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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…
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…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1800-1899
… Xhosa folklore and become notorious in Xhosa histories of resistance. 1856 A young woman, Nongqawuse , has a vision …
ArticleThe Transkei
… Authorities Act were fought in the Transkei , where the resistance of the peasants culminated in the Pondo revolt …
The Cape Northern Frontier
… In the northeast the Dutch farmers met with serious resistance from the Khoikhoi and San, discontinued their bid …
ArticleThe Battle - Andries Pretorius and his men advance
… seal the victory. Pretorius' cavalry met with determined resistance from the Zulu Warriors, and it was only after a …
Submissions by the McGill University students 2014
… include the history of Islamic law, anti-colonial resistance movements, and indigenous history. Project: Ernest …
ArticleBlack Sash
… Molly Blackburn she spent a lot of time recruiting for the resistance movement. The Black Sash also was concerned with …
ArchiveThe South African Art Collective That Imagined the End of Apartheid by Keenan Teddy Smith, 27 August 2019
… used to imprison Nelson Mandela and silence anti-racist resistance to apartheid in South Africa. On July 21, 2018, … and interviews from the Medu-organized …
Congo gains its independence from Belgium
… and collect taxes. [iv] The people engaged in acts of resistance throughout this period and were met with further … movement sweeping through the continent,…
EventYoweri Kaguta Moseveni becomes president of Uganda
… (UPM). The UPM later altered its name to the National Resistance Movement (NRM) with the National Resistance Army (NRA) as its military wing. Moseveni's …
ArchiveClass, Consciousness and Organisation: Introduction by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
ArticleThe Impact of Colonialism
… exploitation colonies, the colonisers used force to crush resistance and maintain control. They did not displace or … in his palace in Lima by followers of…
EventThomas Titus Nkobi is born
… Madibane High School) in Western Township, Johannesburg in 1946. Nkobi went to further his education at Roma College …
EventThe UN General Assembly adopts resolution 1881, requesting South Africa to release all political prisoners
… the freedom and movement of black South Africans. External resistance to the policy came in the form of international condemnation, while internal resistance…
EventChief of the Zondi, Bambata is killed
… Bhambatha returned to Natal to continue his campaign of resistance. In April 1906 he ambushed a police force near … body was decapitated. Several influential…
79. Indian Parliament: separate can’t be equal
… . . negotiations, petitions, demonstrations and sometimes passive resistance, all aimed at exerting some kind of moral pressure … they had selected and…
EventNigerian women occupy ChevronTexaco oil terminal
… occupation marked the beginning of a sustained period of resistance by Niger Delta communities against the … regional defence networks. The Niger Delta women…
Chapter 23. How the United Party Betrayed South Africa - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… his country at its most decisive period. At the end of 1946, two important questions concerning South Africa were … Act by the Union Parliament at the…
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… Ma Mofokeng give birth to their third born child Moeletsi. 1946 Govan Mbeki supports the Mineworkers’ Strike in … Albert Dlhomo are arrested in Swaziland and…
ArchiveAnother banning ends for Helen
… Helen Joseph South Africa's veteran of resistance politics recently completed a two year banning …
PlaceNamibia
… crushed. By the beginning of the twentieth century African resistance become the central theme under local leaders. … the territory were soon dashed. During…
Detention Without Trial
… Class, Consciousness and Organisation: Indian Political Resistance in Durban, South Africa 1979 - 1996 - by Kumi …
Document 33 - Accord on Afrikaner self-determination
… book celebrates the historic conference of South African resistance culture which took place in Amsterdam in 1987 …
ArticleSS Clan Stuart
The SS Clan Stuart was blown ashore in 1914 between Glencairn and Simon's Town, along Cape Town’s west coast. The SS in the vessel's name stands for ‘steamship…
ArchiveWe will not be silenced
… to be held in Cape Town on 2 May 1988, regarding the resistance of church organisations to state repression. …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… They boycott stores as a result of price hikes using passive resistance tactics that had been used earlier in the Free …
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
… to them. Some African politicians had already planned a passive resistance campaign beginning with the boycott of all …
ArchiveOnverwacht: Ethnic Control, paper Presented at National Conference 1981
… removals, homelands, migrant labour, living conditions, resistance. …
ArticleJune 16 Soweto Youth Uprising timeline: 1976-1986
… too low. 5 980 were arrested for offences related to the resistance in the townships. Within four months of the Soweto … African communities all over the…