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ArticleThe role of traditional leaders during Apartheid
… to control the traditional authorities and traditional courts. At the same time, the Act aimed at the recognition …
ArticleAzanian Students Organisation (AZASO)
… that had their parallel in the street committees, people?s courts and the like, were seen as the foundations of people?s …
ArticleFederation of South African Women (FEDSAW)
… had governed pre-industrial African society, South African courts continued to regard African women as perpetual minors …
ArticleTreason Trial 1956 - 1961
… three judges rather than the usual one. Furthermore, the courts allowed the Minister of Justice to handpick the …
Death of a lion of the law, Arthur Chaskalson by Rebecca Davis, 3 December 2012
… the constitutional rights to a fair trial and access to courts are rights in substance and not merely rights on paper … Mr Zuma is guilty or innocent must be…
EventGeneral Law Amendment Act No 37 is approved
… denied access to a lawyer or recourse to law through the courts. On expiry of that period the security forces needed …
Statement submitted to the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, on the occasion of the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners, 11 October 1979
… centres and who are standing before its so-called law courts in so many parts of our country. In a very real sense … 6,000 prosecutions were brought before…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… from Steelpoort. The youths began to set up People’s Courts in the villages, and young boys would deliberate on … and elderly villagers, usurping the role of…
Biography of Arthur Nortje by Kangkang Yang
… poet, certainly a finer poet that I could hope to be.” [xiii] After Nortje’s death, Brutus held on to his poems and … 20. ↵ [xi] Brutus, 2. ↵ [xii] McLuckie…
The Battle of Square Hill
… unhealthy swampy marshland close to the Rifiji River.’ [xiii] It was here that ‘Blackwater fever, dysentery and … World war, 1914 – 1918 (Stellenbosch, 2014)…
ArticleThe Wragg Commission (1885-1887)
… be repealed. It further recommended that the Protectors courts be abolished and that all cases be heard by the …
IFP 2019 Election Manifesto
… and local authorities. The creation of specialised courts and specialised Police units to deal with corruption, … of the salaries of Banyana Banyana players…
8. Pillay and others petition the Viceroy of India
… unnecessary and undue violence. The records of the Natal courts will go to prove their ill treatment of people. Your … so good as to have competent…
EventBomb meant for Kangaroo Court judge, May Ledwaba kills sleeping William Ledwaba
… involved in the so-called Street Committees and "Kangaroo Courts" in Atteridgeville and the only "judge" who could …
PlaceCabo Verde
… the cultural and linguistic traditions of Cape Verde [xiii] Although the official language was Portuguese it was at … Theory. Charles Stewart (eds). Left…
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… Act, be extended to apply to Coloured people as well. [xiii] This included determining where people were allowed to … [Accessed 19 April 2016]. p 408. ↵ …
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… like Weinberg, recruited both black and white members. [xiii] Jewish immigrants also heavily saturated the … and Conscience: The Jews in Apartheid South…
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
… Humiliated. Hoping to God time’s going to go quickly’. [xiii ] The concept of apartheid in South Africa was … etc. ↵ [xii] Pass laws in South Africa 1800…
Planned DA march to Luthuli House, 23 January 2014
… amongst them Parliament, NEDLAC, Government and the Courts. Policies of the ANC are deliberated at length within …
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… had been cleared. These notices were challenged in the courts. In the majority of cases the courts declared the eviction notices invalid, demanding that …
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
… She sought relief for her illegal abduction through the courts. Higgs was also kidnapped by apartheid government … and challenged the legality of his…
ArticleBlack South African literature
… literate Blacks to help in the mines as clerks, in the courts as interpreters and in other jobs such as teaching. …
ArticleSouth African National Students Congress (SANSCO)
… that had their parallel in the street committees, people’s courts and the like, were seen as the foundations of people’s …
The appointment of Judges
… v Minister of Safety and Security (2001) - the duty of courts to develop the common law, in this case concerning …
Message by Albert Luthuli, 1 May 1955
… majority of the population of real education. The courts and the Constitution are being threatened. The country …
Where is Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser? by Noni Mokati (IOL News), 7 May 2016, Johannesburg
… Zuma’s supporters erupted in jubilation outside the courts. Inside the courtroom, Zuma’s accuser, known as * …
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… that many members undertook were sit-ins in the commission courts. Well throughout the 1980s this exercise provided an … to ignore the violence and injustice…
Chaskalson was a pillar of strength in my battle against HIV/Aids by Justice Edwin Cameron - Constitutional Court, 9 December 2012
Arthur Chaskalson was a formidable man. He could be severe. To those he opposed, he could be intimidating. But he also had a tender side. That was mostly…
Arthur Chaskalson: 24 November 1931 - 1 December 2012 by Jeremy Gauntlett, 4 December 2012
… led a new generation of lawyers who, through the courts, forced spaces between the flat stones of oppressive … by limits set for it and that it is the task…
The African Resistance Movement (ARM): An Organisational History
… She sought relief for her illegal abduction through the courts. Higgs was also kidnapped by apartheid government … and challenged the legality of his…