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EventSouth African Communist Party leader, Dr. Yusuf Mahomed Dadoo dies
… movement in India, and in particular the growing resistance to the British in Gujarat State. In June 1955, at …
EventOver 60 people are killed by RENAMO in Mozambique
… was attacked by guerrillas from the Mozambique National Resistance Movement (RENAMO). The ambush happened on a … 28 November 2013]| Start.umd,‘ Mozambique…
EventPassbook laws relaxed
… coerce rural woman into accepting passbooks - this sparked resistance in the rural areas, with massive and sustained …
A Brief History of Niger - Part 1 by US Department of State
… citizenship on the inhabitants of the territories, the 1946 French constitution provided for decentralization of …
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… higher wages and the recognition of African trade unions. 1946 January: Xuma is able to convince representatives of the … grant to cover their expenses for…
ArticleThe Cape Malay
… and rule tactic and used military conquest to subdue resistance by the local inhabitants. As a consequence … military penetration and anti-Islamic…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… domestic work outfits – all showed up to take part in the resistance against apartheid. The 1956 Women’s March played a … unified determination established…
ArticleBlack Community Programmes (BCP)
… the distorted representation of the Black community as passive and incapable of intellectual production. But by the …
ArticleA History of the Springbok Legion
… of civil liberty.” Decline of the Springbok Legion By 1946, the SL was in decline as its active membership was … South Africa's Alternative Press: Voices of…
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… of this school in presenting the themes of domination and resistance, is vital for understanding South African … well-known themes of our present, domination…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… dealt with political dissent. After the mass based resistance campaign of the 1950s, beginning with the Defiance … the ANC and the PAC, resorted to armed…
ArchiveUrban crisis and the apartheid state response: South African housing policy in the 1980s
… settlement - once the symbol of the African spirit of resistance and no surrender to apartheid strategies - by the …
EventThe African National Congress (ANC) calls a meeting to chart a way forward for the Defiance Campaign
… this meeting it was decided that the second phase of the resistance campaign would commence in 1952 after an ultimatum …
EventF.W. de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be freed on 11 February
… banned in 1960. ″It was only then, when all other forms of resistance were no longer open to us, that we turned to armed …
EventMahatma Gandhi is arrested for refusing to carry Apartheid pass
… cards, and engaging in other forms of non-violent resistance. While the government was triumphant in repressing …
EventFrederick Lugard, British colonial administrator, occupies Kano, West Africa
… Kano and occupied it. This action substantially weakened resistance to British rule in the region. …
EventHaile Selassi I, Emperor of Ethiopia, is born
… "Might of the Trinity". In 1936, he led his countries resistance to Italy's invasion of Ethiopia and also spoke out …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Introduction
… provides insight into both the internal and external resistance movements as well as the motivations of the … us an idea of the tensions within different…
ArticleThe caring nature of Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu
… and disdain for deliberate injustices and she believed in resistance against the oppressive Apartheid system, even if …
ArticleThe Cordoned Heart
… of the photographic exhibition for the Botswana Culture, Resistance Conference, the establishment of the annual …
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… Molefe left AZAPO, he continued to call for united resistance in the early 1980s. At the same time, the ANC …
ArticleTreason Trial 1956 - 1961
… of the mass arrests was the opportunity they gave to the resistance leaders (who had been confined in two large …
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… war with a force of approximately 7000 men. 1904-7 War of Resistance The German colonial oppression sparks increased … the Union of South Africa. From…
PlaceKilnerton Training Institution
… was used as part of the John Wesley College buildings . 1946 – 1953 - The student body doubles in size. 1953 – The …
“I want to live not survive”: the politics of refusing low-wage work in a time of mass joblessness by Hannah Dawson
… quitting is a relatively unrecognised form of worker resistance, with implications for how we understand labour …
Chapter 3 - The Rise of the ANC
… strike wave of 1942. The brutal repression of the 1946 mine strike, followÂed by the 1948 NP victory, angered … reinstatement. Against police violence in…
ArchiveFrom conscience politics to the battlefield
… given to it in the South African historiography of resistance politics. The Liberal Party's continued existence …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.9 No.2 1990
… LETTERS/REVIEWS: Letter to the Editor, Lionel Abrahams; Resistance Art by Sue Williamson, A.W. Oliphant; Abduraghiem …
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces Whites-only referendum results
… to reforms were the Conservative Party (CP), Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) and the Reformed National Party …
EventA meeting titled “Conference for Concerned South Africans” is held, bringing together homeland leaders and conservative Afrikaner parties.
… Gqozo told the conference that the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) had promised to support him should …