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BiographyPremanathan “Prema” Naidoo
… school. The government then closed the school to force Indian families to move to the segregated area of Lenasia, … due to the Group Areas Act . He attended…
ArticleUnited Nations and Apartheid Timeline 1946-1994
… of the United Nations. The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act ("Ghetto Act") had been enacted … of South African Political Prisoners …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Preface
… September 1946 "I would not shed a single tear if all the [Indian] Satyagrahis in South Africa are wiped out. Thereby … was initiated by the Indian Congress…
EventSouth African Indian Congress opposes "Ghetto Act"
… A five-day conference of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) held in Cape Town , unanimously … resolved to oppose the proposed Asiatic Land Tenure and…
ArticleGandhi and the Passive Resistance Campaign 1907-1914
… as Maureen Swan has demonstrated, was not the initiator of Indian political activity in Natal and South Africa. Indian … England and arrived on 10 July 1909,…
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… and to form a Pact government. It would have restricted Indian residential and trading rights, but due to vehement … public opposition within South Africa,…
Indian passive resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948 by E. S. Reddy
… Mandela inaugurated a year-long observance of the 1946 Indian passive resistance in South Africa. Speaking at the … book released by President Mandela on…
43. Resolutions adopted at a mass meeting of the Natal Indian Patriotic Congress, 1909
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The Natal Indian Patriotic Union was comprised…
BiographyCurtis Nkondo
… they had four children. In 1960, responding to the anti-pass call , Curtis and a group of teachers went to the …
BiographyJames Kantor
… new Special Branch police. As a Jew, he was aware of the anti-Semitism rampant in their ranks. When Nelson Mandela …
BiographyBilly Nair
… held from 1946-48 against the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representative Act. He attended all the mass rallies held by the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in…
BiographyJohn Xavier Merriman
… as an Englishman in South Africa, and became increasingly anti-imperialist, especially after the Jameson Raid . Early …
BiographyDr. Walter Benson Rubusana
… of the ANC. Rubusana was involved in every aspect of the Anti-Land Act Campaign which was an attack on the Native Land …
BiographyDavid Goldblatt
… on a bicycle photographing mainly the Johannesburg Indian area of Fietas - the community was facing removal in … in the Staffrider Exhibitions, organised…
BiographyPercy John "Jack" Hodgson
… predecessors after World War I and that the aims of the anti-fascist struggle were carried over into civilian life in …
39. Second report of the Natal Indian Congress, 1899
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … published violent articles. This gave rise to an anti…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… the South African Council of Churches (SACC) and the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) . This period saw the multiplication of … the organisation was made at the…
ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
… reinforcements had to be sent to Natal to suppress the Indian Passive Resistance campaign . In January 1914 another … efficiently during the Apartheid years…
BiographyCecyl Esau
… The people grasped the difference between the former anti-apartheid stand of the Labour Party, which became a … Congress and worked alongside fellow…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and May Day – Some Key Moments
… CPSA, African National Congress (ANC) and South African Indian Congress (SAIC) passed a resolution to hold a strike … to protest against the pass laws and…
61. Segregation reduces our people to helotry
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … presidential address when he declared that…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1900-1947
… squeezing Black people off the land. A series of draconian legislation designed to uproot people from their land or … areas in Durban. Whites were not…
ArticleWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa by Cait Chapman
… in 1970s South Africa Abstract: Black, Coloured and Indian women faced harsh oppressions in the workplace during … shops were closing and the once lively…
76. The Indian people are an integral and permanent part of South Africa
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … turn the tide of fortune in favour of the white…
68. Passive resistance 1946-1947
… 1: POLITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE STRUGGLE A. SOUTH AFRICA The Indian people The present leadership of the Natal Indian took … people have become during the year,…
ArchiveCHAPTER FIVE: The Politics Of Collaboration: The Campaign for Participation In The Tricameral Parliament by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
THE POLITICS OF COLLABORATION: THE CAMPAIGN FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE TRICAMERAL PARLIAMENT
… Introduction The first elections to the Indian House of Delegates (HoD) in the racially segregated … 50% of Indians were undecided and 24% would vote for the…
BiographyAubrey Mokoena
… outside it for so long and because AZAPO had taken on an anti-ANC viewpoint. He felt that he would have given support …
BiographyStella Nyanzi
… Makerere University academics who protested against the Anti-Homosexuality Bill. In April 2017, Dr Nyanzi was first …
BiographyMary Butcher Turok
… Mary Butcher Turok is the wife of the anti-apartheid activist, parliamentarian and Professor Ben …