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BiographyAdrian Leftwich
… as MK managed during the same period through its sabotage campaign. In the early part of 1963 Robert Watson, a student …
BiographySefako Mapogo Makgatho
… following year the branch organised a passive resistance campaign against passes. Thousands of passes were handed as … It is for this reason that Makgatho…
BiographyJulius Sello Malema
… [xvii] Election to parliament and the Pay Back the Money Campaign Following the fourth democratic National Elections … from the president through the Pay…
BiographyKing Cetshwayo
… in military power under his rule. Sir Frere orchestrated a campaign to annex the Zulu kingdom even though British policy …
BiographyTeboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… An Action Committee was set up to prepare for the campaign. Mashinini was elected chairperson of the Action …
BiographyPatricia De Lille
… 2019, she officially launched the “Aunty Pat for Premier Campaign” in Wesbank near Delft outside Cape Town. Following …
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… The ANC, together with its alliance parties, initiates the Defiance Campaign. "South Africa Behind Bars" a text prepared by … national Action Council that…
EventAfrican National Congress Youth League is founded
… up a Programme of Action calling for strikes, boycotts and defiance. It was adopted by the ANC in 1949; the year after … party came to power. The Programme…
EventRiots erupt in East London, Eastern Cape
… mob. The riots happened five months after the start of the Defiance Campaign, 26 June 1952 when the first volunteers including … 10 October 2013)| South…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… James Mpanza's establishment of Shantytown in 1944 in defiance of the regulations against squatting. The Alexandra … in 1947 to protest against the housing…
EventMonty Naicker dies
… political organisations. He fought vigorously during the Defiance Campaign and was arrested for his role, although charges …
EventActivist and Journalist, Robert Resha dies in exile
… In the 1940s he was jailed for participating in the Defiance Campaign as a member of the ANC Youth League. Resha was one …
EventFollowing the infamous Treason Trial, ANC leader Chief Albert Luthuli is banished by the Apartheid Government for five years
… on his freedom. Despite this, he participated in the 1952 Defiance Campaign, organised by the Congress Alliance to challenge … December 1962, together with…
BiographyPetrus Nzima Nyawose
… movements in Western countries to start an international campaign for Joe’s release. They struck luck when a witness …
ArticleWomen and the struggle against Apartheid
… an active role in the struggle in South Africa. The first campaign where many women were involved was the Defiance Campaign of 1952. This was a campaign…
EventANC leader, James Arthur Calata, dies
… the proposal of the Youth League too extreme. During the Defiance Campaign of 1952, he was banned from attending gatherings but …
Apartheid power in crisis
… and other forms of state repression. A mood of open defiance against apartheid laws and the apartheid government. … HRC publications: • HRC Review of 1989 •…
EventChief Albert Luthuli is banned for a further five years
… General of the African National Congress (ANC), led the Defiance Campaign in 1952, a non- violent protest against the pass …
Bibliographical Data
… are listed in a footnote in the introductory essay to the Defiance Campaign but contain little biographical matter. Unpublished … published elsewhere are…
ArticleA history of Apartheid in South Africa
… in the ANC in this period. In 1952 the ANC started the Defiance Campaign. This campaign called on people to purposefully break apartheid …
EventArthur Elias Letele, medical doctor and prominent ANC leader who went into exile in Basutoland, dies
… ANC branch when he moved to Kimberley in 1948. When the Defiance Campaign started in 1952, Letele persuaded a number of … Committee and was also part of the…
Message by Oliver Tambo to Nelson Mandela an International Tribute for a Free South Africa, 16 April 1990, Wembley Stadium, London
… for Nelson Mandela to visit Wembley Stadium in person. The campaign to release Nelson Mandela was above all a people`s campaign. Our people within South…
EventSAIC Executive meets in Cape Town
… http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/chronology/special-chrono/defiance-campaign.htm …
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… response urgent. The summary termination of the Defiance Campaign in 1953 in the wake of the Criminal Laws Amendment … statute books of the six specific acts…
ArchiveA critical look at the role of the Muslim Judicial Council in the struggle for liberation in South Africa from 1960 to 1994
… the 1976 Uprising, 1985-1986 Mass Mobilisation, 1989-1990 Defiance Campaign, inter alia. …
EventANC President Albert Luthuli banned
… SA Police in the area. After his part in leading the 1952 Defiance Campaign, a non-violent, national, anti- pass protest, the …
BiographyPitika Ntuli
… of Human rights and promotes social change, such as the campaign that saw the end of the death penalty in many …
BiographyOmar Badsha
… committee of the ANC's Western Cape 1994 election campaign. Unlike many other activists, he did not make …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… Transvaal Indian Congress launches the passive resistance campaign against trading and land restrictions imposed … pitch five tents on a piece of vacant…
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
… I will not serve under arms”. They proceeded to beat the defiance out of him. Over a few weeks the SADF tried to beat … and training experience. Twelve MK…