SAHO global search

… the  regional chairman was arrested on the eve of the Anti-Pass Campaign in1960, 23-year-old Kgosana inherited local …

… Campaign , passive resistance against discriminatory laws passed against Indians, began in earnest in July 1907 … for the Satyagraha Campaign, aimed at opposing the pass laws for Indians, which were introduced in the Transvaal in …

… the University of London External Programme, Master of Laws with the University of London External Programme, Master … Africa. His honorary degrees include : Honorary Doctor of Laws with the University of Zimbabwe, Honorary Doctor of Laws with the University of Michigan State, United States of …

… norms. Reforms that deeply affected many Afrikaners were laws prohibiting the slave trade and later, the abolition of … freedom will be esteemed" and a government with "proper laws," based upon the fundamental concept of "righteousness." …

… for the Black Sash counselling victims of discriminatory laws and detention. Makhoere wrote a book about her …

… black person in Southern Africa to obtain a Doctor of Laws degree. He was the second black person in the country … he completed most of his work toward a Doctor of Laws from the University of South Africa. On Sithole’s last …

… Potato Boycott as well as the subsequent campaign against pass laws. The campaigns catapulted key activists such as Tsele to …

… Congress (ANC). Moabi participated in the 1960 Anti-Pass Campaign , and witnessed the Sharpeville massacre . …

… jailed during the African National Congress (ANC) anti-pass campaign of 1919. Yengwa was born near Mapumulo in Natal …

… as a teenager on noticing the impact the segregation laws had in South Africa. She joined the  Communist Party  in …

… on the verge of international isolation due to apartheid laws in sports. In 1968 he performed in an outstanding manner …

… in voicing opposition to several proceeding discriminatory laws, including the Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance and … from the University of Witwatersrand with First Class pass in a BA and a MA. Her subjects were French, Latin, …

… the deputation’s concerns about police raids and the pass laws, but took pains to stress the group’s ‘moderation’. The … but singled out the treatment of African soldiers and the pass laws for particular criticism. He later wrote: …

… Resistance Movement and the 1952 Defiance of Unjust Laws , and also played an instrumental role with respect to … ANC and the NIC and actively mobilised against all unjust laws. During the 1940s, Meer and a generation of other …

… heritage. According to South Africa’s racial laws, he was classifiedas a ‘Cape Coloured’. At 17, he played … former first class cricketer who defied the apartheid laws and put on a game that raised £150 alone. Innes died of …

… In 1989, as defiance against the governments oppressive laws spread like wild fire, the government met it with yet …

… in search of fame but, due to the influx control laws, she ended up as a domestic worker. Her employer soon …

… Sophiatown removals, One Pound-a-Day, the Women Anti-Pass Campaign of 1959, the Pass Burning after the  Sharpeville massacre  in 1960 and the …

… 1945 he was on the working committee of the National Anti-Pass Council. A member of Johannesburg's Orlando township …

… him was withdrawn,but police arrested him for not having a pass,although  as a coloured person under South Africa law he …

… a daughter named Makaziwe. Makaziwe would tragically pass away at 9 months old. In 1948, the National Party (NP) … mass action against a plethora of new segregationist laws that the Nationalist Party were drawing up to give … burns his passbook in an act of Defiance against apartheid pass laws. Photograph: Eli Weinberg, UWC Robben Island …

… Hare and on being awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws, 19 October 1991 …

… the group that launched the 1960 ‘Decisive Positive Anti-Pass Campaign’ that resulted in the Sharpeville and Langa …

… He stamps the word “classified” on the copy of his pass, later explaining the impact that this ostensibly simple …

… War II. Reverend Gawe took part in the Defiance of Unjust Laws Campaign in 1952, and went on to succeed  Professor Z K …

… the start of the Treason Trial, the compulsory carrying of pass books for Black people and the breakaway of the …