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EventGandhi leads a march from Newcastle into the Transvaal to defy the Immigrants Regulation Act of 1913
… community at Newcastle to start the Satyagraha Campaign (Passive Resistance Campaign). In this public meeting, Naidoo … 28 October 2013]| University of…
EventState of emergency declared after Sharpeville Massacre
… fleeing in panic. This event signaled the start of armed resistance in South Africa, as it became clear to many that means of passive resistance were…
BiographyCurtis Nkondo
… English and Geography for two decades. When the student resistance against Bantu Education and the imposition of …
BiographyDavid Goldblatt
… in 1989). Goldblatt was present at the 1982 Culture and Resistance Conference in Botswana where he argued against …
Circular Letter To Organisations Concerning The Arrest Of J. N. Singh Under The Immigration Act, November 9, 1946
… rights. From the 13th June on, we will have begun our PASSIVE RESISTANCE CAMPAIGN which will be inaugurated by a mass … you in anticipation. Yours sincerely,…
Circular Letter To Trade Unions, Progressive Organisations, Democrats And Anti-Fascists by Yusuf Dadoo, June 10, 1946
… rights. From the 13th June on, we will have begun our PASSIVE RESISTANCE CAMPAIGN which will be inaugurated by a mass … you in anticipation. Yours sincerely,…
Appeal For United Front, July 1948
… were now faced with the question of what to do next. The Passive Resistance Movement had been temporarily suspended and a new … the Asiatic Land Tenure and…
EventGandhi leaves South Africa
… Mohandas Gandhi, after successfully leading campaigns of Passive Resistance in this country, finally left from Cape Town by …
Document 38 - Certification of the Constitution; a summary of the judgment of the Constitutional Court
… Indian Congress - was one of the greatest non-violent passive resistance campaigns in the tradition of Mahatma Gandhi. It … were disproved. Some whites were…
EventAnsuyah Ratipul Singh, medical doctor and community worker, poet, dramatist and novelist, is born in Durban.
… Singh returned to South Africa and become involved in the Passive Resistance Movement in Durban. She published numerous …
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter Three - By Riashnee Pather
… Perhaps the most visible manifestation of this is the Passive Resistance Campaign of 1946. This chapter will explore the … In March 1946 the NIC announced…
Introduction
… Pachai 'The appeasers', declared the report of the Passive Resistance Council, 'had been prepared to accept a status of … she is provoking.' The documents in…
Foreword, By Nelson Mandela
… in 1945 and galvanised the Indian people into militant passive resistance against General Smuts's racist laws. He struggled …
ArticleMessage of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, delivered by Mr. Tambo, at the funeral of Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo
… country. Thus in 1939 Yusuf was involved in a campaign of passive resistance against the pernicious segregation laws. With … and sisters, it is by our…
“Let Me Live - Letter to a European”: June 1946
… their hearts. Yours cordially, Dr G. M. NAICKER, Chairman Passive Resistance Council From: Leaflet published by the Passive Resistance Council, Durban Of…
EventSouth African Police (SAP) is founded
… establishment of the SAP, mineworkers’ strike and Indian Passive Resistance campaign erupted on the Witwatersrand and in Natal …
EventWomen protest against passes in the Free State
… women was held in Waaihoek and it was decided to adopt a passive resistance stance. This source does not mention the date of … Click here to read more…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… Pass laws in South Africa were met with fierce resistance during the 20th century. But earlier forms of … significant instances. Examples of these include…
BiographyOliver Tambo
… campaigns – the civil disobedience campaign of the 1946 Passive Resistance Campaign of the Indian organisations, strikes by …
Event80 Women arrested for anti-pass protest
… Following the declaration to embark on an anti-pass passive resistance campaign, Black women in Bloemfontein that were …
EventPolitical activist, Dr Yusuf Dadoo is re-elected President of Transvaal Indian Congress
… Party (CPSA, now known as SACP). In 1946, the Indian Passive Resistance Campaign, led by Yusuf Dadoo (TIC) and G.M Naicker …
EventNatal Law society apologises to Gandhi
… The Natal Law Society has apologised posthumously to passive resistance icon, Mahatma Karamchand Gandhi, 105 years after a …
PlaceFordsburg and the Oriental Plaza, Johannesburg
… action that would later be emulated by the anti-Apartheid resistance movement. It was also the beginning of Satyagraha, the passive resistance campaign…
”Apartheid Over Our Dead Bodies:” Speech, July 1948
… in Johannesburg organised in his honour by the Transvaal Passive Resistance Council on his release from prison] I am deeply … of the Natal and Transvaal…
EventIndian Rights Campaigner Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal is born
… He also authored several books in Hindi, namely History of passive resistance in South Africa, My experiences of South Africa, …
EventBlacks in South Africa protest against segregation
… against unjust laws was one of the greatest non-violent passive resistance campaigns since that mounted by Mahatma Gandhi in …
BiographySolomon Kerzner
… Africa, poised between the first stirrings of township resistance and the imposition of Emergency Rule, the barriers …
BiographyGeneral Jan Christiaan Smuts
… Convention. In 1908, Smuts was also confronted with resistance from the Indian population in South Africa, led by …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Essay Questions
… was MK Gandhi who later spearheaded a massive peaceful resistance (Satyagraha) to colonial rule. This protest forced … protest against law that forced…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… images of a struggling South Africa were so highly valued. Resistance Photographer, Omar Badsha described those working … to the international audience,…