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ArticleA history of Soweto
… movements in Orlando grew in size between 1944 and 1946. Some of the squatters came from the Old Pimville … that has been instrumental in the development of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
Public dialogue: Cultural Erasure & Memory Reclamation
… the power of memory, language, and storytelling as acts of resistance and restoration. …
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 …
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…
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
EventKader Asmal, political activist and future Member of Parliament, is born
… is born in Stanger, Natal (now Kwa-Dukuza). His resistance against apartheid began in 1952 when he organized … streets of Stanger. Asmal continued to be…
EventSADF mounts raids on ANC targets in neighbouring states
… in Lusaka, Zambia. In the 1960s, the ANC extended resistance activities to armed struggle and thus set up an … the raids on the neighbouring countries to…
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…
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
… of exile but it was developed in the hothouse of internal resistance during the late 1960s and early 1970s. It has a … efficient system of labour…