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… of resistance to segregation and existing labour laws 1947 Robert Sobukwe enrols at the University of Fort … disciplined and sustained protest campaign against pass laws, starting on 21 March. 19 March, Sobukwe announces … that the PAC would embark on a campaign against the pass laws from Monday 21 March. He called on people to leave …

… but on each occasion he was recognised and allowed to pass unchallenged. …

… also schizophrenic in its approach to reforms, abolishing laws that made life for Black, Coloured and Indian people … to growing revolutionary fervour. It recognised that the  Pass Laws ‘were not working and that they were the biggest single …

… Indian Congress's "defiance campaign against unjust laws". That same year Freda joined the protesters who entered …

… in the future, recognise your right to govern us; to make laws for us, in which we had no say; to treat our country as …

… outraged authorities in 1978 when she defied censorship laws and published the first photograph of Robert Mugabe to …

… Legends award on 11 March 2008 He was Awarded Doctor of Laws degrees, honoris causa, by the Universities of Zululand, …

… She was detained under the 90-day solitary confinement laws in 1963 and subsequently banned. The Nursing Act …

… Mineworkers' Union and also served on the National Anti-Pass Council in 1944. He was best known as a member of the …

… the women’s organisation that organised the famous Anti-Pass March on the Union Buildings in Pretoria in 1956. In … her leadership, from 1986-88, the IBR addressed the low pass rate among African matriculates by organising tutorial …

… became estranged from the Party. Following the 1960 anti-pass campaign that led to the  Sharpeville Massacre  and the …

… increased introduction of racist and repressive laws, and in 1949 adopted the Programme of Action. This … open defiance against the government, and action against pass and other restrictive laws. On 26 March 1950, the ANC … Union Buildings in Pretoria against the extension of the pass laws to women- a breakthrough in the organisation of …

… liberatory movement is not just the repeal of individual laws, but also the liquidation of the whole status quo. In … The focal points of our struggle in this period are the pass laws and Bantu Authorities. The notorious Urban Areas … insecure position of the Africans in the country under the pass laws. This Bill, when it becomes law, will complete the …

… notes that he was banished to the Native Trust Farm Cala Pass [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape] and that he was …

… became aware of political oppression under the Apartheid laws and poverty and this contributed to his political …

… but to none were they more committed than the anti-pass campaign. Women and the anti-pass campaign 1950-1953 The apartheid regime's influx control measures and pass laws were what women feared the most and reacted to most …

… of Arts degree in 1952 and followed up with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1954. While at university, her leadership … of the Witwatersrand awarded her the degree of Doctor of Laws honoris causa. …