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EventGertrude Shope, former president of the ANC Women’s League, is born
… and soon afterwards left teaching as part of a campaign to boycott Bantu Education. In 1966 the ANC convinced her to …
EventLucas Mangope leaves Mmabatho due to uprising
… in the face of a popular uprising after he had tried to boycott participation in South Africa's first democratic …
EventThe government launches ‘Operation Iron Fist’ in townships
… rule. Though a call was made by a few Black groups to boycott the curfew, it proved effective when it returned …
EventSASO leader, Abram Tiro is assassinated
… sending him the parcel bomb. As a result, Black students boycott lectures and their institutions were forced to shut …
EventThe European Community announces that it will lift economic sanctions against South Africa
… flying their flags to enter South African ports, to boycott South African trade and to suspend landing rights for …
EventRiots erupt in Soweto
… which had been carried out after an eleven week rent boycott. According to reports at the time, the South African …
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… Things Then in 1998 Started photographing the three-hour bus journey between the Wolwekraal depot in KwaNdebele and … and the London office of the ANC said…
The melody of freedom
… until Monday morning. The Jazz Maniacs stood well into the 1950s when mbaqanga became popular and the band could not … Songs such as Azikwelwa ('We won't…
PlaceSebokeng Township, Johannesburg
Sebokeng is a middle-class Township in Southern Gauteng. Very near the Industrial Cities of Vanderbijlpark and Vereeniging. It falls in the Region of the…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.3 No.4 Jul-Sept 1959
… Further Reflections, Joe Matthews. The Place of Boycott, Stanley Trapido. The Africanists Cut Loose, Peter …
EventIndependent African States resolve to impose sanctions against South Africa
… their ships from entering South African ports, to boycott all South African goods, to refuse landing and …
Gold and Workers 1886 - 1924 by Luli Callinicos
… Part 3 - Workers' Resistance Chapter 13 - Black Workers Boycott The Mines Chapter 14 - The Chinese Workers Chapter 15 …
EventChief Mangosuthu Buthelezi calls for National Convention
… the Progressive Party (PP). In 1994, following threats to boycott the first democratic elections scheduled for 26 to 28 …
EventDr Louis Luyt resigns as president of the SARFU
… SARFU executive. It further threatened to initiate a boycott of international rugby unless they did so by May 7. …
BiographyKasturba Gandhi
… Indian newspapers. When Gandhi inaugurated a nation-wide boycott of foreign-made goods by staging public bonfires, …
Biography of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile by Brianna T. Hogg
… and foreign artists. For example, in 1991, the cultural boycott that occurred in South Africa. During this time, many … Times, Scott Kraft. 1991. "A Cultural…
ArticleTimeline of the Labour and Trade Union Movement in South Africa 1881 - 1919
… African miners, hard hit by the rising cost of living, boycott concession stores on the East Rand in February 1918. Police break up the boycott by arresting…
ArchiveUDF Campaign Manual - Section B: "How We Are Struggling - The Methods"
… canvassing, signature collection, and election boycott campaigns … canvassing, signature collection, and election boycott campaigns …
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… months imprisonment due to his involvement in a tram-and-bus strike in Cape Town. August Wolton is released from jail … set up by the Convention. A decision…
EventStudents at Durban
… Students Congress (SANSCO) based, students staged a boycott of lectures. The situation at the campus had …
EventInkatha Freedom Party boycotts parliament
… his party to participate in parliament, hence the need to boycott it. He promised to review his party's decision …
Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers’ party
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 2 - The lack … not only in the workplaces, but in the townships - with bus boycotts,…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Glossary
… political prisoners were sent to serve out their sentences boycott ”” to withdraw from commercial or social relations, … this reason Origin: from the name of…
EventGertrude Shope, former president of the ANC Women's League, is born
… and soon afterwards left teaching as part of a campaign to boycott Bantu Education. In 1966 the ANC convinced her to …
EventThe government launches 'Operation Iron Fist' in townships
… rule. Though a call was made by a few Black groups to boycott the curfew, it proved effective when it returned …
The Struggle against our Weaknesses by A. B. Xuma, 1956
… Campaign, the Western Areas Removal Scheme and the School Boycott, the Congress aroused vain hopes in the breasts of … the Annual Conference to rescind its…
ArchiveChapter 2 Respect for all, Childhood in Cape Town, 1933 – 1949 by Denis Goldberg
… the Group Areas Act, based on race, was introduced in the 1950s in addition to the previous laws controlling where … brothers Joe and Barney and my…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.7 No.2 1988
… at Busang Thakaneng by A. W. Oliphant; The Cultural Boycott: A Tool of Censorship or Liberation? by Achmat …
EventFormer ANC President, Oliver ‘OR’ Tambo, is born
… in politics. Tambo was among those who led the student boycott at Fort Hare, calling for the formation of a …
EventUDF leaders are charged with treason
… African Government was hot on their heels for organising a boycott of elections in August 1984 of the new Indian and …