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Address by President Jacob Zuma, at the James Sebe Moroka Lecture, Northwest Province, 22 August 2012
… the programme. He took part in the planning of the Defiance Campaign of 1952 and in the execution of the campaign itself. … Malan, to whom they wrote,…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Matomela by Maximiliano Rubio
… of the prominent demonstrations of the 1950s, such as the Defiance Campaign , the creation of the FEDSAW, and the Women’s March … and the South African…
Document 91. ‘April 6: People’s Protest Day’. Flyer issued by the ANC (Transvaal) and the Transvaal Indian Congress
… patriotic leaders of the people have decided upon a mighty campaign of mass action against unjust laws and for … South Africa as a first stage in the…
ArticleThe Arrival of Jan Van Riebeeck in the Cape - 6 April 1652
… throughout the country as part of the lead up to the Defiance Campaign. The ANC and TIC issued a flyer entitled ‘April 6: …
Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , “South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home”, International Socialism, 5, Summer 1961
… South Africa. And yet the events centred on an anti-pass campaign and drew in the entire African township population, … town's working population could be…
Document 18 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to the South African Federation of NativeTrade Unions, 20 September 1930
… Federation instead of continually adopting an attitude of defiance or hostility to the Party will take the necessary … The active cooperation of the Unions…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… and moderation, following the moderate successes of the Defiance Campaign of 1952 and the Western Areas Campaign. Some sources site that the reason for these…
BiographyAhmed Timol
… songs. For those times, this was quite a radical act of defiance. After completing high school, in 1959, his father …
BiographySolomon Kalushi Mahlangu
… Jan van Riebeck’s arrival at the Cape in 1652. In apparent defiance of Prime Minister PW Botha, Mahlangu’s last message …
EventSouth Africa Freedom Day - 26 June 1950
… 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…
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad 1906 - 1990
… Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PACA). June, 1952 The Defiance Campaign begins. This was a nonviolent resistance action, … activities. This begins the UK…
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
… miners to the harsh realities around them. He began a campaign highlighting health and safety issues through … on strike over the City of Johannesburg’s…
BiographyJames la Guma
… by a sympathetic magistrate for his part in organising a campaign against coloureds having to wear the 'blik-pas', a …
Zonal Centenary Memorial Lecture on the Life and Times of David Bopape, presented by David Makhura, ANC Gauteng Provincial Secretary, 21 June 2012, Tsakane
… becomes a tireless campaigner and organiser The first campaign Ntate was involved in was called the Teachers` … Convention, Defend Free Speech Convention,…
South Africa's freedom struggle by E.S. Reddy
… in South Africa in his teens. Inspired by the spirit of defiance of injustice that Mahatma Gandhi tried to impart in … B. Xuma, President of the African…
BiographyLouis Botha
… Botha and Smuts took steps to carry out the campaign, using volunteers. Botha did not consult Steyn or … stress the material advantages to South Africa of…
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… of the settlers to move to other parts of the country in defiance. Passes in the Free State Large numbers of Black and … National Congress Women’s League,…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… were spectacularly successful in 1957, but in 1958 the campaign drew limited response, and the ANC, which initially … July, the MDM, Cosatu and the UDF,…
How the “Long walk to Freedom” began by E.S. Reddy
… vain talk and idle action.” That was after the non-violent Defiance Campaign which had greatly expanded the membership and … lines in the struggle against…
42nd African National Congress Conference: Resolutions, 20 December, 1953
… Committee to make plans for and embark upon an immediate campaign of economic boycott directed against selected … a roll of honour of all Volunteers who…
Address by Deputy President Jacob Zuma at the 40th Anniversary of the Execution of Vuyisile Mini and five others, 6 November 2004
… to the choirs that he used to sing in. During the Defiance Campaign he also composed songs that greatly inspired other … "Victory was Certain". This period…
Nelson Mandela’s leadership: The early years (Part 1) by Raymond Suttner, 4 June 2018
… Secretary-General in 1949. But from the time of the Defiance Campaign of 1952, Mandela came to accept non-racial and … this, when they made him Volunteer in…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… for apartheid security agencies. Immediate targets in this campaign were police constables and local government … with political dissent. After the mass…
Document 25 - Letter from E. R. Roux to John Gomas, 23 July 1956
… criticism I admit that the best African leaders - as the defiance campaign showed - were those trained by the Party. Solly and …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… of residential passes, organising a passive resistance campaign that left many women jailed. African miners strike … withdraws the NICs support of the…
BiographyReverend Allan Aubrey Boesak
… accused the Security Police of being behind a smear campaign against Boesak. Nevertheless, Boesak's voice was …
BiographyFranco Frescura
Franco Frescura was born in Trieste, Italy, on 28 September 1946. Both his parents originally came from Fiume, today known as Rijeka, in present-day Croatia…
Newspaper article taken from the City Press in 2002: Student Politics under Apartheid
… needed - youth of the South African people, tempered in defiance in action'. Harassed and depleted through the … of the campaigns were the 1981 anti-republic…
ArticleNo Land, No House, No Vote Timeline
… People’s Movement (LPM) organised a ‘No Land, No Vote’ campaign to coincide with the 2004 South African General Elections . [1] The campaign aimed to…
Oliver Tambo, 1 October 1987 - Reproduced in Oliver Tambo and the Struggle against Apartheid, edited by E. S. Reddy
… Indian community had carried on a great passive resistance campaign from 1946 to 1948 against racial discrimination. Dr. … and the South African Indian…