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Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Search for a United Front against racism
… compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer The salvation of the Indian people in this country lay in a united front of … however much the outside world might help…
Hundred years of resistance, E.S. Reddy, 29 January 2012
… resistance movement in which about a third of adult Indian males in the Transvaal went to prison. He had already ceased to limit his attention to the status…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… a National Anti-Pass Council is elected to collect 1 million signatures. Moses Kotane is voted onto the council … the Smuts government racial policies. The…
Dr Yusuf M. Dadoo's Statement In Court In Trial For Passive Resistance, June 1946
… resister in response to the decision of the South African Indian Congress which totally opposes the Asiatic Land Tenure … this decision for the removal of…
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… segregation. Other legislation targeting Black African and Indian people were also passed, such as the Native Trust and … Act among other laws sparked forced…
EventDurban mass meeting endorses Smuts and Gandhi agreement
… An Indian mass meeting in Durban unanimously endorsed the … regarding voluntary registration, poll tax, recognition of Indian marriages and other matters…
Slavery in South Africa
… slaves were sent to the Cape from Southern India. [1] The Cape slave population was 36,169 in 1834. [2] Of the … blacks in the Cape, it would appear that…
I have written it by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - International Support: UNO - 1947
… in South Africa subsequent to the UNO decision, the Natal Indian Congress has written to the Crime Minister, General … and South Africa may talk Talks for…
The first martyrs of Satyagraha by E. S. Reddy
… that, of being mashed into pulp with a mortar and pestle." 1 It was already clear that though satyagraha is a totally … to India and pressure was exerted by…
ArticleFanakalo: the language of mining culture
… is ‘the correct spelling in Zulu or Xhosa orthography’]. [1] In this essay, several factors about Fanakalo are … acute difficulties of communication’. [28]…
ArticleJune 16 Soweto Youth Uprising timeline: 1976-1986
… elected as Prime Minister. The (Coloured) Labour Party, (Indian) Reformed Party and Inkatha formed the South African … training in Angola, Mocambique, Libya…
ArticleHistory of Slavery and early colonisation in SA timeline 1602-1841
… charter to the Dutch East India Company to establish an Indian trading empire in the East. 1652 The Dutch East India … people for the first time. They are…
ArticleTreks & Land conflicts 1600s-1800s
… and retained their identity to a degree. In America many Indian nations were destroyed by the European desire to …
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… throughout the 1950s unrest in African, Coloured and Indian communities escalated, becoming more frequent and … according to whether they were White,…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1946-Press Reports on the Campaign
… Fountain Sports Ground on Sunday afternoon when the Natal Indian Congress held its mass meeting to explain to the Indian people the implications of the…
EventAmichand Rajbansi is fired from Parliament
… African President P.W. Botha fires the government's only Indian Cabinet Minister, Amichand Rajbansi, with effect from 1 January 1989. He also removes him…
59. The South African Federation challenges Congress over the settlement
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … speech of Abdul Karim is reproduced below. Source:…
EventBhawani Sannyassi Dayal dies
… Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal, journalist and campaigner for Indian rights in SA, died in Ajmer, India. Dayal was one of the organisers of the Indian strike led by…
68. Passive resistance 1946-1947
… useful document. Source: N.I.C. Agenda Book, 1947. PART 1: POLITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE STRUGGLE A. SOUTH AFRICA The Indian people The present leadership of the…
PlaceGrey Street Complex
… Grey Street is the teaming business and residential Indian sector of the Durban City Centre , and is also the educational, cultural and business heart of;…
42. Petition from Indians at the time of Union
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … organisations and the individuals were as follows:…
ArchiveCongress Resister 1983 - 1989
… Congress Resister was published by the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC), which was formed at the turn of the … non-existent. At this time, some activists in…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… the members of the Congress Alliance, the South African Indian Congress, the Coloured People’s Congress and the … Executive met in Durban including…
70. The Durban riots, 1949
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … given as follows: deaths; 142 (87 Africans, 50 Indians…
EventNIC calls for Passive Resistance against Ghetto Act
… Natal Indian Congress (NIC) led by Dr. G. M. Naicker, met in an … against the Ghetto Act or The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act no 28 of…
Reports of the Passive Resistance Councils: Natal and Transvaal 1946 - 1947 by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer
… Report on Passive Resistance, 13 June 1946-13 May 1947 The Indian People The present leadership of the Natal Indian Congress took over in October 1945. The…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… September Dr Yusuf Dadoo , future leader of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC), South African Indian Congress (SAIC)) and the South African Communist Party …
EventM K Gandhi, pioneer of the SA Passive Resistance movement and leader who led India to Independence, is born
… India. In 1893 he accepted a year-long contract from an Indian law firm work in Natal, South Africa. His time in … government and was also the co-founder of…
ArchiveIndia’s African Sufis - Demystified! by Blanche Michael
… dancing of whirling dervishes to the mesmerising qawwali [1] performances of the likes of the late Nusrat Fateh Ali … Unbeknown to many, the migration of…
ArchiveCHAPTER SEVEN: Resistance Politics In Retreat: Cablism, The ANC Underground And Gandhi, 1985-1989 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book