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ArchiveStudent walkouts have changed history before. In South Africa, one helped end apartheid by DeNeen L. Brown (The Washington Post), 14 March 2018
… In Soweto, a black township just outside Johannesburg, defiance came at a terrible cost. South African police … three minutes to leave. The students…
BiographyTim Bruwer
… courage to take part in an armed struggle or in a sabotage campaign against the White regime, or to openly risk …
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…
Albert Luthuli`s speech to ceremony for presenting him the Christopher Gell Memorial Award, 21 October 1961, Port Elizabeth
… movement as any volunteer who went to prison during the defiance campaign, or branch official who participated in the …
ArticleWages Commission
… Harriet Bolton’s support, the WC Durban branch’s first campaign began in early June 1971.The WC printed and …
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…
Chapter 12 - Blind alley of guerrillaism
… have appealed to the African people to make sure that this campaign is conducted in a spirit of absolute non-violence," … stated Sobukwe at the start of the…
International Boycott of Apartheid Sport by Mary Corrigall
… association with racialist sport. The international campaign against apartheid sport It was not until the … its fight for international recognition. 2 The…
ArchiveRadio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio by Chris A. Smith
… with spies. The first broadcast, then, was an act of defiance—and also, perhaps, a proof of life. In June 1963, … in one 1984 segment. “Pretoria has carried…
Chapter VIII - Treason - South African style 1
… the outlying areas were brought into line. Just as in the Defiance Campaign, legislation was passed to hamper resistance to … and holding illegal meetings,…
EventThe English Cricket Council calls off South African cricket tour
… government of South Africa. For example, Peter Hain led a campaign called Stop the Seventy Tour. The campaign threatened to disrupt any matches played during…
The ANC Women’s League in the Struggle for Women’s Rights in South Africa by Meghan Knapp
… 1954 as well as the mass demonstrations for the anti-pass campaign in 1956. In 1960, the ANC was banned and thus so was … of women. This is where the ANC…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 78th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1990
… overwhelmingly successful general strikes, the historic campaign of mass defiance which was characterised by our refusal to submit to … had organised the…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, 09 November 1982, New York
… for their outstanding role in pursuit of the world campaign in support of the struggle for the eradication of … a strategy of overt and covert aggression,…
Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU
… It can stand on principles until it drops, it can campaign politically until it is winded, but if it fails to … on a racial basis, thus leaving the onus of…
Document 20 - Advance to national democracy: guidelines on strategy and tactics of the ANC
… 1. Closing The Apartheid Wage Gap • To launch a concerted campaign to close the apartheid wage gap to a ratio of at … including top management. 2. Minimum…
People Against Gangsterism and Drugs
… the South African Police launched Operation Saladin, a campaign to curb the rampant vigilantism PAGAD was …
ArticleWorld War I
… Movement in Great Britain had been waging a militant campaign in support of granting the vote to women. In June …
Event80 Women arrested for anti-pass protest
… declaration to embark on an anti-pass passive resistance campaign, Black women in Bloemfontein that were committed to … 80 women were arrested. Read more on…
EventPolitical activist, Dr Yusuf Dadoo is re-elected President of Transvaal Indian Congress
… now known as SACP). In 1946, the Indian Passive Resistance Campaign, led by Yusuf Dadoo (TIC) and G.M Naicker (Natal … Representation Bill. Dadoo was…
EventThambi Naidoo mobilises the Indians
… Natal (KwaZulu Natal) Colony to start the Satyagraha Campaign (Passive Resistance Campaign). In this public meeting, Naidoo represented the …
ArchiveBiography of Dorothy Nyembe by Thomas Boatman
… Congress (ANC) and participated as a volunteer in the Defiance Campaign , which protested against unjust laws, in Durban , … charged with high treason for…
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki leads a government delegation to the funeral of former state president, P.W. Botha
… which included the release of Nelson Mandela. Botha's defiance of the international community in his speech …
EventWhite women achieve suffrage in South Africa
… Union (WCTU) in 1899. The goal of this organisation was to campaign against the trade in alcohol, which they considered … to moral decay. This organisation…
EventRev. Michael Scott besiege the UN for justice regarding Herero people
… Africa. In 1946 he participated in a passive resistance campaign by Indian protesters in Tobruk, Durban and was … and sentenced to three months imprison. The…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes
… approved it. Prime Minister Hertzog launched his campaign to get rid of the Cape franchise for Africans in … ANC in place of Nelson Mandela in June 1952…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 4: A Heritage trail through the provinces of South Africa
… Women’s League. Her actions included participation in the Defiance Campaign in 1952, a peaceful protest where black people were …
EventMartin Luther King is arrested for his role in a bus boycott
… King and Chief Albert Luthuli launched a Humans Rights Campaign in which they appealed for "Action against Apartheid". In this campaign they called for:…
ArticleThe Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896
… for asylum. He was eventually captured during the British campaign in East Africa during the First World War and …
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1999
… clean water had had significant success. During electoral campaign, the dominant issues included the ever widening gap …