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The South African Indian Congress ( SAIC) was an umbrella body founded in 1921 to coordinate between political organisations representing Indians in the various provinces of South Africa. Its members were the Natal Indian Congress (NIC), the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC), and, initially, the Cape British Indian Council.
Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa in 1909. The Natal Indian Congress (NIC) emanated from a proposal by Mahatma Gandhi on 22 May 1894 [1] and was formally established on 22 August 1894. [2] Abdoola Hajee Adam Jhaveri (Dada Abdulla) was the inaugural president and Gandhi was appointed honorary secretary. [2] The organisation's early membership was ...
The Congress of the People was held 25–26 June 1955 in Kliptown, south of Johannesburg. 3,000 delegates gathered under police watch to revise and accept the Freedom Charter that had been endorsed by the ANC's National Executive on the eve of the Congress. Among the organisations present were the Indian Congress and the ANC.
Naicker was a leading member of South African Indian Congress (SAIC) and the Natal Indian Congress. In 1946 he and Yusuf Dadoo led passive resistance campaigns among Indian South Africans to protest the Asiatic Land Tenure and the Indian Representation Act. [1] Along with Yusuf Dadoo of the Transvaal Indian Congress he visited India, where he ...
The National Action Council was made up of executives of the African National Congress, the Communist Party of South Africa, the South African Indian Congress (SAIC), the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), the Coloured People's Congress (CPC) and the South African Congress of Democrats (COD) met in Tongaat on 23 June 1955.
Congress of the People (1955) Coordinates: 26°16′39″S 27°53′20″E. The Congress of the People was a gathering organised by the National Action Council, a multi-racial organisation which later became known as the Congress Alliance, and held in Kliptown on 26 June 1955 to lay out the vision of the South African people.
t. e. Ismail Ahmed Cachalia (1908-2003), popularly known as Moulvi, was a South African political activist and a leader of Transvaal Indian Congress and the African National Congress. [1] He was one of the leaders of the Indian Passive Resistance Campaign of 1946 and the Defiance Campaign in 1952. [2] The Government of India awarded the fourth ...
Alma mater. Wits University ( MBBCh) Rashid Ahmed Mahmood "Ram" Salojee (24 March 1933 – 2 December 2020), often misspelled Ram Saloojee, was a South African politician, medical doctor, and former anti-apartheid activist. Between 1994 and 2009, he represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature and both ...