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PlaceOudekraal Beach, Bakoven
… was a refuge for slaves who had escaped from the colonial authorities and their masters. Among them were Muslim … was a refuge for slaves who had escaped…
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
EventProtection for whistleblowers' is ensured
… The Protected Disclosures Act, no 26 of 2000, providing protection of employees against …
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,…
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…
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,…
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…
PlaceMsinga Local Municipality
The name means: "A current in the sea where air movement causes ripples on top of the water surface and ends up influencing the nearby climatic conditions…
PlaceChad
… to work without compensation. Thirdly the colonial authorities could extract work from prisoners [lxviii] . The … administrators willing to work in Chad,…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… of apartheid, laws such as the Suppression of Communism Act hit unions hard. Black workers left the Trades & Labour … introduced the Industrial Conciliation…
PlaceMeadowlands or Ndofaya, in Soweto
… of ' Soweto Council123 '. The Natives Resettlement Act (Act No 19 of 1954) led to the establishment of Meadowlands, …
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…
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…