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56. The Cape Town Agreement is welcomed
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … shattered the case for the hateful Asiatic Bill. The…
ArticleBlack Sash
… as they stood to demonstrate against discriminatory legislation. It was initially formed to protest against the … Black Sash and the FSAW failed to…
72. The Defiance Campaign, 1953
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … Minister of Justice declared that he would introduce…
Chapter 6 - Reform, Repression and Mass Resistance
… and servicing of foreign debt. With the international anti-apartheid movement intensifying the sanctions and … the kind of politics that was represented by…
ArticleConvention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA)
… a white referendum . Although the ANC and the British Anti-Apartheid Movement strongly opposed this move, on March … the South African Government, to draft…
Apartheid - The early 1980s
… did not move forward much. It was in this climate that anti-apartheid organizations in the country realized that … reduced.The government also tried to make…
Passive resistance in South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 2 June 1966
… Gandhi and his philosophy. As early as 1907, he led the Indian community in South Africa in acts of passive … of which have since completely vanished. The…
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… The Portuguese are eager to control trade around the Indian Ocean. ) Vasco da Gama. Image source 16th century The … starve as Northern Kenya suffers from…
72. The Defiance Campaign, 1952
… of the African National Congress and the South African Indian Congress resolved to embark upon a mass campaign for … Minister of Justice declared that he…
EventJournalists’ first visit to Robben Island
… on Robben Island where 370 men, convicted under security legislation, were held. On the island, 12km north east of Cape Town, political prisoners of the anti…
EventThousands are killed after terrorists crashed hijacked airliners into the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Washington
… Jordan, Mauritius, Uganda and Zimbabwe introduced "anti-terrorism" legislation and froze the bank accounts of businesses and …
EventHelen Suzman is born
… Politician and Anti-Apartheid activist, Helen Suzman , was born in … used every opportunity to speak out against discriminatory legislation. She entered…
ArticleDr. Abu Baker Asvat timeline 1943 - 2012
… Vrededorp, Gauteng. 1961 Asvat graduates from Johannesburg Indian High School and moves to Pakistan to continue his … in Brandfort, Free State, run by Asvat…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… was only 24 years old when he helped found the Natal Indian Congress and became its first secretary. Likewise, Sol … at this stage. The campaign to save…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1948 - Press Reports on the Campaign
… ceremony and was over within five minutes. It seemed an anti-climax, particularly after the journey that had been put … in the peace. Dr Naicker, the…
ArticleFederation of South African Women by Skylar Jayes
… to make FEDSAW illegal, like it had done to other anti-apartheid organisations, but FEDSAW’s male comrades, who … Congress , objected to FEDSAW’s actions…
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… Fatima, at Nursery Road, Fordsburg. He attends the Newtown Indian Primary School. 1940s Kathrada meets Yusuf Dadoo , … Cachalia and J.N. Singh , Kathrada is…
EventJournalists' first visit to Robben Island
… on Robben Island where 370 men, convicted under security legislation, were held. On the island, 12km north east of Cape Town, political prisoners of the anti…
EventUDF leaders are charged with treason
… David and Billy Nair were charged with high treason. These anti-apartheid activists sought refuge in the British … a boycott of elections in August 1984 of…
Report of the Coolie Commission of 1872
… and mode of employment and complaints of returned Indian immigrants in Natal. The Commission, consisted of MH … the first ever published dealing with the…
Insurrections: The Storming
… 2011, to open a conversation between the imaginations of Indian and South African writers and musicians. The idea was … last decade collecting the musical…
ArticleThe Storming: Insurrections Ensemble
… 2011, to open a conversation between the imaginations of Indian and South African writers and musicians. The idea was … last decade collecting the musical…
EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs’ (CAD)
… Act. Though not aimed exclusively at "Coloureds", this legislation served to entrench a separate identity even … its head. "Coloured" South Africans, along…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… from the ANC and formed the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). Anti pass campaign was by the PAC organised in 1960 that … from Cape Town left the country just…
BiographyPhyllis Naidoo
… perished there in the mid-80s. Phyllis joined the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) where she met Nandha (Steve) Naidoo, …
BiographySimon van der Stel
… is also known as Monica van Goa, a former slave woman of Indian descent. At the time it was common for Company men …
Grade 4 Term 2 Timeline: Mahatma Gandhi
… under a year-long contract with Dada Abdulla & Co., an Indian firm 1893 Gandhi experiences racism when ejected from a South Africantrain. This motivates him…
ArticleGertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… of Documents Act of 1952, had begun to segregate Black, Indian, and Coloured South Africans. H. F. Verwoerd led the … apartheid oppression. Even as a young…
42. Petition from Indians at the time of Union
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … organisations and the individuals were as follows:…
Ruth First Untold by Jerry Saena
… She wrote major articles and books that would aid anti-colonial and anti-apartheid campaigns with the struggle against the … of the South African government,…