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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…
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…
PlaceMatatiele Local Municipality
… icon and father of Black Consciousness Movement , Steve Bantu Biko . Jones was an unassuming freedom fighter who, at …
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) …
Search for a United Front against racism
… for oppression and domination. The Native Representation Act of 1936 was not only a misrepresentation of the Africans, … is not new to the African community…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Search for a United Front against racism
… for oppression and domination. The Native Representation Act of 1936 was not only a misrepresentation of the Africans, … is not new to the African community…
50. The campaign resumed in 1913
… though then vetoed, was repassed almost as the first Act of the Responsible Government, and became known as Act 2 of 1907. As the measure was considered by…
Grade 4 Term 2 Timeline: Mahatma Gandhi
… 1914 1919 The British government passes the Rowlatt Act in colonial India, indefinitely extending the use of …
Glossary: Learning from Leaders
… Jewish spiritual and relgious leader. Represent Stand for; act as a substitute for. Republic A country which is not …
ArticleThe Langa March, 30 March 1960
… and the PAC were banned under the Unlawful Organisations Act of 8 April 1960. Both organisations were deemed a serious …
ArchiveBiography of Moses Mabokela Chikane
… he was detained under section 28 of the internal security act from the 28 August to September and also detained on 23 April 1985 under section 29 of the…
EventJustice Minister, Jimmy Kruger, announces mass arrest
… figure stood as follows: 123 under the Internal Security Act; 217 under the Terrorism Act; thirty-four were jailed for their protection as …
Early Beginnings
… the slogan for complete national emancipation of the Bantu in its final platform form, it is necessary to take two … appeal to the racial consciousness of…
Document 45 - Ray Alexander, “Trade Unionism in South Africa”, Discussion, 1, 6, 1952
… introduced the Transvaal Industrial Disputes Prevention Act of 1907, but despite this, the most serious dispute in … the Indemnity and Riotous Assemblies…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… parliament. Repressive legislation • The Internal Security Act, No. 74 of 1982 (ISA) is permanently in force (including … indistinguishable from the parent. …
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
… of the fulfilment of the promises made under the 1936 Land Act. I do not think that we as the African National Congress … beginning with the boycott of all…
Chapter V - Acts of conscience
… protest, however, was against the whole basis of separate Bantu education. I thought of 1955, when Bantu education was first introduced, and of the boycott…
The diary of Maria Tholo - December 2 - 15 by Carol Hermer
… later on. They belonged to the Independent Presbyterian Bantu Church. They were brothers and their father was the … them 'into their protests against…
EventSeretse Khama is re-united with his British wife
… This was in terms of the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No 55 of 1949 enacted by the apartheid government. The Act forbade marriages between Whites…
SEME by Richard Rive and Tim Couzens
… the ANC; the second is an article published in the July, 1953 edition of Drum magazine in its celebrated series … right, written as it was by the recently…
EventDadoo and Naicker are charged
… Naicker were charged with contravening Section 20 (r) of Act No. 22 of 1913, the Immigrants Regulations Act. They were accused of wrongfully and unlawfully…
EventZwelakhe Sisulu is arrested
… 9 (1) and Section 10 (1) a of the Internal Security Act. This Act provided for unlimited detention without trial. He …
EventThe new ochre-red, white and green tri-colour of the Transkei is adopted
… in 1976. Section 4 of the Transkei Constitution Act of 1963, an Act of the South African Parliament, made provision for the … Transkei flag is set out in…
EventLiberation struggle activists, Gwala and Mothopeng are released from Robben Island
… of the ANC in 1960 under the Unlawful Organisations Act, Gwala became active in underground structures of the ANC … with scores of ANC members and charged…
EventChristian Institute declared an affected organisation
… an affected organisation under the Affected Organisation's Act of 1974. This Act served to weaken organisations opposed to the apartheid …
EventA list of people prohibited from attending gatherings is published in the Government Gazette
… Under the provisions of the General Law Amendment Act of 1962 a list of 102 persons prohibited from attending … movements were banned under the Unlawful…
Chapter 9. The Struggle against Sweating - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… One of the earliest labour laws is the Master and Servants Act, Act 15 of 1856, of the Cape Province. In the Transvaal, a Master and Servants Act was…
Passive Resistance in South Africa by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "Southern Africa in Transition by Davis, John A. and James K. Baker"(Pall Mall Press), London, 1966
… 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…
Griqua
… Griqualand was taken over in 1874, and although the Act of Annexation was passed by the Cape Parliament in 1877, … Mpondo chief Umquikela, and was added to…
Griqua community
… Griqualand was taken over in 1874, and although the Act of Annexation was passed by the Cape Parliament in 1877, … Mpondo chief Umquikela, and was added to…