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PlaceVan Reenen's Pass, KwaZulu Natal
Named after the little Town of Van Reenen, which seems to stand guard at the top of this majestic Pass which winds its way through the Drakensberg Mountains…
66. G.M. Naicker: We will not colloborate
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … In 1946 the Government passed the Asiatic Land Tenure…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… Africa (CPSA) took place in Cape Town from 30 July to 1 August 1921. The party was founded mainly by radical White … wholeheartedly supported the All African…
THE POLITICS OF COLLABORATION: THE CAMPAIGN FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE TRICAMERAL PARLIAMENT
… Introduction The first elections to the Indian House of Delegates (HoD) in the racially segregated … that the constitution was a fait accompli, since the…
Appeal For United Front, July 1948
… G. M. Naicker, respectively Presidents of the Transvaal Indian Congress and the Natal Indian Congress, at a function in Cape Town in July 1948.] … nullified…
ArticleWages Commission
… These and other students did assist with organising Indian workers, but their focus was, from the start, was to …
71.The Group Areas Act
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … Pachai When the Group Areas Act was passed in 1950,…
EventGandhi leaves South Africa
… Gandhi and Gen J.C. Smuts led to the passing of the Indian Relief Act, by which the £3 tax on ex-indentured … This Act, which Gandhi claimed to be the Magna…
Curry and the South African Revolution by E. S. Reddy
… Dr. Yusuf Dadoo once told me that Nelson Mandela had Indian friends in college and used to visit Indian homes. He would not accept the food they offered…
ArticleA tribute to a great struggle stalwart Paul David by Siva Naidoo
… He was an integral part of the revival of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in 1971 and became one of its Vice … Devadas Paul David was a member of the Natal…
28. The Dealer’s Licences Act is an attempt to weed out smaller traders
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … to suggest that the Act was aimed at weeding out the…
EventYusuf Dadoo, political activist, is born
… forging closer links between underprivileged groups of Indian, African and Coloured people in the struggle for … in the 1890s, three decades after the first…
60. Congress and the Non-European Co-operation Conference, 1927
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Even though the South African Indian Congress was…
2. Moothen pleads for his wife to be returned
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … had the following letter written to the Protector of…
Foreword, By Nelson Mandela
… on a broad united front. He gave the formidable Natal Indian Congress, founded by Mahatma Gandhi in 1894, a new … when he assumed its presidency in 1945 and…
EventAbdullah Abdurahman, medical doctor and Cape community leader, dies in Cape Town
… His death raised concern within the Black, Coloured and Indian communities, as he was a well-known human rights … was at all times available to address the…
EventFifth Constitution Amendment Bill is introduced
… Council, consisting of sixty White, Coloured and Indian nominated members. The Council was charged with … Constitution that would give expression to Coloured…
Zulu Community
… they secured an overwhelming military success. More than 1 000 Zulu were killed and Cetshwayo was forced to flee for … Kingdom and the simultaneous movement…
28. The Dealers’ Licenses Act is an attempt to weed out small traders
… to suggest that the Act was aimed at weeding out the small Indian storekeeper. They argued convincingly that the Act … under the above Act. This decision has…
45. Mass meeting at the Empire Theatre, Johannesburg, 1906
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … both of which appeared in the Gujarati sections of the…
66. G. M. Naicker: we will not collaborate
… In 1946 the Government passed the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act (referred to as the 'Ghetto' Act in the next document). The Natal Indian…
ArticleThe South African War 1899-1902
… Bloemfontein, the capital of the Orange Free State and on 1 June 1900 they took Johannesburg. They then marched into on … tribes Most politically conscious…
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… spread to universities, rural areas and the' homelands. Indian schools in Pretoria and Durban joined the boycott. In … Across the country, up to 100 000…
Submissions by the McGill University students 2012
… Her areas of interest include early American history and Indian Ocean History. Within those areas, she finds feminist … and slavery and forms of unfree…
Some remarkable women who helped Gandhiji in South Africa by E. S. Reddy
… from 1907 to 1914 for the security and dignity of the Indian settlers in that country who were subjected to … is said, for instance, on how these women…
The defiance campaign by M. P. Naicker
… by the African National Congress and the South African Indian Congress. This Campaign was first conceived towards … of other black national movements - the…
EventThe last ‘Peru and Bala’ show is hosted on Lotus FM
… Maharaj, which is hugely popular amongst the South African Indian Community. Mathura and Maharaj were radio presenters … domestic issues that largely…
EventZulus attack Indians in Durban
… stereotypes about relationships between Zulus and Indians. Indian businesses, families and communities were on the … and price hikes following the end of…
Reports of the Passive Resistance Councils: Natal and Transvaal 1946 - 1946
… and some facts about the united support of the entire Indian community. Five months in the struggle of a people for … it possible for us to record…
EventValliamma Munuswamy Mudaliar, SA political activist dies from a fever
… Born to Indian Emigrants from Tamil Nadu, India, Mudaliar grew up in … Gandhi, who visited her at her death bed, designed the Indian flag with the colours of…