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EventEmily Hobhouse is born
… situation, and reportedly assisted M.K Gandhi in his passive resistance campaigns. Today Hobhouse is celebrated as a …
ArchiveWomen and the Satyagraha Campaign
… Indian women join Gandhi's passive resistance campaign Before union, at the turn of the century, … under these conditions, also became involved in the…
Appendix 1: Freedom Fighters On The March: A Message From Dr. Y. M. Dadoo To The Indian People
… the Indian people have resolutely andbravely offered resistance to racial discrimination and segregation.The campaigns of passive resistance and the Great…
PlaceTolstoy Farm, near Johannesburg
… between 1910 and 1913, his Satyagraha philosophy of passive resistance, and it was on Tolstoy Farm that he and his …
Indian Community
… third contracts. In 1914, this tax was abolished after the Passive Resistance Campaign of 1913 . Passenger Indians Indian … became a major focus of Indian…
BiographyRaymond Hoffenberg
Professor Sir Raymond (Bill) Hoffenberg was born in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) on 16 March 1923. He went to school in Port Elizabeth…
Event”Ghetto Act” or The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act No 28 of 1946 is passed
… the Natal Indian Congress embarked on a campaign of passive resistance. This campaign saw African, Indian and Coloured …
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
… in later life. Some simple twists of fate put Tariq on the resistance road and from that chosen path he realized a … of small learning cells which also…
EventThe Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act is introduced
… day of hartal (mourning) was called and soon afterwards a passive resistance campaign, lasting two years, was launched. The …
EventGeneral Louis Botha wins elections
… movement within the country. After a protracted period of Passive Resistance led by Mahatma Ghandi, the Indian Relief Act was …
ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
… had to be sent to Natal to suppress the Indian Passive Resistance campaign . In January 1914 another strike, this … society for support in its actions and…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… not only because it was such an early outbreak of women's resistance, but also because of what Julia Wells calls its … Waaihoek women. Abdurahman was a great…
ArticleBloemfontein Timeline 1824-2010
… Waaihoek Location protest against pass laws by taking a passive resistance stance, and refusing to carry permits. After this …
EventFatima Meer, South African anti-Apartheid activist is born
… she became a political activist and organised a Student Passive Resistance Committee to support the Indian community fighting …
EventBantu Women’s League protests against pass laws
… under its first president Charlotte Maxeke, undertook a passive resistance on 7 January 1919 against the application of pass …
BiographyWinnie Madikizela-Mandela
… to as Intaba, opposed the Bantu Authorities and waged a resistance that swept Winnie’s family up into the turmoil. … Apartheid government. Winnie’s other…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… in favour of a tactical approach, and that the method of resistance should be dependent on the prevailing conditions. … Mandela comments on his feelings…
EventKen Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian author and environmental activist, is executed
… causing irreversible environmental damage. Saro Wiwa led a Passive resistance campaign against the multi-national corporations, …
ArticleThe Sedition Trial 1946 - 1948
… prison sentence in Newcastle for his role in the passive resistance campaign, was brought from prison and charged …
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… leadership in 1945 and he led the NIC in the 1946 Indian Passive Resistance Campaign (see SAIC history) in Durban. As a result …
BiographyChief Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk
… in 1976, which sparked a new wave of anti-apartheid resistance from the Coloured community. Van Wyk’s involvement …
Message by Oliver Tambo on the 40th anniversary of the three doctors` pact, 09 March 1987
… the great African miner`s strike of 1946 and the Indian passive resistance of the same year. These events evoked the …
EventNatal Indian Organisation delegation meets Premier Smuts
… in June 1947. In a 1948 speech before the Transvaal Passive Resistance Council in Johannesburg, Yusuf Dadoo, the national …
BiographySimon Nkoli
… college in Johannesburg, Nkoli joined his first resistance group; the Congress of South African Students or …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… ANC Youth League was formed in 1944. During this period, passive resistance campaigns such as the Alexander bus boycotts and … Act by Indians), and support…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1910-1919
… 30 March, The Transvaal Branch of Congress launches a passive resistance campaign with 2000 Africans gathering in … An interview which looks at the decision…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1910-1919
… basis of ‘competency’.” (Morris: 2004) 27 April, Indian passive resistance is suspended when Gen. J.C. Smuts enters into …
ArticleGrade 12 - Topic 3 - Civil Society protests 1950s to 1990s
… of Martin Luther King Junior; and the influence of passive resistance (Gandhi) on MartinLuther King; Gandhi …
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1900-1909
… a deputation to be sent to England and for non-violent or passive resistance ( Satyagraha ). 21 September, The Transvaal … Act, Act No. 2 of 1907. The…
ArticleFirst Anglo Boer War
… the capital of the Transvaal Republic. There was no resistance and the Union Jack replaced the Vierkleur. The … from Paarl in the Cape Colony took the view…