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African family housing in urban areas |
Article on regulations governing the control and supervision of an urban Bantu residential area and the many hardships that these regulations inflicted on african families |
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Black uprooting and relocation |
Resolution of the Twelfth National Conference of the South African Council of Churches, Hammaskraal, May 1980 regarding the negative socio-economic effects on Black people resulting from forced removals and resettlements |
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Ciskei Commission: interviews |
Transcript of interviews of E.N. Belewa and Mr Tindleni , to the Ciskei Commission of Inquiry, regarding the negative impact of separate development with particular reference to the Transkei and Ciskei. |
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Ciskei Commission: Report |
Report by Secreatry of the Interior, Mr Marais, on the 'allocation' of Xhosa speaking people to the Ciskei and the Transkei. |
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Comments |
Comments by J. H. Nash, Member of the Coloured Persons Representative Council, to the Ciskei Commission on Ciskei Independence and its effects on the Coloured community |
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Historical perspectives and the effects of uprootal |
This is an essay highlighting a few historical perspectives, brief historical review of migration of the period just before the Lifaqale, the review of the effects of the 1913 Native Land Act and subsequent related legislation is discussed and the effects of removals and resettlement. |
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Letter from Isaac Tembani protesting the forced removals of the Mfengu people from their land in Tsitsikamma |
Handwritten letter from Isaac Tembani protesting about the forced removals of the Mfengu people from their land in Tsitsikamma to Kieskammahoek. The letter appeals against the evictions and explains the wishes of the Mfengu people to reclaim back their land. |
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Letter from Priscilla Hall to Agneta Ekman-Wingate |
Letter from Priscilla Hall to Agneta Ekman-Wingate appealing for funding, publicity and moral support for the people of Glenmore resettlement against government's proposed plans to relocate them to Peddie resettlement camp. |
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Letter from Rev G Hawkes, to the Secretary, Van der Walt Commission of Inquiry into the Consolidation of the Ciskei |
Letter to the Secretary, Van der Walt, Commission of Inquiry into the Consolidation of the Ciskei from representatives of various churches (Anglican, Catholic, Congregational, Lutheran, Methodist and Presbyterian)in the Ciskei. |
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Memorandum about the Ciskei independence |
Memorandum opposing the creation of a homeland government in the Ciskei based on its negative socio-economic impact on black people. |
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Memorandum to the Minister of Plural Relations from the Congress of the Ciskei National Independence Party held at Ntabakandoda, Zwelitsha as from 13 - 15 April 1979 |
Memorandum to the Minister of Plural Relations from the Congress of the Ciskei National Independence Party condemning the Development Trust and the Land Act, of 1936 and its method of application. |
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Miscellaneous problems |
Problems faced by Africans due to influx control and legislation such as Pass Laws. |
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Particulars of families in needy areas with reference to Mbekweni in Whittlesea |
Statistics of resettled Black families in need of food aid and financial assistance |
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Report on regional resettlement consultation held at St Peters, Hammanskraal on February 1-2, 1980 |
Report on regional resettlement consultation held at St Peters, Hammaskraal to discuss forced removals and how if affected people. |
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Report on the Whittlesea Resettlement areas with special reference to Zweledinga |
Report by the Border Council of Churches on problems faced by Black families who were forcibly removed from their homes because of the policy of separate development and resettled at Whittlesea. |
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Representations on the Glenmore removals |
Report on the forced removals of Black families from Klipfontein and Kenton-on-Sea to Glenmore Township. |
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Statement given to Sunday Times |
Draft statement prepared for the Sunday Times opposing the forced removals of the Fingo people from their land |
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Tembani's personal "deed" |
Handwritten statement about Isaac Tembani's application to reclaim his land in Tsitsikamma from which he was forcibly removed. |
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The crisis over the land |
Article on the government's dispossession of Black's from their land and its policy of separate development resulting in the creation of Bantustans with deplorable living conditions |
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The origins and the decline of the Roosboom Village and the struggle of its community for survival |
Journal article about the origins and the decline of the Roosboom village in northern Natal, and the struggle of its community for survival. |