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… Born 1906. Commercial traveller. Prominent in the defiance campaign in Cape Western, and in Langa Congress activities. …

… Sydney Shall was born 1932. Volunteer in the  Defiance Campaign . Active in student affairs at University of the …

… agent. Joined Congress in 1937; active in 1943 anti-pass campaign and 1949 Western Areas train boycott. …

… Womens League (ANCWL). Zihlangu took part in the ANC’s Defiance Campaign in 1952 . This Campaign, a crucially important political factor in the …

… students union and by the impact of the passive resistance campaign held from 1946-48 against the Asiatic Land Tenure … serving as a member of its executive. In the 1952 Defiance Campaign , he was part of the first group of resisters, led …

… and went to Durban to be part of the Passive Resistance Campaign . On 13 June 1946, resistance group members set up … Pather, a veteran who had served in Gandhi’s satyagraha campaign , was not allowed to remain as she was sixty years … were inspirational and several women joined in the campaign as a result. Other women who addressed this …

… 1950s. Nzo got actively involved in the organising of the  Defiance Campaign  in 1952. He was also involved in the campaign to interview people about the kind of society in …

… Bertha volunteered to be in one of the first groups of the Defiance Campaign  in 1952 that went into Krugersdorp without permits, … Youth League (ANCYL) during the anti-Bantu education campaign strengthened her involvement in politics. However, …

… like the Fattis and Monis workers' strike and boycott campaign and the anti-South African Indian Council (SAIC) campaign . She was also instrumental in the formation of the … Ferus in Worcester , which, along with the anti-SAIC campaign, brought a great deal of public exposure to the …

… was one of the organisers of the  1946 Passive Resistance campaign  in which his wife also participated. During this campaign she was severely assaulted by white vigilantes and … one of the many Natal organisers of the  Freedom Charter  campaign. In 1955, he was a delegate to the Congress of the …

… Communist Party (SACP). One of the chief organizers of the Defiance Campaign in Port Elizabeth, he became the provincial … elections in South Africa, he actively supported the ANC’s campaign in the Eastern Cape, working with his old comrades …

… took part in what was probably the first women’s anti-pass campaign . In this campaign, a petition was signed by some 5000 black and …

… He joined the African National Congress (ANC) during the Defiance Campaign and became a prominent Orange Free State leader. …

… worker. He was soon involved with the 1919 anti-pass campaign of the  South African Native National Congress … republic'  and the burning of passbooks. (The pass burning campaign was a central part of the programme of mass action … of the Durban branch, the CPSA started a country wide campaign to burn passbooks on 16 December 1930, the Day of …

… Joined  African National Congress  in 1949 and during the  Defiance Campaign  led a batch of 40 volunteers to defy apartheid …

… He served two months' imprisonment during the  Defiance Campaign  for defying railway apartheid regulations. He was …

… at the Launch of the "Nelson Mandela: Freedom at 70"Campaign by O. R. Tambo, Wembley Stadium, London, 11 June 1988 …

… becoming national secretary.  In 1986, while away on a campaign in Europe she was threatened with a restriction … to ban her. Her involvement in the Free The Children Campaign resulted in the Apartheid government refusing to …

… Transvaal chaplain in about 1938. At the time of the  1952 Defiance Campaign , when  Nelson Mandela  was fully occupied with the conduct of the campaign, Tantsi became acting Transvaal president. In 1953 …

… so joined the Congress Movement. She participated in the Defiance Campaign  in 1952, which led to her being banned. She did not … too.  During the 1970s Mkhize led the Release Mandela Campaign in Natal. In the 1980s she led the people of …

… Inspired to join the African National Congress by the Defiance Campaign. Took an active part in subsequent Congress …

… Mahamba was killed in the Third Battle of the Wankie Campaign in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe ) at the hands of …

… the fourth anniversary of the Partnership Against AIDS, a campaign initiated by the Cabinet, an appeal is made to all …

… may have reached 200 000 in Rwanda, where Hutus are on a campaign of genocide against …

… warns 20,000 of his people not to participate in the defiance campaign and says …

… leaders of the Orange Free State women in the anti-pass campaign. …

… instead that mass support would follow a sustained protest campaign. In 1949, with the support of Walter Sisulu , Nelson … workings of the ANC, and in the period leading up to the Defiance Campaign the ANC underwent further organisational … he waited till the last day of the year to resign. The Defiance Campaign After a meeting of the ANC National …

… Communist Party (SACP). One of the chief organizers of the Defiance Campaign in Port Elizabeth, he became the provincial … elections in South Africa, he actively supported the ANC’s campaign in the Eastern Cape, working with his old comrades …

… . When the congresses decided on the  Passive Resistance Campaign , Sita and Mrs  Thayanayagie Pillay organised a … family were imprisoned during this campaign. Before the  Defiance Campaign , Sita accompanied her father and Dr AB … a bench at the railway station marked for Whites only in defiance of the racial segregation. In December 1963, Sita …

… elder brother, Gora, during the  Indian passive resistance campaign . By the time the ANC called a stayaway in June … increased substantially with the development of the  Defiance Campaign . He attended its first meeting in Durban …  and  Dr Monty Naicker . The crowd then marched with the defiance volunteers to the Berea Road police station where …