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Article50 Facts on Africa
… a towering intellectual and political legacy. Issa Shivji (1946- ) One of Africa’s greatest left-wing intellectuals, … or Barbarism and Black Africa…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… Boycott of stores as a result of price hikes, using passive resistance tactics that had been used earlier in the Orange … Josie Palmer works with the…
EventWomen lead Food Raid
… as people mobilised for the provision of basic needs. In 1946, a non-racial Women’s Food Committee was formed. The … was composed of the working class. On…
EventWomen lead Food Raid
… as people mobilised for the provision of basic needs. In 1946, a non-racial Women’s Food Committee was formed. The … was composed of the working class. On…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew
… Sanctions or Non-European Unity?" Workers' Voice, April 1946 Document 12 - Non-European Unity Movement. Resolutions … Franchise in S. Africa”, Workers' Voice…
Rejuvenation of the ANC and intensification of the struggle 1940s
… would follow the conclusion of the Second World War. In 1946, Xuma travelled to New York as an unofficial delegate to …
Gertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… fight for their basic human rights. Her continuous resistance to patriarchy has become a well-known voice all … government, but also by the men of the…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline
… Starting at the beginning of the South African Indian resistance against the government and continuing through the …
Art lost in a time of struggle by Mary Corrigall
… placed form above function, which is no doubt why resistance artists largely avoided abstraction. Artists of … them captive in this murky dysfunctional realm…
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… often referred to as Jim Crow laws and practices. White resistance to desegregation was strong and organised. The … studying for the ministry, King was…
From Segregation to Apartheid
… the 1940s, increasingly under threat however, as African resistance to the racially based system rapidly escalated. … the complete disenfranchisement of all…
EventAnti-apartheid activist, Norman Levy is born
… Athlone High School in Johannesburg and matriculated in 1946. He was introduced to politics in his early teens, when … participated in the Young Communist…
ArticleA Luta Continua Dialogues
… Episode 1: Student Activism Episode 2: Policing and Resistance …
EventGandhi demands end to White ‘hooliganism’
… stop the hooliganism by Whites. The authorities warned the Passive Resisters to vacate the Volksrust camp. The … Reddy, E.S. 1997. Indian Passive Resistance…
ArticleAbstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes Conference
… of Decline by Frank Meintjies Trade unions and Popular Resistance in the 1980s and New Alliances and the Different … struggles, student movements, and the…
Biography of Michael Scott from an email contribution by Lorna Richmond, 25 November 2015
… and Indian Representation Act. South African Indians used passive resistance and Michael Scott was asked to go as an observer. … Russell in the formation…
Memorial lecture on the 26th Anniversary of the Lowveld Massacre presented by Comrade Jackson Mthembu ANC National Spokesperson, 15 March 2012
… mostly the Khois and the Sans. Whilst there were low key resistance activities to this occupation from the time Jan … YL of the that is credited for making…
ArticleTimeline of the Labour and Trade Union Movement in South Africa 1881 - 1919
… by the Chamber of Mines. 15 October, Leaders of the passive resistance address 78 Indian workers at the Farleigh Colliery …
The search for Peter Johnson’s story
… exile. Johnson entered Robben Island at a time of powerful resistance against the Apartheid government. In the 1960s, … Pan Africanist Congress. [xv] In the…
Article1960-1966: The genesis of the armed struggle
… phase of state repression that would crush internal resistance in the space of a few years. The new policy of ' … major purpose was to eliminate any remnants…
Establishment of the Cape and its impact on Khoikhoi and Dutch
… (groups of Khoikhoi who were at the forefront of the resistance) around April and May 1660. After the war, … San communities living as hunter gatherers also…
ArticleThe Bambatha Rebellion begins
… The first sign of open resistance against payment of the tax came when a magistrate … the resisters. There were other instances of protest and resistance,…
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… and the long poem The Valley of a Thousand Hills (1941). 1946 Peter Abrahams, an important voice who began writing in … was of mixed-race descent. His early…
Nelson Mandela’s address to rally in Durban 25 February 1990
… refused to bow their proud heads and a powerful spirit of resistance developed, which, like the battle of Isandlwana, … important challenge to the repressive…
Chapter 7 - 1957-58: The Movement in a Crucial Phase
… general strike action in some towns, and merging with resistance to Bantu Authorities in a number of areas in the … be said or done which would discourage”…
The genesis of the armed struggle, 1960-1966
… phase of state repression that would crush internal resistance in the space of a few years. The new policy of ' … major purpose was to eliminate any remnants…
ArticleCradle of Humankind
… many hominids, but World War II stopped the work until 1946. Professors Broom and Dart and John Robinson returned to …
Chapter 8- Gumede walks the ANC and SACP tightrope, 1930–46‘
… Gumede’s subsequent public and private career until 1946 is also investigated. ‘ONLY A MILITANT POLICY WILL BRING … resolution, calling for mass…
ArchiveEleanor Kasrils: From Detainment to National Liberation by Nathan Greenhaw
… increasingly authoritarian measures to combat any forms of resistance against the government. Under apartheid … militant branch of the ANC, Eleanor Kasrils…
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… start of the longest and most widespread period of black resistance to white rule. The Lekoa and Evaton Town Councils' … UDF played no direct role in these…