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Says no to xenophobia, 19 April 2015
… name of South Africa and the law enforcement agencies to act decisively against those criminal elements who perpetuate …
PlaceCaledon Museum, Eastern Cape
… the Coloured community of the area before the Group Areas Act was put into place in the 1950’s. …
EventAfrican delegates urge U Thant to enter Nelson Mandela fray
… of Mandela and noted that he was held under the Sabotage Act, which carried a possible death penalty. They also …
EventDeputy Minister of Interior Affairs, P.W. Botha, introduces the Republican Referendum Bill to Parliament
… Bill consisted of a series of amendments to the Electoral Act of 1946, with the idea of making the ordinary electoral …
EventMemorandum on housing conditions in Fietas, Johannesburg
… Six and Sophiatown, it was destroyed by the Group Areas Act from the 1960s, leading to fierce resistance that …
EventTrial of nine BPC and SASO leaders ends
… on this date. They were found guilty under the Terrorism Act and sentenced to periods of imprisonment, three for six …
EventCiskei National Security Decree No 19 promulgated
… to those contained in the South African Internal Security Act, which was used to crush resistance against the Apartheid …
EventFive prominent anti-apartheid activists released
… detained for up to two years under the Internal Security Act. The five are Trevor Manuel, Ebrahim Rasool, Mountrain …
EventThe Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) is launched
… to articulate the interests of Traditional Leaders and act as an extra-parliamentary opposition movement. Contralesa …
EventWiseman Khuzwayo, reporter for the Durban Daily News hands himself over to the police
… were charged with protesting (under the Riotous Assemblies Act) and were released the next day on bail of R50 each. …
PlaceSouth End Museum, Port Elizabeth
… been affected by the forced removals of the Group Areas Act, saw the need to commemorate the past history of the … sorrow that resulted from Forced Removals,…
Constitution of the AAC, December 1937
… and unit should henceforth speak with one voice, meet and act in unity in all matters of national concern, This … shall be eligible for registration. 3…
PlaceGriqualand East
… Griqualand was taken over in 1874, and although the Act of Annexation was passed by the Cape Parliament in 1877, … chief Umquikela , and was added to Mount…
ArticleInfecting the City Public Arts Festival
… permission we have to acquire in order to speak, think or act. In this way, we deprive ourselves from the potential of …
ArticleSS Mendi
… Gribble Collection Image source Their first task was to act as dock workers and to unpack the incoming supplies and …
Chapter 7
… their full franchise having been taken away by the Act of Union.) (2) The Africans have the Trust and Land Act, a "Native Land Act"which prohibits them from…
Chapter 9 - People’s Education and People’s Power: Mobilisation and Collective Action
… but also those raised in past struggles such as "the 1953 campaign against Bantu education, 1976 student revolt, [and] 1980 schools … focus week on the 30th…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 2 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… Stay-away! The Defiance Campaign Forming the Federation Bantu Education boycott The South African Congress of Trade …
PlaceDimbaza, Eastern Cape
… between December 1968 and February 1969. The Minister of Bantu Education, M.C. Botha, told Parliament in May 1969 that …
Public announcement of the ANC National Disciplinary Committee hearings of Comrades Julius Malema, Ronald Lamola, Pule Mabe, Sindiso Magaqa Kenetswe Mosenogi and Floyd Shivambu, 10 November 2011
… constitutional structures in general are called upon to act with firmness, fairness and consistency in enforcing Rule … levels of leadership are urged to…
EventAnsuyah Ratipul Singh, medical doctor and community worker, poet, dramatist and novelist, is born in Durban.
… was also known as a novelist and the author of two-three act plays. Dr Singh also lectured widely to students on a …
EventUnion leader, Moses Mayekiso is reported to be under arrest on his return from Sweden.
… detained again under section 29 of the Internal Security Act. He spent seven months in solitary confinement. He and …
EventFietas, site of forced removal in Johannesburg, is renamed Pageview
… by forced removals - as a result of the Group Areas Act. The majority of the inhabitants moved to Lenasia and …
EventRand Afrikaans University is established
… with its seat in Johannesburg, was established by an act of parliament as the academic home of Afrikaans-speaking …
EventNUSAS President Ian Robertson is banned
… a banning order under the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950 when he was banned by the government only a month …
EventHarold Strachan is served with restriction order
… restriction order in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act. At the time he had already been imprisoned for three …
EventCosatu calls for three days national protest against the Labour Relations Amendment Bill (LRA)
… fierce opposition from major union federations, the act came into force on 1 September 1988. …
EventPresident Mbeki opens the second sitting of PAP
… in March 2004, by Article 17 of The Constitutive Act of the African Union, as one of the nine Organs provided …
EventThe TRC is set up by parliament
… on the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act, No 34 of 1995, investigated what happened under …
EventThe historic Tana Baru Muslim cemetery is forced to close
… were buried, was closed in terms of the Public Health Act No. 4 of 1883. Following the granting of religious …