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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 …
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…
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 …
BiographyKasturba Gandhi
… Indian newspapers. When Gandhi inaugurated a nation-wide boycott of foreign-made goods by staging public bonfires, …
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…
EventRiots erupt in Soweto
… which had been carried out after an eleven week rent boycott. According to reports at the time, the South African …
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…
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. …
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…
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,…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 …