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EventDate is set for constitutional talks
… National Party (HNP) and the right wing Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) in their turn refused to attend the …
EventAn ANC car bomb directed at the headquarters of the Wits Command, Johannesburg, kills one person and injures 68
… government deploying troops in the townships to stifle resistance. On 30 July, a car with explosives in it blew up …
EventNoble South Africans win Nobel Peace Prize
… the Nobel Peace Prize in 1960 for advocating non-violent resistance to racial discrimination in South Africa. Though …
EventKing George VI is born
… King George who had become part of the British's symbol of resistance extended his popularity to the Commonwealth states …
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…
Archive"Isikhumbuzo" (Memorial): Self-authored obituary by Petros Sipho Mkhize, dedicated to Getruth Ndlovu, written while awaiting execution, Pretoria Central Prison, circa 1967
… the obituary survives as testimony to his dignity and his resistance. …
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 …
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…
EventSteven Biko is arrested.
… a black student’s organization that was focused on the resistance against and liberation from apartheid. In 1973 he … City Metro, ‘ King William's Town's…
EventJulius Nyerere chairman of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) addresses the ANC in Arusha
… a time into sullen resignation. But never was the flame of resistance extinguished." Nyerere played an important role in …
EventBambatha Rebellion
… died. The Bambatha Rebellion marked the end of African resistance to colonial rule for nearly fifty years. The …
EventHaile Selassie, deposed Ethiopian emperor, dies
… "Might of the Trinity". In 1936, Emperor Selassie led the resistance against Italy's invasion of Ethiopia and also …
South Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, VolumeTwo 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew - Bibliographical note and further reading
… and Colin Bundy (1980), "State Intervention and Rural Resistance: The Transkei, 190 0 -1965 " , in Martin A. Klein, … London: Penguin. Chaskalson, Matthew …
Special Screening of Wat Was Hie? Followed by an engaging discussion with filmmaker Luke De Kock
… complex histories of colonialism, indigenous erasure, and resistance. Adapted from a multidisciplinary theatre piece, …
PlaceHlobane, Zululand District Municipality
… abaQulusi (loyal to the Zulu crown and part of the resistance to the British invasion of northern Zululand). The …
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, …
PlaceDriefontein, Mpumalanga
… the struggle against the removals continued. After bitter resistance that involved the courts and a media campaign, in …
STRIKES AND INDUSTRIAL ACTIONS
… political action against their objective exploitation. The 1946 African Mine Workers' strike had so threatened the … collective labour-power. African workers…
Enuga S Reddy: Notes on meeting with Dr. Cassim Jadwat -1997
… But you should ignore that and carry on your work." In 1946, South Africa organised a big exhibition in London, …
Tribute to Prof Meer on her 80th birthday by Ari Sitas, 23 August 2008
… restriction limited her contribution to rising tides of resistance a cycle of energy when, at 54 years of age, she … power. This was the period of hope on…
Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… population pushed to the edges of developed society, resistance was common. But, with the advent of Bantustans and … of non-Whites from neighborhoods such as…
ArticleWomen’s Revolts in Natal: 1959
… as it highlighted their lack of participation in the resistance.On the other hand, White men feared that the … often thought of as male, in Natal in 1959…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s Satyagraha, Durban
… no accident that it was India, at the United Nations in 1946 that first put on the global agenda the issue of the … satyagraha is a totally non-violent and…
PlaceParliament of the Republic of South Africa, Cape Town
… its support for the anti-apartheid cause. Mass resistance increasingly challenged the Apartheid State , …
EventP.W. Botha launches CONSAS at the Carlton Conference to eliminate “Marxist threat”
… 1) the crushing of working class (and nationalist) resistance, and 2) the establishment of free trade and the …
EventThe Defiance Campaign against apartheid laws begins
… Defiance Campaign, the most dramatic non-violent act of resistance ever seen in South Africa and the first campaign …
EventTanzania gains independence
… of colonial administration were met with fierce local resistance, but control was briefly re-established until the …
EventPresident P. W. Botha offers Nelson Mandela conditional release from prison
… violence as a means of protest "When other forms of resistance were no longer open to us". Mandela had refused …
EventAs part of a defiance campaign against the apartheid Government, SA is hit by a nationwide wave of protests
… in the Cape. Ironically, rallies by neo-Nazi Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB) and a splinter group the Boerestaat … of World Events , Longman: London, p…
EventPresident Paul Kruger (78), dies of heart failure in Clarens, Switzerland
… been annexed by the British, Kruger took leadership of the resistance movement. Once the first war of independence …