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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…
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
… active in the FCWU, and was elected a shop steward in 1946. In 1943, Rahima Moosa became the shop steward for the … The FCWU had already attracted some 4 000…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArticleCouncil policies and practice
… of Black Persons Bill, the laws provoked intense resistance, and Crossroads became a cause that many rallied …
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 …
Article20 Years of Democracy (1994 - 2014) - Profiles of the Presidents
… and oppression as well as an unyielding sacrifice and resistance of the oppressed peoples, together with a minority …
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…
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 …
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…
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, …
ArticleGrade 12 - The Cold War
… ” [ Accesssed: 23 January 2015]) 1945: Cold War begins 1946: Winston Churchill delivers his ‘ Iron Curtain’ speech …
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…
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 …
ArticleThe formation of the SANNC/ANC
… bodies through protest and enquiries and finally through passive action or continued movement. The latter is a clear …
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…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… on the agenda of the United Nations for the first time in 1946 regarding the treatment of people of Indian origin … African question was also on the agenda…
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 …