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ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… September Dr Yusuf Dadoo , future leader of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC), South African Indian Congress (SAIC)) … Workers Union (ICU). 1920 William H…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Preface
… September 1946 "I would not shed a single tear if all the [Indian] Satyagrahis in South Africa are wiped out. Thereby … was initiated by the Indian Congress…
ArticleGandhi and the Passive Resistance Campaign 1907-1914
… as Maureen Swan has demonstrated, was not the initiator of Indian political activity in Natal and South Africa. Indian … England and arrived on 10 July 1909,…
BiographySolomon Kerzner
… five-star hotels on the hot and humid beachfront of the Indian Ocean, about to embark on a personal expedition into …
BiographyJanet Mary Cherry
… was again briefly detained on the eve of the Coloured and Indian elections for the House of Delegates. In July 1985 she …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… March 16, The Boycott Movement, in London, is renamed the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM). Tennyson Makiwane , Vella … play a significant role in the Boycott…
ArticleOvercoming Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid by Bennett Gwynn
… unionise, but once they did, they were able to influence legislation and gain benefits that helped them better their … efforts were the laws that governed…
BiographyCharles W H Kohler
… the government to give the KWV sufficient powers through legislation to control the industry effectively. The …
BiographyCurtis Nkondo
… they had four children. In 1960, responding to the anti-pass call , Curtis and a group of teachers went to the …
BiographyJames Kantor
… new Special Branch police. As a Jew, he was aware of the anti-Semitism rampant in their ranks. When Nelson Mandela …
BiographyJohn Xavier Merriman
… as an Englishman in South Africa, and became increasingly anti-imperialist, especially after the Jameson Raid . Early …
BiographyDr. Walter Benson Rubusana
… of the ANC. Rubusana was involved in every aspect of the Anti-Land Act Campaign which was an attack on the Native Land …
BiographyPercy John "Jack" Hodgson
… predecessors after World War I and that the aims of the anti-fascist struggle were carried over into civilian life in …
ArticleNelson Mandela 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…
ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… apartheid (separateness) measures against Blacks, Indian immigrants and those of mixed race. 1949 October 6 , … the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) ,…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… the South African Council of Churches (SACC) and the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) . This period saw the multiplication of … the organisation was made at the…
ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
… reinforcements had to be sent to Natal to suppress the Indian Passive Resistance campaign . In January 1914 another … efficiently during the Apartheid years…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… in Bantu World giving his support to the newly formed anti-pass campaign. Xuma agrees to act as trustee of the anti-pass campaign. April: Moses Kotane and…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and May Day – Some Key Moments
… CPSA, African National Congress (ANC) and South African Indian Congress (SAIC) passed a resolution to hold a strike … to protest against the pass laws and…
ArchiveCHAPTER SIX: The Politics Of Non-Collaboration: The Campaign To Boycott The Tricameral Elections by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
BiographyAdam Small
… Cape Province (now Western Cape) to a mother of Muslim Indian heritage and a slave descendant father. He grew up in …
The Politics of non-Collaboration: The Campaign to Boycott the Tricameral Elections
… by South Africa’s liberation movements in the 1980s. For Indian and “Coloured” people, the low turn-out on election … framework. This chapter seeks to…
61. Segregation reduces our people to helotry
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … presidential address when he declared that…
ArticleInsurrections Ensemble
… you create music that can find a home on both sides of the Indian Ocean beyond the cliché of “fusion”? Are Indian forms compatible with their African…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1900-1947
… squeezing Black people off the land. A series of draconian legislation designed to uproot people from their land or … areas in Durban. Whites were not…
ArticleWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa by Cait Chapman
… in 1970s South Africa Abstract: Black, Coloured and Indian women faced harsh oppressions in the workplace during … shops were closing and the once lively…
68. Passive resistance 1946-1947
… 1: POLITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE STRUGGLE A. SOUTH AFRICA The Indian people The present leadership of the Natal Indian took … people have become during the year,…
BiographyKobera Manual
… Town. Aunty Kobie was 50 years old when by government legislation she was forced to move from the home she was born …
EventTobacco Products Control Ammendmant Bill passed
… in public places, including workplaces. The passage of the anti-smoking law is greeted with outrage by cigarette … manufacturers, who threaten court action…
ArchiveCHAPTER FIVE: The Politics Of Collaboration: The Campaign for Participation In The Tricameral Parliament by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book