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References and links: Local History
… s l: Harper Collins. Hoopes J. 1979. Oral History: An Introduction for Students. Chapel Hill: University of North …
EventAnti-apartheid activist, Norman Levy is born
… led to the Defiance Campaign in 1952/3 and against the introduction of Bantu Education. He was also involved in the …
EventThe Table Mountain cableway, one of the biggest tourist attractions in Cape Town, is inaugurated
… By the 1870s many Cape Town citizens had suggested the introduction of a railway line to the top of Table Mountain …
EventGandhi leads Satyagraha Passive Resistance Campaign
… Union of South Africa. The campaign was prompted by the introduction of the Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance in …
EventState of Emergency follows Sharpeville massacre
… The government proceeded with the introduction of apartheid laws in the 1950s. An example of …
EventHiroshima is targeted by a WWII atomic bomb
… Allied Powers, ending World War II. The end of the war and introduction of the atomic bomb plus the scramble by the big …
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948
… the June 1976 student uprisings were against the introduction of the Bantu Education Act and 1990 provided a … policies of the Apartheid government that…
ArticlePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… Introduction We are not dealing with sets of statistics. We … The camera is endowed with the power to testify. In the introduction to Imijondolo, a photo…
Imijondolo
… of Johannesburg) foreword, as well as Heather Hughes introduction, in Imijondolo, complement the images, which …
EventThe Liquor Laws Amendment Bill comes into effect
… Johannesburg, which financed the city council. The introduction of beer halls later lead to the Durban Beer …
EventUniversity of Pretoria's 100th anniversary
… and inclusive institution. The relatively smooth introduction of students from all races formed the initial …
Document 19 - The D. F. Malan Accord
… Introduction The new and competitive presence of Indians in …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… Imvo Zabantsundu . The convention declares that the introduction of the colour bar provisions in the draft South …
ArticleThe role of traditional leaders during Apartheid
… Introduction The institution of traditional leadership …
ArticleAzanian Students Organisation (AZASO)
… role in the 1980s schools boycott, the protest against the introduction of the tri-cameral parliament and Black Local …
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… Introduction The history of white colonial land dispossession …
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… reason for the formation of the UDF was to fight the introduction of the Tricameral Parliament. Dr Alan Boesak, …
PlaceSt. Francis Church, Simonstown
… on 24th April 1814. An excerpt from Boet Dommisse's introduction to the book 'The Six Saints of Simon's Town …
EventKing George VI is born
… to Malan's Nationalist Party (NP), making way for the introduction of Apartheid. Princess Elizabeth who later …
Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… class relations, industrial sociology, family and old age. Introduction Chapter 1 - The Promise of the Impossible …
EventWiehahn Commission Report tabled in parliament
… The creation of a National Manpower Commission, and The introduction of an Industrial Court to resolve industrial …
EventFree, compulsory education for Black children
… education system. However, school boycotts that marked the introduction of Bantu Education were slowly beginning to …
Article16 June 1976 - Soweto Uprising
… Introduction The 16 June 1976 Uprising that began in Soweto … policies of the Apartheid government that resulted in the introduction of the Bantu Education…
Document 37 - “Communist Election Policy Defined: National Conference Decision”, The Guardian, 8 January 1948
… of a bloc of candidates pledged to repeal the Act, the introduction of a universal franchise and the recognition of … against Non-Europeans; and demanded the…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… unions followed in its wake. A contributory factor was the introduction of a Wage Board, to which organised labour could …
ArticleGarveyism: Early 1900s philosophy
… of herds, that Transkeians had opposed since their introduction in 1906, were enforced more strictly; new taxes …
EventJean van der Poel dies in Cape Town.
… Malan, first translated the Communist Manifesto, with an introduction by Leon Trotsky, into …
Document 63 - Letter from Workers’ Party of South Africa to the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L), 11 April 1936
… thing is lacking to crown the work, and that is a little Introduction from the hand of our great leader. Will Comrade …
PlaceBoksburg, the Witwatersrand
… into the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality after the introduction of non racial local Government across South …
EventThe South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) introduces its first national news service
… development in the second half of the 1970s was the introduction of television in South Africa after the …