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ArticleSharpeville
… (PAC) called on Black South Africans to leave their pass books at home and thereafter gather peacefully at police …
Passive Resistance in South Africa by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "Southern Africa in Transition by Davis, John A. and James K. Baker"(Pall Mall Press), London, 1966
… launched, in 1952, the Campaign for the Defiance of Unjust Laws, or the "Defiance Campaign". [1] Before they were … bodies, and agitation for their…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… >7000 1946 8834 5653 14487 The Apartheid city A history of Pass Laws in South Africa Like all apartheid cities in South … apparently placid temper of the…
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
… to the 1980s was punctuated by the enactment of security laws that enabled the government to arrest, detain and imprison those who fought against its racist…
ArticleHitler’s racial state in Germany
… away the rights of the people of Germany? Anti-Jewish Nazi laws and decrees Hitler wanted to make Nazi Germany Judenrein … exclude Jews from all aspects of…
ArticleSophiatown timeline 1899-1955
… widespread support the ANC had in the township The Native Laws Amendment Act of 1952 is passed, destined to provide the …
PlaceAfsaalnek, Mpumalanga
… Pass about 40 km North of Witbank, leading Westwards from the … The name is Afrikaans for 'off-saddle neck',( Pass at which saddle is removed!) …
Address by President Jacob Zuma on the occasion of the release of the 20 Year Review: South Africa 1994 to 2014, Sefako Makgatho Presidential Guest House, Pretoria, 11 March 2014
… dismantling of the homeland system and the removal of the pass laws. There are also increasing numbers of women looking for … been working on challenges in…
A Message to Every Voter from the African National Congress, April 1958
… no votes. It has a great deal to with us. Parliament makes laws which govern non-whites as well as whites. We have to obey those laws - which always bear…
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… to British institutions, their submission to the laws of the land, and their capacity for exercising full and … of the economy came urbanization, greater…
BiographyMarcus Solomon
Marcus Solomon was born in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, on 27 January 1939. His father, a waiter by profession, was a Hindu born of Tamil parents from Sri Lanka,…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… of the All African Convention (AAC) and the ANC meet and pass a resolution regarding World War II. They sympathise … and Dr. Yusuf Dadoo are the main…
Chapter 7 - 1957-58: The Movement in a Crucial Phase
… the implications of the struggle had begun to dawn: "The pass system is the foundation of the whole cheap labour … up. It follows, that victory in the…
Passive resistance in South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 2 June 1966
… launched, in 1952, the Campaign for the Defiance of Unjust Laws, or the "Defiance Campaign". Before they were finally … bodies, and agitation for their…
ArticleTimeline of the German and Herero, Nama War and Genocide
… to the Herero camp for further meetings. On the way they pass the home of an old Herero man who gesticulates to them … to kill them. Later that morning a…
A Chronological look (1943 to 1986) at the Life and Times of Mr George Ponnen
… the shooting of JOHANNES NKOSI, in 1930, during the Anti Pass demonstrations at Cart-wrights Flat, Durban. Many were … Natal Indians and had to abide by the…
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
… of black people. For instance, on 16 December 1929 anti pass demonstrations were organized by the Communist Party of … was called In the 1930s the CPSA…
XIII - The Courts
… system. While a never-ending stream of political trials pass through the courts, while defendants complain unheeded … During a period of many years in which…
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2020 submissions
Claire Albin Claire Albin is a sophomore at Southern Methodist University originally from Shreveport, Louisiana. She is currently studying Marketing…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress (PAC)
… On 21 March 1960 the PAC launched a peaceful anti pass campaign across the country. Members were called upon to …
BiographyGovin Reddy
Govindasamy Reddy (Govin Reddy) was born on 16 June 1943 in Kranskloof, a farming area next to Claremont on the outskirts of Durban, Natal (now known as…
BiographyWilliam Cock
In 1849, Cape Town lived up to its reputation for giving visiting vessels a rousing reception. But this was a reception with a difference; it was in fact a…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 3 - South Africa: Culture and Conflict
… to have requested the right to immigrate, subject to the laws of the local people, and to have offered, in return, to … ancestors were like this would be…
South Africa's freedom struggle by E.S. Reddy
… National Congress, in a campaign against the humiliating pass laws imposed upon the African people, and was again arrested … and then to the historic…
Dunbar, Thibedi, Sigamoney: Three figures in the IWW in South Africa by Red Jack (libcom.org), 08 January 2012
… for One Big Union, and fought against the oppressive laws applied to African workers, the majority of the working class: indenture, pass controls, housing in…
The defiance campaign by M. P. Naicker
… of the beginning of the "Campaign of Defiance of Unjust Laws," launched jointly by the African National Congress and … the rights of free speech and assembly…
Chapter 7
… are treated worse than slaves. Under the old Cape slave laws we could not ill-nourish a slave or allow him to become … and the gaoling of defaulters was to…
ArchiveBiography of Ruth First by Cole Deal Ruth Demissie
… of legal repression by the apartheid government who would pass legislation as a way of suppressing resistance. At the … that justified it. The apartheid…
EventChief Cyprian Zulu warns his people not to participate in the Defiance Campaign
… 1950s in response to the enactment of numerous apartheid laws by the South African government. During the African … certain specified unjust and racially…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Glossary
… a part of the Christian Church. Constitution The system of laws and principles that a state, country or organisation is … A group of people who are elected…