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ArchiveAfrican Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960, by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… Introduction The decade of the 1950s was a decade of turmoil in South Africa. In the urban … education for African children. The alliance organised bus…
Now You Have Touched the Women - African Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960 by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… Introduction The decade of the 1950s was a decade of turmoil in South Africa. In the urban … education for African children. The alliance organised bus…
87. Today’s lessons are tomorrow’s weapons for students
… be postponed until September 1980 because of the education boycott. A poll of 42 per cent was returned. QUESTION: You've mentioned the 1980 boycott. I…
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
… Trofomo Sono became SSRC president and called for a boycott of classes that ensured the continuation of student … students undertook at the end of 1977 was…
ArticleSpark: A Progressive Arts Project Publication
… If Poets must have flags by David Evans The Cultural Boycott - a tool of of liberation or a tool of censorship? …
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… legislations were passed by the NP led government in the 1950s as it sought to deal with dissent and entrench … The Langa Massacre The anti pass campaigns of…
EventElectricity cut off in Tumahole township
… municipalities facing a consumer electricity and rent boycott, with financial support to service arrears caused by … with their parents. These boycotts added…
Chapter 13
… (4) Calls upon the African people as a whole to boycott all elections under the Act and to struggle for full … the masses that Congress was compelled to…
EventSoweto agrees to pay rent
… agreement was reached bringing to an end a five-year rent boycott by the residents of Soweto. The SPD was engaged in … The two parties agreed to: To end the…
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… urban landscape by forced removals beginning in the late 1950s, these social relationships powerfully shaped African … layer of former indentured laborers:…
The strangulation of activity
… 1983 after it had been instrumental in organising a bus boycott during times of widespread unrest in the Ciskei. This … The other major statutory inroad into…
Document 40 - Anti-CAD, Why You Should Not Vote [1958]
… The Anti-C.A.D. gnashed the C.A.C. by using the boycott weapon: no organisations of the people went near to … election. Here are some of the reasons why you…
Learning about history through writing
… shortly following the end of the international sports boycott due to the apartheid. South Africa participates in …
EventCall for a stay-away in Black townships
… to take people to work, who did not participate in the boycott. The following day police report that 15 Black … death toll was given on 7 November 1984 as 23…
The start of mass campaigns
… There used to be sympathy boycotts too. There would be a boycott of buses in Alexandra because of the fares, and then in Port Elizabeth we would boycott too…
ArchiveCircular from N Pityana to all SRCs and SASO
… in support of the resolution by Black students to boycott Black Universities if any further Black students are … to the circular is a copy of the Alice…
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… of a fighting alliance and endorsed the ANC’s boycott call of all elections under the Representation of … mass meeting and collectively condemned the ban on…
ArticleSouth African National Students Congress (SANSCO)
… Nkondo and others. The 1980s decade saw a wave of schools boycott. On 28 May 1980 the schools boycott spread to the Black townships. In Durban and Port …
ArticlePondoland revolt - 1950 - 1961
… revolt took place in the Eastern Transkei in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The Pondo people revolted against the … Their demands were ignored. The Mpondo…
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… people with little else to cheer about. Moroka Swallows (1950s) After the Second World War and the rise of apartheid, … into close contact with formal…
4. Conclusion
… protests against housing shortages, Pass Laws, and higher bus fares. Their work paid dividends. By the war's end, CPSA …
ArchiveTambo pokes a few holes in the blanket
… Examines the debate over the cultural and academic boycott of South Africa which was rekindled by an … by Oliver Tambo about an ANC shift away from the …
A tribute to Sam Ramsamy and others who fought apartheid sport by E.S. Reddy
… Apartheid). In South Africa, as nowhere else, sports boycott made a great contribution to liberation. The Indian … in many newspapers around the world and…
ArchiveCongress Resister 1983 - 1989
… associated themselves with the non-racial policy of the 1950s Congress Alliance In 1981, a meeting was held in … the SAIC election. The Committee actively…
EventUnrests break out in the Coloured townships
… This was preceded in April by the Coloured schools' boycott which began as a result of students' dissatisfaction … of Indian schools in Pretoria and KwaZulu…
EventThe 41st annual conference of the ANC in Queenstown gets underway
… At the conference the ANC resolved to begin with the boycott campaign. A series of boycott campaigns were staged throughout the country, …
Timeline: All-Africa Convention (AAC)
… Jabavu seeking clarity on the All African Convention (AAC) boycott. The issue comes from the AAC's recommendation that he run for parliament only to boycott…
The Struggle Continues and Grows More Intense - Statement by O. R. Tambo, 23 August 1984
… rejection of the so-called new constitution in a total boycott of the election by our Indian compatriots. Such a massive boycott could be a blow from which…
EventSoweto High School under siege
… Town joined the strike the next week to support students' boycott of classes and demands. They agreed to introduce an … not lose out on their education.The…
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed TRC chairperson
… After the1976 Soweto Uprising, Tutu supported an economic boycott of South Africa. The boycott became successful as disinvestments took place and …