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ArchiveSouth African trade unionism in an era of racial exclusion
… Africa during the currency of the Industrial Conciliation Act from 1924 to 1979, and of state labour policy of direct …
EventSouth African Journalist, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted.
… Sisulu. In 1981 he was arrested under the Terrorism Act, detained without trial, tortured and released after 251 …
EventDisbanding of Communist Party is announced
… was made a few days before the Suppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950 was approved in parliament in June 1950 …
EventJoe Slovo is born
… In 1954 he was banned under the Suppression of Communism Act of 1951. However, Slovo and other political activists proceeded …
EventBanning orders served on NUSAS leaders
… Convention, and protesting against the 1962 Sabotage Act. This organisation constantly worked towards social …
EventChief Mangosuthu Buthelezi calls for National Convention
… register for elections in terms of the Electoral Act. However, the IFP concession was not accepted by its …
EventNational Party wins general election
… increased from 150 to 160 by the Constitution Amendment Act of 1965. It is tempting to consider what the fate of …
EventFive ANC leaders are released from prison
… was banned in April 1960 under the Unlawful Organisation Act. During the raid scores of ANC leadership members and …
EventA consumer boycott is called in Boksburg
… it would begin rigorously enforcing the Separate Amenities Act, a by-then largely ignored law that re-established …
EventCiskeian police disrupt residents’ meeting
… to the Borders of Particular States Extension Amendment Act the government wanted in 1988 to consolidate the two …
EventCleric and anti-apartheid activist, Mpilo Desmond Tutu is ordained as Archbishop of Cape Town
… the profession was prompted by the implementation of the Bantu Education Act of 1953 which he saw as devaluing Black education,became …
EventDeath sentence for Rapists
… witnesses caught these four rapists and murderers in the act. This case led to an outcry throughout the country that …
EventBritish create the settlement of Sierra Leone, for freed slaves
… in 1807, the new colony was used as a base from which the act could be enforced. Beginning in 1808, hundreds of slaves …
EventBreyten Breytenbach; SA poet, activist and painter, receives the Hertzog Prize for his poetry
… in 1975, was arrested, charged under the Terrorism Act and jailed for seven years. After his release he returned …
EventThe TRC refuses amnesty to Hani’s killers
… out in the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act, No 34 of 1995. The Committee resolved "It is common …
EventThambi Naidoo mobilises the Indians
… It was agreed that Indians would register voluntarily and Act 2 of 1907, which made registration compulsory, would be …
EventPixley Seme, lawyer, journalist and co-founder of SANNC is born
… as a result of Black dissatisfaction with the South Africa Act of 1909, their treatment after the South African War and … not very successful. Seme died in…
EventFormer MK members are dismissed from SANDF
… Parliamentary Standing Committee on Defence to immediately act on the findings in its report on conditions in the …
EventRuth Perry is elected to lead Liberia, thus becoming Africa's first female head of state
… government, thereby making her Africa's first woman to act as head of state. Perry was mandated to execute the …
ArticleLife Timeline of Jacob Zuma
… partner Cosatu’s objections to the Taxation Laws Amendment Act. This is rubbished by Cosatu and the Act is sent back to parliament for amendments. Parliament…
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… together by their shared outrage against The Senate Act that was devised by the Nationalist Government . The Bill … 1963, the ‘pass laws’ were ”¦ sections of…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… 1798-1811 The authorities in the Cape Colony launch futile pursuits against … the fight against the Germans. The…
Uncovering Josina Machel from obscurity: African women hidden in his-story by Ama Biney, 3 April 2014
… honorary status of whiteness by the colonial Portuguese authorities as opposed to being ‘indigena’ or ‘native.’ … and returned to the brutal hands of the…
ArchivePhotographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer by Ivor Powell (Daily Maverick), 30 November 2017
… having a nearly instant banning order slapped on it by the authorities in apartheid South Africa. Skipping the country … Levi Tsoloane Kole – ethnically…
Freedom for Namibia by Toivo Herman Ja Toivo (1968)
… capitol to try us. It has shown its strength by passing an act especially for us and having it made retrospective. It … have been banned. It is true that it…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… community suffered the enactment of the first segregation act which restricted their economic and residential rights to … to protests against the governments…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 2: The Nuclear Age and the Cold War
… Having no strategic military value, Tsar is viewed as an act of intimidation by the Soviets. Space race The Space Race … ‘free’ or democratic. On 9 November…
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… Although largely symbolic, this gesture was also an open act of defiance which proclaimed Ndzundza independence from … was followed by his son Maysha and,…
Our Greatest Indian Leader since Gandhiji -Tribute to Dr. Gangathura Mohambry Naicker (From: Sechaba, second quarter), 1978
… the Indian masses against the Smuts regime`s Pegging Act, designed to restrict Indian landownership rights and … and the Passive Resistance Campaign against…
“Our Greatest Leader since Gandhiji”, By Dr Yusuf Dadoo
… the Indian masses against the Smuts regime's Pegging Act, designed to restrict Indian landownership rights and … and the Passive Resistance Campaign against…