Browsing Africana Library by Subject "Government, Resistance to. South Africa"

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"Because your yard is too big": Squatter struggles, the local state and dual power in Uitgenhage, 1985-1986

Swilling, Mark (1988-03-14)

By focussing largely on the struggle Langa's squatters waged against forced removal, this chapter will attempt to analyse the complex interactions between local township administrators, the white establishment, employers, ...
Political organisation and community protest: The African National Congress in the Rand Townships, 1955-1957

Lodge, Tom (1978-03)

This paper will examine three instances of African protest: the attempts to resist the removals in the Johannesburg western areas, the opposition to Bantu Education and the Alexandra bus boycott of 1957. It was hoped that ...
The resistance to the extension of passes to African women: 1954-1960

De Villiers, Richard (1979-09)

At the annual conference of the African National Congress (ANC) in January 1959, a National Anti-Pass Planning Council was appointed, and the year 1959 declared "Anti-Pass Year". From the inception of the ANC, to its ...
The Torch Commando & the politics of white opposition: South Africa 1951-1953

Fridjhon, Michael (1976-03)

The Torch Commando is customarily regarded as a war veterans movement which emerged spontaneously as a response to the proposed violation of the Constitution by the Nationalist Government through the removal of the Coloureds ...

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