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EventGeneral H. Van Den Bergh blames the SACP for anti
… and John Vorster used security legislation to put down the resistance in South Africa, in particular the General Law … the Apartheid State's security…
EventMembers of Bambathas homestead are pursued by policemen for refusing to pay the ‘hut tax’
… the last of the independent Zulu kings left the task of resistance to colonial rule to be pursued by minor chiefs. By … has gone down in history as the last…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… with the built environment prompted different forms of resistance, such as squatting or mounting rent arrears and … of corruption and mismanagement became…
ArticleBlack South African literature
… by Peter Abrahams, whose book Mine Boy was published in 1946. Abrahams was also one of the first into a growing field …
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… it was decided that the ANC needed to find new methods of resistance. The ANC had always followed a policy of … came to focus increasingly on apartheid, and…
ArticleResponse to the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising by organisations in exile
… developments. They have their roots in the spirit of resistance to the growing crisis of apartheid. The collective resistance to oppression and exploitation…
ArticleEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC)
… accident in the 1990s. The Committee on South African War Resistance (COSAWR) was founded by political exiles in London … This prompted a new and even more…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The siege of Okiep, in Namaqualand, starts
… War (Anglo Boer), the British had whittled down the Boer resistance to such an extent that the only resistance they could offer was sporadic guerrilla…
EventRSA introduces more press restriction
… Faced with increasing resistance and an increasingly ungovernable country, the … and to introduce any measures deemed necessary to curb resistance. As a…
ArticleConference: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa
… armed tactics and the transition from non-violent to armed resistance being among the most controversial. Yet these …
ArticleAccount of events: Rand Rebellion 1922
… to destruction of valuable property. Then, after all other resistance had fallen, Smuts threatened a general ground …
The Mountain Committee
… A vast popular movement of resistance arose amongst the people in March 1960, and …
EventThelma Gutsche, a South African scholar, historian and film critic, dies
… at the University of Cape Town which she completed in 1946. Her doctoral thesis on The History and Social …
Appeal for Action to stop Repression and Trial in South Africa: Statement at the Meeting of the Special Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly by O. R. Tambo, New York, 8 October, 1963
… African of Indian extraction who started politics as a passive resister in 1946 at the age of seventeen, since when he has been …
Gold and Workers 1886 - 1924 by Luli Callinicos
… Colour Bar - A System of Forced Labour Part 3 - Workers' Resistance Chapter 13 - Black Workers Boycott The Mines … - White Workers and Colour Bar Chapter 16 …
The Atlantic slave trade
… source: history.sandiego.edu There was a great deal of resistance to slavery, even while it was still thriving. Many … or by jumping overboard from slave…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… Nair and Harry Gwala in Pietermaritzburg; the African Resistance Movement trials in Johannesburg and Cape Town, … Colonialism in Africa, by Bruno da Ponte…
Document 91 - John Gomas, “The Native Representation Bill is Passed: What Must be Done Now?” Umsebenzi, 25 April 1936
… for militant action in the form of protest demonstrations, passive resistance, to organise a general strike, to refuse to pay …
Memorandum To The United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid, June 1968
… the community have joined with the Africanpeople in armed resistance, under the banner of Umkhonto We Sizwe. Some of …
Public dialogue: Cultural Erasure & Memory Reclamation
… the power of memory, language, and storytelling as acts of resistance and restoration. …
ArticleThe Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896
… and moved into the palace. Khalid had become the symbol of resistance against European interference, so his actions …
Political executions
… 27 1988/03/25 Harris, Frederick John 1965/04/01 African Resistance Movement (ARM). Bombing of Johannesburg Station …
Formation and launch of the UDF
… Growing unrest leading to the transition By the mid 1980s, resistance against the system of apartheid had intensified …
Opening address by Albert Luthuli to the Twenty-second Biennial Conference of the South African Indian Congress, 19 October 1956, Gandhi Hall, Johannesburg
… to this Conference can help to create such a spirit of resistance to this arrogant and studied tyranny. Stand up in … sustenance in such testing times, the…
PlaceGreytown, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… Buildings include: 'Greytown’s Mosque' which was built in 1946 to replace the original of 1898, 'Shri Vishnu Mandir …
EventGeneral J.C. Smuts (80), former prime minister of SA, dies
… established the Fagan Commission after WW II in August 1946, to investigate laws relating to urban Blacks, pass …
America, Spanish conquest
… she knew about the Aztecs. In 1521, after two years of resistance, the Aztec Empire fell to the Spanish. Montezuma … for this section by clicking on the …
ArticleMedu Art Ensemble
… approach as rooted in the strands of South African resistance and Africanist culture, building upon the work of … context that Medu hosted the 1982 Gaborone…
Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers’ party
… demoralisation. By the time mineworkers went on strike in 1946, they, and the whole black trade union movement were in … could no longer be held back) moved…
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
… more than 1,5 million supporters. It mobilised nationwide resistance, led a series of boycotts, and became involved in … 1980s: COSATU, 1985 There was an…