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EventThe “Sharpeville Six” narrowly escape executions
… against rent increases by the town council. The rent boycott was also a general protest against corrupt …
Speech delivered on the condolence motion in honour of the late Ebrahim "Cas" Saloojee in the national assembly – 5 February 2009
… that had launched one of the most successful election boycott campaigns in the history of South Africa. Under the …
ArticleAzanian Students Organisation (AZASO)
… struggles were seen in AZASO?s role in the 1980s schools boycott, the protest against the introduction of the …
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
… planned a passive resistance campaign beginning with the boycott of all elections under the 1936 Act. This step … with the elections of the N.R.C.'s but not…
Apdusa Views
… dummy institutions designed for "inferior races"; the boycott as a weapon of struggle; a set of minimum …
EventKader Asmal, political activist and future Member of Parliament, is born
… against apartheid began in 1952 when he organized a school boycott in his area. This was in support of the Defiance … movement as a member of the ANC for the…
Beerhalls in Soweto from Soweto Heritage Survey Final Report compiled by Steven Lebelo and Elsabe Brink for the National Monuments Council, Northern Region
… Areas staged demonstrations and called upon residents to boycott beerhalls. In the beginning residents supported the boycott. But as the women were harassed…
Freedom In Our Life Time - African National Congress Activities
… in a grim battle against the increase of train fares and bus fares. Recently the President Mr. Ramohanoe addressed a … Africa and her sons and daughters." 13…
EventBishop Desmond Tutu leaves for the USA to meet with American President Ronald Reagan
… the USA on 7 December 1984, hoping to promote an economic boycott with the aim of bringing the apartheid regime to an …
EventFatima Meer is banned for a second time
… to set up regional committees to co-ordinate a campaign to boycott the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the … also took up grassroots issues, fighting…
Minutes of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, February 1-2, 1947
… of the executive. RESOLUTIONS (continuation) Resolution 8: Boycott of the Elections. The following resolution was moved … executive committee interprets the…
Chapter VIII - Treason - South African style 1
… in Pretoria. The government provided a leviathan-type bus, which picked up its treason passengers from Soweto for a … way together, often with an extra…
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 …
EventAs part of a defiance campaign against the apartheid Government, SA is hit by a nationwide wave of protests
… their campaign's organisers. On the same day, a consumer boycott and overtime ban was launched, some 10 000 protesters …
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
… rights. The political divide was first evident during the boycott of Durban municipal beer halls in 1929. Champion’s … fights a Christian king, Shepstone…
EventThe United Democratic Front (UDF) is dissolved
… to the Tricameral Parliament for which it encouraged a boycott of the system. Further boycotts were staged by the …
Chapter 4 - Poor, yet generous Lesotho
… a crocodile) into Lesotho near Qachas Nek and boarded a bus. Comrade Gwenduna Murdered near Lesotho He had decided not to talk to anyone on the bus as this…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… to government policies. The ANC organised a nation-wide boycott that was easily crushed by government threats to … who failed to attend school or who could…
Document 119 - Non-European United Front of South Africa, Minutes of Conference held in City Hall, Cape Town, 8 to 10 April 1939
… Conference herewith resolves to organise a national wide boycott of the Dutch Reform Church on account of its … female teachers and there were 17, 5 17…
EventIFP agrees to participate in 1994 elections
… political organisation in the country, was threatening to boycott the first democratic elections scheduled for 26 to 28 …
New tactics in the revolt
… to have been ignored despite the fact that the school boycott movement in Pretoria had commenced with industrial … of their declaration and determined their…
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… South Africa’s shanty towns, the pass laws, pass burnings, bus boycotts, the Treason Trial , and countless …
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
… and Indian men’s wages declined once again in the early 1950s. In the mid-1950s trade unions affiliated with the … financially with the resultant increases…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO) organises bus boycott in Cape Town to protest against the introduction of … University of the Western Cape…
South Africa: Liberation and Reconciliation Role of International Solidarity, 8 April 2004
… in the Western countries was beginning to have an effect. Boycott campaign and Anti-Apartheid Movements As the South … the African National Congress appealed…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985 by Sean Field
… voters that resided in the region. On the whole, the boycott strategy of the UDF succeeded in ensuring that only … companies. For example, there was the…
Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985
… voters that resided in the region. On the whole, the boycott strategy of the UDF succeeded in ensuring that only … companies. For example, there was the…
Historical Overview of Black Resistance, 1932-1952 - The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign by Ismail Vadi, New Delhi, 1995
… a fuller understanding of the Congress movement in the 1950s. In responding to Africanists who claimed that there … after a wave of wildcat strike activity,…
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… African Institute for Race Relations, 1976: 160). KwaThema Bus Boycott occurs in reaction to the increase of bus fares without a proportional increase in…