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The small matter of a horse: The life of 'Nongoloza' Mathebula, 1867-1948 by Charles van Onselen, 04 January 2012 (libcom.org)
… an attempt to isolate him from this growing nexus that the authorities decided to move Note to the prison at Pretoria. … of food, tobacco or dagga to the man…
PlaceDeelpan
… Ramadiane Primary School. After the April floods in 2022 authorities say more than 2,000 people had been affected. The …
EventThe Durban Supreme Court cancels the SA government's announcement concerning reclamation of the Ingwavuma region
… its legal obligation to consult fully with the KwaZulu authorities before making its announcement. The State …
Chapter 7
… their full franchise having been taken away by the Act of Union.) (2) The Africans have the Trust and Land Act, a "Native Land Act"which prohibits them from…
EventAnsuyah Ratipul Singh, medical doctor and community worker, poet, dramatist and novelist, is born in Durban.
… was also known as a novelist and the author of two-three act plays. Dr Singh also lectured widely to students on a …
EventUnion leader, Moses Mayekiso is reported to be under arrest on his return from Sweden.
… detained again under section 29 of the Internal Security Act. He spent seven months in solitary confinement. He and …
EventFietas, site of forced removal in Johannesburg, is renamed Pageview
… by forced removals - as a result of the Group Areas Act. The majority of the inhabitants moved to Lenasia and …
EventThe Bantu Labour Regulations Amendment Bill becomes operative
… The South African government introduced this the Bantu Labour Relations Regulation Act in the wake of wide-spread labour unrest to set up a … The Bantu…
EventRand Afrikaans University is established
… with its seat in Johannesburg, was established by an act of parliament as the academic home of Afrikaans-speaking …
EventNUSAS President Ian Robertson is banned
… a banning order under the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950 when he was banned by the government only a month …
EventHarold Strachan is served with restriction order
… restriction order in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act. At the time he had already been imprisoned for three …
EventCosatu calls for three days national protest against the Labour Relations Amendment Bill (LRA)
… fierce opposition from major union federations, the act came into force on 1 September 1988. …
EventPresident Mbeki opens the second sitting of PAP
… in March 2004, by Article 17 of The Constitutive Act of the African Union, as one of the nine Organs provided …
EventThe TRC is set up by parliament
… on the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act, No 34 of 1995, investigated what happened under …
EventThe historic Tana Baru Muslim cemetery is forced to close
… were buried, was closed in terms of the Public Health Act No. 4 of 1883. Following the granting of religious …
EventAndré Phillipus Brink, well-known SA author, is born
… of his most notable works include: A Dry White Season, An Act of Terror and The Other Side of Silence. …
EventWalter Sisulu secretly attends a meeting at the house of George Xorile with F. Van Rensburg
… movements were banned under the Unlawful Organisations Act. All “illegal organisations” were on 7 April 1960 banned. …
ArticleInfecting the City Public Arts Festival
… permission we have to acquire in order to speak, think or act. In this way, we deprive ourselves from the potential of …
ArticleSS Mendi
… Gribble Collection Image source Their first task was to act as dock workers and to unpack the incoming supplies and …
I have written it by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - International Support: UNO - 1948
… was possible, by making representations to the American authorities through the Indian delegation. On the day … 'continue to acquiesce in the refusal of the…
Women’s Food Committees in Cape Town during the 1940s
… bags of rice, which were handed over to the food control authorities. The Guardian newspaper catalogued the final …
PlaceBonteheuwel
… out of Cape Town. This was a result of the Group Areas Act of 1950, were the land was divided into: blacks and … residential zones, the beginning of…
Public announcement of the ANC National Disciplinary Committee hearings of Comrades Julius Malema, Ronald Lamola, Pule Mabe, Sindiso Magaqa Kenetswe Mosenogi and Floyd Shivambu, 10 November 2011
… constitutional structures in general are called upon to act with firmness, fairness and consistency in enforcing Rule … levels of leadership are urged to…
EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs' (CAD)
… apart. Some of these laws included the Mixed Marriages Act, the Immorality Act and the Group Areas Act. Though not aimed exclusively at "Coloureds", this …
Document 40 - Anti-CAD, Why You Should Not Vote [1958]
… not been able to set up a Coloured Affairs Department to act as policeman over the Coloured people in the same way as … for apartheid, for segregation. Every…
ArchiveThe Importance and Power of Gender Safe Spaces by Shanél Johannes
… norms such as the roles of a “woman” and how “she” must act to be regarded as a “lady”. These social constructions …
PlaceLand Claims Court of South Africa, Randburg
… 100 years ago, the Natives Land Act of 1913 created socio-economic injustice in terms of … The Court also deals with the Extension of Security Tenure Act and…
EventAttempts of sabotage are made in Secunda
Two strategic acts of sabotage, supposedly by the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK ), against the oil-from-coal plants based in Secunda failed to successfully hit their…
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…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.2 No.1 Oct-Dec 1957
… Race Zoning in Cloud Cuckoo Land, Leo Kuper. The Ghetto Act, Yusuf Cachalia. The Schizophrenic Heart, Dr. O.D. …