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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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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 ),…
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…
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…
Biography of Mandla Langa by Carol Sale
… allow the children to read forbidden books and listen to anti-apartheid broadcasts like Radio Freedom . This led many … he and Langa became outspoken writers…
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…
EventThe Riotous Assemblies Act Commences
… 74 of 1982 Click here for more on South African Apartheid legislation. …
EventCiskei National Security Decree No 19 promulgated
… Click here for a broader chronology of apartheid legislation. Click here to read a Human Rights Watch report …
Bantu Authorities Act of 1951
… This was the first piece of legislation introduced to support the government’s policy of …