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ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… the members of the Congress Alliance, the South African Indian Congress, the Coloured People’s Congress and the … 1960 , where the government violently…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Special Focus: Wrangling between political groups - 1946
… Guard "Despite what the young leaders may say, the old men Indian community who have borne the brunt of the resistance against anti-Asiatic measures will…
EventTreason Trial of 16 UDF members resumes
… The rest were members of UDF-aligned Transvaal or Natal Indian Congress (TIC and NIC).The trial followed an anti-Tri cameral Parliament protest in 1984, with…
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
… Gangsterism is often characterized as anti-social behaviour frowned upon by polite sections of … and Don Mattera in Sophiatown was despised by many as "anti…
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
… However, this was widely rejected by the Coloured and Indian people and seemed doomed to fail from its very … organisations. The gathering was the biggest…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948
… of mass actions, the ANC planned to launch a nationwide anti-pass campaign on 31 March - the anniversary of the 1919 anti-pass campaign. A week later, a…
Document 38 - Certification of the Constitution; a summary of the judgment of the Constitutional Court
… National Congress of South Africa and the South African Indian Congress - was one of the greatest non-violent passive … years ago in 1907 when led a batch of…
ArticleA Brief History of Pageview
… 1945 and 1960. To read more about the people, politics, legislation and removals during this period please have a … is paid to those who fought against…
BiographyRaymond Ackerman
… of a large store in Brisbane, should have worked, but anti-apartheid activists put paid to it; Pick 'n Pay was …
BiographyBessie Amelia Head
… . She joined the Pan-African Congress (PAC) during the Anti-Pass Laws Campaign in 1960, and although her role in …
David Pratt
… he was very bright, he was unpopular because of his anti-social behaviour. After school, he was sent to Cambridge …
Document 42 - “Boycott the Dummy Elections: 2 000 Demonstrate AT Mass Rally”, The Torch , National Edition, 1 April 1958
… , National Edition, 1 April 1958 HISTORY-MAKING CLIMAX TO ANTI-C.A.D. BOYCOTT CAMPAIGN The Mass Anti-C.A.D. Boycott Rally filled the old Drill Hall on … had…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… inflammatory imagery, but as an aside to censorship legislation. With the media blitz that followed Soweto, … the end for the apartheid regime. By trying to…
Why did so few Black South Africans make films before the 1990s?
… and an often-hostile environment. In addition there was legislation that forbad black and coloured people from taking …
Document 51 - W. P. van Schoor, “The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa A. J. Abrahamse Memorial Lecture, Cathedral Hall, Cape Town, 5 October 1950
… regained their independence. [....] We can see that the anti-African legislation of the Boer Republics was not so much the work of … labourer could not…
EventGeneral J.C. Smuts (80), former prime minister of SA, dies
… the African National Congress (ANC), the Transvaal Indian Council and other organisations, the non-White races … in White areas who should stay in their…
SAHO Milestones
… Settlement, a farm from which the longest surviving Indian newspaper, Indian Opinion, was published. Her account … in celebration of the 50th anniversary of…
The defiance campaign by M. P. Naicker
… by the African National Congress and the South African Indian Congress. This Campaign was first conceived towards … had placed no less than seventy-five…
Freedom movement in South Africa: Its International impact by E.S Reddy
… Africans from the Mediterranean Sea in the north to the Indian and Atlantic Oceans in the South.” Many of the … many countries, especially in the Western…
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
… organisations that when the state cracked down on anti-apartheid activity, many unionists who were also ANC … all political and union activity, and the lull…
EventW. E. B. Du Bois (95), writer, scholar, intellectual, Pan
… this period NAACP advocacy was instrumental in securing anti-lynching legislation. Besides serving as editor of The Crisis, Du Bois …
BiographyShaka Zulu
… area of south-east Africa between the Drakensberg and the Indian Ocean, a region populated by many independent Nguni …
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… Africans as members of the White, African, Coloured, or Indian racial groups, and because racial identities were (and … coined in 1907 when he led a batch of…
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… to grant amnesty to political killers by the families of anti-apartheid activists. Legal groups also argue that … 26–29 April 1994. 31 October, The National…
PlaceSt Louis Catholic Church, 22 Jacobs Road, Clairwood, Durban
… ". A larger building was erected in 1886 to accommodate Indian and Coloured pupils but this school was closed in … Delalle. It was declared a National…
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… of the ANC, African People's Organization, South African Indian Congress and the Communist Party of South Africa, … meeting of representatives of the ANC and…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer
… The 1946 Campaign was seminal in the gestation of the anti-apartheid front, at home and abroad. it was the … Laws Campaign, organised jointly by the South…
ArticleGarveyism: Early 1900s philosophy
… varying degrees by the teachings of Marcus Garvey, a West Indian who had moved to the United States during the First … adopted Garveyism, which quickly…
ArticleBantu education and the racist compartmentalizing of education
… now effectively separated from white schooling. The 1965 Indian Education Act was passed to separate and control Indian education, which was placed under the…
BiographyFranco Frescura
… in the country where he would be more useful coordinating anti-apartheid action by local students. The University of …