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Historical Overview of Black Resistance, 1932-1952 - The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign by Ismail Vadi, New Delhi, 1995
… protest actions organised by the ANC and the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) in the period 1950-1953 had served to … into leadership roles; the party…
EventGandhi leaves South Africa
… Gandhi and Gen J.C. Smuts led to the passing of the Indian Relief Act, by which the £3 tax on ex-indentured … This Act, which Gandhi claimed to be the Magna…
Curry and the South African Revolution by E. S. Reddy
… Dr. Yusuf Dadoo once told me that Nelson Mandela had Indian friends in college and used to visit Indian homes. He would not accept the food they offered…
28. The Dealer’s Licences Act is an attempt to weed out smaller traders
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … to suggest that the Act was aimed at weeding out the…
60. Congress and the Non-European Co-operation Conference, 1927
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Even though the South African Indian Congress was…
ArchiveTrade unions, politics and the working class struggle: the Food and Canning Workers Union, 1975 to 1986
… always operated as one. The division being necessitated by legislation which did not allow the formal participation of …
TRAC (Transvaal Rural Action Committee) Newsletter, 1983 - 1990
… or bantustans was made relatively easy by the existing legislation. …
PlaceOfficers’ Club, Military Base, Wynberg
… It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 22 August 1969. Wynberg Military Base is, with …
PlaceRailway Station, Main Road, Wynberg
… It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 2 October 1981. The Wynberg Railway Company …
PlaceBergvliet Farmstead, Bergvliet
… Stel . It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 25 October 1982. 'The Bergvliet farm house is …
PlaceHouse Preller, Hartebeesport
… here. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 2 March 1973. At the same time, but as part of …
PlaceKlapperkop Fort, Pretoria
… charged. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 24 June 1938. …
PlaceBotanical Gardens, Pretoria
… Gardens was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 3 August 1979. …
PlaceLanherne Building, Humewood Road, Port Elizabeth
… It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 16 March 1984, and the Norfolk pines next to …
PlaceCuyler Manor, Uitenhage
… on. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 14 March 1980. …
PlaceConstitution Street House 14, Port Elizabeth
… It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 23 December 1983. Donkin Street is a famous …
EventBritish Airways prohibits smoking on all flights
… first restrictions on smoking in public in the 1970s, but legislation was only applied to airlines during the 1980s. …
EventConscientious objector Ivan Toms is sentenced to 21 months imprisonment for refusing to serve in the SADF
… He was the first conscientious objector to be tried since legislation in 1983 provided for a Religious Board of …
EventThe Groote Kerk pulpit, sculpted by Anton Anreith, is inaugurated in Cape Town
… 1841. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 28 September 1962. Beside the church’s great …
EventYusuf Dadoo, political activist, is born
… forging closer links between underprivileged groups of Indian, African and Coloured people in the struggle for … in the 1890s, three decades after the first…
Zulu Community
… Kingdom and the simultaneous movement into the city of Indian workers who had completed their indenture on Natal sugar plantations ( see Indian feature ),…
2. Moothen pleads for his wife to be returned
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … had the following letter written to the Protector of…
PlaceSt George’s Grammar School, 1 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town
… in 1858. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 27 June 1986. Huguenot Memorial Building, 48 … burial. It was declared a National…
Document 28 - Brian Bunting, “Problems of the Multi-Racial Conference”, Liberation, 28, November 1957
… conference as a beacon marking out the road to a united anti-Nationalist front in which all sections of progressive … the alliance of the national…
Foreword, By Nelson Mandela
… on a broad united front. He gave the formidable Natal Indian Congress, founded by Mahatma Gandhi in 1894, a new … when he assumed its presidency in 1945 and…
EventFifth Constitution Amendment Bill is introduced
… Council, consisting of sixty White, Coloured and Indian nominated members. The Council was charged with … Constitution that would give expression to Coloured…
ArticleThe South African War 1899-1902
… tribes Most politically conscious Blacks, Coloureds and Indian groups in South Africa believed that the defeat of the … franchise would be extended…
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… spread to universities, rural areas and the' homelands. Indian schools in Pretoria and Durban joined the boycott. In … Across the country, up to 100 000…
28. The Dealers’ Licenses Act is an attempt to weed out small traders
… to suggest that the Act was aimed at weeding out the small Indian storekeeper. They argued convincingly that the Act … under the above Act. This decision has…
45. Mass meeting at the Empire Theatre, Johannesburg, 1906
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … both of which appeared in the Gujarati sections of the…