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EventKwame Nkrumah orders release of political prisoners
… prisoners, detained under the Preventive Detention Act of 1958. Many of the political prisoners, who were …
EventThe People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is banned
… announced that in terms of the 1979 Internal Security Act the PPP was engaged in illegal activities that would …
EventAn assassination attempt is made on first Ghanaian President, Kwame Nkrumah
… this incident, Nkrumah passed the Preventative Detention Act which he used to imprison more than 1 000 of his …
ArchiveNkosi Sikelele I-Afrika
… was originally sung as a church hymn but later became an act of political defiance against the apartheid government. …
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
… Ndongeni – were all arrested. Accused under the Terrorism Act of 17 counts of sabotage in the Port Elizabeth area, they … charged with six counts under the…
Chapter 5 - Who would deliver us from oppression? Gumede and African politics in South Africa,1921-1927
… long run prove futile, and it was a mere dream. Hence the Bantu races would do well not to pay heed to that childish … speakers spoke out against Smuts’s new…
Address at the 8th Asean Summit, 5 November 2002
… to shape that common destiny by ensuring that together we act on the basis of Afro-Asian solidarity, cognisant of the … solidarity, peace and friendship…
EventJudge Goldstone calls for “truth commission” on atrocities
… on the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act, No 34 of 1995 …
PlaceUniversity of Stellenbosch
… facilities in subsequent year. Under the 1916 University Act of the Union of South Africa , and through a donation of … communities were forcebly removed…
Document 37 - “Communist Election Policy Defined: National Conference Decision”, The Guardian, 8 January 1948
… immediate withdrawal of the prosecution." Representation Act of 1936 was condemned as a vicious measure of racial … the election of a bloc of candidates…
ArticleLegacy: A Timeline of HIV/AIDS by Carlos Motta
… treat the HIV virus. The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) is founded in New York City, a day after a stirring … Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS…
EventSecurity police raid offices of the United Democratic Front
… and others were banned under the Unlawful Organisations Act. The UDF was launched at Mitchell's Plain in Cape Town. …
EventSwaziland welcomes SA’s offer to hand over parts of KaNgwane and KwaZulu
… was not properly consulted as stated in the homeland act. …
EventThe Pretoria Minute is agreed upon
… return of exiles, obstacles in the Internal Security Act and suspension of violence by the ANC as part of the …
Black ViewPoint - Kwa-Zulu Development by Chief M.G. Buthelezi
… by the Hertzog Government under the Native Trust and Land Act of 1936 for an additional quota of land to my people and … are paid very low wages. The…
EventSupreme Court changes ruling on forced removals, traditionally
… Coloureds were carried out to implement the Group Areas Act, which mandated residential segregation throughout the country. As a result of this Act, all…
ArticleA Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
… of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, Act 108 of 1996) This was the promise made to all the …
Slavery and Emancipation of Slaves
… 1807 the British government passed the Abolition of Slave Act abolishing slave trade in the British Empire. In the …
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
… that of Coloured s. The Afrikaner Broederbond continued to act in secret, infiltrating and gaining control of the few …
EventAssassination attempt on Kwame Nkrumah
… years previously he had passed the Preventive Detention Act, which he had used to imprison over 1000 of his political …
EventFormer South African Prime Minister Strijdom dies
… protest against the proposed amendments to the Urban Areas Act of 1950. …
EventThe Population Registration Bill is read for the first time
… the classification process. The Population Registration Act (No. 30 of 1950) , promulgated on 7 July 1950, made the … South African Stories - One: The…
EventMillions Regain SA citizenship
… Restoration and Extension of South African Citizenship Act No 196 of 1993 was part of a package agreed upon by the …
EventDepartment of Transport launches Be Legal campaign
… in terms of the National Land Transport Transition Act and to subject the whole industry to regulation and …
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 4 February 1974 in reply to a motion of no confidence in the Government by the Leader of the Opposition
… some newspapers adopt the attitude that he is the only Bantu leader in South Africa. As far as I am concerned, I … I have as much respect for the other…
”Apartheid Over Our Dead Bodies:” Speech, July 1948
… the united stand of the Indian people against the Ghetto Act, against all measures of discrimination which are … South Africa - the crisis is deepening and…
PlaceiSimangaliso Wetland Park, former Greater St. Lucia Wetlands Park
… Lucia that date back to 290 AD. The first South-migrating Bantu people arrived in the Area around 1440, impacting the …
PlaceZululand District Municipality
… occupied since the 16th century by the Nguni branch of the Bantu-speaking peoples. When the homeland of KwaZulu, which …
SASPU Focus
… 1982. This slogan called on students to understand, and act on, their university and their education. SASPU Focus …
EventThe new RSA Constitution Bill is read in parliament
… of Vice State President would be created to, inter alia, act as chairman of the President's Council. The Bill was …