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… High. He was a passionate reader.  This was spotted by his History and English teacher,  Abram Onkgopotse Tiro , who … joined  a local branch of the South African Students' Movement (SASM) in 1975. Mashinini’s energy, creativity and … It is estimated that 20000 uniformed students joined the mass demonstration. As they marched down in a throng, they …

… community in the Transvaal around a programme of militant mass action to oppose discrimination against Indians and to … both held in the same year and were turning points in the history of resistance. The Indian passive resistance campaign … ) left South Africa illegally to represent the liberation movement at the historic Asian-African Bundung Conference. In …

… has been active in support of the South African freedom movement for more than half a century. He played a central … later the Executive Director). He was present at the huge mass meeting organised by the Council at the Madison Square … work on South Africa. He has written extensively on the history of the South African liberation movement and its …

… 1898, in a family which was active in the Indian freedom movement. He went to South Africa in 1913 and lived for some … led by Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo and Dr. G.M. Naicker , advocated mass resistance. They were able to defeat the compromising … for those brave men and women fellow resisters of mine. History has ordained that they should be in the forefront in …

… principal participants in both the 1946 Passive Resistance Movement and the 1952 Defiance of Unjust Laws , and also … educationist, politician, lawyer and author of the history of the squalid living conditions and struggles of the … he continued to give advice to the formations of the Mass Democratic Movement. After the establishment of the …

… High. He was a passionate reader.  This was spotted by his History and English teacher,  Abram Onkgopotse Tiro , who … social life. Mashinini joined the South African Students Movement, a student body established to assist students with … It is estimated that 20000 uniformed students joined the mass demonstration. As they marched down in a throng, they …

… he completed a BA in Economics (1976), an MA in Economic History (1984) and an LLB (1989) [ii] . Through this time, … and labour issues, and assisted in organising the union movement in Cape Town [viii] . He was also active in the … (Proclamation R120) to crack down on the activities of mass democratic movements. Hofmeyr was detained for two weeks …

… home, with his father often relating the political history of Port Elizabeth during the turbulent 1950s and … together they became involved in the Students Christian Movement (SCM) and in sport activities linked to the South … role involving the church as a central player in the mass democratic movement, which began emerging in 1988. After …

… of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) and the trade union movement in the wake of the 1973 Durban Strikes. He was … , worked full-time as the volunteer convener of the Mass Democratic Movement, and served on the political … In 2000, Badsha started work on establishing South African History Online, a popular online history project, which has …

… Age. We also used to hand out leaflets when the Congress Movement held mass meetings". "A State of Emergency was declared in 1960. … is the solution but you have to go through stages in history. I am impressed by Karl Marx's statement when he …

… his parents were active members of the  Non-European Unity Movement  (NEUM). Jordan's family was highly politicised and … Umkhonto we Sizwe , employing his academic background in history to compile a syllabus for political training.In 1979, … , he was appointed director of the ANC's first internal mass propaganda campaign, The Year of the Spear, marking the …

… and struggle in a landscape. The images evoke memory and history and the untold stories of the aftermath of conflict. … twenty seven years (1975 – 2002) and the independence movement was spear-headed by three vastly different … the desolation, hiding and subtle re-growth into the mass areas of space. South Africa played a major role in the …

… scene until the 1940s when it was remodelled as a mass movement [13] . Out of this restructuring, the ANC Youth … uses very plain speech. Her analysis penetrates into legal history and epistemology but the language she uses is …

… She was detained for five months in 1976. Carolus became a History and English teacher and was involved in the 1981 … of the International Centre of the Swedish Labour Movement as a member of a UDF delegation, she was detained in … spokesperson during the Defiance Campaign organised by the Mass Democratic Movement (MDM) and was also a member of the …

… this time factional fighting within the Non European Unity Movement (NEUM) [now known as the New Unity Movement] … While on Robben Island, Solomon completed a BA in History and Economics through the University of South Africa … to the UDF. Solomon believes that if a trade union or mass organization adopts a decision, then the leadership …

… implied a need for the creation of a Union-wide political movement that would counter the emerging segregationist … during this momentous period in South African history, Seme did not articulate a view that would captivate … that this marked the first attempt at making the SANNC a mass-based organization. It is not clear whether Seme …

… In 1943 he completed his matriculation with an A-symbol in history. That same year a public meeting was held in Dundee … young people. This group was affiliated with the Unity Movement (UM). Essak was a senior member of this group and … led to the Unity Movement leadership making contact with mass underground organisations of the peasants – The …

… students. The school  curriculum focused on British history but his history teacher, Weaver Newana, added his own … making the Transvaal and Natal Indian Congress es become mass-based and militant organisations. Both Meer and Singh … White government, the ANC now became a militant liberation movement. The Programme of Action called on the ANC to embark …

… end of 1969. Student politics and the Black Consciousness Movement After matriculating he began studying in 1970 to … student politics. Variava registered to study English and History as his majors. From his first days at college, he … a Friday, about the expulsion, he immediately convened a mass meeting, and called for a boycott, the first campus in …

… epic poetry, didactic Christian essays and Church history. As one of the earliest collections of the oral … broaden the international contacts of the South African movement. Rubusana returned home convinced of the need for a … ANC leaders undertook to suspend all their campaigns and mass agitation for the duration of the war as a demonstration …

… played an outstanding role in the South African liberation movement for over half a century - in persuading the Indian … lacked a strong stance, the Nationalist Bloc organised a mass meeting on 7 May 1939 that resulted in the decision to … dawn for South Africa and a decisive turning point in her history.” At the November elections for the TIC, Dadoo was …

… later imprisoned on Robben Island for Non-European Unity Movement (NEUM) activities and rose to become a prominent … in the Transvaal (now Gauteng). For the first time in history, two African students, one being Tambo, passed the JC … the Indian organisations, strikes by the labour movement, mass action by the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) as …

… Swaziland, where his strong attachment to Zulu culture and history is said to have earned him the affection of the aged … that Mabhida had been educated in "the stern university of mass struggle.... It is rarely given to a people that they …

… ’s, Naught for Your Comfort.  The American Black Panther Movement and the rising  Black Consciousness Movement  in … , a basic introduction on Marxist materialist view of history and class struggle, played a huge role in Motlanthe’s … stance on ARVs following the government’s decision of a mass rollout programme.  Although he has been criticised for …

… an active member of the Catholic Young Christian Worker Movement and formed an underground ANC cell in the mid-1970s. … Africa through contact with Matthews Huna when attending mass at the Catholic Church in Gugulethu. Tariq had earlier … a Business Plan for the transformation of the old Cultural History Museum into the IZIKO Slave Lodge Museum. During this …

… Industrial Legislation Commission in 1935. The trade union movement was pressing for legislation to assist the … The case was postponed and he again tried to address a mass meeting of garment workers who had gone on strike in … (also called Garment workers in action) (1957) . The History Of The GWU , and with L Forman The South African …

… immigrants. On September 11 1906, Gandhi spoke at a mass meeting at the Empire Theater in Johannesburg. He … Johannesburg to Durban, busy organising the resistance movement. Despite her isolation from Satyagraha, she was … written by Lorna Mungur and forms part of the SAHO Public History Internship …

… passionate about folk music traditions as well as the history and culture of the Zulu nation , which explains his … apartheid, those in the arts contributed to the liberation movement by depicting Black peoples’ struggle through various … in published papers that focused on the rising de-colonial movement in academia. Through his efforts as a teacher and …

… at the heart of, Victorian England’s rational recreation movement. Luthuli’s success in popularising sports as a … their interests. During this period in South African history, the process of land dispossession was largely … a powerful symbol for an organisation struggling to rally mass support. He was re-elected president-general in 1955 and …

… Department (Anti-CAD) Committee and the Non-European Unity Movement (NEUM) both of which he had an instrumental role in … first condition for a REAL United Front: it must have a mass base” (Kies, 1943: 13). Its purpose he said was not to … of the organisations as “the biggest conference in the history of the Coloured sector of the oppressed.” The major …