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‘Between Two Fires’: Racial Populism, Indian Resistance and the Beginnings of Satyagraha in the Transvaal, 1902–06 by Jeremy Martens (The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 2016, Vol. 44, No. 4)
… ‘Between Two Fires’: Racial Populism, Indian Resistance and the Beginnings of Satyagraha in the Transvaal, …
BiographyOlive Schreiner
… labour . . . reducing them, like the field tick, to the passive exercise of their sex functions alone’ . She looked …
BiographyMafika Pascal Gwala
… 1960s due to bannings, exile and death. Since all Black resistance and action was under surveillance, Gwala notes … among the races. He says that each time…
BiographyPaul Ramadiba Mokgathle
In 1956, Paul Ramadiba Mokgathle, a senior headman at Linokana Reserve (Zeerust), Marico District, Transvaal [now North West Province]came into conflict with…
BiographyBen Mclennan
… South African National Gallery in 1983, the “Culture and Resistance” exhibition held in Gaborone, Botswana in 1982 and …
BiographyWendy Heather Woods
… and the government intensified its attempts to neutralise resistance to its policies, resulting in the torture and … politicised anti-apartheid Black Sash ,…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… the immigration of thousands of Chinese to undercut any resistance by African mineworkers. Black, Coloured and Indian … 1906, Indian political activist,…
BiographyGlenn Moss
… in the same year, which aimed to educate White students on resistance to Apartheid. As a result of his political … which was used as a monitor of political…
ArticleIndian South Africans Timeline 1910-1919
… Pather, K.R. Nayanah and H.S.L. Polak . 27 April, Indian passive resistance is suspended when General Jan Christiaan Smuts … indefinitely. 22 September, The…
BiographyQaqawuli Godolozi
… played a prominent role in organising and coordinating resistance activities such as consumer and bus boycotts, stay …
BiographyNarriman Gadija Bazier Samuels
… the continuation of a long tradition of community resistance in Mitchells Plain, which had been a stronghold of … a site of forced relocation into a…
Last of The Gandhians in South Africa
… known, came into prominence during the Indian passive resistance movement of 1946-48 and helped build the alliance … compromising leaderships of the…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
… of the organization. The TBIA was involved in the Gandhi passive resistance campaigns of 1908 and 1913. The organization was … NIC and CBIC. 1940s: Yusuf…
BiographyLord Kitchener
… concentration camps. These ruthless measures helped weaken resistance and bring British victory. On returning to England …
BiographyBoas Moiloa
… Pogiso Moiloa , was a key figure in the Bahurutshe resistance of the 1950s. He was from Linokana Reserve …
BiographyAnna Zieminski
… photo agency that played a key role in documenting the resistance to apartheid in the 1980s. During this period her …
BiographyNelson Zulu
… to move to a new area. However, “so intense was the resistance in Zululand that King Cyprian, who had accepted …
Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… policy on how to deal with black people and segregation. Resistance and campaigns The 1940s in South Africa were … to implement its envisaged fare hike. The…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… Pather, K.R. Nayanah and H.S.L. Polak. 27 April, Indian passive resistance is suspended when Gen. J.C. Smuts enters into … resist the imposition of…
BiographyElliot Mngadi
Elliot Mngadi was born in Roosboom around 1918. Alongside Peter Brown also a leading member of the LP, Mngadi spearheaded the cause of black farmers in Natal…
BiographyLauretta Ngcobo
… women. In our tradition we find customs against which resistance is in vain, especially if one is an isolated …
BiographyAubrey Mokoena
… of the SASO executive and soon became very involved in resistance politics. Mokoena had by this time been aware of …
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… and the CYL began to set the tone for a new spirit of resistance. African women were quick to follow this lead and … tide of black resistance of the 1950s…
BiographySindiwe Magona
… informed by her experience of impoverishment, femininity, resistance to subjugation and being a domestic worker. She …
BiographyIan Mkhize
… adult literacy courses and student bursaries. Mkhize led resistance to government attempts to incorporate his township …
BiographyThandi Modise
… into Bophuthatswana . There was a great deal of resistance from the people of Huhudi, and a violent and …
BiographyMary Maria Burton
… meant that the Black Sash would begin to experience some resistance from some Black people as well. Despite the odds, …
BiographyLillian Masediba Ngoyi
… confinement. Lillian Ngoyi known as "Mother of the Black resistance" in South Africa. Image source She was first …
BiographyAdrian Leftwich
… (UK). In 1962, Leftwich was recruited into the African Resistance Movement (ARM), an organisation that targeted … On 12 June 1964, the NCL changed its name…
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
… Indians who came to trade, and secondly by the Gandhi resistance campaign and the formation of the Natal Indian … in 1946 respectively. The NIC and the TIC…