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What the lives of two South African music giants tell us about culture under apartheid by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 13 July 2017
… 18 weeks, but was banned in South Africa. Black pride and defiance Both, in their own musical arenas, nurtured black pride and defiance. The Ministers’ jazz…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The African Peoples Organisation and the Teachers League of South Africa
… of its members, Abe Desmore, served in the East African Campaign and recorded his experiences in a book. 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 …
The African Resistance Movement (ARM): An Organisational History
… to abandon the principle of non-violence in favour of a campaign of sabotage. Significantly, the period marked the … who had worked closely with the PAC’s…
ArchiveCHAPTER TWO: Class, Consiousness and Organisation inthe Political Development of Indian South Africans, 1860 - 1979 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… struggle, that is, the use of military action to generate defiance and stimulate the development of a mass movement. … South Africa and by an extensive…
ArticleThe Cape Coloured Corps and the First World War
… battalion was in hospital or sick on duty. The Rufji River campaign In December 1916, The Cape Corps battalion left to partake in the Rufji River campaign…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… activist, Mohandas Gandhi, began a passive resistance campaign against the pass laws, leading Indians in Natal and … technique of fighting social and…
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of 60th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter, Kliptown, Johannesburg, 26 June 2015
… Cradock in 1953. Within months, it became a national ANC campaign and the Council of the Congress of the People was … The Congress Alliance had been born…
Closing address by President Neslon Mandela at the 49th National conferenceof the ANC Bloemfontein, 22 December 1994
… strikes, stay-at-homes, boycotts, protest demonstrations, defiance campaigns. It sought to transform the organisation … represented all sections of our…
ArticleUnited Nations and Apartheid Timeline 1946-1994
… month and the Indian community began a passive resistance campaign on 13 June under the leadership of Dr. Y.M. Dadoo … Naicker. Nearly 2,000 people courted…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… of the Coloureds' votes. This Act became the target of the Defiance Campaign of 1952. Commenced: 18 June 1951. It was revalidated … of offences committed…
EventFNB cancels its R20 million anti-crime initiative designed to encourage President Thabo Mbeki to make crime his priority
… First National bank cancelled its R 20 million anti-crime campaign. The bank had launched the campaign with the intention of encouraging then President ……
EventElectricity cut off in Tumahole township
… Front (UDF) have called for grass roots revolts and defiance to bring about their collapse. As a result of these …
EventNamibia gains Independence
… In the 1960s Toivo ja Toivo and others were arrested for defiance against the South African government, and later sent …
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
… Christian – The Hani family is Roman Catholic) 1953-1954 Campaign against Bantu Education ; some of Hani’s school … in what would later become the known as…
ArticleAnti-pass campaigns, 1910s
… of the women was against lodgers' permits. The third campaign was masterminded in Johannesburg from 1954-1956, … pass laws' (Wells 1993:9). The 1913…
Excavations: Shirts, Placards, Posters and the Remnants of Spectacular Protest in the LRS’s Collections by Lebogang Mokwena
… discussions on past cultural expressions of protest and defiance. However, occluded from view and interpretation, …
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, submitted to the Annual Conference, December 15-17, 1950
… I. Horvitch, Chairman of the C.P. of S.Africa. A vigorous campaign was launched throughout the country calling upon the … because of the prominent part he…
First Matabele War
… and British Administrator Leander Jameson set up the 1893 Campaign. 3 British columns met near Iron Mine Hill and … sitting in a cave, wrapped in a black ox…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of her majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands Pretoria, 30 September 1996
… before the start of the Pan Africanist Congress' Anti Pass campaign. PAC Campaign will be test Contact 19 March 1960 Under the slogan … aboilition of the…
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… do with the ‘Assurance’, instead carrying out an extensive campaign among workers ‘to put an end to the short-sighted … , the arrest of Dadoo and Seedat …
EventMahatma Ghandi sends a telegram to Dr. Dadoo
… a decision was taken to launch the Passive Resistance Campaign on 1 August. A Council of Action for the campaign was set up with Dr. Yusuf Dadoo as Chairman…
Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "No Easy Walk to Freedom: Articles, Speeches and Trial Addresses of Nelson Mandela edited by Ruth First", 1965.
… National Congress Youth League. We went together into the Defiance Campaign of 1952, into general strikes against the Government … that Mandela is imprisoned…
This item by Oliver Tambo was published as the introduction to the book "No Easy Walk to Freedom" by Ruth First, 01 June 1965
… National Congress Youth League. We went together into the Defiance Campaign of 1952, into general strikes against the Government … that Mandela is imprisoned…
Nelson Mandela by Oliver Tambo
… National Congress Youth League. We went together into the Defiance Campaign of 1952, into general strikes against the Government … that Mandela is imprisoned…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… facilities in the armed forces. Moreover, no recruiting campaign (like that of NlA) of the non-Europeans was … worth examining in some detail the events…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s Satyagraha, Durban
… of a defining epoch in our history, the Satyagraha campaign, initiated right here in South Africa a century ago. … as the ?3 tax on the indentured labourers…
ArticleSouth Africa and the United Nations, 1946-1990
… of race conflict in the country in reaction to the ANC Defiance Campaign. The South West African question was also on the …