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Letter to Americans by Albert Luthuli, distributed by the American Committee on Africa with the "Appeal for Action", 4 November 1962, New York
… in jail or exile. And now - under the new "Sabotage" Act, to challenge segregation is to risk the death penalty. …
Artist. Activist. Historian. This man is preserving the past to protect the future (beautifulnews.co.za)
… Art is an act of resistance. It asserts our agency. Omar Badsha has …
PlaceSouth African Library, Cape Town
… NLSA is mandated by the National Library of South Africa Act 92 of 1998 to collect and preserve published documents …
EventRioting and destruction in Cato Manor and Durban continues
… On 2 June 1946 the government passed the Ghetto Act, aimed at curtailing property ownership of Indian people. …
EventBishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
… when he quitted his teaching post in protest against the Bantu Education Act of 1953 designed to drastically reduce the education …
EventUnesco lists Robben Island as a World Heritage Site
… there voluntarily, but in 1892, the Leprosy Repression Act was passed, forcing lepers to remain in Robben Island. …
EventCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart, first state president of South Africa, is born
… He was instrumental in the passing of the Immorality Act, the banning of the South African Communist Party (SACP) …
EventDay of Reconciliation celebrated as a public holiday in SA for the first time
… and murdered Retief and his party of 100 people. This act culminated in the Battle of Blood River, in which 470 …
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 … be shot”.385 His agitating did not go…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Red Lives. Convenor: Arianna Lissoni
… China, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe in 1951. Seedat married Fatima Seedat , an activist in her own … when Marius Schoon was released from jail, the…
Opening Statement at the Second National Consultative Conference of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Kabwe, Zambia, 16 June, 1985
… must be suppressed. To honour their memory and in an act of rededication to the victory of the common cause, I … sacrifices of our people. To absorb that…
Address at the South African Millenium Trust Launch, Kyalami 19 November 1998
… celebrate something that we do not fully comprehend. Every act of celebration is the act of triumph. Every celebration is the act of arrival, or of departure…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Deputations
… under the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representative Act is raised. The original intention was that Mr. Choudree … following a conviction under the…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Pan African Parliament, Gallagher Estate, Midrand, 16 September 2004
… for us as Africans to forge a collective identity and to act together in our interest both within and between our … of the continental decisions expressed in…
46. The Gandhi-Smuts compromise explained
… voluntarily, after which the Government would repeal Act 2 of 1907 which made registration compulsory. The … self-interest is rather ill-considered. In fact,…
Conservative Revolutionaries - Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town 1963-1973 by Robert Erbmann, Oxford University, 2005
… the state was granted a wide array of powers to act against any organisation or individual that it felt was … both from conservative students and the…
EventGandhi supports APO's Day of Mourning
… as a day of mourning, in protest against the South Africa Act's disenfranchisement of Indians, Coloureds and Africans …
PlaceMeadowlands or Ndofaya, in Soweto
… of ' Soweto Council123 '. The Natives Resettlement Act (Act No 19 of 1954) led to the establishment of Meadowlands, …
ArticleSouth Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured
… in the preamble to the National Heritage Resources Act (1999), and its purpose was to “encourage communities to … as forced removals were instigated through…
ArticleA brief history of domestic service in South Africa
… not eligible for benefits under the Workmen's Compensation Act and the Unemployment Insurance Fund [xxiv] . Domestic …
ArchiveCourt Transcript of statement from the Dock of Nelson Mandela, Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964
… which had been seriously curtailed by the South Africa Act, and which were then being threatened by the Native Land … violence in 1960 when the Government…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 91th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2003
… to the task we face, to ensure that the people continue to act as the builders of their own future. During the year of … to ensure that, in actual practice,…
Document 30 - W. M. Tsotsi, “Presidential Address to the All-African Convention Conference”, Edendale, 14 to 16 December 1958
… through commercial institutions". It will establish a "Bantu Commercial Bank" a "Bantu Savings and Credit Bank", a … & Co. Development Corporation (Pty)…
Document 5 - Programme of the Communist Party of South Africa adopted at the seventh annual conference of the Party
… the back. It was becoming clear that the reaction of the authorities was to intensify repression, and to become … Ja. Tell me about that period... Well, the…
Exhibition: Durban, 1973: Strike against cheap labour by David Hemson
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference My existing exhibition on the Durban strikes is being refocused and…
PlaceKaapsche Hoop, Mpumalanga- Barberton Valley
This Area, lies within the South African mist-belt. On average it receives more than 1 000 mm of rain per Year. The vegetation is mainly grassland, with…
ArticleKingdom of Kongo 1390–1914
… as an international currency we can see how the Kongolese authorities paid the Catholic church in slaves for bishops to … stealing from gardens, rebelling…
Make South Africa ungovernable: Broadcast on Radio Freedom: Oliver Tambo, 10 October 1984
… from Botha`s polling booths, as a conscious and organized act of rejection of the constitution of the oppressor. It is … reflects and seeks to entrench. As a…
Make South Africa Ungovernable: Broadcast on Radio Freedom by O. R. Tambo, 10 October 1984
… from Botha's polling booths, as a conscious and organized act of rejection of the constitution of the oppressor. It is … reflects and seeks to entrench. As a…
ArchiveWomen and the Satyagraha Campaign
… Gandhi. The negotiations resulted in the Indian Relief Act of 1914 . The £3 poll tax was abolished and Hindu and … to a head when The Asiatics (Land and…