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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…
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…
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 …
ArticleBlack Sash
… Molly Blackburn she spent a lot of time recruiting for the resistance movement. The Black Sash also was concerned with …
Submissions by the McGill University students 2014
… include the history of Islamic law, anti-colonial resistance movements, and indigenous history. Project: Ernest …
EventThomas Titus Nkobi is born
… Madibane High School) in Western Township, Johannesburg in 1946. Nkobi went to further his education at Roma College …
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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 …
PlaceNamibia
… crushed. By the beginning of the twentieth century African resistance become the central theme under local leaders. … the territory were soon dashed. During…
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…
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 …
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…
ArchiveAnother banning ends for Helen
… Helen Joseph South Africa's veteran of resistance politics recently completed a two year banning …
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…
Detention Without Trial
… Class, Consciousness and Organisation: Indian Political Resistance in Durban, South Africa 1979 - 1996 - by Kumi …
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… of the ANC Youth League, and is appointed its Treasurer. 1946 While the mass action of the African Miner’s strike is … At this meeting it is decided that the…
South Africa: Writer Mafika Gwala Passes Away (allAfrica), 9 September 2014
… was born in Verulam, north of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal in 1946. He spent most of his adult life in Mpumalanga township, …
Sita - Memoirs of Sita Gandhi by Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie
… but he was obeying him. It hurts me that when small time passive resisters are recognized, my father is never … and Sanskrit. So my life in Akola from June…