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EventThe Azanian People’s Organisation is formed
… had been banned on 19 October 1977 for their role in the resistance and the 16 June 1976 uprisings. The organisation …
EventChief Mangosuthu Buthelezi calls for National Convention
… all IFP demands to be met unconditionally. It warned of a resistance campaign, creating the tacit understanding that …
EventUN passes resolutions on South Africa
… struggle against apartheid and the legitimacy of armed resistance. The UN General Assembly condemned the armed …
EventBlacks boycott municipal elections
… the effect the State of Emergency had had at stopping resistance. The majority of Black electorates followed the …
EventCiskeian police disrupt residents’ meeting
… the two sections as part of the Ciskei. However, resistance by the residents forced the South African …
EventGerman action in Herero Revolt is condemned in the Reichstag
… refused to budget for its continuation. Bebel called the resistance of the Ovaherero a "justified liberation war". The …
EventSekhukhune successfully resists the Boers
… August. The Bapedi, also armed with rifles, offered stiff resistance and inflicted a humiliating defeat on the …
EventAfrican bus boycott lasting ten weeks is initiated in Johannesburg and Pretoria.
… (PUTCO) increased the bus fare in 1957, it was met with resistance from the public. More than 80 percent of the Black …
ArticleGreat Trek 1835-1846
… and create a 'buffer class' against increasing African resistance. Dispossession and land seizure The trekkers' … Abraham Cloete arrived on the scene and…
Colonial history of Rustenburg
… was hoisted. The burghers accepted the occupation without resistance, and when Sir Theophilus Shepstone, the former … Smuts, decided to use guerrilla tactics…
Liberation organisations
… life of township residents, and played a major role in the resistance of the 1980s. There were frequent, violent … trade unions were one of the most…
ArticleThe Zulu kingdom and the colony of Natal
… camp at Isandlwana hill. Chelmsford encountered some local resistance and mistakenly assumed it to be the main Zulu … On the coast, the right column brushed…
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad 1906 - 1990
… 1952 The Defiance Campaign begins. This was a nonviolent resistance action, which involved breaking unjust apartheid … funds a rebel group known as the…
ArticleKasturba Gandhi timeline 1869 - 1944
… demand the withdrawal of the Asiatic Bill and threaten resistance. September 19, M.K. Gandhi accuses the government … Amendment Bill. March 11, Gandhi…
ArticleIndian South Africans: 1924-1948 Legislation and Segregation
… community also protested segregationist policies through passive resistance . Learning Outcomes: Communicate and present …
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1920-1929
… in Natal. The South African Indian Congress threatens passive resistance. Indian progress in industry was limited by the …
The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
… The Eastern Cape is regarded by many as the cradle of Black resistance against White oppression. After the defeat of the …
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2014 submissions
… fishing, and flying. Project: Women in the Cities and the Resistance Movement Caitlin Chapman Caitlin Chapman is a …
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… in the ability of segregationist policies to contain Black resistance to white rule. The third held in 1994, represented …
ArticleCato Manor timeline 1650-2007
… KwaMashu, Umlazi and Chatsworth miles away meet with stiff resistance and increasing pass and liquor raids raise …
List of deaths in detention
… one of the many weapons that the government used to quell resistance. As detention was a legal weapon that could see an …
ArticleThe African Students Association (ASA)
… of South African students and youth in Britain to continue resistance against apartheid. In 1964 Mbeki, Essop Pahad and …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Contextual Overview
… (Raleigh, 2002) [8] . To show their discontent, centres of resistance were formed in southern and Siberian Russia by …
ArchiveApartheid - a vigilant witness
… of Africa combined with a decade of defiance and popular resistance. It was this combination which married culture and … in particular on Soweto - its…
Chapter 12
… for the Indian merchant class in South Africa. The Passive Resistance was started and hundreds of poor Indians went to … into the venture. The Africans, too,…
EventCiskeian police disrupt residents' meeting
… the two sections as part of the Ciskei. However, resistance by the residents forced the South African …
The Mission: A Life for Freedom in South Africa by Denis Goldberg
… Political activity 1950-1963 Chapter 5 Last resort: armed resistance Chapter 6 Underground in Joburg Chapter 7 Arrest …
EventThe UN Special Committee on Apartheid reports on SA
… constant publicity to the inhumanity of apartheid and the resistance of the people in order to secure the widest …
EventTransvaal Anti-SAIC Committee decided to revive the old TIC
… and to establish a united democratic front to mobilize resistance on a national scale to participation by Indians …
EventThree AWB members shot and killed during the invasion of Bophuthatswana
… hundreds of Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) (Afrikaner Resistance Movement) members drove into Bophuthatswana, a …