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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…
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…
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? …
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…
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…
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:…
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 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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
4. Conclusion
… protests against housing shortages, Pass Laws, and higher bus fares. Their work paid dividends. By the war's end, CPSA …
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…
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…
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, …
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 …
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…