu Education ruled that all students wishing to return to … students against new measures that the…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 Glossary
… from your own country to live there. Conquest: The act of taking control of a country, city, etc. by force. … the Songhai Empire or the Mughal Empire …
EventThe Aula, auditorium of the University of Pretoria, is opened by the Governor
… its centenary year in 2008. The University of Cape Town Act (Act 14 of 1916) and the University of Stellenbosch Act (Act 13 of 1916) had provided for the…
Passive resistance in South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 2 June 1966
… racial and oppressive policies. It was also intended as an act of mourning for the Africans killed on May 1 and earlier … slight textual amendments, as the…
PlaceFunda Community College
… for high school students who refused to take part in Bantu education and who were left with little alternative. …
Message by Albert Luthuli to the National Conference of the African National Congress Women`s League, 1 August 1959
… "Dom" Pass to African women. In the attempts to boycott Bantu Education schools, women were there. As managers in the …
'We Go To Action': Statement on the Launching In Natal of the Defiance Campaign, August 30, 1952
… at this meeting of our Provincial Conference held at the Bantu Social Centre in Durban on August 30, 1952, that the …
EventThomas Titus Nkobi is born
… complete his high School education by matriculating from Bantu High School (later Madibane High School) in Western …
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Bibliography
… Edward Arnold, 1968. Fouche, Leo. Mapungubwe: Ancient Bantu Civilization on the Limpopo . Cambridge, Cambridge …
ArticleCongress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa
… particularities of the 1993 Local Government Transition Act. According to Lungisile Ntsebeza, ‘As early as the early … was no provision in the 1993 Local…
Eventold Indian flower seller is fined for trading in a racially restricted area
… Africa by the apartheid government, including Group Areas Act, Immorality Act, Pass Laws and many others. Under the provisions of the Group Areas Act, urban…
The Black Face of Apartheid
… SASO and BPC leaders were detained under the Terrorism Act, and the following year nine leaders of SASO and the BPC … and the repression instituted under the…
ArticleA History of Abantu-Batho Newspaper 1912-1931
… For instance, after the passing of the Natives Land Act in 1913 , the newspaper condemned the Act arguing that it had reduced Africans to “penury and …
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bridging two worlds by Emilia Potenza
… the Cap to form the Union of South Africa. 1913: The Land Act was passed. This law said that most of South Africa was … now made up about 7,5% of the country…
48. Breach of the compromise
… promise that was made in connection with the repeal of the Act. I know now that the compromise is not to be respected by … and a conversation with reference…
Event13 year-old South African Native mineworker is published in a newspaper
… only in London. According to the Native Labour Regulation Act, it was an offence to employ a Native in a mine under the age of 18 years. This act was amended…
EventUniversity of Pretoria is established
… in Skinner Street, became an autonomous institution by Act No 1 of 1910, largely through efforts by General J.C. … established as an independent university…
ArchiveANC Statement on the death of Ray Alexander Simons, African National Congress, 12 September 2004
… affiliated to the Communist Party of South Africa. In 1953 she was served with the first of a series of banning …
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… controlled radio stations collectively known as Radio Bantu. It is inevitable that artists whose songs were aired …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: Pre-1500
… with the use of iron, and regarded as the forebears of Bantu-speaking people, establish themselves south of what …
ArticlePrehistory of the Pretoria area
… reach the necessary high temperatures. Culturally, Bantu-speaking people in the recent past compared the …
43. Resolutions adopted at a mass meeting of the Natal Indian Patriotic Congress, 1909
… with a view to amending section 20 of the Natal University Act, in that unlimited discretionary power is entrusted to … of His Excellency the Governor to the…
EventA conference is held in Geneva, Switzerland (1949) to revise the original Geneva Conventions.
… adopted the Implementation of the Geneva Conventions Act, which gives domestic force to the 1949 Geneva Conventions. The Act criminalises a number of…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… October 1923, the Chamber of Mines newspaper Umteteli wa Bantu reported that "all kinds of sports are organized and in … tightened control over black sport…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
… approved for release under the US Freedom of Information Act, which stated that South Africa detonated its first … is said 'to meet the needs of both…
ArchiveJonas Gwangwa embodied South Africa’s struggle for a national culture by Gwen Ansell
… little bebopper”. Politics shaped Gwangwa too. The 1954 Bantu Education Act ended Father Huddleston’s St Peters, but not before the …