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’Appeal for action to stop repression and Trials in South Africa’, Statement at the meeting of the Special Political Committee of the General Assembly, New York, 8 October 1963
… he left the university; Ahmed Kathrada, a South African of Indian extraction who started politics as a passive resister … consistently a leading participant…
ArchiveThe Little Freedom Fighter with the Ponytail by Greg Ardé
… because she started a movement in Chatsworth to persuade Indian voters to cast their ballots with the ANC and not the … in Durban, where her father ran a…
“Let us dream you, forbidden landscape”: the Storming project sings change, 17 July 2017
… Ari Sitas, musicians Sazi Dlamini and Neo Muyanga, and Indian scholar and vocal artist Sumangala Damarodan ( … ), to explore the intersections of Indian and…
PlaceShree Ambalavaanar Alayam Temple Complex, Cato Manor, Durban
… road junction and therefore, right in the heart of the Indian Community. The Temples Origin Temples and Religion … The area of Cato Manor was demarcated for…
10. Seedat writes to his brother in India
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … is informative about aspects of early South African…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… 1960 1 January, Minister of Bantu Education assumes control of … includes some Black players within its structure. African, Indian, and Coloured officials in…
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… by the British, followed by Johannesburg and Pretoria on 1 September. The Boers continued a guerilla war, which was … the White minority over Native (African…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… the law”¦” (As quoted in the New Age, 30 May 1957, p.1 ). The ANC also called a conference at Woodstock Town Hall … such as the COD, ANC, SACTU and South…
ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
… in The Road to Democracy in South Africa, Vol. 4 Part 1 [1980-1990], Pretoria: Unisa Press.|South African History …
“Message to Those Staying At Home”: Joint Statement by Dr G. M. Naicker and Chief Albert J. Luthuli, April 1958
… and directions strictly and in a disciplined manner. 1. Whatever provocations you meet from the police or any … and Dr G. M. Naicker, President of the South…
EventBritain refuses Uganda’s request for independence
… to suppress a rebellion in 1879, units of the British Indian Army had been deployed to Uganda at a great expense. …
EventMercenaries from South Africa led by Colonel “Mad Mike” Hoare, attempt an unsuccessful coup in Seychelles
… the Air India pilot to fly them 2,500 miles across the Indian Ocean to Durban. International suspicions pointed …
EventSlave rebellion at the Cape led by Louis of Mauritius. Over 300 slaves and Khoi Khoi servants from outlying farms marched on Cape Town demanding their freedom
… of Batavia, two more slaves Abraham and Adonis. Another Indian slave and two Khoi men later joined them. Their plan …
Document 3 - National Anti-CAD Conference Agenda, Oddfellows Hall, Hope Street, Cape Town, Saturday, 29 May [1943]
… HALL, CITY HALL, CAPE TOWN. MORNING SESSION: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. 10 a.m. Address: Mr. A. B. J. Desmore: "METHODS OF … and politically, on a national-wide basis…
PlaceBeachwood Mangroves Swamp, Durban
… as it completes its terrestrial course and drains into the Indian Ocean. The River is the divider between Durban, with …
25. ‘Free State’ implies equality, declare traders
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … was directed against the restrictions of Ordinance 1…
Interview with Sunny Singh by C de Vos, Durban, 28 May 2002
… few schools in the area then, although it had a very large Indian population; I think there was easily between forty and … not belong to us and we had a…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: Pre-1500
… Australopithecines roamed the African Savannahs from 4 to 1.5 million years ago. 3 000 000 BP The discovery of the … with an increased brain size, lived from…
Afrikaans Community 1652-1795
… station at which ships of the United Dutch Chartered East Indian Company could obtain fresh vegetables and fill their …
ArticleTutu and his role in the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
… Black communities (together with their Coloured and Indian counterparts) staunchly resisted these actions which …
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
… rescinded, the ANC, in conjunction with the South African Indian Congress , the South African Congress of Democrats …
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… basically an apartheid institution reserved for the use of Indian and some Coloureds students. The institution started …
ArticlePseudo-scientific racism and Social Darwinism
… been used to categorise us - white, African, coloured, Indian - have in many ways become part of our identities. And …
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… It was also more concerned with coloured and Indian issues surrounding the Tricameral parliament, and did …
ArticleSlave Resistance
… Abraham and Adonis. This group was later joined by another Indian slave and two Khoi men. This group planned to march …
ArticleDefiance Campaign 1952
… under the leadership of the ANC and the South African Indian Congress (SAIC). Events leading up to the Defiance … few days of June, 146 volunteers were…
Nelson Mandela’s address to rally in Durban 25 February 1990
… is this: take your guns, your knives, and your pangas 1 , and throw them into the sea. Close down the death … first black political organisation in Africa…
Document 75 - A. Mon (M. N. Averbach), “The Historical basis for the Programme of the Fourth International Organisation of South Africa”, Workers’ 1944
… movements that there were among the Bantu (I.C.U., etc.), Indian (Gandhi march, etc.) and Coloured people (post-war … has been a considerable urbanisation of…
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… The Portuguese are eager to control trade around the Indian Ocean. ) Vasco da Gama. Image source 16th century The … Dom Francisco de Almeida arrives with 23…
PlaceValley of a Thousand Hills
… the way from the Drakensberg, to the warm waters of the Indian Ocean. This region is also famous for its deep and … and heading out on 4 x 4 adventures. The…