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ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… relating to its internal structure and a programme of action. It decides to make a concerted effort to enrol … galvanise support in opposition to the Bill…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010
… in Stellenbosch under the them ‘Peoples Power in Action’. President Thabo Mbeki gives the opening address and … January 8th statement is released under the…
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
… (1992), the FCWU became a “model radical union”, combining action on economic and political issues with campaigns on … often far more involved than men in…
ArticleThe Mau Mau Uprising
… population into demanding that the government take more action to combat the Mau Mau, and so the Kenyan security …
ArticleRemembering and Celebrating South Africa’s Iconic LGBTQI+ Women
… Gays against Oppression/Organization of Lesbian and Gay Action (LAGO/OLGA). Together the partners lobbied for the …
Indian education in Natal
… had been excluded from attendance at the school brought an action before the Supreme Court to test the legality of the age restriction. Judgement was on this…
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… active in the area, and resorted to more radical action, petrol-bombing the houses of Bophuthatswana ministers … This recording was used to expose the…
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
… that addressed issues faced by workers, supported protest action and bolstered worker unity. The plays generally did … in 1977 caused a reduction in militant…
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… be called off early (30 May) to stop any further violent action. After assessing the situation, the government’s …
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
… between 1950-1952, the ANC resorted to disruptive mass action, inciting boycotts, strikes and civil disobedience in …
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
… high school students. The Soweto branch of SASM formed an Action Committee, the Soweto Students Representative Council …
ArticleHow did it influence the rise of Nazism?
… turned to the Party that offered them solutions and action, and they gained popular support. After the First …
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… riots, the killing of a councillor and is family, and mass action around the funerals, which were attended by between 35 …
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament, 1983-1984
… the country. This was the first open public defiance action by the UDF since its launch, and was the first major …
Article1913 Satyagraha Campaign Resumes
… 5000 miners had downed their tools. In order to spread the action, Gandhi began leading some of the strikers from Natal …
ArticleDr G M 'Monty' Naicker - Timeline
… and provided him with a nucleus for his future political action. 1941-45 - He drew close to the Indian trade union …
ArticleSlave Resistance
… he received from his master but the authorities took no action. Galant also had reported that his master unfairly …
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
… Africa. He added that they were meeting, to discuss what action to take on national issues, and those nine years of …
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… in Finland, saying on his return: "In theology and social action South africa is a geographic and cultural backwater of … demonstrate the potential for…
The Afrikaner Bond
… the costs of railways and wars. One of the springs to action in the Afrikaner revival was the excise duty on Cape … among his own people unless he took…
ArticleThe Cattle Killing Movement
… the past that lead up to one particular moment, event or action and to give it meaning accordingly. Therefore, by … logic and clarity of its very specific…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… intervention. [42] The most forceful international action was taken by multilateral organizations, particularly … resistance photography at its zenith, with…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… Affairs, responded that in the future “he would take action to eliminate pass regulations” (Wells, 1983). In March … and their anti-pass campaign. The Women…
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
… the DCC’s expropriation scheme; a Durban Joint Council of Action was formed to oppose the scheme. Senator Edgar Brookes … express its strong disapproval. The…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 1
… also took place in a period marked by uncertainty, mass action and increasing violence, violence involving the … elections. The declaration then ended with a…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… 1 April, The United Nations Security Council, in its first action on South Africa, adopts Resolution 134 (1960) … also elects Nelson Mandela as secretary of…
ArticleThe Western Cape Farm Workers Strike 2012-2013
… That issues relating to wages; dismissal; disciplinary action; evictions and intimidation on the farms should be … After the strike, there were reports of…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1900-1909
… reformed and stationed at Estcourt. January 21, Corps in action at Spionkop. Bearer's carry wounded through heavy … British Committee and East India…
ArticleAnti-pass campaigns, 1910s
… (Wells 1993:3). It also set the tone for later anti-pass action by militant African women. The second episode, which …
ArticleThe 1992 Whites only referendum ‘For’ or ‘Against’ a negotiated constitution
… a right-wing Pretoria regime and would demand punitive action. The Federation of Economic Organisations in Japan …