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28 October – Constand Viljoen, South African military commander, politician & co-founded the Afrikaner Volksfront (Afrikaner People's Front) 15 December – Donald Woods, journalist and anti-apartheid activist (d. 2001).
South Africa Act Amendment Act, 1933: 18: Agricultural Pests Amendment Act, 1933: 19: Immigration (Amendment) Act, 1933: 20: Franschhoek Water (Private) Act, 1933: 21: Rand Water Board Statutes 1903–1932 Amendment (Private) Act, 1933: 22: Union and Southern Rhodesia Death Duties Act, 1933: 23: Co-operative Societies (Further Amendment) Act ...
Banning was a repressive and extrajudicial measure [1] used by the South African apartheid regime (1948–1994) against its political opponents. [2] The legislative authority for banning orders was firstly the Suppression of Communism Act, 1950 , [ 3 ] which defined virtually all opposition to the ruling National Party as communism .
On December 5, 1933, three states voted to repeal Prohibition, putting the ratification of the 21st Amendment into place. But did Prohibition really end on that fateful day? Five interesting facts ...
The capital flight triggered a dramatic decline in the international exchange rate of the South African currency, the rand. The currency decline made imports more expensive which in turn caused inflation in South Africa to rise at a very steep 12–15% per year. [31] The South African government did attempt to restrict the damaging outflow of ...
The Rise of the South African Reich, by Brian Bunting, (first published by Penguin Africa Library in 1964 and revised in 1969) accessed on an ANC website 3 August 2010 Smuts: A Reappraisal , by Bernard Friedman (George, Allen & Unwin 1975) ISBN 0-04-920045-3
The Natives Land Act, 1913 limited land ownership by black people to 8% of the land area of South Africa. The Native Trust and Land Act, 1936 expanded this limit to encompass about 13% of the land area of South Africa. The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act, 1946 restricted land ownership by Asians in towns and cities.
The first internal passports in South Africa were introduced on 27 June 1797 by the Earl Macartney in an attempt to prevent Africans from entering the Cape Colony. [2] The Cape Colony was merged with the two Afrikaners republics in Southern Africa to form the Union of South Africa in 1910. By this time, versions of pass laws existed elsewhere.