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… ‘Between Two Fires’: Racial Populism, Indian Resistance and the Beginnings of Satyagraha in the Transvaal, …

… The creation of a built environment in southern Africa's rural areas is not merely the provision of shelter: it … preclude painted decoration. The origins of their wall art appear to lie with the Pedi, a neighbouring group whose … art therefore places it firmly into a time when formal resistance to white political dominance was at a low; when …

… traditions and laws in an active campaign to empower rural Transkeian women. She was instrumental in having single …

… up leadership positions in the service of particularly the rural and tribal people. He was an excellent linguist and …

… Motsoko Pheko was born on 13 November 1933 to a wealthy rural family in Lesotho. In the late 1930s, after the sudden …

… Jonker was born on 19 September 1933 on a farm in the rural area of Douglas, near Kimberley in the Northern Cape . …

… for orphaned children staying at the Kitezh commune in rural Russia. Alex then returned to the states in the Summer …

… Brett held his first solo exhibition at a Johannesburg art gallery in August 2012. …

… concentration camps. These ruthless measures helped weaken resistance and bring British victory. On returning to England …

… 1946 the NIC announced its decision to launch a Passive Resistance Campaign and in order to facilitate this established the Passive Resistance Council. The Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) then … of the SAIC decided not to participate. The Passive Resistance Campaign was not the only channel of protest …

… up a magnificent personal collection of South African art. He was always a “Cape man”, with a fierce attachment to …

… the continuation of a long tradition of community resistance in Mitchells Plain, which had been a stronghold of … a site of forced relocation into a community of active resistance and mutual support. As South Africa continues to …

… to work full-time in the offices of the Transvaal Passive Resistance Council. In 1946, the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) launched the Passive Resistance Movement against the Asiatic Land Tenure and … Subsequently, Kathrada participated in the Passive Resistance Campaign of the  South African Indian Congress . …

… took the family back to South Africa. They settled in rural Hogsback in the Eastern Cape , thirty kilometers from …

… a General Hawker under the Firms Act of 1906 by the Rural Licensing Board for the Area of Port-Shepstone.  On 8 …

… it. He and the well-known Sol T. Plaatjie traversed the rural areas to investigate the effect of the said act on …

… As a child from a working-class family in an impoverished rural area, Nakasa was forced by poverty to leave school in …

… by their calling to help uplift the region’s impoverished rural masses. They lived in an area where there was no …

… 1906. In the very simplest sense, Satyagraha is passive resistance. However, Gandhi believed the English phrase "passive resistance" did not represent the true spirit of Indian resistance since passive resistance was often thought to be …

… also a member of the South African Academy for Science and Art and a founder of the Academy’s Faculty of Science and … Havenga Prize by the South African Academy for Science and Art in 1953 and in 1958 he received a Dcom (honoris causa) …

… The campaign, which mobilised approximately two million rural and urban women, involved hundreds of local … delivered keynote addresses to organisations including the Rural Women’s Movement and the United Nations. Sonke Gender …

… joined the boycott.  On 6 March 1984, Goniwe was appointed rural organiser for the UDF. At the same time he was placed … and the township of Lingelihle, a long-time area of resistance and struggle, were seen as models of organisation … up were copied by other townships.  In his new position as rural organiser of the UDF, he established street committees …

… In the TIC, the young radicals who called for passive resistance opposed the older more cautious members who … education . When the congresses decided on the  Passive Resistance Campaign , Sita and Mrs  Thayanayagie Pillay …

… whites only.He became aware of Mahatma Gandhi's passive resistance campagn in india,and the campaigns of South … with his elder brother, Gora, during the  Indian passive resistance campaign . By the time the ANC called a stayaway …

… started her own practice. She was involved in the Passive Resistance Movement in Durban in 1946. In 1956, she was …

… Pogiso Moiloa , was a key figure in the Bahurutshe resistance of the 1950s.  He was from Linokana Reserve …

… experience where he studied under comics masters Art Spiegelman, Will Eisner and Harvey Kurtzman. He returned …

… BATTISS, JUNOD, FRANZ and GROSSERT . 1958. The Art of Africa . Pietermaritzburg: Shuter and Shooter. … Letters . Johannesburg: JR Ivy. FRESCURA, Franco . 1981. Rural Shelter in Southern Africa . Johannesburg: Ravan Press. … and Phil. University of South Africa, Pretoria. 1977. Rural Painting in South Africa . African Arts, Vol X, No 2, …