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Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1946
… in South Africa must Bt submits to the latest racial legislation of the Union of South Africa. They have well nigh … Round Table Conference at least of Union…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… Kotane and Dr. Yusuf Dadoo are the main speakers at a mass anti-pass demonstration organized by the newly formed Anti-Pass Committee. March, The ANCYL…
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
… as the stricter application of existing discriminatory legislation such as the Pass laws 3 October, 12 African … executives of the African National Congress,…
37. Deputation to Lord Selborne, 1905
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … on application. And in spite of all these hardships,…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… The United Democratic Front (UDF) was an anti-apartheid body that incorporated many anti-apartheid organisations. It was launched in 1983, in … 20 August as…
BiographyDorothy Adams
… great-grandfather, Francis MacDonald Gow, was a West Indian-born photographer and minister of the AMEC. He arrived …
ArticleElizabeth Davenport: A teacher and member of the Black Sash by Cole Morgan
… Separate Representation of Voters Bill. As a part of the legislation during the apartheid era, the National Party … of South Africa, provided a ‘safe house’…
Document 2 - Against the C.A.D. for Full Democratic Rights [1943]
… [1943] PURPOSE OF THIS PAMPHLET In this pamphlet the "Anti-C.A.D. Committee" is going to tell you the TRUTH about … and have always fought against any…
BiographyWinnie Madikizela-Mandela
… he was sixteen years her senior. He was already a famous anti-apartheid figure and one of the key defendants in the … sixty-nine people during a Pan African…
Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… was unable to implement its envisaged fare hike. The 1946 Indian Passive Resistance Campaign Dr GM Naicker, President of the Natal Indian Congress, addresses…
BiographyRobert Anthony Basil Waterwitch
… Magistrate’s Court. Their mission was part of a broader anti-election bombing campaign which sought to target various …
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… (PAC), especially after the Rivonia Trial , saw a lull in anti-apartheid politics that only ended with the emergence of … the State wary of the new…
ArticleIndenture: A new system of slavery?
… Was the system of indentured Indian labour "a new system of slavery"?as Hugh Tinker … of these descriptions are not applicable to the indentured Indian…
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… was a separate parliament for the White, Coloured and Indian groups. This Constitution excluded black people and … the Crown would for the first time in the…
BiographyJoseph Chamberlain
… opponent. The Bond, in alliance with an increasingly anti-imperial John X Merriman, now dominated Cape politics. … pains to cover up his involvement in the…
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… Botswana and Mozambique, South Africa assigned "crack anti-terrorist units," the Task Force and Counter-Insurgency … vigorous police action and strict…
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
BiographyLefifi Tladi
… Tladi took part in various events that highlighted the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. These included Art …
BiographyAugust Aime Balkema
… to Balkema. In 1958 he published the first Afrikaans anti-apartheid novel, Jan Rabie's Ons, die A/god - a book …
BiographyAdvocate Abram "Bram" Fischer
… was inevitable that his defence of and involvement with anti-Apartheid activists would implicate him in illegal …
BiographyDavid Wilcox Bopape
… after joining the ANC, he was tasked as secretary of the Anti-Pass campaign of 1943-44. Bopape was also a central …
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… throughout the 1950s unrest in African, Coloured and Indian communities escalated, becoming more frequent and … in 1955 to adopt the Freedom Charter and the…
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 … people have become during the year, as…
150th Anniversary; Anxieties of Commemoration - Towards a National Dialogue by Omar Badsha and Jon Soske
… of events commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the first Indian indentured laborers in Natal will take place across … on a heroic narrative of 'Indian…
ArticleKasturba Gandhi timeline 1869 - 1944
… the case, he decides to remain in Natal to help the Indian community facing the Indian Franchise Bill. 1894 … for London to discuss the pending South African…
ArticleTreason Trial 1956 - 1961
… were taken to make sure of the verdict, including special legislation being passed by parliament for the trial. The legislation allowed for a Special Court…
EventThe African National Congress (ANC) calls a meeting to chart a way forward for the Defiance Campaign
… meeting in Johannesburg. Executives from the South African Indian Congress (SAIC), the African People Organisation (APO) … addressed to the Government to…
BiographyCharles W H Kohler
… the government to give the KWV sufficient powers through legislation to control the industry effectively. The …
Why protect rights of gays and lesbians?
… divorce. One of South Africa's most bizarre and notorious anti-gay laws was introduced after a police raid on a gay … Judges have, in a number of cases,…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… still played a role at local level. In 1962 she organised anti-government demonstrations among rural women during the … the Black Women's Federation , was…