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BiographyPremanathan “Prema” Naidoo
… Council (TASC) which, in 1981, led a very successful boycott against the South African Indian Council (SAIC) …
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 …
BiographyJane Gool
… vigorously for the total rejection these new bills, a boycott of the NRC and the building of a national unity of …
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…
BiographyNorman Levy
… had heeded the African National Congress’s (ANC) call to boycott government schools. Levy also became prominent in the …
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…
BiographyTeboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… issuing press statements, and calling for students to boycott classes, and wrote critically of the police’s actions …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…