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EventANC stalwart, Albertina Sisulu dies in Johannesburg
… and one of the most important leaders of anti-Apartheid resistance in South Africa. It was with Walter that she …
EventState of Emergency follows Sharpeville massacre
… Black people to carry passes wherever they went. Black resistance against the regime mounted. The Pan Africanist …
Address by Selby Msimang, President, Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of South Africa, July 23, 1921
… people were ignorant in regard to the great secrets of passive resistance. I will be failing in my duty if I do not warn you …
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew
… - Non-European United Front of South Africa, Statement of Passive Resistance Movement {1939} Document 118 - Johannesburg …
African History Books
table { border: none; border-collapse: collapse; } td { border: none; border-color: red; } During the month of May we celebrate Africa…
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… leadership that articulated their plight and led their resistance, but more importantly, it provided African people … laws, and the stock limitation laws…
Writing the 1973 Durban Strikes: From ‘black worker unrest’ to the ‘birth of independent trade unions’ by Debby Bonnin
… of a period of labour reform, the impetuses for the resistance that eventually bought down the Apartheid regime. …
Indian Opinion
… activism. Satyagraha, Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolent resistance, was encouraged. In 1957 Indian Opinion became …
EventMike Gatting’s rebel cricket tour is curtailed
… NSC agreed not to hold protests at the remaining matches. Resistance against the tour was led by the National Sports …
EventWinnie Madikizela-Mandela’s bodyguards arrested in connection with the death of Stompie Seipei
… the Black community acknowledged his role in organising resistance among school students in 1985. As result of this, …
EventSouth African Communist Party leader, Dr. Yusuf Mahomed Dadoo dies
… movement in India, and in particular the growing resistance to the British in Gujarat State. In June 1955, at …
EventOver 60 people are killed by RENAMO in Mozambique
… was attacked by guerrillas from the Mozambique National Resistance Movement (RENAMO). The ambush happened on a … 28 November 2013]| Start.umd,‘ Mozambique…
EventPassbook laws relaxed
… coerce rural woman into accepting passbooks - this sparked resistance in the rural areas, with massive and sustained …
ArticleThe Cape Malay
… and rule tactic and used military conquest to subdue resistance by the local inhabitants. As a consequence … military penetration and anti-Islamic…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… and Natal, in specially defined areas. Forms of Labour resistance The Indian Mineworkers Strike in 1913 Image source A form of resistance included to look…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… domestic work outfits – all showed up to take part in the resistance against apartheid. The 1956 Women’s March played a … unified determination established…
ArticleBlack Community Programmes (BCP)
… the distorted representation of the Black community as passive and incapable of intellectual production. But by the …
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… of this school in presenting the themes of domination and resistance, is vital for understanding South African … well-known themes of our present, domination…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… dealt with political dissent. After the mass based resistance campaign of the 1950s, beginning with the Defiance … the ANC and the PAC, resorted to armed…
Interview with Swami Gounden by Vino Reddy, 29 May 2002
… Conference. Well, before Kliptown Conference in 1946, the Passive Resistance started. '44 I was a party member; '45 as I say I joined; '46 we plunged into…
ArchiveUrban crisis and the apartheid state response: South African housing policy in the 1980s
… settlement - once the symbol of the African spirit of resistance and no surrender to apartheid strategies - by the …
EventThe African National Congress (ANC) calls a meeting to chart a way forward for the Defiance Campaign
… this meeting it was decided that the second phase of the resistance campaign would commence in 1952 after an ultimatum …
EventF.W. de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be freed on 11 February
… banned in 1960. ″It was only then, when all other forms of resistance were no longer open to us, that we turned to armed …
EventMahatma Gandhi is arrested for refusing to carry Apartheid pass
… cards, and engaging in other forms of non-violent resistance. While the government was triumphant in repressing …
EventFrederick Lugard, British colonial administrator, occupies Kano, West Africa
… Kano and occupied it. This action substantially weakened resistance to British rule in the region. …
EventHaile Selassi I, Emperor of Ethiopia, is born
… "Might of the Trinity". In 1936, he led his countries resistance to Italy's invasion of Ethiopia and also spoke out …
EventSouth African Indian Congress opposes "Ghetto Act"
… Indian people of South Africa for concerted and prolonged resistance, which started in June and continued for several …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Introduction
… provides insight into both the internal and external resistance movements as well as the motivations of the … us an idea of the tensions within different…
ArticleThe caring nature of Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu
… and disdain for deliberate injustices and she believed in resistance against the oppressive Apartheid system, even if …
ArticleThe Cordoned Heart
… of the photographic exhibition for the Botswana Culture, Resistance Conference, the establishment of the annual …