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Gandhiji and the struggle for liberation in South Africa
… Transvaal had launched, in July 1907, a passive resistance campaign against the Asiatic Registration Act (the Black Act) … African leadership in 1952, aptly…
Chapter V - South Africa belongs to all who live in it
… to an inspiring new level of personal activity, for as the campaign unfolded there were joint meetings of the national … already inspired thousands to follow…
The armed struggle and state repression of the 1960s
… organised a similar protest for 21 March 1960. The pass campaign had little support other than in Langa in the Cape … increased. Although the ANC had not…
ArticleLives of Courage
… Launch of the Project, 2000 The ‘Lives of Courage’ campaign was launched by SAHO in Durban on August 30, 2000. … on behalf of the Deputy President. At the…
Speech by President Mandela at the Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Celebration, 25 April 1998, KwaDukuza
… of the Chief that we entered the fighting fifties with the Defiance Campaign, the struggle against bantu education, the Freedom … the racial line into the…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the unveiling of the tombstone of Helen Joseph Avalon Cemetery, Johannesburg, 30 March 1996
… during the roaring fifties. She volunteered during the Defiance Campaign;played a prominent role during the writing of the …
Input by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the Farewell service for former President Nelson Mandela, Waterkloof Airforce Base, 14 December 2013
… first National Volunteer-in-Chief of the ANC during the defiance campaign. When the ANC took the decision to embark on campaigns beginning with the defiance…
Chapter 10 - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… In the early months of 1960 the PAC leadership launched a campaign against the pass laws. The aim was for a mass … accommodation with black power. It had…
Memorandum To The United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid, April 1964
… the principal unit of my organization, led my people in a campaign of resistance against the now entrenched pattern of … Verwoerd regime. The thousands who…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… Secretary General of the ANCYL from 1948. By the time the Defiance Campaign began, Mandela was the leader of the ANCYL, as well as the public spokesperson…
ArticleAzanian Students Organisation (AZASO)
… by developing a working alliance on the Education Charter Campaign. As the number of Black students increased in the … datum line. AZASO also focused on the…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… in violent clashes with the police during an anti-pass campaign in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) January to May … and the six laws it identified became…
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
… be the "Year of the Pass", with a nation-wide anti-pass campaign to start on 31 March - the anniversary of the 1919 Anti-Pass Campaign 16 March 1960 – At a…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Red Lives. Convenor: Arianna Lissoni
… first women in Durban to volunteer for arrest during the Defiance Campaign of 1952 . Through the period of intense repression … South African Indian Congress…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 2 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… Women’s League The start of mass campaigns Stay-away! The Defiance Campaign Forming the Federation Bantu Education boycott The …
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
… 1946 Passive Resistance Campaign Introduction ↵ An acute labour shortage forced White … pitched five tents on a piece of vacant Municipal land in defiance of…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939
… set up a Council of Action to start a Passive Resistance Campaign and also calls for cooperation with other non-white … The meeting agrees to embark on a…
ArchiveSouthern African Catholic Bishop Conference: letter form Margaret Kelly to all Archbishops/ Bishops
… Commission briefing them about non violence action and the defiance campagn in 10 August 1989. …
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1915
… to the Western Front. 18 February Germany begins a U-Boat campaign, attacking merchant and passenger shipping around … gain access to Russia through the…
Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws
… compartments. For that, too, they were arrested, but their campaign led to the railways introducing third class … in the battle. In Sophiatown, during the…
EventStart of the Muslim community's Tana Baru Cemetery Uprising
… with no alternate burial ground. On 17 January 1886, in defiance of the closure, 3000 Muslims buried a child at Tana …
ArticleSouth Africa’s 2019 General Election - Post Analysis
… main parties’ campaigns and policy manifestos The election campaign has been characterised by a number of commentators … with voting for parties that were…
BiographyJosiah Tshangana Gumede
… a passport to travel to England. He continued to advocate defiance of the Pass Laws and addressed several meetings held …
BiographyArchbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
… banished and spending the night with the Tutu family in defiance of the Group Areas Act . However, the visit was …
ArchiveStatement of the Controversy between the South African and Namibian Government regarding the Walvis Bay
… claim to Namibia which it had occupied and ruled in defiance of the World Court rulig of 1970. …
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Timeline 1961-1990
… the ANC claim responsibility. June, As part of nationwide defiance against Republic Day celebrations, MK strikes at … on Africans in the Western Cape. The…
ArticleThe South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO)
… with the African National Congress (ANC) in its campaign against Apartheid . James la Guma and Reggie … strength of anti-British sentiment among Afrikaners…
Tribute To Michael Harmel: Oration At Funeral In Prague, June 24, 1974
… struggle of our people reached stirring new peaks in the Defiance Campaign, the Congress of the People, nation-wide general …
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… a protest march led by Mahatma Gandhi ( Passive Resistance Campaign 1913-1914 ). Men and women took part in the … of the direct consequences of the…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… a protest march led by Mahatma Gandhi ( Passive Resistance Campaign 1913-1914 ). Men and women took part in the … of the direct consequences of the…