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'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
… to them. Some African politicians had already planned a passive resistance campaign beginning with the boycott of all …
ArticleJune 16 Soweto Youth Uprising timeline: 1976-1986
… too low. 5 980 were arrested for offences related to the resistance in the townships. Within four months of the Soweto … African communities all over the…
ArticlePoqo in the Western Cape and Transkei in the early 1960s
… More significantly though, Poqo unlike MK and the African Resistance Movement (ARM) directed its activities at the … already considered one of the bastions…
Biography of Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana by Nick Mencia
… life within the black community in South Africa. Musical resistance gained most of its popularity during the 1960’s … anti-racism music began to take form,…
African People’s Organisation (APO)
… and culture for decades after its demise. Strategies of resistance of the African Political Organisation The APO had … attention at its national conferences…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… need to bring the related struggles together to unite the resistance around a focused programme of what the ANC … with the Gandhian understanding of…
ArticleArts and Cultural Organisations
… Greatmore Studios FESTIVALS / CONFERENCES Culture & Resistance Conference (1982) The CASA Conference Dance …
ArticleSophiatown Timeline
… from their homes. Officials and soldiers face strong resistance from African and other residents. This article was …
ArticleAnglo-Zulu Wars 1879-1896
… camp at Isandlwana hill. Chelmsford encountered some local resistance and mistakenly assumed it to be the main Zulu … On the coast, the right column brushed…
ArticleHistory of the ‘Indian Opinion’ newspaper
… Gandhi would move from political petitioning to active resistance and his paper changed too. One significant moment … satyagraha which can be interpreted as…
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… the community was yet to be completed. But by 1957 resistance had all but collapsed. A few landlords were still … early period of Apartheid were a…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Glossary
… in a commodity or service. Rebellion : An act of armed resistance to an established government or leader. Republic …
ArticleSouth Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured
… cultural and religious values (viewed by some as a form of resistance against colonialism) which underpinned community … strategies. Regrettably, this…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… the response of the apartheid regime and its supporters to resistance against the policies of apartheid; resistance by the people of South Africa, resistance…
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… 16 Uprising is that it led to the most sustained period of resistance to apartheid since the period before the banning … the students, giving them advice…
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… 1967 to 1976 marked the beginning of a new chapter in resistance politics to the National Party (NP) government. … South Africa to help organise local…
Biography of Miriam Makeba by Narcy Negrete
… difficult challenge. Unfortunately, the demonstration of resistance in Soweto took a turn for the worst when police … of their expectations. The boycott was…
ArticleTimeline of the Bulhoek Massacre
… consequences will follow if the Israelites continue their resistance. Mgijima advises his followers that they can leave … from a stab wound. Enoch Mgijima is…
ArticleCongress of South African Students (COSAS)
… the banner of COSAS students have staged a variety of resistance tactics like boycotts, strikes, negotiated and … was secretly established in Cape Town in…
The Afrikaner Bond
… deemed illegal. Cape Afrikaners engaged in a campaign of passive resistance after the annexation of the Transvaal, amid some … for the Transvaal, the Patriot…
ArticleThe history of labour movements in Namibia
… of existing social, economic, and political conditions; resistance against tribalism and ethnic particularism, as …
ArticleAfrapix
… that formed part of the broad 'people's culture' or 'resistance arts' movements. Afrapix photographers managed to …
Zulu Community
… and laid claim on Durban, which, however, met with strong resistance from the British. They sent troops to Durban, who … of a rural non”capitalist economy…
ArticleThe fight against colonialism and imperialism in Africa
… added to the growing resentment among the local people. Resistance movements began to rise in Africa. In colonies … have a negative impact on African…
The ANC Women’s League in the Struggle for Women’s Rights in South Africa by Meghan Knapp
… the league was very active, participating in riots and resistance against an apartheid government. During this … 1). In the 1950s, the league was extremely…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… of Walter Sisulu . Schools became the site of fierce resistance in 1980, and protests that began at Coloured … of the UDF and SACC. The UDF and National…
The National Arts Festival
… as an important forum for political protest theatre and resistance art during the height of the apartheid era, and it …
ArticleSignificance of the Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… the climax to a decade or so of multifaceted and creative resistance to white minority rule and domination by a …
ArticleGreat Trek 1835-1846
… and create a 'buffer class' against increasing African resistance. Dispossession and land seizure The trekkers' … Abraham Cloete arrived on the scene and…
Colonial history of Rustenburg
… was hoisted. The burghers accepted the occupation without resistance, and when Sir Theophilus Shepstone, the former … Smuts, decided to use guerrilla tactics…