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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…
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…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Glossary
Note: All definitions are acquired through Google’s online English Dictionary. Nationalism: Nationalism is the feeling of belonging to a nation. Nationalism…
ArticleWhat was the Great Depression and why did it start in the USA?
… number of serious weaknesses in the economy. Although the 1920s appeared on the surface to be a prosperous time, income … and the U.S. Congress passed into…
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… of forcible removal of people as the result of racist legislation. It is incredibly difficult to calculate precise … is equally difficult to pinpoint a…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1920-1929
… segregation of Indians. It also recommends that existing legislation on Indians in the Transvaal be retained, but that … in opposition to various pieces of…
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… several splits and fusions. Economically the late 1920s and early 1930s were difficult years. There was a … often finding work in the industrial sector…
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… movement of slaves and Khoikhoi were promulgated. Thus, legislation played an important role in the shaping of Cape … in the Cape moved to also regulate…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… of the Group Areas Act The GAA was one of many pieces of legislation used to control the lives of Indians, Coloureds, … 1948 were less coherent and often…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… individuals whose lives were affected by anti-homosexual legislation during the apartheid and their continuing fight … Transsexual life in South Africa by…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… 1910 Anti- Indian Legislation: The Public Servants Superannuating Act and … This furthers discrimination against Indians. Anti-Indian Legislation: The…
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… especially in the mining sector, ensured that they passed legislation that marginalized Black workers. 1918-1929 The … organizing dockworkers in Cape Town…
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… nationalism during this period and through into the later 1920s and 1930s was a critical factor in the electoral … depended upon a person's racial…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… nationalism during this period and through into the later 1920s and 1930s was a critical factor in the electoral … depended upon a person’s racial…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… could lower the wages of all skilled miners. Anti- Indian Legislation Legislation was enacted in order to limit Indian trade and … of 1926 denied Indians any…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… to measures and laws affecting Black people. In the 1920s, the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) already had … leadership positions in their…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… step up its activities. Labour shortages worsened in the 1920s, when the Native Recruiting Corporation employed local … to situate transit points in…
From Segregation to Apartheid
… modernisation in White agriculture that had started in the 1920s and 1930s continued after World War II and into the … no longer needed by the agricultural…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… of the African National Congress May, Anti-Indian Legislation: The Transvaal Asiatic Land Tenure (Amendment) … interests on proclaimed (mining) land. Anti…
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
… of Indians in Transvaal towns, but despite restrictive legislation enacted in 1885, Indians continue to settle in … a resort for Whites. Tlhabane, already…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1930-1939
… of 1936 The Bills proposed by General Barry Hertzog in the 1920s finally got the two-thirds majority required to be … to Parliament or the Provincial…