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BiographyProfessor Gert ‘Jakes’ Johannes Gerwel
… Gert Johannes “Jakes” Gerwel was born on 18 January 1946 in the town of Kommadagga in the district of Somerset …
Members of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) march to Pretoria and call for a Volkstaat for the Afrikaner people.
… Members of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) march to Pretoria and call for a …
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni becomes president of Uganda. Museveni’s National Resistance Movement, NRM, took power after an army coup
… Museveni becomes president of Uganda. Museveni’s National Resistance Movement, NRM, took power after an army coup …
At 11 am forty-seven (Passive) Resisters appear in court. Dr G.M. Naicker, Dr Goonam and M.D. Naidoo are sentenced under the Ri
… At 11 am forty-seven (Passive) Resisters appear in court. Dr G.M. Naicker, Dr …
BiographyZephania ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng
… Transvaal African Teachers Association (TATA) in 1950. In 1946, he obtained his BA degree from the University of South … chairperson of the Johannesburg…
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 … in the 1940s, notably the strike of…
BiographyMafika Pascal Gwala
… Mafika Pascal Gwala was born on 5 October 1946 in the town of Verulam, a region predominantly inhabited … 1960s due to bannings, exile and death. Since all…
BiographyReverend Walker Stanley Gawe
… as chaplain of the Cape provincial ANCand from 1942 to 1946 was a chaplain in the Native Military Corps.Gawe married …
BiographyLucy Buyaphi Mvubelo
… She became involved with the Garment Workers’ Union in 1946 and was one of the first Black women to be elected to …
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 with the African …
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
… Indians who came to trade, and secondly by the Gandhi resistance campaign and the formation of the Natal Indian … (NIC) in 1945 and the Transvaal Indian…
ArchiveFor their Triumph and for their Tears - Conditions and Resistance of Women in Apartheid South Africa by Hilda Bernstein
… For their Triumph and for their Tears - Conditions and Resistance of Women in Apartheid South Africa by Hilda …
ArchiveStudent organisation and political resistance in South Africa: an analysis of the Congress of South African Students, 1979-1985
… Student organisation and political resistance in South Africa: an analysis of the Congress of …
The South African Agricultural Union decides to allow membership of all races, despite strong resistance from the Transvaal Agr
… decides to allow membership of all races, despite strong resistance from the Transvaal Agr …
The South African Agricultural Union decides to allow membership of all races, despite strong resistance from the Transvaal Agr
… decides to allow membership of all races, despite strong resistance from the Transvaal Agr …
Nkomo, accused of plotting a coup, is dismissed in Zimbabwe. Armed resistance in his stronghold of Matabeleland, in the west, i
… of plotting a coup, is dismissed in Zimbabwe. Armed resistance in his stronghold of Matabeleland, in the west, i …
The ANC holds its forty-ninth National Conference in Bloemfontein. Its strategy and tactics document “From Resistance to Recons
… in Bloemfontein. Its strategy and tactics document “From Resistance to Recons …
The Road to Durban: Workers’ struggles, student movements, and the resurgence of resistance politics in Namibia and South Africa by Heike Becker
… resulted in renewed political mobilisation, and in Owambo resistance to the contract labour system broadened into a … to understand the entangled history of…
BiographyHailu Mergia
… Born in Debre Birhan, Showa Province, Ethiopia, in 1946 to parents of Amhara and Oromo descent, Mergia grew up …
BiographyDorothy Ruth Boxall
… In 1945 she formed a children’s orchestra and in April 1946 the Young Citizen’s Orchestra gave its first concert. …
BiographyMarion Gill
… Exh. Of Contemp. SA An, org. bySASA, MMG, 6 - 20 Apr. 1946: 43rd Annual Exh. Of Contemp. SA Art, an-, by SASA with …
BiographyDr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
… began in the 1950s. Led by the ANC, people mobilized in passive resistance to pass laws, segregated facilities, the … memory this marks the beginning of the…
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
… origin of the segregationist policies and indicates his resistance to them, a complete reversal of his story in The … under Dube’s platform of moderation…
BiographyErnst Heinrich Daniël Arndt
… a number of years. He continued lecturing until the end on 1946. After serving on the technical committee on banking …
Document 135 - “National Front and Class Struggle: Report to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of South Africa”, Freedom, 5, 4, August-September 1946
… Party of South Africa”, Freedom, 5, 4, August-September 1946 …
BiographyGeneral Jan Christiaan Smuts
… Convention. In 1908, Smuts was also confronted with resistance from the Indian population in South Africa, led by … established the Fagan Commission after…
BiographyProfessor Emeritus Phillip Tobias
… medical BSc, he was already teaching in the department by 1946. Tobias was appointed Demonstrator in Histology and … Bachelor of Science degrees in Histology…
BiographyFred Carneson
… full time secretary of the Western Cape CPSA in 1945. By 1946, Carneson was a member of the Central Committee of the CPSA. He was first arrested in August…
BiographyJulian Raymond Cobbing
… publication of the book Beyond the Barricades: Popular Resistance in South Africa in the 1980’s in which he added to the record of open defiance of apartheid…
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
… activities. With a British Council scholarship in 1946 he proceeded on a study tour of Europe and a period of … of the NRC. This tactic was deployed as the…