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ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… of passive resistance campaigns such as the Alexandra bus boycotts and the miners’ strike in 1946. Conversely, … increasingly urban population. The first…
BiographyPeter Henry Abrahams
… going to visit his mother he was forced to travel on a bus specifically for ‘Coloured’ persons. Furthermore, he …
BiographyRonnie Govender (Sathiseelan Gurulingam Govender)
… longest running plays. In line with the then cultural boycott against South Africa, Govender refused invitations to …
BiographyJohn Collins
… and to pressure countries that flouted the resolutions to boycott the apartheid regime. When Imam Haroon , who had been …
BiographyNorman Levy
… had heeded the African National Congress’s (ANC) call to boycott government schools. Levy also became prominent in the …
BiographyEbrahim Ismail Ebrahim
… by Oliver Tambo. The meeting decided to hold a potato boycott in protest against Bethal farmers' treatment of … Ebrahim concluded that the non-violent…
BiographyJane Gool
… vigorously for the total rejection these new bills, a boycott of the NRC and the building of a national unity of …
BiographyJabulani “Mzala” Nxumalo
… 15, he was detained without trial for his role in a school boycott. The following year he was arrested again and charged …
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… its affiliates continue to encourage African workers to boycott the machinery of the Native Labour Act. Lucy Mvubelo … (SACTU) Vice-President. 7 January,…
”ASINAMALI”, WE HAVE NO MONEY
… Trade Unions (SACTU's) most successful achievement in the 1950s and 1960s. Demanding a legislated, national minimum … the impetus for the prolonged campaign…
ArticleThe South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO)
… would elect four members at separate elections. In the 1950s, the NP came to dominate the white vote, and it used … second goal, it undertook a range of…
BiographyMorgan Gonaseelan Naidoo
… SA Soccer Federation in their sponsorship, he organised a boycott of the product, under the banner of the Committee …
BiographyMiriam Makeba
… her working life helping her mother clean houses. In the 1950s, she lived in Sophiatown when it was a vibrant place … despite the fact that it technically…
BiographyJames Edward April
… African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO) resolved to boycott. He joined the South African Coloured People’s … Since none of them had passports, they…
BiographyTeboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… issuing press statements, and calling for students to boycott classes, and wrote critically of the police’s actions …
Chapter 7 - 1957-58: The Movement in a Crucial Phase
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 7 - 1957-58: … of resurgence of mass struggle were the launching of a bus boycott in…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO) organises bus boycott in Cape Town to protest against the introduction of … limited government responsibilities…
BiographyPregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender
Pregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender was born on 15 February 1960 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). Her father – a writer and, mother, a teacher – valued critical…
BiographyMagasvarie Govender
Magasvarie ‘Maggie’ Govender was born in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), and grew up in Durban Central. When she was eleven years old, due to the Group…
BiographyNimrod Sekeramane Nathale
… He married, and settled in Jabavu, Soweto . During the 1950s, Sejake was a leading member of the South African … Sejake joined the ANC and was active…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… aftermath of World War II. Consequently, throughout the 1950s unrest in African, Coloured and Indian communities … reactions to apartheid measures. Foremost…
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… Movement was the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, which struggled for equal rights for … Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to move to…
EventThomas Titus Nkobi is born
… joined the African National Congress (ANC) in the early 1950s becoming involved in its activities. For instance, he was extensively involved in the Alexander…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Albert John Luthuli
… tactics. An early sign of this change in tactics was the boycott of buses in Montgomery , Alabama from December 1955 … a seat that was reserved for whites in…
BiographyOliver Tambo
… intense debate, influenced by Tambo’s guidance, staged a boycott of classes in protest. In 1942, he was unanimously … the Programme of Action but Xuma…
BiographyArchibald Jacob Gumede
… an active role in the ANC's Defiance Campaign in the early 1950s, as the organisation in Natal had not been developed … detained. ANC campaigns at that time…
BiographyZuleikha Mayat
… known as the University of KwaZulu-Natal - UKZN) student boycott , Mayat and Fatima Meer were on the parents’ …
South African and World leaders
… In 1948 she joined the ANC Women’s League and in the 1950s she began to assume a leadership role – both in the ANC … a White person could not share the same…
ArchiveRoseinnes Daniel Phahle by Allison Drew
… 1957 he was actively involved in sustaining the Alexandra Bus Boycott, canvassing daily street by street to ensure … anti-rent strikes, and no. 6, an article…
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… Cape. For instance, the Fattis and Monis strike and boycott, Saldanha Bay fish factory strike and the red meat … in the workplace which intersected with…