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The African Women`s Demonstration in Natal: Report by Albert Luthuli to the Natal People`s Conference, 6 September 1959
… does is eminently in the interest of the African. The pass system, in its wide ramifications, ensures the white … of Africans a year are in some ways victims…
Ruth First Untold by Jerry Saena
… as they see fit, in which they did. The government passed laws that had major effects on these communities, forcing … encompasses the Bethal Scandal, the Bus…
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
… at rates that were affordable, and was concerned with pass laws, the lack of proper maternity benefits and child-care. …
Eyewitness accounts of the Sharpeville massacre 1960
… outside Sharpeville. This was a day of protest against the pass laws organised by the Pan Africanist Congress with …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - ‘Locations’ For Labour
… South Africa. Together with influx control through the pass laws, Native (Urban Areas) Act would help to achieve this … effect of this was that…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… It thus has as its aim to close every loophole in existing laws and regulations. The Bill sparks widespread protest and … a campaign of protest meetings and…
Bathandwa Ndondo
… number XS 1885. As Lungisile Ntsebeza’s car wound down the pass towards Elliot, the kombi with the tinted windows pulled …
Document 91. ‘April 6: People’s Protest Day’. Flyer issued by the ANC (Transvaal) and the Transvaal Indian Congress
… for passes—and now women and children are faced with the pass system too. We are insulted and bullied because of our … upon a mighty campaign of mass action…
Gallery
… referred to as the ‘decade of the women’. The Women’s Anti-Pass Campaign and the Women’s Charter that was drawn up in …
Indian South Africans timeline 1990-1999
… a heart attack in detention and underwent a heart by-pass operation. While recuperating, Nair was charged with …
PlaceParliament of the Republic of South Africa, Cape Town
… and subordinate Houses of Parliament. In 1986, the Pass Laws were scrapped. The international community strengthened … that Apartheid could not be sustained…
4. Conclusion
… in black popular protests against housing shortages, Pass Laws, and higher bus fares. Their work paid dividends. By the … of the CPSA and Transvaal ANC,…
Albertina Sisulu, Freedom Fighter
… in August 1956, in protest against the extension of pass laws to African women, and also one of the leaders of the women's demonstrations against the pass…
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… and Defiance Campaign (committed to open defiance of the laws of the land). The reasons cited by many sources for this … when the ANC announced that they…
Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event
… Secondly, and also as a matter of urgency, to repeal the pass laws which demonstrate to blacks more clearly than anything … the day-today aspects of the…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event by Phil Bonner
… Secondly, and also as a matter of urgency, to repeal the pass laws which demonstrate to blacks more clearly than anything … the day-today aspects of the…
ArticleGrade 12 - Topic 3 - Civil Society protests 1950s to 1990s
… rural areas and in the informal sector; as political anti-pass campaigners, initiatives taken within the liberation … [ Accessed 25 February 2015] Women and…
ArticleKey sites in and around Soweto
… Tiro (before he moved to Barolong High School because of a pass offence) and Dr Frank Chikane . Mshenguville* No II …
45. Mass meeting at the Empire Theatre, Johannesburg, 1906
… of the Kaffir. Not every Kaffir is required to carry a pass on him; but now every Indian will have to do so. Educated Kaffirs are exempt from such…
Message to the People of South Africa by O.R. Tambo, 26 June 1968
… The violence of that murderous act was the violence of the pass laws, the Suppression of Communism Act, the Group Areas Act, … wake more Sten guns and…
BiographyWilfrid Edward Cooper
… detained on 10 December under Section 22 of the General Laws Amendment Act . Five days later, he was dead at the …
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… also sought to tighten control of Black workers by passing laws in the 1920s that severely curtailed black economic … on the simple ground of colour.” Around…
ArticleWomen’s Revolts in Natal: 1959
… were controlled by White men. According to apartheid laws, these men were able to decide who to hire and they were … were angered by these circumstances of…
BiographyLivingstone Mqotsi
… went to East London where he tried to obtain a labourer's pass, because as an ‘unemployed native’ he was not allowed to …
Chapter 8
… movement and occupation. (This means the abolition of all Pass Laws and restriction of movement and travel within the … against the Africans. There was the…
Tsonga
… Tsonga traditional societies, though regulated by strict laws, are less formalised than that of the Nguni or Sotho … on social order and the observance of…
Key players in the various passive resistance campaigns
… Govan Mbeki Albie Sachs Freda Troup Patrick Duncan Anti-Pass Campaigns 1960 Nelson Mandela Albert Luthuli Robert …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of 1956 Women’s March: Union Buildings, Tshwane, 9 August 2006
… Union Buildings on 9 August 1956 not only to oppose the pass laws, but also to give further impetus to the struggle for … firm message that the generation of…
ArticleAnti-Indian Legislation
… being appointed to investigate Indian immigration laws, yet six years later he became one of the strongest … be an Asiatic Colony. As part of the anti-Indian…
Chapter 7 - Gumede keeps the bright fire burning, 1928-29
… without representation in parliament, we are surrounded by Pass Laws. We must not accept this oppression much longer. We must … When they erred and wept,…