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EventDaily Dispatch editor, Donald Woods is banned
… government enforced the Newspaper and Imprint Registration Act no 19, a version of an earlier act that required that all newspapers be registered and … with…
ArchiveCrossroads: Paper presented at National Conference 1980
… discussing permanent residence eligibility, Urban Areas Act, homelands, migrant labour, Group Areas Act, work permits, lack of utilities, health. …
Document 51 - W. P. van Schoor, “The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa A. J. Abrahamse Memorial Lecture, Cathedral Hall, Cape Town, 5 October 1950
… has continued until recent times despite the 1913 Land Act. Under the Voortrekker land and labour system the African … conquest which I have mentioned. The…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Matomela by Maximiliano Rubio
… passes. Moreover, by the 1952 the Native Laws Amendment Act tightened influx control in the urban areas of South … Natives Abolition of Passes and…
ArchiveThe Aliens and Immigration Laws Amendment Bill: Paper presented at National Conference 1984
… Conference on 16 March 1984 discussing Aliens Registration Act, Aliens Act, permanent residence, South African blacks as foreigners …
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…
ArchiveThe Attitude of Coloured People Today: A paper presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1976
… discussing Apartheid, the vote, Representation of Natives Act, Separate Representation of Voters Act, Coloured Elections, race relations, Labour Party,…
Remarks by the President of the African National Congress Comrade JG Zuma to Worker`s Day Durban, 1 May 2015
… These laws include the following: 1. The Labour Relations Act 2. The Basic Conditions of Employment Act 3. The Employment Equity Act 4. The Skills…
Say It out Loud - A letter to the Coloured People of South Africa
… of an enlarged and enlightened nationality. But if the Act of Union be interpreted according to the narrow and … Transvaal immediately after the publication…
EventForced Removals commence from District Six
… was declared a ‘White area’ under the 1950 Group Areas Act of the Apartheid government. Before the passing of the Group Areas Act, multiracial spaces such…
EventPublic places of recreation for whites only, are proclaimed
… in accordance with provisions of the Group Areas Act of 1950. Following the proclamation, blacks were … This proclamation was made 15 years after the Group…
ArchiveReport
… the Western Province, youth, women, the Labour Relations Act and trade unions, ANC leadership in the Western Province, … of the Coloured people and…
ArticlePrehistory of the Pretoria area
… reach the necessary high temperatures. Culturally, Bantu-speaking people in the recent past compared the …
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 …
Document 2 - Against the C.A.D. for Full Democratic Rights [1943]
… Union protested strongly against the Colour Bars in the Act Union whereby only Europeans could be elected to … sections of the population" by the South…
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…
ArticleChanges in modern forms of communication
… The Postal system The act of sending letters from one person to another developed … Mbeki signed the Electronic Communication and Transaction Act into law by…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… later led to the passing of the Natives (Urban Areas) Act no 21 of 1923). The Afrikaner opposition to WW1 proved to … Liberal Party that Alan Paton had…
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… communist activity because of the Suppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950, banned him from trade unions, placed him … joined the new South African…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Joint Sitting of Parliament to Report on the Processing of Some Presidential Pardons: Cape Town, 21 November 2007.
… of the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act, (TRC Act) 1995. Among other things, the TRC Act created the political and moral climate for the …
EventRioting erupts in Soweto
… again banned public meetings under the Riotous Assemblies Act, until the end of August. Click here to read our past This Week in History about the Riotous…
EventNatal votes for the formation of the Union of South Africa
… Africa. During the following year (1910), the South Africa Act was approved in Britain granting power to the White … Africans, Asiatics (mostly Indians) and…
ArchiveThe trial of SASO/BPC detainees
… activities in terms of various sections of the Terrorism Act (No 83 of 1967) and General Law Amendment Act (No 56 of 1955) …
Liberation
… in land. These include the Extension of Security of Tenure Act 62 of 1997 (ESTA) and the Land Reform (Labour Tenants) Act 3 of 1996 (LTA), which protects the…
Pretoria Socialist Society
… all the land promised them in the Native's Land and Trust Act of 1936 shall have been acquired. On account of this … Section 10 of the Natives (Urban Areas)…
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…
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… screened extensively all over the country to celebrate the Act of Union. 1912 Edgar Hyman established the Empire … (African Film Productions) banner. The…
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…
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
… and an 'inferior race'. The Aborigines Protection Act 1909 established camps to provide a place for the 'doomed … of human rights. It was racially…