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EventDurban mass meeting endorses Smuts and Gandhi agreement
… An Indian mass meeting in Durban unanimously endorsed the … regarding voluntary registration, poll tax, recognition of Indian marriages and other matters…
ArticleLiberation Struggle in South Africa
… election in April 1994. This archive presents this history in two parts, namely; Emerging African Nationalism … 1960-1994 respectively. Please note that …
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) results in the adoption of the Freedom … Residence of the university in…
ArticleTreks & Land conflicts 1600s-1800s
… and retained their identity to a degree. In America many Indian nations were destroyed by the European desire to …
South Africa: The Structure of Things Then by David Goldblatt, reviewed by Robyn Sassen (H-SAfrica), February 2000
… the changing and many faces of South African culture and history through its buildings. Many of the photographs that … coffee table book and trophy of South…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress (PAC)
… is represented in parliament. This feature focuses on the history of the PAC’s contribution to the struggle against … " outlines the chronological events in…
EventAmichand Rajbansi is fired from Parliament
… African President P.W. Botha fires the government's only Indian Cabinet Minister, Amichand Rajbansi, with effect from … 1989. He also removes him from the…
Chapter 7
… learned that not only we, but the Coloured people and the Indian people in South Africa have travelled the same wrong … that applied to us in 1935 is now…
47. The assault on Gandhi
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … which appeared originally in the Gujarati section of Indian…
EventBhawani Sannyassi Dayal dies
… Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal, journalist and campaigner for Indian rights in SA, died in Ajmer, India. Dayal was one of the organisers of the Indian strike led by…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… the members of the Congress Alliance, the South African Indian Congress, the Coloured People’s Congress and the … Executive met in Durban including…
PlaceZambezi River, Zambia and Zimbabwe
… river in Africa and the largest flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa. For about 500km / 310mi it serves … ends its journey through Mozambique and out…
PlaceGrey Street Complex
… Grey Street is the teaming business and residential Indian sector of the Durban City Centre , and is also the educational, cultural and business heart of;…
ArticleAfrica Timeline
… with settlers leaving to start their own states over time. Indian and Arab trade settlement begins in northern Madagascar to take advantage of the Indian…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… September Dr Yusuf Dadoo , future leader of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC), South African Indian Congress (SAIC)) and the South African Communist Party …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Centenary Celebrations
… Dadoo in 2009, SAHO is, as part of its rewriting of the history of the liberation movement, updating its material on … impulses of the time that might have…
The oldest forms of human communication
… the printed word can be misleading. For example, certain history books taught, inaccurately, that Africans arrived in … them as 'primitive', and paid very…
ArticleCall for submissions: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa Conference
… accompanied by a renewed effort to write and document the history of the resistance against apartheid and colonialism. … be lost forever and their stories…
ArchiveCongress Resister 1983 - 1989
… Congress Resister was published by the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC), which was formed at the turn of the … non-existent. At this time, some activists in…
EventNIC calls for Passive Resistance against Ghetto Act
… Natal Indian Congress (NIC) led by Dr. G. M. Naicker, met in an … against the Ghetto Act or The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act no 28 of…
EventM K Gandhi, pioneer of the SA Passive Resistance movement and leader who led India to Independence, is born
… India. In 1893 he accepted a year-long contract from an Indian law firm work in Natal, South Africa. His time in … government and was also the co-founder of…
SAAAH: “Reception / Perception”
… problematises issues surrounding the discipline of art history and art criticism, the latter being a field still … A panel discussion on changes in the…
ArticleThe Early Cape Slave Trade
… The vast majority of Cape slaves came from Madagascar, the Indian subcontinent and South-East Asia. The earliest slaves … and household slaves came from…
EventJapanese submarines attack naval base in Madagascar
… that Japan would overrun all the allied colonies in the Indian Ocean, and use these colonies as bases to launch … and Africa, as well as deny the British…
EventMahatma Gandhi is arrested for refusing to carry Apartheid pass
… injured by a compatriot, who accused him of betraying the Indian cause. In 1906, the Transvaal government promulgated a new Act forcing registration of the…
I have written it by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - International Support: UNO - 1948
… Passive Resistance Council of the Natal and Transvaal Indian Congresses 9 January 1948 In terms of the Joint … Ispahani and acquainted him with various…
Biography of Barry Gilder by Sofia Pullen
… the post-apartheid ANC, but to contribute to South African history. However, it is evident that he is unhappy with the … to work towards equality by telling…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… the government set up semi-urban townships for Black, Indian and Coloured population groups. With the establishment … It became a source of resentment to the…
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
… at the RDM until 1980. Sam Haskins book, Silver Images: A history of photography in South Africa , by Dr A. Bensusan , … 90 Fighting Years - a photographic…
ArticleConference: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa
… REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE - CLICK HERE The Wits History Workshop, the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) and South African History…