Monty Naicker Collection

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1956 Women's March

The Women's March was a spectacular success. Women from all parts of the country arrived in Pretoria, some from as far afield as Cape Town and Port Elizabeth.

Burning the pass

Walter Sisulu burning his pass

Violet Hashe

Violet Hashe, fiery African trade union leader, called on the people at

Congress of Trade Unions

South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) ... In 1944 SATLC adopted the Workers Charter. This Charter was viewed as a vehicle to ...

Delegates from Natal at the Congress of the People held in Klipstown

The three thousand delegates who gathered at Kliptown on 25 and 26 June 1955 were workers, peasants, intellectuals, women, youth and ...

Trial of the Defiance Campaign

The trial of amongst others, Moroka, Sisulu, Marks, Mandela, Dadoo, Cachalia and ...

ANC Leadership in 1912

Founded in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress, it had as its main ... In the late 1920s the ANC's leaders split over the issue of cooperation with ...

Freedom Charter

The Freedom Charter is a unique document in that for the first time ever, the people were actively involved in formulating their own vision of an ...

Robert Sobukwe - PAC President

Activist and member of the African National Congress (ANC) and the first President of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), who served time as a prisoner in solitary ...

Robert Resha, Walter Sisulu and Yusuf Cachalia

Robert Resha, Walter Sisulu and Yusuf Cachalia

Dom Pass

The Pass Laws Act of 1952 required black South Africans over the age of 16 to carry a pass book, known as a dompas, everywhere and at all times. The dompas ...

People Speak

People take to the streets to be heard

Nelson Mandela and Nana Sita

Nelson Mandela and Nana Sita

Mineworkers Strike

The African Mine Workers' Strike was a labour dispute involving mine workers of Witwatersrand in South Africa. It started on 12 August, 1946 and lasted ...

Mineworkers strike

The African Mine Workers' Strike was a labour dispute involving mine workers of Witwatersrand in South Africa. It started on 12 August, 1946 and lasted ...

Sharpeville massacre

A mass funeral for victims of the Sharpeville massacre, 1960. 69 people were killed when the Sharpeville police opened fire on a crowd of protestors ...

Federation of South African Women

The Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) was a multi-racial women's organization and lobby group which organized and ...

Fitzimmons ground in Pietermaritzburg

Mass meeting at the Fitzimmon ground in PMB

Duma Nokwe, Manilal Gandhi and Patrick Duncan

Duma Nokwe, Manilal Gandhi and Patrick Duncan in a gathering

Dr AB Xuma

Drs Naicker, Xuma and Dadoo signing the 'Doctors' Pact', 1947 ... of the United Nations instead of other vague, inconclusive so-called charters, ...

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