- Contents
- O'Malley's political interviews
- Padraig O'Malley
- Pre-Transition (1902-1989)
- Chronologies
- Demography and Economy
- Social Disintegration in the Black Community - Implications for Transformation by Mamphela Ramphele
- Non-Collaboration with Dignity
- Economic Issues
- World Human Development
- Characteristics of Developing Countries
- A Social Market Economy for South Africa - Prerequisites
- Poverty and Development
- Constitutional Issues
- Accountability in Transition
- Constitutional Rule in a Participatory Democracy
- Democratic Party Discussion Document on Constitutional Proposals
- Constitutional Proposals of the National Party - A Critical Analysis
- The Constitutional Issues
- Human Rights Issues
- The Bill Proposed by the South African Law Commission
- Documents and Reports
- 1902
- 1928
- 1929
- 1943
- 1955
- 1957
- 1960
- 1961
- 'General Strike' - Statement by Nelson Mandela
- "Racial Crisis in South Africa"
- Forced Withdrawal Of South Africa From The Commonwealth
- Document 9: First letter from Nelson Mandela to Hendrik Verwoerd, 20 April 1961
- Document 10: Letter from Nelson Mandela to Sir de Villiers Graaff, leader of the United Party, 23 May 1961
- Document 11: Second letter from Nelson Mandela to Hendrik Verwoerd, 26 June 1961
- 1962
- 1963
- 1964
- 1975
- 1984
- 1985
- 1989
- Harare Declaration
- Notes prepared by Nelson Mandela for his meeting with P. W. Botha 5 July 1989
- Resolution by the Conference for a Democratic Future on negotiations and the Constituent Assembly 8 December 1989
- 'A document to create a climate of understanding'; Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk 12 December 1989
- Chronology of Documents and Reports
- Racial Legislation 1806-1947
- 1806. Cape Articles of Capitulation
- 1806. Proclamation The British
- 1809. 'Hottentot Proclamation'
- 1811. Proclamation
- 1812. Apprenticeship of Servants Act
- 1818. Proclamation
- 1819. Proclamation
- 1826. Ordinance No 19
- 1827. Ordinance No 33
- 1828. Criminal Procedure Act No 40
- 1828. Ordinance No 49
- 1828. Ordinance No 50
- 1829. Ordinance No 60
- 1830. Evidence Act No 72
- 1832. [First] Reform Act
- 1833. Abolition of Slavery Act
- 1834. Vagrancy Act
- 1835. Ordinance No 1
- 1836. Municipal Boards Ordinance
- 1836. [Cape of Good Hope] Punishment Act
- 1837. Ordinance No 2
- 1841. Masters & Servants Ordinance No 1
- 1848. Ordinance No 3
- 1850. Squatters Ordinance
- 1853. Cape Constitution
- 1856. Masters & Servants Act No 15
- 1857. Kaffir Pass Act No 23
- 1857. Kaffir Employment Act No 27
- 1865. Natal Exemption Law
- 1865. Natal Native Franchise Act No 28
- 1865. [British] Colonial Laws Validity Acts Nos 28 & 29
- 1866. Orange Free State Occupation Law
- 1867. [Second] Reform Act
- 1867. Vagrancy Act
- 1868. Land Beacons Act
- 1870. 'Cattle Removal' Act
- 1872. Proclamation
- 1872. Proclamation No 14
- 1872. Proclamation
- 1873. Masters & Servants Amendment Act
- 1874. Ordinance No 2
- 1874. Seven Circles Act
- 1878. Peace Preservation Act
- 1879. Native Locations Act
- 1879. Vagrancy Amendment Act No 23
- 1880. Searching Ordinance No 1
- 1881. Village Management Act
- 1882. Trade in Diamonds Consolidation Act
- 1883. Mining Regulations
- 1883. Liquor Law
- 1883. Public Health Act No 4
- 1884. [Third] Reform Act
- 1885. Asiatic Bazaar Law [?]
- 1887. Cape Parliamentary Registration Act
- 1891. Orange Free State Statute Book Act
- 1891. Natal Native Code
- 1892. Cape Franchise & Ballot Act
- 1893. Mining Law
- 1894. Glen Grey Act
- 1896. Mining Code
- 1896. Mining Regulations
- 1896. Natal Franchise Act
- 1897. Mining Law No 11
- 1897. Public Health Amendment Act No 23
- 1898. Mining Law No 12
- 1899. Native Labour Locations Act No 30
- 1900. Indemnity & Special Tribunals Act No 6
- 1900. Natal Courts Special Act No 14
- 1902. Native Reserve Locations Act No 40
- 1903. Mines, Works & Machinery Ordinance
- 1903. Precious Stones Ordinance
- 1903. Bloemfontein Municipal Ordinance
- 1903. Transvaal Municipalities Election Ordinance
- 1904. Transvaal Labour Ordinance
- 1904. Natal Native Locations Act
- 1904. Transvaal Labour Importation Ordinance
- 1905. Cape School Boards Act
- 1906. Mining Regulations
- 1906. Coloured Labourers Health Regulations
- 1906. Immigration Act
- 1906. Transvaal Asiatic Law Amendment Act
- 1908. Natal Special Courts Act No 8
- 1908. Gold Law & Townships Act
- 1908. Railway Regulation Act
- 1909.? Act No 29
- 1909. Industrial Disputes Prevention Act
- 1909. Transvaal Industrial Disputes Prevention Act
- 1909. Transvaal Companies Act
- 1909. [Union of] South Africa Act
- 1911. Mines & Works Act No 12
- 1911. Immigrants Restriction Act
- 1911. Native Labour Regulation Act
- 1911. Official Secrets Act
- 1912. Defence Act
- 1912. Mines & Works Regulations Act
- 1912. Riotous Assemblies Act
- 1913. Immigration Act
- 1913. Admission of Persons to the Union Regulation Act No 22
- 1913. Natives Land Act No 27
- 1914. Indian Relief Act
- 1914. Riotous Assemblies & Criminal Law Amendment Act No 27
- 1915. Indemnity & Special Tribunals Act No 11
- 1917. Criminal Procedure & Evidence Act No 31
- 1918. Status Quo Act
- 1918. Regulation of Wages, Apprenices & Improves Act.
- 1920. Housing Act
- 1920. Native Affairs Act No 23
- 1921. Education Proclamation No 55
- 1921. Juvenile Act
- 1922. Apprenticeship Act
- 1922. Strike Condonation Act
- 1923. Native Urban Areas Act No 21
- 1924. Industrial Conciliation Act No 11
- 1925. Wage Act
- 1925. Customs Tariff Act
- 1926. Education Proclamation No 16
- 1926. Mines & Works Amendment Act No 25
- 1926. Masters & Servants Amendment Act
- 1926. Job Reservation Act
- 1927. Immorality Act No 5
- 1927. Asiatics in the Northern Districts or Natal Act No 33
- 1927. Native Administration Act No 38
- 1927. Union Nationality & Flag Act
- 1928.? Act No 13
- 1929. Native Administration Amendment Act
- 1929. Colonial Development Act
- 1930. Riotous Assemblies Amendment Act No 19
- 1930. Native Urban Areas Amendment Act
- 1931. Entertainments Censorship Act No 28
- 1932. Soil Erosion Act
- 1932. Natal Native [Amendment?] Code
- 1932. Transvaal Asiatic Land Tenure Act No 35
- 1932. Native Service Contract Act
- 1934. Status of the Union Act
- 1934. Status & Seal Act 1
- 1934. Slums Act
- 1936. Representation of Natives Act No 12
- 1936. Native Trust & Land Act No 18
- 1936. Act No 22
- 1937. Aliens Act
- 1937. Native Urban Areas Amendment Act
- 1937. Natives Laws Amendment Act
- 1937. Industrial Conciliation [Amendment] Act No 36
- 1937. Wage Act
- 1937. Immigration Amendment Act
- 1937. Marketing Act
- 1939. Asiatics Land & Trading Act
- 1940. War Measures Act No 13
- 1941. War Measure No 6
- 1941. War Measure No 28
- 1941. Factories, Machinery & Building Works Act
- 1941. Workmen's Compensation Act
- 1942. War Measure No 9
- 1942. War Measure No 13
- 1942. War Measure No 145
- 1942. National Education & Finance Act
- 1943. Trading of Occupation & Land (Transvaal & Natal) Act
- 1943. Pegging Act
- 1944. Apprenticeship Act No 37
- 1944. Native Urban Areas Amendment Act
- 1944. Nursing Act
- 1945. War Measure No 1425
- 1945. Housing Emergency Powers Act
- 1945. Native Urban Areas Consolidation Act No 25
- 1945. Natives Laws Amendment Act
- 1946. Indian Representation Act
- 1946. Asiatic Land Tenure & [Indian] Representation Act No 28
- 1946. Electoral Consolidation Act No 31
- 1946. Ghetto Act
- 1947. Commissions Act No 8
- 1947. Natural Resources Development Act No 51
- Sanctions
- News Coverage of Sanctions & South Africa: The Banks Act, 1985-1994
- From 7 June 1985 New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, "Pretoria Curb: Business View"
- From 2 August 1985: Financial Times, Jim Jones et al., "Rand Steadies as Pretoria Faces Increasing Unrest"
- From 2 August 1985, London Times, "Big House majority for sanctions, but Helms holds up the Senate"
- From 9 August 1985, Financial Times, Alexander Nicoll, "Short-term debt Pretoria's Achilles heel"
- From 2 April 1986, Financial Times, Anthony Robinson, "Trade Sanctions & Disinvestment Intensified"
- From 19 March 1989, Journal of Commerce, Tony Koenderman, "South Africa: One of Few Repaying Debt"
- From 14 February 1990, The Independent, "Outlook: Sanctions Lesson from the Banks"
- From 24 September 1993, Journal of Commerce, Lucy Komisar, "S. African Sanctions: A Success"
- News Coverage of Sanctions & South Africa: The Banks Act, 1985-1994
- The Apartheid State
- Apartheid Legislation 1948-1990
- 1948. Asiatic Law Amendment Act No 47
- 1949. Unemployment Insurance Amendment Act
- 1949. Railway & Harbours Amendment Act
- 1949. Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act No 55
- 1949. Natives Laws Amendment Act
- 1949. South West Africa Affairs Amendment Act
- 1949. South African Citizenship Act
- 1950. Immorality Amendment Act No 21
- 1950. Population Registration Act No 30
- 1950. Group Areas Act No 41
- 1950. Suppression of Communism Act No 44
- 1950 - Stock Limitation Act
- 1951- Native Building Workers Act No 27
- 1951 - Separate Representation of Voters Act No 46
- 1951. Bantu Authorities Act No 68
- 1951. Suppression of Communism Amendment Act
- 1951. Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act
- 1952. Native Services Levy Act
- 1952. Native Urban Areas Amendment Act
- 1952. Criminal Sentences Amendment Act No 33
- 1952. High Court of Parliament Act No 35
- 1952. Electoral Laws Amendment Act
- 1952. Natives Laws Amendment Act No 54
- 1952. Natives Abolition of Passes & Coordination of Doc's Act No 67
- 1953. Public Safety Act No 3
- 1953. Criminal Law Amendment Act No 8
- 1953. Native Labour Settlement of Disputes Act No 48
- 1953. Reservation of Separate Amenities Act No 49
- 1953. Immigrants Regulation Amendment Act
- 1953. Bantu Education Act
- 1954. Natives Resettlement Act
- 1954. Riotous Assemblies & Criminal Laws Amendment Act No 15
- 1954. Native Urban Areas Consolidation Act
- 1955. Appellate Division Quorum Act No 25 or 27.
- 1955. Criminal Procedure & Evidence Amendment Act No 29
- 1955. Departure from the Union Regulation Act No 34
- 1955. Motor Carrier Transportation Amendment Act No 44
- 1955. Senate Act No 53
- 1955. Customs Act No 55
- 1955. Criminal Procedure Act No 56
- 1955. Group Areas Development Act
- 1955. Native Urban Areas Amendment Act
- 1956. South Africa Amendment Act No 9
- 1956. Separate Representation of Voters Amendment Act
- 1956. Official Secrets Act No 16
- 1956. Riotous Assemblies [Amendment?] Act No 17
- 1956. Mines & Works Amendment Act No 27
- 1956. Industrial Conciliation Amendment Act No 28
- 1956. Bantu Education Amendment Act
- 1956. Native Urban Areas Amendment Act
- 1956. Native Administration Amendment Act No 42
- 1956. General Laws Amendment Act No 50
- 1956. Bantu Prohibition of Interdicts Act No 64
- 1956. ? Amendment Act
- 1957. Immorality Act No 23
- 1957. Defence Act No 44
- 1957. State-Aided Institutions Act
- 1957. Flag Amendment Act
- 1957. Nursing Amendment Act
- 1957. Native Urban Areas Amendment Act No 77
- 1957. Proclamation No 333
- 1958. Criminal Procedure Amendment Act No 9
- 1958. Special Criminal Courts Amendment Act
- 1959. Trespass Act No 6
- 1959. Prisons Act No 8
- 1959. Industrial Conciliation Amendment Act
- 1959. Bantu Investment Corporation Act
- 1959. Native Labour Settlement of Disputes Amendment Act
- 1959. Extension of University Education Act No 45
- 1959. Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act No 46
- 1959. Supreme Court Act No 59
- 1960. Reservation of Separate Amenities Amendment Act No 10
- 1960. Unlawful Organizations Act No 24 or 34
- 1960. Emergency Regulations in Transkei Nos R.400 & R.413
- 1961. Republic of South Africa Constitution Act No 32
- 1961. General Laws Amendment Act
- 1961. Urban Bantu Councils Act No 79
- 1962. ? Act
- 1962. Sabotage Act General Laws Amendment Act No 76
- 1963. Publications & Entertainments Act No 26
- 1963. General Laws Amendment Act No 37
- 1963. Transkei Constitution Act No 48
- 1963. Censorship Act
- 1964. Bantu Urban Areas Amendment Act
- 1964. Coloured Persons Representative Council Act No 49
- 1964. Bantu Labour Act No 67
- 1964. General Laws Amendment Act No 80
- 1965. Bantu Laws Amendment Act
- 1965. Bantu Labour Regulations Act
- 1965. Bantu Homelands Development Corporations Act
- 1965. Criminal Procedure Amendment Act No 96
- 1966. Community Development Act
- 1966. Group Areas [Amendment?] Act No 36
- 1966. General Laws Amendment Act No 62
- 1967. Prohibition of Improper Political Inference Act
- 1967. Defence Amendment Act
- 1967. Suppression of Communism Amendment Act No 24
- 1967. Terrorism Act
- 1967. Physical Planning & Utilization of Resources Act No 88
- 1968. Criminal Procedure Amendment Act No 9
- 1968. Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Amendment Act No 21
- 1968. South Africa Indian Council Act No 31
- 1968. Separate Representation of Voters Amendment Act No 50
- 1968. Prohibition of Political Interference Act No 51
- 1968. Coloured Persons Representative Council Amendment Act No 52
- 1968. Affected Organizations Act
- 1968. Promotion of Economic Development of the Homelands Act
- 1969. South Africa Amendment Act
- 1969. Legal Aid Act No 22
- 1969. Abolition of Juries Act No 34
- 1969. South West Africa Affairs Amendment Act
- 1969. Public Service Amendment Act
- 1969. Electoral Laws Amendment Act No 99
- 1969. General Laws Amendment Act No 101
- 1970. Bantu Homelands Citizen Act No 26
- 1970. General Laws Further Amendment Act No 92
- 1971. Bantu Urban Areas Amendment Act
- 1971. Bantu Homelands Constitution Act No 21
- 1973. Venda Constitution Act
- 1973. Gazankulu Constitution Act
- 1973. Aliens Control Act No 40
- 1973. ? Act
- 1973. Gatherings & Demonstrations Act No 52
- 1973. Bantu Labour Relations Regulations Amendment Act No 70
- 1973. Proclamation on the Group Areas Act No 228
- 1974. Riotous Assemblies Amendment Act No 30
- 1974. Affected Organizations Act No 31
- 1974. Publications Act No 42
- 1974. Bantu Laws Amendment Act No 70
- 1974. Defence Further Amendment Act No 83
- 1974. [Second] General Laws Amendment Act No 94
- 1974. Qwaqwa Constitution Act
- 1975. KwaZulu Constitution Act
- 1975. Coloured Persons Representative Council Amendment Act No 32
- 1976. Republic of Transkei Constitution Act No 15
- 1976. Parliamentary Internal Security Commission Act No 67
- 1976. Internal Security Amendment Act No 79
- 1976. Status of Bophuthatswana Act No 89
- 1976. Status of the Transkei Act No 100
- 1977. Transkei Public Security Act No 30
- 1977. Criminal Procedure Act No 51
- 1977. Community Councils Act
- 1978. Black Urban Areas Consolidation Amendment Act
- 1979. Status of Venda Act
- 1979. Industrial Conciliation Amendment Act No 94
- 1979. Status of the Ciskei Act
- 1981. Labour Relations Amendment Act No 57
- 1982. Internal Security Act No 74
- 1982. Registration of Newspapers Amendment Act
- 1982. Black Local Authorities Act
- 1983. Republic of South Africa Constitution Act No 110
- 1984. Black Communities Development Act Davenport
- 1985. Regional Services Council Act
- 1986. ? Act(s)
- 1986. Constitutional Affairs Amendment Act No 104
- 1986. Abolition of Influx Control Act No 68
- 1986. Restoration of South African Citizenship Act No 73
- 1987. ? Act
- 1987. Act/Regulations
- 1988. Free Settlement Areas Act
- 1988. Prevention of Illegal Squatting Amendment Act
- 1989. ? Act
- 1990. ? Act(s)
- State Security Apparatus
- Collapse of BLA's and introduction of Auxillary Forces
- Policing Approach
- The South African Police: Managers of conflict or party to the conflict
- State Security Council and related structures
- The Policing of Public Gatherings and Demonstrations in South Africa 1960-1994
- Third Force Proposals
- Torture and Death in Custody
- The 70's riot control - Jimmy Kruger
- The use of Torture in Detention (refers to Rooi Rus Swanepoel)
- From Pariah to Partner - Bophuthatswana, the NPKF, and the SANDF
- Organisational Structure of SA State
- Tricameral Parliament Description
- Apartheid Legislation 1948-1990
- The Struggle
- Reflections in Prison
- Strikes and Mass Action
- MK
- Transition (1990 - 1994)
- Post-Transition (1994 - 1999)
- Transformation (1999-)
- General Information
- Mac Maharaj
This resource is hosted by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, but was compiled and authored by Padraig O’Malley. It is the product of almost two decades of research and includes analyses, chronologies, historical documents, and interviews from the apartheid and post-apartheid eras.
Pre-Transition (1902-1989) - Chronologies - 1950's
1957
Alexander bus boycott sees African workers walking to work rather than pay the increased fares
1957
A-Pound-a-Day national minimum wage campaign is launched following the Bus boycott
Fietas, Johannesburg: The Group Areas Act of 1950 is re-enacted in consolidated form
Fietas, Johannesburg: The Group Areas Development Board expropriates the land owned by the Lenasia Industrial Township Company
Fietas, Johannesburg: All 'non-whites' living south of 22nd Street n Pageview are given eviction notices. The 'Africans' are moved to Soweto, the 'Coloureds' to the Western Areas and Indians to Lenasia