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EventRioting and destruction in Cato Manor and Durban continues
… black township on the outskirts, was met with violent resistance. Cato Manor was home to both Indian and Black … property ownership of Indian people. A…
BiographyNthato Harrison Motlana
… life, Dr Motlana played a central role in the internal resistance that led to the liberation of South Africa, and … of community politics in the post-1976…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… day of hartal (mourning) was called and soon afterwards a passive resistance campaign that lasted two years was launched. … Dadoo held a meeting at Red…
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
… then made the decision to end the policy of non-violent resistance, and embarked on campaigns of sabotage. Vorster’s … 1964 police swooped on activists…
EventMahatma Ghandi sends a telegram to Dr. Dadoo
… of E.I. Asvat, a decision was taken to launch the Passive Resistance Campaign on 1 August. A Council of Action for the … Although, India expressed its…
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… M.D. Naidoo , and A.I. Borat. They argued solidly for passive resistance because of Smuts’ intransigence and won the debate … of both Sorabjee Rustomjee and…
BiographyJennifer Davis
Jennifer was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1933. She grew up in what she described as a Jewish middle-class household where her pediatrician father was…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… of the Democrats, had been engaged in peaceful acts of resistance which aimed at forcing the government to … became clear to some members of the ANC and the…
BiographyLouis Botha
… Raid of December 1895, had however, strengthened stubborn resistance to Uitlander grievances, and weakened the position … Roberts reported to the Secretary…
Farewell Speech On Eve Of Imprisonment, February 29, 1948
… six months' imprisonment each for their leadership of the Passive Resistance Movement. The following is the report on Dr. … Manilal Gandhi and Sundra Pillay,…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… to African women in the Transvaal sparks discussions of passive resistance against passes. June, The Transvaal Asiatic Land … Dadoo moves an amendment to…
50. The campaign resumed in 1913
… reluctantly and with the utmost regret decided to revive passive resistance, owing to the inability or unwillingness of the … solemnly decided in the month…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… Langa branch of the NLL became the leading organisation in resistance of the establishment of municipal beer halls. The … representing 30 000 women in the…
ArchiveMemorandum: a study in political heresy
… up to the 1950s. Critique of the African National Congress passive resistance and liberalism. …
BiographyJohn Collins
… more trials as apartheid’s laws tightened the space for resistance, Reeves asked Collins to keep the defence fund …
BiographyJane Gool
… Department (CAD) in 1943. Their efforts in mobilising the resistance of the people through this vehicle saw the first …
BiographyAdvocate Abram "Bram" Fischer
… by the state lest they be used to create a shrine for the resistance movement. …
Statement In Court By Dr. Dadoo And Dr. G. M. Naicker, When Charged With Aiding And Abetting Under The Immigrants Regulation Act Of 1913, February 26, 1948
… of Act 22 of 1913 constitutes the second phase of the Passive Resistance struggle which is being conducted by the Indian community under the aegis of the…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… Act, 1951 Reservation of Separate Amenities Act, 1953 Resistance before 1959 *South Africa and the United Nations … other forms of non-violent resistance,…
BiographyGuy Tillim
… He tends to look at situations from a side view, as a passive but empathetic spectator, and seeks an unusual yet …
Gandhiji and the struggle for liberation in South Africa
… present, he guided and inspired the great Indian passive resistance movement of 1946-48 and lent it enormous support. … community in the Transvaal had…
EventDay of Reconciliation celebrated as a public holiday in SA for the first time
… had largely approached the fight against apartheid through passive resistance, but after the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960, where … peaceful protesters were…
BiographySindiso Mfenyana
… carefully by the British in order to break the Xhosa resistance. Whether Bibi’s version of events was true or not … than enough to persuade Sindiso that a…
Statement in Court by Dr G. M. Naicker and Dr Y. M. Dadoo, When Charged With Aiding and Abetting Under the Immigrants Regulation Act of 1913, February 26, 1948
… of Act 22 of 1913 constitutes the second phase of the Passive Resistance struggle which is being conducted by the Indian community under the aegis of the…
EventANC adopts the Programme of Action
… strikes, boycotts and other forms of non-violent resistance, similar to the 1946 Passive resistance campaign mounted by the South African Indian …
ArticleLouis van Mauritius and the Slave Revolt of 1808
… in the Cape Colony hindered many attempts at wide-scale resistance on the part of Cape slaves. Instead many slaves’ … on property and individuals, and less…
EventRev. Michael Scott besiege the UN for justice regarding Herero people
… from South Africa. In 1946 he participated in a passive resistance campaign by Indian protesters in Tobruk, Durban … was arrested and sentenced to three…
EventIndian people march in Durban to protest against the Ghetto Act
… the South African Indian Congress resolution for Passive Resistance against the Asiatic Land Tenure Act, or Ghetto Act …
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1900-1909
… Johannesburg demands withdrawal of Pass Bill and threatens resistance. September 19, Gandhi accuses Transvaal Government … to explain the terms of the…
The Role Of The Indian People In The South African Revolution: An Interview In 1968
… fighters easy. They must also mount ever-increasing resistance to every aspect of apartheid: the Group Areas Act … people once again to conduct a militant…