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ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… in certain parts of South Africa. Various types of armed resistance spread to urban parts of the country when more … agenda of non-violence would have to be…
EventAlbert Luthuli is elected as an ANC President
… of the military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), due to his passive approach to political activism. Luthuli's enormous …
PlaceTogo
… Togoland to France and the western portion to Britain. In 1946 the British and French governments placed the …
EventMoses Kotane, the South African Communist Party and African National Congress stalwart dies in Moscow
… Communist Party before it was banned in 1951. Later in 1946 he took African National Congress membership and became …
EventSouth Africa mandated to govern South
… the well-being and development of the inhabitants. In 1946, the Legislative Assembly of South-West Africa in …
EventJosephine Wood, founder of the South African Library for the Blind, is born in Grahamstown
… international donors. The Library was officially opened in 1946 as the South African Library for the Blind in …
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… government, operating under a policy of non-violent resistance. However, as the government became increasingly … the ANC would take the momentous step to…
ArticleCouncil policies and practice
… of Black Persons Bill, the laws provoked intense resistance, and Crossroads became a cause that many rallied …
Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the 1940s
… same prevalent features or conditions inertia - literally, resistance to change; thus, a tendency to do nothing or to … as part of a two-year round-the-world…
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… realised the importance of the 'people's power' in pushing resistance forward. Organisation at local level soon began in … organisations. The UDF was…
Chapter 12
… for the Indian merchant class in South Africa. The Passive Resistance was started and hundreds of poor Indians went to … National Congress, one in October…
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… diplomatic estrangement from overseas. In this heightened resistance against the state, women once again played an … Movement, led by Steve Biko, was a new…
The armed struggle and state repression of the 1960s
… strategy was quite effective, until 1976 when mass resistance began again. You should now know more about apartheid and the resistance movements during the…
EventJohn Langalibalele Dube is born
… John Langalibalele Dube (22.02.1871- 11.02.1946) was born at the Inanda Mission station of the American …
EventFormer African Springbok captain, Welile Nkohla dies
… a long battle with cancer. Nkohla was born on 22 February 1946. He started playing provincial rugby at the age of 21 …
EventThe General Assembly of the League of Nations meets in Geneva for the first time
… the original founding members of the UN in 1945. In April 1946, the League of Nations handed over its properties and …
EventConservative Party leader, Dr Andries Treurnicht, dies in Cape Town.
… chairman of the Students Christian Association (SCA). In 1946 he was appointment Minister of the Dutch Reformed …
INTERNATIONAL NGO CONFERENCE AGAINST APARTHEID AND COLONIALISM IN AFRICA Geneva, 2 - 4 September 1974
… can assist in saving lives. By remaining silent or just passive governments are inevitably ensuring more and more …
GANDHI THE PRISONER
… the violence of the State had reached such intensity that passive resistance appeared futile. We were literally pulled out of … within 19 days. General Smuts…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… historically employed the language ‘to express [B]lack resistance’ in the eras of colonialism, Afrikaner nationalism … [100] Willemse emphasises the language…
EventThe Republic of South Africa is established
… (March, 1960) the ANC. and PAC. abandoned their policy of passive resisÂtance and adopted one of armed struggle, and, …
ArchiveChanging focus: The art and activism of Omar by Bongani Kona (Mail and Guardian), 4 June 2015
… own life story from the larger, Âcollective story of the resistance to apartheid. He was born in 1945 and his father, … But the representation of black…
ArticleCurries Fountain events timeline
… of Currie's became more and more dominated by protest and resistance this use carried into the 1980's and into the …
ArticleAftermath of the Bhambatha Rebellion 1906
… he later died. The Bambatha Rebellion was the last armed resistance against white rule in before the formation of the …
Bantu Women’s League
… the government relaxed the women's pass laws and their resistance ended in 1914. In 1918, the government threatened …
ArticleWestern Cape Civic Association (WCCA)
… better housing. The slogan was turned into a song of resistance which demonstrated people’s determination to …
ArticleGrade 12 - The Cold War
… ” [ Accesssed: 23 January 2015]) 1945: Cold War begins 1946: Winston Churchill delivers his ‘ Iron Curtain’ speech …
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… important and leading roles in an intensive campaign of resistance to save Crossroads. The concerted effort by … hundreds of people were arrested, but women…
65th Anniversary of the South Africa Communist Party - Joe Slovo
… against the foreign conquest. The 40th anniversary of the 1946 passive resistance campaign and the 25th anniversary of the formation …
EventInternational Year of Mobilisation for Sanctions against South Africa is launched
… discrimination since its formation in 1945. On 19 November 1946, during its first session, the UN General Assembly …