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BiographyGeorge Gangen Ponnen
… Water Workers Union 1945 - Non European Transport and Bus Drivers Union The Textile Workers Union was formed in …
BiographyReverend Allan Aubrey Boesak
… riot victims. He was a conspicuous advocate of the boycott in 1984 of the Coloured and Indian Parliamentary … storekeeper, and another woman waiting in a…
Chronology
… Department] July 7 , General election August , Alexandra bus boycott (nine days) September 26 , Inauguration of Paul … Lembede as president November 14 ,…
Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , “South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home”, International Socialism, 5, Summer 1961
… Mpanza; the problems of transport led to the first great bus boycott in Alexandra; the new political awareness was … 1930s, was on the CNETU leadership from…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… struggle based on 'non-collaboration' and the use of the boycott. The basis for the programme of the NEUM was … the NEUM ignored or condemned. There was no…
BiographyDenis Theodore Goldberg
… over apartheid and the importance of campaigns such as Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. By 2017, with Palestinian …
BiographyWilliam Cock
… this was a reception with a difference; it was in fact a boycott. The colonists were not going to allow the Cape to be …
Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the 1940s
… of the 1930s from the populism and mass politics of the 1950s. The first document is a description of the ANC's 1937 … the 1940s that deserve special mention…
BiographyPeter Hlaole Molotsi
… a member of the ANC Youth League in Orlando in the early 1950s. He got to know people like Nthato Motlana and others … of the Orlando East branch of the…
BiographyPravin Jamnadas Gordhan
… the 1970s and 1980s and participated in the NIC’s call to boycott the then government’s Tricameral Parliament …
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
… took up campaigns such as child care, the bread price and bus fare increases. Other branches dealt with housing … since the mass meetings of the Congress…
ArticleList of people banned under Apartheid
… 3 colleagues from the university in 1972 after a class boycott in support of the formation of a students’ … into Mafeking if they walked 12 miles to catch…
Chapter 8 - The politics of Congress in the late 1950s
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 8 - The … clearly enough a year ago the desperate poverty behind the bus boycotts -…
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… status to the Union of South Africa in 1910. By the late 1950s, Britain was one of South Africa’s most significant … South Africans fleeing from apartheid in…
The Role of Women in the Struggle against Apartheid, 15 July 1980
… that follow. In December 1954, the FSAW campaigned for a boycott of schools controlled by the Government. The women … Alexandra, Sophiatown and Lady…
Chapter 5 - The Freedom Charter
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 5 - The … the government's attempt to impose passes on them, and the bus boycott in…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… Modern Youth Society, flourishes during in the 1940s and 1950s." 1940 Electoral Laws Amendment Act of 1940 is passed Alexandra Bus Boycotts Dr. AB Xuma is…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… then in 1956 or today. Issues that concerned women in the 1950s can be described as 'bread and butter' matters, such as … such as Mrs Annie Sidyiyo, they…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… in 1948 and non-violent resistance to apartheid in the 1950s. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights after World … world gradually diminished as countries…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… Saulridge High began the Transvaal’s first sustained class boycott. Further demands were taken up and intermittent class … generated solidarity behind…
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… The Vaal Civic Association organised the stayaway, school boycott and march for 3 September 1984, which led to clashes … was not the first protest caused by…
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament, 1983-1984
… government's constitutional reforms. The UDF called for a boycott of the elections, but the campaign was run mainly … The UDF was not sure what they should…
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
… house, one Mr Lavisa. Mbeki excelled at school. The mid-1950s were the years in which the nationalist government … at high school, Mbeki was expelled for…
BiographyDr. Abu Baker Asvat
… the community to use and created a school out of a broken bus near his clinic. His approachability and commitment to … Indian and coloured students launched…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the1940s by Mohamed Adhikari
… of the 1930s from the populism and mass politics of the 1950s. The first document is a description of the ANC's 1937 … the 1940s that deserve special mention…
Indian Community in Lenasia
… answer to an urgent need. They moved there in the early 1950s, living in barracks that were partitioned off into … of Johannesburg. These students would…
Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984
… the most important black union movement to emerge in the 1950s. One measure of the success of independent unions was … of residents. • We wanted a suspension…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984 by Noor Nieftagodien
… the most important black union movement to emerge in the 1950s. One measure of the success of independent unions was … of residents. ”¢ We wanted a…
ArticleThe 2nd Johannesburg Biennale
… institutional spaces, and made public on billboards, at bus stops, and on the internet, local audiences and media …
Biography of Miriam Makeba by Narcy Negrete
… songs performed by Makeba. Makeba and the cultural boycott Additionally, Makeba also participated in a South African cultural boycott. In 1965 Makeba along…