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BiographyAnna Zieminski
… photo agency that played a key role in documenting the resistance to apartheid in the 1980s. During this period her …
BiographyNelson Zulu
… to move to a new area. However, “so intense was the resistance in Zululand that King Cyprian, who had accepted …
EventANC adopts the Programme of Action
… strikes, boycotts and other forms of non-violent resistance, similar to the 1946 Passive resistance campaign mounted by the South African …
EventRev. Michael Scott besiege the UN for justice regarding Herero people
… on the UN for Namibia’s independence from South Africa. In 1946 he participated in a passive resistance campaign by Indian protesters in Tobruk, Durban …
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… strikes and then begging for donations to support workers. 1946 8-12 February, Monty Naicker attends the SAIC conference … M.D. Naidoo , and A.I. Borat. They…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… Pather, K.R. Nayanah and H.S.L. Polak. 27 April, Indian passive resistance is suspended when Gen. J.C. Smuts enters into … resist the imposition of…
BiographyElliot Mngadi
Elliot Mngadi was born in Roosboom around 1918. Alongside Peter Brown also a leading member of the LP, Mngadi spearheaded the cause of black farmers in Natal…
BiographyMichael Kitso Dingake
… to 1943, and Pax College, in Pietersburg (Polokwane), in 1946. He obtained his senior certificate through private …
BiographyPaul Alberts
… leading social documentary photographers, was born in 1946 in Pretoria . He spent his youth in Botswana and the …
BiographyLauretta Ngcobo
… women. In our tradition we find customs against which resistance is in vain, especially if one is an isolated …
EventAnsuyah Ratipul Singh, medical doctor and community worker, poet, dramatist and novelist, is born in Durban.
… in Medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1944. In 1946, Dr Singh returned to South Africa and become involved in the Passive Resistance Movement in…
The Role Of The Indian People In The South African Revolution: An Interview In 1968
… fighters easy. They must also mount ever-increasing resistance to every aspect of apartheid: the Group Areas Act … people once again to conduct a militant…
BiographyAubrey Mokoena
… of the SASO executive and soon became very involved in resistance politics. Mokoena had by this time been aware of …
Indian Community
… third contracts. In 1914, this tax was abolished after the Passive Resistance Campaign of 1913 . Passenger Indians Indian … 1940’s the Pegging Acts of 1942 –…
BiographySindiwe Magona
… informed by her experience of impoverishment, femininity, resistance to subjugation and being a domestic worker. She …
BiographyIan Mkhize
… adult literacy courses and student bursaries. Mkhize led resistance to government attempts to incorporate his township …
BiographyThandi Modise
… into Bophuthatswana . There was a great deal of resistance from the people of Huhudi, and a violent and …
BiographyMary Maria Burton
… meant that the Black Sash would begin to experience some resistance from some Black people as well. Despite the odds, …
BiographyLillian Masediba Ngoyi
… confinement. Lillian Ngoyi known as "Mother of the Black resistance" in South Africa. Image source She was first …
BiographyAdrian Leftwich
… (UK). In 1962, Leftwich was recruited into the African Resistance Movement (ARM), an organisation that targeted … On 12 June 1964, the NCL changed its name…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… Act, 1951 Reservation of Separate Amenities Act, 1953 Resistance before 1959 *South Africa and the United Nations … and other forms of non-violent resistance…
BiographyOliver Tambo
… other campaigns – the civil disobedience campaign of the 1946 Passive Resistance Campaign of the Indian organisations, strikes by …
BiographyPaul Weinberg
… coordinate the photographic exhibition for the Culture and Resistance Conference and Festival. In 1982 Weinberg and … photo agency that played a key role in…
BiographyKenneth Mosenyi
Kenneth Mosenyi was jailed for a month during the uprising in Bahurutshe. He was involved in the African National Congress (ANC) prior to his return from…
BiographyJames Kantor
… however, Kantor was a secret financial contributor to the resistance movement, someone whom Ivan Schermbrucker , a … police had discovered enough…
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
… Nasionale Party. Speaking much later of events in 1946, Vorster said: 'I was very perturbed about the rift … then made the decision to end the policy of non…
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 NIC after its leadership …
BiographyThandi Klaasen
… up in Sophiatown at the heart of black urban culture and resistance politics, discovering her gift for song and dance …
Nikiwe Deborah Matshoba
… Krugersdorp in spite of a long and partially successful resistance by the residents of Munsieville. She initially …
BiographyHilary Mutch
… she alongside her husband Ronnie Mutch joined the African Resistance Movement (ARM) taking on the code name "Kate". … M., ' The National Committee on…