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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…
Indian Opinion
… activism. Satyagraha, Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolent resistance, was encouraged. In 1957 Indian Opinion became …
EventMike Gatting’s rebel cricket tour is curtailed
… NSC agreed not to hold protests at the remaining matches. Resistance against the tour was led by the National Sports …
EventWinnie Madikizela-Mandela’s bodyguards arrested in connection with the death of Stompie Seipei
… the Black community acknowledged his role in organising resistance among school students in 1985. As result of this, …
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 …
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…
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…
Writing the 1973 Durban Strikes: From ‘black worker unrest’ to the ‘birth of independent trade unions’ by Debby Bonnin
… of a period of labour reform, the impetuses for the resistance that eventually bought down the Apartheid regime. …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
ArticleTreason Trial 1956 - 1961
… of the mass arrests was the opportunity they gave to the resistance leaders (who had been confined in two large …
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… Molefe left AZAPO, he continued to call for united resistance in the early 1980s. At the same time, the ANC …
Chapter IV - A meaningful life
… The 1950s had come and gone, leaving great memories of resistance, of the Defiance Campaign, of the women's resistance to passes, of the Congress of the…
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… very small minority of these had more than three wives. By 1946 an official census revealed that this figure had dropped … headlines and heralded 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 …
ArchiveFrom conscience politics to the battlefield
… given to it in the South African historiography of resistance politics. The Liberal Party's continued existence …