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EventViolence erupts during Defiance Campaign
… the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Indian Congress (SAIC). From this date planned acts of …
EventPort Natal is renamed Durban in honour of Sir Benjamin D’Urban, governor of the Cape Colony from 1834 - 1837
… terms of size and volume. Settled by the British, a large Indian community (now the largest outside of India) was …
PlaceAddo Drift, Sunday's River in the Eastern Cape
… in the fertile Sundays River Valley. It empties into the Indian Ocean at Algoa Bay after running through the village …
7.Madras merchants protest against an order to uncover and remove their boots in court
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal …
PlaceUnion Buildings, Pretoria
… People's Party and Rahima Moosa of the South African Indian Congress .' The Union Building was not only a site of …
Say It out Loud - The 1912 Presidential Address, Johannesburg, Transvaal, 1st January, 1912
… this alleged inferiority were a reason for the repressive legislation. There are, however, in every nation of … cannot long continue. The oppressive nature…
ArticleHistory of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa
… Americas from Madagascar also sold slaves at the Cape. The Indian Ocean Slave Routes © museums.org.za/iziko The Indian subcontinent was the main source of…
ArticleHow Unique was Slavery at the Cape?
… from India and the East Indies spoke a combination of Indian and Indonesian dialects as well as Portuguese. … was solidified. Islam was introduced to the…
EventDr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang's advice is criticised
… the African potato might significantly weaken the power of anti-HIV medicines (antiretroviral or ARVs) by altering their …
ArchiveCelebrating and commemorating twenty-years of the Harare declaration by Kgolane Alfred Rudolph PHALA
… incomprehensible in the midst of draconian apartheid legislation, diabolic PW Botha, a permanent state of … that: "organizationally, politically and…
Chapter II - Partners in protest
… what the women would want to say. At the office of the Indian Youth Congress, ally of the ANC, the young men worked … not made welcome by a small but vocal…
EventOver 400 Kikuyu suspected to be part of the Mau Mau movement are arrested in Kenya
… the Tuareg were brutally crushed. In 1991, a number of anti-government riots broke out, and President Traore was …
EventEnforcement of military conscription for all white males in SA
… Mozambique, and were often deployed to townships to quell anti-apartheid action.In 1983, the End Conscription Campaign …
EventMoïse Kapenda Tshombe leads the Congelese Province of Katanga into secession
… who praised Tshombe as a pro-West advocate and staunch anti-Communist Christian. However, after Tshombe's soldiers …
EventMass funeral for those killed at Sharpeville commemoration
… with the same name in Cape Town, which is known for the anti-pass march held there on 21 March 1960, the same day on …
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
… in Berlin. Following orders from YCI, the YCL started anti-militarist campaign. Young workers of South Africa were … in Berlin. Following orders from YCI,…
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… when the ANC announced that they were planning an anti-pass campaign on the 31 March 1960, the PAC decided to … by planning a similar protest for the 21…
ArchiveAppendix 5 Notes on Palestine and Israel by Denis Goldberg
… country The world condemned apartheid and international anti-apartheid campaigning was an important part of our … rationale for power We demand action You…
From Resistance to Creative Mediation: Writing and Literary Intellectuals’ Influence on the Liberation Struggles and Political Impact on Literary Discourse and Developments
… perspectives of those who occupy the margins of colonial, anti-colonial and post-colonial historiographies. Africa’s … day-to-day life in contexts of…
ArchiveBibliography by Howard Barrell
… South Africa (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1987). Transvaal Anti-SAIC Committee, Congress 1983. Speeches and Papers … Hall, Johannesburg (n.p. [Johannesburg]:…
The White man’s task by Jan Smuts, 22 May 1917
… to subject them to the same institutions of government and legislation. They are different not only in colour but in … and as a result of that and other…
Article1960's Diaries of Nelson Mandela on his trip through Africa
… encountered about the ANC’s co-operation with white and Indian South Africans and in particular communists. From his …
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March, Pretoria, 9 August
… others wore the Congress colours, green, black and gold; Indian women were clothed in white saris. Many women had …
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1910-1919
… on the basis of ‘competency’.” (Morris: 2004) 27 April, Indian passive resistance is suspended when Gen. J.C. Smuts …
Speech by Oliver Tambo at dinner hosted in his honour by the Minister of External Affairs of India, Mr. P.V. Narasimha, 21 January 1983, Rao, New Delhi
… The linkage of Mandela to Nehru served to bind the Indian and South African peoples together in struggle and … bribes and enticements to the "Coloured" and…
PlaceMozambique
… With an Indian Ocean shoreline stretching more than 2000 km, from … merchants from both the African interior and the broader, Indian Ocean world…
Documents, and articles relating to the Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… the Congress of South African Trade Unions , Natal Indian Congress and Transvaal Indian Congress , are all non-violent and peaceful … driven into exile,…
Statement at the Symposium on the Survival and Development of Children in the Frontline States and Southern Africa, Harare, March 1-5, 1988
… be among the worst victims of this man-hating and anti-human system. What we are speaking of is not a matter … and vigour. Covering the entire subcontinent,…
EventSouth Africa's new constitution is approved
… was the embodiment of the vision of generations of anti-apartheid freedom fighters and democrats who had fought …
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… and boycotts occurred frequently. One such example was an anti-pass campaign in Durban in 1930, during which the Durban …