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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 …
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…
EventSouth African Indian Congress opposes "Ghetto Act"
… Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act (No. 28 of 1946) or "Ghetto Act". The Act deprived the Asian South … Indian people of South Africa for concerted…
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…
ArchiveCHAPTER TWO: Class, Consiousness and Organisation inthe Political Development of Indian South Africans, 1860 - 1979 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
The Indian People In South Africa: Facts: About The Ghetto Act
… measures. It was indeed in South Africa that the method of Passive Resistance was born - a means of struggle since adopted by … fighters in the cause 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…
EventChad gains its independence
… The French received considerable resistance in the 1920s to their plan to make Chad a French … all defeated and a French territory was established in 1946 as…
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…
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 …
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…
Curry and the South African Revolution by E. S. Reddy
… lunch, even before she left for Durban to join the Indian passive resistance of 1946-48. It was in 1952 that Africans and Indians began the …
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 …
66. G.M. Naicker: We will not colloborate
… Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai In 1946 the Government passed the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian … The Natal Indian Congress rejected…
66. G. M. Naicker: we will not collaborate
… In 1946 the Government passed the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian … The Natal Indian Congress rejected it and launched a passive resistance campaign. Dr. G. M…
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,…
EventEmily Hobhouse is born
… situation, and reportedly assisted M.K Gandhi in his passive resistance campaigns. Today Hobhouse is celebrated as a …
Oliver Tambo, 1 October 1987 - Reproduced in Oliver Tambo and the Struggle against Apartheid, edited by E. S. Reddy
… leaders of the people had to go into exile to guide the resistance or were imprisoned or deported by the oppressive … the small Indian community had carried…
Oliver Tambo, October 1987
… leaders of the people had to go into exile to guide the resistance or were imprisoned or deported by the oppressive … the small Indian community had carried…