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… Introduction The decade of the 1950s was a decade of turmoil in South Africa. In the urban … Protest against the pass laws was not an innovation of the 1950s. The African National Congress (ANC) had been … founding in 1912. The significance of the campaigns of the 1950s lay in the adoption of new strategies for bringing …

… Indian Youth Congress when he was a teenager in the mid-1950s. He remembers a social trip to Cape Town organised by …

… account of his time in jail, was published. 1950 The 1950s was the decade in which the African National Congress … with massive treason trials for those who defied it. The 1950s also saw a new generation of black writers talking … stamp and style. The popular Drum magazine in the 1950s was their forum, and encouraged their emergence. It …

… on the applicable image However, it was not until the 1950s that the Women’s struggle really gained momentum. In fact the 1950s is often referred to as the ‘decade of the women’. The … Campaign and the Women’s Charter that was drawn up in the 1950s became the inspiration and benchmark around which …

… literary expression had been popularized throughout the 1950s and earlier 1960s. The end of the fifties brought about … entertaining stories published in Drum Magazine of the 1950s. Included were: ‘ the brutality of the Boer, the …

… an active role in the ANC's Defiance Campaign in the early 1950s, as the organisation in Natal had not been developed …

… Khama (1960). Returning to South Africa in the mid-1950s (thus ending her partnership and deeply personal …