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The 1980s and the crisis of Apartheid
… regime intended. Reforms provided renewed impetus for the resistance movements, and the 1980s was a decade which became … recovered. As one historian summed…
ArticleSouth African Youth Congress (SAYCO)
… and soccer clubs. It transformed the nature of Black resistance politics in Soweto by playing a significant role … swelled to several hundred, whilst youth…
In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
… dropped; unemployment and inflation rates were high. * The resistance movement gains momentum: The economic crisis, … felt in the rising cost of living, gave…
ArticleSouth African History Online and Principia College Partnership Project
… produced biographical essays on African women writers and resistance. The majority of these writers belong to the …
ArticleGrade 12 - How SA emerged as a democracy from the crises of the 1990s
… regime intended. Reforms provided renewed impetus for the resistance movements, and the 1980s was a decade which became …
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… and cultural continuities and to generate ideologies of resistance in the face of deep dislocation brought by … of colonial rule ranged from full cooperation…
ArticleTuberculosis
Tuberculosis, also known as TB, occurs all over the world and is one of the most infectious diseases, causing more deaths than HIV/AIDS and Malaria [1] [2]…
ArticleSouth Africa - First 20 Years of Democracy (1994 - 2014)
… and oppression as well as an unyielding sacrifice and resistance of the oppressed peoples, together with a minority …
CAPS Grade 6: The Transatlantic Slave Trade - term 2
… American South o Slave culture in songs and stories o Resistance to slavery: individual responses, e.g. …
ArticleElections in post Apartheid South Africa
… “puppet” local government structures were met with fierce resistance marked by low voter turn outs as an expression of … Councils the Act merely helped…
20 Years of Democracy - Profiles of the Presidents
… and oppression as well as an unyielding sacrifice and resistance of the oppressed peoples, together with a minority …
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
… on the capacity of students to mobilise and sustain resistance after October 1977. On 1 September 1977, the … of classes that ensured the continuation of…
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… formations in South Africa were seen as an extension of resistance led by the ANC and PAC. Consequently, the most … breaks out in Durban. This was followed…
ArticleThe Mau Mau Uprising
… workers, and British forces were sent to suppress any resistance from the ethnic groups living in the central … with the British, the Kikuyu attempted to…
ArticleArmed Struggle, the anti-apartheid struggle accelerates 1984-1990
… to release Mandela on condition that he stayed out of resistance politics and rejected violence. In this way the … which the government was feeling the…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Glossary
… in November 1938. [15] Dissident priests - Catholic resistance to Nazi Germany who denounced Nazi policies. [16] …
Article20 Years of Democracy (1994 - 2014) - Profiles of the Presidents
… and oppression as well as an unyielding sacrifice and resistance of the oppressed peoples, together with a minority …
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… in certain parts of South Africa. Various types of armed resistance spread to urban parts of the country when more … agenda of non-violence would have to be…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… government, operating under a policy of non-violent resistance. However, as the government became increasingly … the ANC would take the momentous step to…
ArticleCouncil policies and practice
… of Black Persons Bill, the laws provoked intense resistance, and Crossroads became a cause that many rallied …
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… realised the importance of the 'people's power' in pushing resistance forward. Organisation at local level soon began in … organisations. The UDF was…
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… diplomatic estrangement from overseas. In this heightened resistance against the state, women once again played an … Movement, led by Steve Biko, was a new…
The armed struggle and state repression of the 1960s
… strategy was quite effective, until 1976 when mass resistance began again. You should now know more about apartheid and the resistance movements during the…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1900-1947
… areas, mostly in towns. Indian people launch the Passive Resistance Campaign against the Asiatic Land Tenure and …
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… historically employed the language ‘to express [B]lack resistance’ in the eras of colonialism, Afrikaner nationalism … [100] Willemse emphasises the language…
ArticleCurries Fountain events timeline
… of Currie's became more and more dominated by protest and resistance this use carried into the 1980's and into the …
ArticleAftermath of the Bhambatha Rebellion 1906
… he later died. The Bambatha Rebellion was the last armed resistance against white rule in before the formation of the …
Bantu Women’s League
… the government relaxed the women's pass laws and their resistance ended in 1914. In 1918, the government threatened …
ArticleWestern Cape Civic Association (WCCA)
… better housing. The slogan was turned into a song of resistance which demonstrated people’s determination to …
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… important and leading roles in an intensive campaign of resistance to save Crossroads. The concerted effort by … hundreds of people were arrested, but women…