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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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress (PAC)
… On 21 March 1960 the PAC launched a peaceful anti pass campaign across the country. Members were called upon to …
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
PlaceLiliesleaf Farm, Rivonia- Johannesburg
… South Africa's oppressive Government. The Apartheid laws of 1948 had meant that racial discrimination was officially institutionalised and legal, these laws…
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…
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…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Disfranchisement of the Cape Native
… part of South African politicians to observe the universal laws common to all humanity. Locally, it was the historical … arising out of the 1913 Lands Act,…