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BiographyRichard Feetham
… upheld the principle of academic autonomy and opposed legislation prohibiting the admission of “Non-White” students …
BiographyErnst Heinrich Daniël Arndt
… 1946. After serving on the technical committee on banking legislation in the early 1940’s Arndt was appointed as the … and from 1934-1935 he was a member of…
BiographyJulius Louis Saks
… the case Rex vs. Saks became a cornerstone of optometric legislation in many parts of the western world. Saks is …
BiographySefako Mapogo Makgatho
… only on condition that racial discrimination and all legislation promoting it be abolished. And while German East … widespread agreement in the SANNC that …
BiographyAbdulla Ismail Kajee
… time in India. He became politically active in the mid-1920s and emerged as the leading figure in 1935 when orthodox … had mastered the intricate legal and…
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
… organise themselves to protest and deal with the proposed legislation. This conference decided to send a delegation of … Smuts and attempt to dissuade him…
BiographyReverend Zaccheus Richard Mahabane
… their common grievances and ideals. By the end of the 1920s Mahabane was anxious about the growing black following … from the common voters' roll. In order…
BiographyPoonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
… organise themselves to protest and deal with the proposed legislation. This conference decided to send a delegation of … Smuts and attempt to dissuade him…
BiographyPixley ka Isaka Seme
… in South Africa , which condemns the inhumanity of the legislation, and a SANNC delegation to London that returned … ANC. By 1920, Seme’s star was on the…
BiographyCharles W H Kohler
… the government to give the KWV sufficient powers through legislation to control the industry effectively. The … wine export trade in the twentieth century…
BiographyMildred Lesiea
… in Ladybrand, Ramakaba migrated to Cape Town, in the early 1920s, where he found employment as a labourer at a … who had been banished under the state’s…
BiographyDr Abdullah Abdurahman
… to veto the denial of Coloured franchise rights. In the 1920s and 1930s he led a rearguard action against state … a united black political front. In the…
BiographyAbdullah Abdurahman
… to veto the denial of Coloured franchise rights. In the 1920s and 1930s he led a rearguard action against state … a united black political front. In the…
BiographyJohn Langalibalele Dube
… protested and petitioned the government against proposed legislation. Nevertheless, ideologically, Dube had accepted … was one of the delegates in London to…
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… stall the success of the Indian businesses. This piece of legislation declared that Indians could only conduct trade in … Dadoo Ltd., existed prior to the…
BiographyJosiah Tshangana Gumede
… Africa.He was the fouth president of the ANC in the late 1920s. On completion of his schooling, Gumede went on to … British intervention in South Africa…
Women’s Enfranchisement Association of the Union (WEAU)
… of the WEAU with bored but stubborn indifference. By the 1920s, with Afrikaner women workers beginning to enter the … of votes to white women as a political…
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… Pim chaired the Johannesburg Native Welfare Society in the 1920s and was a leading figure in multiracial associations … had expressed opposition to the…
ArticleThe impact of the War on Agriculture and Land
… it was J. B.M Hertzog who was the driving force behind the legislation of the 1913 Land Act. When the National Party …
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
… In the 1920s, with the First World War (1914-1918) over, the pattern … were poor) and seek jobs in the nearby towns. In the 1920s there were not yet any…
ArticleSefako Mapogo Makgatho Timeline 1861-1961
… Act of 1913 is passed. The Act is yet another piece of legislation that enrages Makgatho, and he later condemns its … Labour Party form PACT government …
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… of autonomy in matters relating to land tenure. In the 1920s it was reported in Pondoland that headmen and chiefs … in exploiting a window of opportunity…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
… when India was no longer under British control. From the 1920s the organization functioned under the umbrella … 1903 by Mahatma Gandhi to protest against the…
ArticleIndian South Africans: 1924-1948 Legislation and Segregation
… Introduction The concept of segregation Discriminatory legislation up to 1924 Political Legislation Economic Legislation Legislation regarding … Hertzog…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… segregation of Indians . It also recommends that existing legislation on Indians in the Transvaal be retained, but that … in a specified area along the coast…
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
… in 1952 it became the ‘Day of the Covenant’. Since the 1920s, the day was also used by the ANC, SACP and other … Hertzog . Thus, the 16th of December,…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
… figures within American society, and from the 1880s to the 1920s developed a political system that relied on the close … and equal society that everyone…
ArticlePassive Resistance Campaign Timeline
… with Smuts and Fischer. June, “June, Anti-Indian Legislation: Immigrants Regulation Act (No 22 of 1913)” … suspend the Passive Resistance Campaign provided…
PlaceMill House and Water Mill, farm Naauwpoort, District of Marico
… It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 8 April 1984. …
PlaceKoedoespoort Aerodrome, Pretoria
… It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 29 August 1980. …