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EventAfrikaans becomes the official language of the Union of South Africa
… On 8 May 1925, the Official Languages of the Union Act No 8 of 1925 was passed at a joint sitting of the House of Assembly and the Senate. By this Act Dutch…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Early Writings
… relevant to the spiritual side. Economic conditions in Bantu rural communities: Clothing is indecent where the … moderately. 3. A. M. LEMBEDE, "Language…
Document 71 - Spartacus Club October Revolution Celebrations Oddfellows Hall, 70 Loop Street, Cape Town, 6 November 1937
… "The Spark" "7th November" (in Xhosa) "The Earth is Good" ACT I Scene 1. At a Dutch farm, Transvaal, 1913, just after the Native Land Act has been passed,…
ArchivePhotographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer by Ivor Powell (Daily Maverick), 30 November 2017
… Levi Tsoloane Kole – ethnically sePedi, unambiguously “Bantu” under apartheid classification. Exactly how he did it … with hope and a spring in the step – as…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 106th Anniversary of the African National Congress presented by ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa, 13 January 2018
… in South Africa. - It is 105 years since the 1913 Land Act and 95 years since the Native Urban Areas Act, two pieces … felt today. - It is 100 years since…
Steve Biko: Gone but not forgotten by Robin Comley and Claire Keeton (Times Live), 12 September 2017
… in words (in Xhosa). Then I called Steve ‘Ntuba’ (for Bantu).” “The shopkeeper worked out that Steve had described … boys wearing rain suits which had a…
Archive”Presidential Address” by Dr. A. B. Xuma
… of Congress but we do not seem willing to think and act for ourselves as did these old stalwarts. To-day you and … system of franchise. Under the…
Presidential Address, by Dr. A.B. Xuma, 14 December 1941
… of Congress but we do not seem willing to think and act for ourselves as did these old stalwarts. To-day you and … system of franchise. Under the…
EventBritish presents final Peace proposal
… C Smuts, one of the Boer negotiators, immediately deleted "ACT OF SURRENDER' on the title page and replaces it with "ACT OF PEACE". The British proposal…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939
… discusses the controversial Transvaal Asiatic Land Tenure Act, which sought to curb and restrict Indian ownership of … , appointed under the Asiatic Land…
ArchiveGeorge Peake by David Hemson
… which could wrap themselves around the bricks he laid. In 1953 George was a founding member of the Coloured People's …
Mobilise Our Black Power - Statement to the People of South Africa on the Tenth Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1971
… camps and jails. Resist the apartheid regime in the Urban Bantu Councils, in the "Bantu", Indian and Coloured Advisory Boards; yes, even in the …
PlaceBarberton, Mpumalanga
… are spoken are isiSwati - A Niger-Congo language and a Bantu member of the Benue-Congo group of languages (Nguni … radio and taught in all national schools…
Document 27 - Letter from E. R. Roux to Douglas Wolton, 5 September 1928
… the slogan tbr complete national emancipation ofthe Bantu in its final platform form, it is necessary to take two … appeal to the racial consciousness of the…
ArchiveThe 1957 Alexandra Bus Boycott and its unsung heroes by Roseinnes Phahle, June 2019
… and came across the references that I mention here. From 1953-1954 I studied for my matric at Bantu High School (also popularly known as Madibane High ……
ArticleThe African Union and Regional Economic Integration
… industrialised countries. The AU is therefore expected to act as the primary vehicle for the advancement of regional … Pan-African Parliament in Article 17…
36. The fault of Indian immigrants is their poverty and their skin
… on the way in which the 1903 Immigration Restriction Act operated under Harry Smith, the Immigration Restriction … were denied entry into Natal during the…
The diary of Maria Tholo - November 2 - December 1 by Carol Hermer
… 'Imfundo' 4 at Ruth's place. It was supposed to be about Bantu Education but it was all a lot of nonsense and didn't … an acrimonious debate between the…
ArchiveGeneral History of Africa Collection
… religious component, African cultural traditions and the Bantu expansion, which changed the demographic and language …
ArchiveThe South African Choir’s pathbreaking tour: 1891 – 1893 by Martin Plaut, 6 January 2017
… that Dr Charlotte Manye Maxeke founded, including the the Bantu Women’s League and AME Church’s Widow’s Mite Society, …
Azikhwelwa on Monday. Flyer by Soweto Students’ Representative Council calling for a stay-away from 13 September 1976
… their blood. Now for greater victories: the scrapping of BANTU EDUCATION, the RELEASE of Prisoners detained during the …
EventSASO founder and Black Consciousness leader, Steve Biko dies in detention
… Bantu Steven Biko , leader of the South African Students' …
'Opening Address' at Annual Conference of the South African Indian Congress by Dr. S. M. Molema, 25 January 1952
… and no worthwhile united action was taken against the Act by Non-European groups is staggering. We looked on with … robbed and ruined by such enactments as…
”Opening Address” at Annual Conference of the South African Indian Congress, by Dr. S. M. Molema, January 25, 1952
… and no worthwhile united action was taken against the Act by Non-European groups is staggering. We looked on with … robbed and ruined by such enactments as…
"Opening Address" at Annual Conference of the South Afri­can Indian Congress, by Dr. S. M. Molema, January 25, 1952
… and no worthwhile united action was taken against the Act by Non-European groups is staggering. We looked on with … robbed and ruined by such enactments as…
Pro Veritate
… Veritate were declared undesirable under the Publications Act of the day. It was finally banned on 19th October 1977 under the Internal Security Act of South…
EventSA Prime Minister sends a goodwill message to the new government of Mozambique
… Voster however, warned that South Africa will have to act in self-defence if Mozambique makes its territory … were killed in Matola, Mozambique.This was the…
EventGriffiths Mxenge is murdered
… was assassinated and his body was severely mutilated in an act of barbaric brutality on 19 November 1981. His murderers … into his death found that his death…
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is released
… his sentence, Parliament enacted a General Law Amendment Act, which empowered the Minister of Justice to prolong the … house arrest under the Suppression of…
EventThe South African Reserve Bank is established
… Bank was established in terms of the Currency and Banking Act, 1920 (Act No. 31 of 1920) in Parliament.This came into being after …