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EventYusuf Dadoo, political activist, is born
… the story of Dadoo’s life was inextricably linked to the resistance of racial discrimination and apartheid. Dadoo was …
Address delivered at The 9th COSATU Congress, 18 September 2006, Gallagher Estate, Midrand
… and common experiences... It has been strengthened through resistance to the vicious onslaught against both the ANC and … the major strikes to have taken…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Introduction
… married B. M. Khaketla, Lembede's Heilbron roommate, in 1946. One of Lembede's last acts before moving to … into African political and social circles.”Š 21 ”…
Indian South Africans timeline 1950-1959
… 1955. He quoted from Dr Naicker’s speeches between 1946 and 1954 to argue that cumulatively they ‘vilified’ …
EventFrance's war in Morocco ends with Treaty of Tangier.
… a result of the French government's pursuit of Algerian resistance leader, Abd al-Qadir who had taken refuge in the …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Contextual Overview
… (Raleigh, 2002) [8] . To show their discontent, centres of resistance were formed in southern and Siberian Russia by …
EventDefiance campaign leadership meets with SAIC
… disobedience. It was the largest scale of non-violent resistance ever seen in South Africa and the first campaign …
EventUDF organises boycott of Coloured and Indian parliamentry elections
… ://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/specialprojects/apartheid-and-resistance/1980s.htm …
EventMangope calls out troops as unrest flares in Bophuthatswana
… sham authority of the homeland was met with massive civic resistance, including a civil service strike and and mutiny …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at a Joint Sitting of the Houses of Parliament on the Occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Adoption of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, Cape Town, 8 May 2006
… on the difficult march to freedom, including the desperate resistance of the forces of white minority rule, only served … that marked this launch, the…
PlaceDarlington Dam- Lake Mentz
… of Restoring the Capacity. The accumulation of silt had by 1946, again reduced the Capacity. In 1949, the wall was …
PlaceSterkfontein Caves, Krugersdorp (within the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site)
… where a Palaeontological Reserve was declared in 1946. Over the Years, this Area has become associated with …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.5 No.2 1982
… Erasmus; Mzwakhe. Features: Botswana Festival, Culture and Resistance by Cynthia Kross; Bringing the struggle into Focus …
PlaceGroot Drakenstein
… The Dutch East India Company had largely broken Khoi resistance in the district while mobile armed commandos kept …
EventAlbert Luthuli accepts the Nobel Peace Prize
… the Nobel Peace Prize in 1960 for advocating non-violent resistance to racial discrimination in South Africa. Though …
EventWWII: SA troops to fight in Europe
… to enter Rome and cleaned up the last pockets of German resistance in the Po valley at the end of the war. 753 South …
EventStruggle icon Nxele Makana drowns while escaping from Robben Island
… the prisoners survived. Makana became a lasting symbol of resistance. The island is sometimes referred to as Makana …
EventSmallpox Epidemic Strikes at the Cape
… indigenous Khoisan people. They appear to have much less resistance to the disease than the slaves and the colonists … were not as fortunate. They appeared…
BiographyTheophilus Shepstone
… military power and natural rallying point for any general resistance to white authority was removed, imperial prestige …
BiographySir. Theophilus Shepstone
… military power and natural rallying point for any general resistance to white authority was removed, imperial prestige …
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… 2757 2650 5407 1936 3132 2935 6067 1939 4000 >3000 >7000 1946 8834 5653 14487 The Apartheid city A history of Pass … in tyrannical fashion, cracking down…
ArticleKasturba Gandhi timeline 1869 - 1944
… demand the withdrawal of the Asiatic Bill and threaten resistance. September 19, M.K. Gandhi accuses the government … Amendment Bill. March 11, Gandhi…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1920-1929
… in Natal. The South African Indian Congress threatens passive resistance. Indian progress in industry was limited by the …
PlaceJohn Vorster Square Police Station or Johannesburg Central Police Station
… site of interrogation, torture and abuse of the Apartheid resistance fighters by the South African Security Police. …
ArticleGreat Trek 1835-1846
… and create a 'buffer class' against increasing African resistance. Dispossession and land seizure The trekkers' … Abraham Cloete arrived on the scene and…
Colonial history of Rustenburg
… was hoisted. The burghers accepted the occupation without resistance, and when Sir Theophilus Shepstone, the former … Smuts, decided to use guerrilla tactics…
Liberation organisations
… life of township residents, and played a major role in the resistance of the 1980s. There were frequent, violent … trade unions were one of the most…
ArticleThe Zulu kingdom and the colony of Natal
… camp at Isandlwana hill. Chelmsford encountered some local resistance and mistakenly assumed it to be the main Zulu … On the coast, the right column brushed…
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad 1906 - 1990
… 1952 The Defiance Campaign begins. This was a nonviolent resistance action, which involved breaking unjust apartheid … funds a rebel group known as the…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.2 No.3 Apr-Jun 1958
… Cape Postscript, Christopher Gell. Zeerlust: A Profile on Resistance, James Fairbairn. The Multi-Racial Conference, …