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ArticleGrade 12 - Topic 3 - Civil Society protests 1950s to 1990s
… GRADE 12 Topic 3: Civil society protests 1950s to 1970s Online Resource: … set.co.za/resources/history/grade-12/civil-society-protests-1950s-1970s [Accessed…
ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
… In the 1950s the government's increasingly repressive policies began … mass political action by blacks in defiant response. The 1950s certainly proved to be…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… General South African History Timeline: 1950s …
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
… ANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s …
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
… 1960 Internal resistance against apartheid began in the 1950s. This was when anti-apartheid groups rejected the … 1960 Internal resistance against apartheid…
ArticleContinued resistance and internal criticism 1920s and 1930s
In the following years, the African National Congress (ANC) leadership evolved to be more inclined to action than passive deputation, but very little was…
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
One of the key instruments used by the apartheid government to neutralise political dissent was the State of Emergency (SOE). In periods when the government…
ArticleGrade 12 - Forms of civil society protest emerged from the 1960s to 1970s
It is important to note that South African events do not occur in a vacuum, as we are part of a large continent and a much larger world. Therefore, what…
ArticleArmed Struggle, the revival of armed activity 1970s-1980s
The independence of Mozambique, in particular, gave tremendous momentum to the armed struggle in South Africa. Jacob Zuma recalls that when Angola and…
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… time the most senior ANC member who was active during the 1950s, with the proposal. While Gumede appeared to be …
ArticleHow uhuru was realised in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s
ArticlePondoland revolt - 1950 - 1961
… revolt took place in the Eastern Transkei in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The Pondo people revolted against the …
Apartheid - The early 1980s
The early 1980s There was little change in the situation from the late 1970s to the early 1980s in South Africa. After the crisis of the early and mid-70s,…
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
… and Indian men’s wages declined once again in the early 1950s. In the mid-1950s trade unions affiliated with the South African Congress … and D Bonnin. Women…
The armed struggle and state repression of the 1960s
… about apartheid and the resistance movements during the 1950s and 1960s. During the 1970s the Soweto Uprising took …
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… Bertha Mashaba began to be heard. In fact, the 1940s and 1950s highlight the changing role of African women, and … of the apartheid regime and as the 1940s…
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
… since the mass meetings of the Congress Alliance in the 1950s. The initial aim of the UDF was to oppose the … the Women's Charter, both of which were drawn…
Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… the Civil Rights Movement in the United States . In the 1950s, people continued to resist without violence. Protests …
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… As the 1950s gave way to the 1960s the African National Congress … into a hopeless position. It had been conceived on the 1950s model of resistance and it…
Women’s Food Committees in Cape Town during the 1940s
… to involvement in the broader political struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. Dorothy Zihlangu identifies a successful …
ArticleAnti-pass campaigns, 1910s
By the turn of the century, despite the fact that women of all races were still virtually restricted to the home, migrant labour had already begun to forge…
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
During the early 1960s, civil society was disempowered and social movements were repressed. Although the capacity for social movements to impose change…
1980s: Women organise
ArticleGarveyism: Early 1900s philosophy
Marcus Garvey, preaching the unity of all blacks, claimed that liberty would come about only through the return of all Afro-Americans to their ancestral homes…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… 1950 In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Mandela trained at the Donaldson Orlando Community …
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… political gatherings. The victims of this Act in the 1950s included Albert Luthuli , Moses Kotane , J.B. Marks , …
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… Movement was the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, which struggled for equal rights for … impact on us. I had actually gone to jail in…
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
In the 1920s, with the First World War (1914-1918) over, the pattern of female employment began to change. The war and the protectionist policy of the Pact…
ArticleGrade 12 - Civil Resistance in South Africa 1970s to 1980
What was the nature of the civil society resistance after the 1960s? During the 1960s and the 1980s South Africa was ruled by the National Party. The NP…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… Mass mobilization of the 1950s culminated in the Sharpeville massacre on 21 March 1960 … dissent. After the mass based resistance campaign of the 1950s,…