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Oliver Tambo, October 1987
… Indian community had carried on a great passive resistance campaign from 1946 to 1948 against racial discrimination. Dr. … and the South African Indian…
Document 28 - Brian Bunting, “Problems of the Multi-Racial Conference”, Liberation, 28, November 1957
… to remember that this united front was born of the great Defiance Campaign, where it proved itself as the only effective … the unjust laws could be organised…
EventWalter Sisulu, co-founder of the ANCYL and Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born
… Action in 1949. He was one of the key figures in the 1952 Defiance Campaign and was banned in terms of the Suppression of …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Foreword
… of the 1946 opposition to the Ghetto Act, the 1952 Defiance of Six Unjust Laws, the Congress of the People, the … There is little doubt that the 1946 Passive…
BiographyBessie Amelia Head
… the Pan-African Congress (PAC) during the Anti-Pass Laws Campaign in 1960, and although her role in party politics was …
Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Lecture by President Jacob Zuma, 7 September 2012, Kimberley, Northern Cape
… Champion. In 1952, he became one of the leaders of the Defiance Campaign, a departure from the politics of deputations, … overcome his anger at not having…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions 1994 - 2014
… issues. In 1994, the ‘Basic Condition of Employment Act’ campaign was initiated. The campaign focused on improving working conditions of what … labour and…
ArticleSixteen Days of Activism
… 16 Days of Activism is an international awareness-raising campaign for No Violence Against Women and Children. It takes … includes Universal Children’s Day…
Forward to Mass Action for People's Power! Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 77th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1989
… them Albie Sachs, are maimed for life, victims of the same campaign of terror. We pay special tribute to those gallant … struggle has reached. United Action…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 77th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1989
… them Albie Sachs, are maimed for life, victims of the same campaign of terror. We pay special tribute to those gallant … struggle has reached. United Action…
South Africa: Liberation and Reconciliation Role of International Solidarity, 8 April 2004
… African miners` strike in August 1946; and especially the Campaign of Defiance against Unjust Laws, launched by the African … freedom. They sent modest…
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… embarked on a drive to increase national membership. The campaign covered a wide range of industries such as iron, … liberation movements. In 1952 CNETU…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… World giving his support to the newly formed anti-pass campaign. Xuma agrees to act as trustee of the anti-pass campaign. April: Moses Kotane and Xuma…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at a press conference in Addis Ababa, 11 July 1973
… banned and restricted without charge or trial. Worldwide Campaign For all these prisoners of apartheid the … for which the United Nations was found, by its…
Prisoners of Apartheid - Statement at a Press Conference in Addis Ababa by O. R. Tambo, 11 July 1973
… banned and restricted without charge or trial. Worldwide Campaign For all these prisoners of apartheid the … for which the United Nations was found, by its…
BiographyShirish Nanabhai
Shirish was born one of eight siblings on 1 March 1938 at 51 Commercial Rd, Fordsburg. Jasmath Nanabhai, Shirish J. Nanabhai’s father, was from the village of…
BiographyGovin Reddy
Govindasamy Reddy (Govin Reddy) was born on 16 June 1943 in Kranskloof, a farming area next to Claremont on the outskirts of Durban, Natal (now known as…
Black Reaction to Apartheid, 1948-1973 - Address to the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association by O. R. Tambo, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, 1973
… resistance and vicious governmental legislation. The Defiance Campaign which sought originally to mobilise the African … the world to witness the situation…
ArticleHistory of the ‘Indian Opinion’ newspaper
… the astoundingly high rate of suicide was pointed out. A campaign to end the system was launched and editor Henry … time in jail. This tradition began during…
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… Marks, a leader of the ANC, attributed the failure of the campaign against the removals to this divide in the African … in the Western Areas (Ibid). The ANC…
Statement On Behalf of the South Africa United Front, 1960, New York
… rulers of South Africa a fresh mandate to carry on their campaign directed at making Africans "hewers of wood and … massacres of Sharpeville and Pondoland. …
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Albert John Luthuli
… tactics from patient litigation to assertive action. His campaign of civil disobedience, aimed at publicizing the … individuals, must be relentlessly opposed…
Lecture by the President of the ANC, President Jacob Zuma, on the occasion of celebrating the life and times of the tenth President of the ANC President Nelson Mandela, 10 July 2012, Limpopo
… for more militant action such as strikes, boycotts and defiance. It was adopted by the ANC in 1949. The manner in … choice to be the ANC`s Volunteer in Chief…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… Examples of these include the first passive resistance campaign initiated by the Indian community in the Transvaal, … led by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , in…
A message to the African people and their allies in the struggle for freedom in the Union of South Africa, June 1953
… In this Freedom Day address Lutuli introduces the campaign to make ordinary black people more aware of their … free men, not only in the past but also during…
Women’s Food Committees in Cape Town during the 1940s
… 1950s and 1960s. Dorothy Zihlangu identifies a successful campaign by women against apartheid in the market at Salt …
ArchiveThe Final Prize - Contents and Preface
… “enabling” legislation for perpetuating white rule. The Defiance Campaign (effectively civil disobedience) was in part a … of the People (COP) evolved during…
BiographyPieter Willem Botha
… rising demands on the defence budget, the accelerating campaign of terrorism and sabotage by the African National …
BiographyAbdool Karrim Essak
… sowed the seeds of radicalism. One example of this was the campaign he initiated against Dr AD Lazarus, who was the …
BiographyDulcie Evonne September
… lobby- her strong pro-sanctions and disinvestment campaign in particular- not only in France but also in …