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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…
PlaceTolstoy Farm, near Johannesburg
… between 1910 and 1913, his Satyagraha philosophy of passive resistance, and it was on Tolstoy Farm that he and his …
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…
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…
Women’s Food Committees in Cape Town during the 1940s
… of Social Welfare to distribute basic foodstuffs. By 1946, more politically conscious women had joined these food … prices.’ These campaigns were often quite…
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 …
Minutes of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, February 1-2, 1947
… Committee had considered the resolutions [of December 1946] and made certain recommendations which were in the … of the Indian minority in S. A.; and paying…
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…
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 …
ArticleBloemfontein Timeline 1824-2010
… Waaihoek Location protest against pass laws by taking a passive resistance stance, and refusing to carry permits. After this …
BiographyJomo Kenyatta
… Return to Kenya Kenyatta returned to Kenya in September 1946, abandoning his British wife Edna. Kenyatta married, …
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…
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… and cultural continuities and to generate ideologies of resistance in the face of deep dislocation brought by … of colonial rule ranged from full cooperation…
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… in 1944 and 1945 and the African Mineworkers strike of 1946 were still fresh in the minds of voters at the time of … the community was yet to be completed…
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, …
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…
ArticleA Spiral of Trials by Norman Levy
… made and re-made; drama and farce competing. Beginning in 1946 with the “sedition trial”, it became a feature of … my last year at high school during the…
BiographyChief Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk
… in 1976, which sparked a new wave of anti-apartheid resistance from the Coloured community. Van Wyk’s involvement …
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 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…
BiographyWilfrid Edward Cooper
… 46, and National Director of Research and Studies, from 1946 until 1947. On 22 October 1949, Wilfrid Cooper married …
PlaceConstitution Hill Museum, Johannesburg
… as a Prison including former president Nelson Mandela and passive resistance leader Mahatma Gandhi, who were both imprisoned …
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 9
… and in Durban where it was decided to initiate a passive resistance campaign. Kajee frowned upon such militant action. … Indian Congress, of which…
BiographyChris Hani
… right: the Afrikaner Weerstandsbewging (AWB, Afrikaner Resistance Movement) and the Conservative Party (CP). When …