PASSIVE RESISTANCE - 1946, a selection of documents

398pp., illus., paperback, Reprint, Micromega Publishers, (1996) 2025

ISBN: 9781874945093

Selected documents from the Passive Resistance Campaign of 1946-1948.

First published by Madiba Publishers/Institute for Black Research in 1996. This edition includes "Note on PASSIVE RESISTANCE - 1946" by Jairam Reddy, 2024

The Passive Resistance Campaign began as a response by the South African Indian Congress movement to the Smuts government’s introduction of the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Bill, which severely restricted the rights of Indians to own or occupy land.

South African writer, academic and anti-apartheid activist Fatima Meer (1928-2010) was one of the founding members of the Federation of South African Women. She was on the staff of the University of Natal from 1956 to 1988. Her books include Portrait of Indian South Africans, Race and Suicide in South Africa, Documents of Indentured Labour, Resistance in the Townships and Higher than Hope, the first authorised biography of Nelson Mandela.

Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy, also known as ES Reddy (1924- 2020), was an Indian-born diplomat who served as Secretary of the United Nations' Special Committee Against Apartheid (1963-1965) and Director of the UN's Centre Against Apartheid (1976-1983). He served as Director of the UN Trust Fund for South Africa and the Educational and Training Programme for Southern Africa, and campaigned for an economic and sports boycott and the release of Nelson Mandela.