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ArticleSouth African Youth Congress (SAYCO)
… role in marches, consumer boycotts, stay-aways and defiance campaigns. The launch of the Alexandra Youth …
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
… Question of Resistance: Co-operation, Non-Collaboration of Defiance? The Struggle for African Schooling with Special …
ArchiveApartheids friends and allies
… Campaign for a complete boycott of all trade with South … photographs. Anti-Apartheid Movement, United Kingdom campaign. …
ArchiveSolidarity with Angola
… the Anti Apartheid Movement. Artwork of map of Anglola. Campaign to isolate Unita. Yellow and black poster. Support the Angola Emergency Campaign. …
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… spanned the generation gap. The generations of the old Defiance Campaign, of Sharpeville, of Soweto ‘76, and the angry new … of repression. In the 1980’s it…
Excerpts from Chief Luthuli’s evidence at the treason trial dealing with his understanding of a non-violent liberation struggle
… friends, that your grand success came not only in the campaign ”” it not only brought you well-deserved honour but … the position, the difference between the…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1910-1919
… Transvaal Branch of Congress launches a passive resistance campaign with 2000 Africans gathering in Vrededorp. 6 June, … African Native National Council…
ArchiveSCANC Newsletter No 3
… New Constitution) urging support for a co-ordinated campaign by students to sign a petition rejecting the new Constitution Bill; UDF plans for nationwide…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… and committee members. Nevertheless, the organising campaign progressed steadily and the stage was reached where … the May Day strike. They gave the impetus…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… in their struggle. This began the passive resistance campaign which lasted until 1948. April, Two-thousand mine … strikes and civil disobedience. This leads…
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… largely symbolic, this gesture was also an open act of defiance which proclaimed Ndzundza independence from the ZAR … records exist of the exact number of…
ArticleThe Namibian struggle for independence – 1966 – 1990 – a historical background
… to get enough weapons and aids to start a serious military campaign. However, the Namibian armies resorted to gathering … lines SWAPO was able to launch a…
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1994
… within South Africa, and a continuous international campaign against Apartheid. The National Assembly general … and Luso-South Africa Party (LUSO). During…
Document 42 - “Boycott the Dummy Elections: 2 000 Demonstrate AT Mass Rally”, The Torch , National Edition, 1 April 1958
… 1 April 1958 HISTORY-MAKING CLIMAX TO ANTI-C.A.D. BOYCOTT CAMPAIGN The Mass Anti-C.A.D. Boycott Rally filled the old … or communities in the Cape Province…
Glossary: Learning from Leaders
… someone. If you boycott a bus, you refuse to ride on it. Campaign A series of organised activities that are all meant …
ArticlePan Africanist Congress (PAC)
… On 21 March 1960 the PAC launched a peaceful anti pass campaign across the country. Members were called upon to …
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the 47th Anniversary of the formation of Umkhonto We Sizwe, Honouring of Luthuli Detachment and Conferment of Isithwalandwe/Seaparankoe Award on Chris Hani, 16 December 2008, Mangaung, Bloemfontein
… ground given the political activity of the 50s, the Defiance Campaign, the Congress of the People and launch of the … experienced in combat, having…
EventInternational Candlelight Memorial Day
… of stigma and discrimination. The community mobilisation campaign began on 1 December, World Aids Day and ended with a … those who are infected. This serves…
Extracts from the book ‘A long walk to Freedom’. Nelson Mandela’s autobiography
… · a very high level of mass mobilisation and mass defiance had rendered apartheid unworkable; · the building of …
ArticleThe Mau Mau Uprising
… with the British – to positions of power. [ii] This campaign of pacification, combined with the famine and … their support throughout the Kenyan highlands,…
ArticleA History of Official Government HIV/AIDS Policy in South Africa
… the end of the year, on 10 December, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) was launched by HIV-positive activist Zachie … provision of Nepravine was executed…
EventAnti-Apartheid demonstration is held outside SA embassy in Washington
… on South Africa in the early 1980s. A mass grassroots campaign under the direction of the Free South Africa … and subject to an almost comprehensive…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… of race conflict in the country in reaction to the ANC Defiance Campaign. The South West African question was also on the … Problems however persisted and…
EventCourt commutes James Mange’s sentence
… Following an international campaign led by international bodies such as the United … (ANC) applauded the achievements of this international campaign. In a…
Extraordinary ministerial meeting of The Co-ordinating Bereau Of The Non-aligned Countries on the question of Namibia -1985
… out with the objective of undermining the international campaign to isolate that regime. South Africa also continued … against apartheid South Africa. The…
EventCol Eugene de Kock testifies in Court
… his part in the apartheid regime's 'dirty tricks' campaign. Pleading in mitigation over a two-week period, his … forces. He insisted that he was part of a…
EventGandhi leads a march from Newcastle into the Transvaal to defy the Immigrants Regulation Act of 1913
… the Indian community at Newcastle to start the Satyagraha Campaign (Passive Resistance Campaign). In this public meeting, Naidoo represented the …
Devout domesticity?
… Politics, 1982-1984 5. The Politics of Collaboration: The Campaign for Participation in the Tricameral Parliament 6. The Politics of Non-Collaboration: The…
EventWorld War II: The evacuation of Allied forces from Dunkirk ends as German forces capture the beach port
… "brigade" (later renamed "wing") fought in the British campaign against Italian forces in Somaliland, Ethiopia and Eritrea (East Africa Campaign) 1941-1943 -…
EventAsiatic Law Amendment Act is passed in Transvaal parliament leading to increased Indian protest under MK Gandhi
… means. This plan of satyagraha was adopted, but the campaign gained momentum when the Asiatic Law Amendment Act … people in the Transvaal into joining Gandhi…