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BiographyMatthew Goniwe
… Jacques Goniwe. Jacques was the first person to burn his pass book in Cradock as part of the ANC’s Defiance Campaign …
Document 22 - Report of the first National Conference of Women held in the Trades Hall, Johannesburg, South Africa, 17 April 1954
… women from the special disabilities suffered by them under laws, customs and conventions, and strive for a genuine South … mine-owners and factory-owners. To…
ArticleGrade 11 - What were the consequences when pseudo-scientific ideas of Race became integral to government policies and legislation in the 19th and 20th centuries?
… For instance in USA, between 1907 and 1943, sterilization laws were passed in 30 states. This was done to prevent … Americans were discriminated against by…
BiographyAdelaine Florence Hain
Anti-apartheid activist Adelaine Hain who was successively jailed, banned and exiled to Britain in Pretoria in the early 1960s died peacefully on 8 September,…
BiographyAbdullah Abdurahman
Abdurahman, who was born in Wellington (Cape Town ) on 18 December 1872 and graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Glasgow in 1893.He return to…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa 1910
… abdicated its responsibility to influence the policies and laws enacted by South Africa. During this process, Britain … legislative procedures that would be…
ArticleStrong and Unnoticed: The Women of the UDF by Reid Arnold
… which says yes to homelands, the Group Areas Act, to laws which make us believe that we are separate and unequal. … he noted that ‘ The term ‘right’ does not…
"Apartheid - the Indictment": Paper Presented to the International Conference for Sactions agains South Africa by O. R. Tambo, April 1964
… Republic, having been reconstituted, declared, in its laws, that "The people will not permit the equalisation … and knitting it into a fine mesh, the…
Paper Presented to the International Conference for Sanctions Against South Africa, 1 April 1964, London
… Republic, having been reconstituted, declared, in its laws, that "The people will not permit the equalisation of … and knitting it into a fine mesh, the…
PlaceWallacedene, Cape Town
… was established during the 1980s when the relaxation of pass laws allowed rural Populations, to be able to migrate to … was established during the 1980s when…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and May Day – Some Key Moments
… to hold a strike on 1 May 1950 to protest against the pass laws and other discriminatory legislation. The strike was … conditions in Hendrik Verwoerd ’s…
ArticleNew Africa Theatre Project
… South African themed theatre, which defied apartheid laws. It was initially housed in Observatory, Cape Town. In …
Books and further reading links relating to Right to Organise
… Townships and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940, Labour Laws Readings Callinicos, L. (1981). Gold and Workers …
Chapter 4 - In search of Justice; Gumede in England, 1919-21
… ‘The laws of Queen Victoria had been hidden. Natives should fight … on the colour of the natives of South Africa such as the Pass Laws, Curfew Bells and…
Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured People in the North, 1901
… disabilities would be placed upon us, or that the very laws that England had prevented Mr. Kruger from putting into … a mosque thereon. The Transvaal…
Say It out Loud - Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured People in the North, 1901
… disabilities would be placed upon us, or that the very laws that England had prevented Mr. Kruger from putting into … a mosque thereon. The Transvaal…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… Ahmed Kathrada . March, The ANC announces that its anti-pass campaign will start at the end of March 1960. March - … shooting at peaceful demonstrators in…
Reports of the Passive Resistance Councils: Natal and Transvaal 1946 - 1946
… fundamental human rights is too brief a period in which to pass a verdict on it. A proper evaluation can only be made … the democratic people of the world…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 2 - Explaining the Miracle by Max du Preez
… when they tried to stop a mass demonstration against the pass laws at Sharpeville . The massacre led to a hardening of … of the Rubicon ; it was expected to…
EventSlavery abolished in the Cape
… by the emancipation of our slaves, and the vexatious laws, which have been enacted respecting them”. Though the …
10 YEARS PROJECT
… court officials. 3. Freedom of residence and the repeal of laws such as the Natives Act that restrict this freedom. 4. Freedom of movement, and the repeal of…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… cities, and therefore demanded the strict application of pass laws. In the election of 26 May 1948, D.F. Malan's National … and the burning of passbooks. In…
American Supporters of the Defiance Campaign by George M. Houser
… anniversary of the "Campaign of Defiance against Unjust Laws" - Mr. Houser describes the work of the Americans for … themselves to "declare war" on apartheid…
The Role of Women in the Struggle against Apartheid, 15 July 1980
… an active role in the Campaign of Defiance Against Unjust Laws during which, in 1952, many were arrested. They also … and more than 1,000 were convicted in…
Document 130 - Communists in Conference: The 1943/44 National Conference of the Communist Party of South Africa
… contention is that on a question like the abolition of the Pass Laws the Communist Party must go the whole hog in support of the Anti-Pass Campaign." Yusuf…
An Appeal to the people of South West Africa by Nelson Mandela
… and freedom, like ours, are everywhere chained to pass laws, imposed on your people and ours by Verwoerd's police …
The Democratic Party (DP)
… Parliament. She fought against detention without trial, pass laws, influx control, job reservation on grounds of colour, …
PlacePiketberg
… after a complete de-stress." A trip up the Versveld Pass , to the top of the mountain takes you through acres of … despite 1838’s emancipation owing to…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… McNeil Jr. Ideological propaganda and stringent censorship laws were two massive obstacles resistance photographers … in South Africa, the South African…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
… the actions of the state and calling for an end to pass laws. 30 March, The state declared a state of emergency . 1 … the South African Congress of Trade…