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BiographyDorothy Adams
Dorothy Adams was born in 1928 in Wellington, 72 kilometres north-east of Cape Town. Wellington had been declared on the farm of Champagne in 1840, and it grew…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter Three - By Riashnee Pather
… visible manifestation of this is the Passive Resistance Campaign of 1946. This chapter will explore the NIC after its … of us however, believe believed in…
ArticleAbram Fischer Timeline 1908-1975
… , in court for defying his banning order. 26 June, The Defiance Campaign begins in which volunteers contravene curfews, … Mandela and Sisulu, for their…
EventAnti-apartheid activist, Norman Levy is born
… (ANC) campaigns against the unjust laws that led to the Defiance Campaign in 1952/3 and against the introduction of Bantu …
EventThe ANC calls for a day of protest and observes this day as 'South Africa Freedom Day' for the first time
… movement have been launched on this day. The historic Defiance Campaign against unjust laws in which 8,000 people went to jail was inaugurated on 26 June…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… all-male, all-white parliament, after a concerted 20-year campaign by dedicated feminists. In the pages that follow you … James Mpanza's establishment of…
ArchiveA Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai
… of the compromise 49. The certificates are burned 50. The campaign resumed in 1913 51. The ‘Satyagraha’ campaign ends … addresses the Union Parliament, 1946…
Document 18 - The Pretoria Minute
… The South African state saw in the campaign for the Congress of the People and the Freedom … a disenfranchised black majority. Coming shortly after the…
Passive Resistance in South Africa by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "Southern Africa in Transition by Davis, John A. and James K. Baker"(Pall Mall Press), London, 1966
… the African National Congress launched, in 1952, the Campaign for the Defiance of Unjust Laws, or the "Defiance Campaign". [1] Before they were finally …
Chapter IV - Becoming an activist
… the Labour Party and became engrossed in Solly's election campaign. He stood in Doornfontein, mainly a working-class … England. The main political event of…
Passive resistance in South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 2 June 1966
… the African National Congress launched, in 1952, the Campaign for the Defiance of Unjust Laws, or the "Defiance Campaign". Before they were finally defeated…
Speech at the Final Conference of International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa by O . R. Tambo, London, 24 May 1991
… reaches back over almost four decades to the time of the Defiance Campaign when Canon Collins and Christian Action pledged to … Father, now Archbishop,…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948
… actions, the ANC planned to launch a nationwide anti-pass campaign on 31 March - the anniversary of the 1919 anti-pass … terminus around 17h00 on 21 March…
BiographyOlive Peace Landman
… de Keyser among others, Olive became a member of a Schools Campaign [xi] intended to produce teaching aids on apartheid …
BiographyEugène Ney Terre’Blanche
… for a “free Afrikaner republic” and vowed to take his campaign to the United Nations and the International Court of …
BiographyMary Dorothy Benson
… been blind to. Hence, she discovered a new passion — to campaign for racial equality and fight against the injustices …
BiographyHumphrey Phakade “Pax” Magwaza
… have no money). To mobilise awareness and support for the campaign, Pax Magwaza and a group of Malayo youth initiated a …
EventKader Asmal, political activist and future Member of Parliament, is born
… a school boycott in his area. This was in support of the Defiance Campaign of 1952 after seeing those that were protesting …
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… to canvass and raise funds for the Passive Resistance Campaign. As student leader she addressed a number of mass meetings during the cause of the Passive…
EventAbram Fischer is struck off the roll of advocates
… others after they were arrested for participating in the Defiance Campaign. He also led the defence in the Rivonia Trail from …
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… Introduction of the Suppression of Communism Act. 1952 Defiance Campaign Against Unjust Laws. Bettie Du Toit is banned for … is estimated at 20 000. After an…
BiographyNarriman Gadija Bazier Samuels
… was nominated for the Liberty Promenade "Heroes Among Us" campaign, which celebrates local changemakers in Cape Town …
BiographyTeboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… Action Committee was set up to prepare for the campaign under SASM. Mashinini was elected chairperson of the …
BiographyAdam Small
Professor Adam Small was born on 21 December 1936 in Wellington, Cape Province (now Western Cape) to a mother of Muslim Indian heritage and a slave descendant…
BiographyJotello Festiri Soga
… Dr Soga played an important role in the vaccination campaign against contagious lung sickness (CBPP – contagious …
BiographyWalter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela
… his friend Barney Segwai, Chakela launched a door-to-door campaign to popularise Black Consciousness as well as to …
Dr Yusuf M. Dadoo's Statement In Court In Trial For Passive Resistance, June 1946
… in June 1946, at the beginning of the passive resistance campaign, to three months` imprisonment with hard labour. He … the honour of the Indians that we…
BiographyJacqueline Daane-van Rensburg
… African ‘homelands’ and the “letters, cards, parcels” campaign). So often people would ask what they could do, and …
'The People Accept the Challenge of the Nationalists' Statement issued by the National Executive of the A.N.C., April 6, 1963
… STRENGTH OF THE GOVERNMENT. In our decision to launch a campaign against these measures and to work for seizure of … No stone must be left unturned in the…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… conference to discuss the Bill and to plan a resistance campaign. At the conference over 200 delegates unanimously … the NIC and the TIC said that, in order…