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BiographyMartha Mohlakoane
… of the leaders of the Orange Free State women in the anti-pass campaign. … member and a leader of Orange Free State women in the anti-pass campaign …
BiographyDorothy Cleminshaw
Dorothy Cleminshaw (nee Mullany) was born in Cape Town on the 15th of September 1922. She went to Ellersie College in Sea Point and matriculated with a full…
Black (Native) Administration Act of 1927 comes into effect. This Act in effect gave the state the power to make laws in all Af
… This Act in effect gave the state the power to make laws in all Af …
BiographyNarriman Gadija Bazier Samuels
Narriman Gadija Bazier Samuels, affectionately known as "Ma G" throughout Mitchells Plain, grew up during the height of apartheid in South Africa. While her…
BiographyLillian Diedericks
… and children, and most importantly the elimination of all laws and practices which deprived women of such equality. On … Buildings in Pretoria in opposition…
Ida Fiyo Mntwana
… , a position she held until 1956. She led the women’s anti-pass demonstrations of the 1950s and was instrumental in the …
BiographyAlan Keith Brooks
… organised by the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) against pass laws. Brooks was part of a generation of white students who …
BiographyWalter Ernest Stanford
… That same year Stanford became part of the Native Laws and Customs Commission created in order to review the laws that dealt with black people. The…
BiographyJeremiah Baden Leeuw
… Congress (PAC) . He was arrested during the 1960 anti-pass campaign (see Sharpeville Massacre ) and sentenced to 3 …
BiographyWinnie Madikizela-Mandela
… When Winnie returned from Shawsbury with a first-class pass, she discovered that her father had remarried. His new … to protest against the Apartheid…
BiographyRichard Goldstone
… at The Faculty of Law's Moot Court, he said: “Human rights laws, genocide laws, laws relating to hate speech”¦are an attempt by humankind to …
BiographyWinston Ntshona
… Banzi is Dead addresses the apartheid regime’s restrictive pass laws while The Island is inspired by a true story and is set …
Mary Margaret Ngalo
… to the Union Buildings in Pretoria in opposition to the pass laws . In 1957, she was arrested during the Beerhall Boycott …
ArchivePrison letter from Petros Sipho Mkhize to his parents-in-law at Zondi, Soweto
A handwritten letter in isiZulu on prison notepaper, sent from "V963 Petros M'Khize, Central Prison, Private Bag 45, Pretoria." It opens "Mama wami noBaba" (My…
BiographyShirish Nanabhai
Shirish was born one of eight siblings on 1 March 1938 at 51 Commercial Rd, Fordsburg. Jasmath Nanabhai, Shirish J. Nanabhai’s father, was from the village of…
BiographyNana Sita
… jointly launched the "Campaign of Defiance against Unjust Laws" in which over 8,000 people of all racial origins were … and joyfully suffer whatever sentence…
BiographyWilliam Tilden McClain
William Tilden McClain, son of Mary and Harry McClain and an elder brother to David Jack McClain was born on 14 January 1923 in Shelbyville, Indiana. McClain…
BiographyTheophilus Shepstone
… that Cetshwayo was trying to tame them by means of foreign laws. On his return to Natal after the coronation, Shepstone … of his people and cattle for the…
BiographySir. Theophilus Shepstone
… that Cetshwayo was trying to tame them by means of foreign laws. On his return to Natal after the coronation, Shepstone … of his people and cattle for the…
BiographyMaggie Resha
… she received her Hospital Certificate and a First Class pass and went to work at the Pretoria Hospital in 1947. On 1 … for leading a march from Sophiatown …
BiographyMagdaline ‘Maggie’ Resha
… she received her Hospital Certificate and a First Class pass and went to work at the Pretoria Hospital in 1947. On 1 … for leading a march from Sophiatown …
BiographyWopko Jensma
… was not allowed or even recognized by the South African laws. But, Once and Now, is not the only poem which Jensma displays his distaste of apartheid laws,…
BiographySandile Ngcobo
… removal of black communities to homelands; influx control laws; police torture and assault; wrongful detentions; labour … students' scholarships. In 1985, he…
BiographyC. S. Ramohanoe
… mid-1940s he was a leading organiser of the National Anti-Pass campaign and an emotional proponent of the boycott … of the Transvaal ANC, organiser of the…
BiographyBessie Amelia Head
… She joined the Pan-African Congress (PAC) during the Anti-Pass Laws Campaign in 1960, and although her role in party …
BiographyChristopher W. M. Gell
… graduating from Cambridge University with a first class pass in1938, while serving in the Indian civil service, he …
BiographyAbednego Bhekabantu Ngcobo
… He served a brief jail sentence following the PAC's anti-pass campaign in 1960, and in March 1961 he was sentenced to …
Speech on the Occasion of Installation as the Chancellor of the University of Fort Hare and on being Awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws by O. R. Tambo, 19 October 1991
… to present-day conditions. It should imbue all who pass through it with a spirit of tolerance that is so … Hare and on being Awarded the Honorary Degree of…
"We are of the World and the World is with Us": Address on Receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University by O. R. Tambo , New Delhi, 9 May 1986
… assembly to receive an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. The question I have pondered without results from the … Africa's jurists as men or women of law, if…
ArchiveEnacting Marriage Laws: Regulating Women's Right and Sexuality in Natal 1860-1913 by Madhawi Jha
… Enacting Marriage Laws: Regulating Women's Right and Sexuality in Natal …