Johannesburg meeting adopts the Satyagraha pledge

Britain and the Boer republics ended the war without granting political rights to the Black majority. The settlement laid foundations for white reconciliation and the segregated Union of South Africa.

The newspaper Indian Opinion began publication in Durban and became an important platform against discriminatory laws and for political organization among Indian South Africans.

Following a plague outbreak, authorities forcibly evacuated the racially mixed settlement and burned it. The removals strengthened municipal segregation and displaced African and Indian residents.

Bhambatha kaMancinza led armed resistance to the Natal poll tax and colonial rule. His fighters attacked a police column near Mpanza, intensifying the rebellion.

Natal colonial troops surrounded and attacked the rebels at Mome Gorge, killing hundreds. Officials claimed Bhambatha died there, although supporters disputed this account.

A Johannesburg court sentenced Gandhi and fellow satyagrahis for refusing to register under the Asiatic Registration Act. Imprisonment became a deliberate method of nonviolent resistance.

Thousands gathered at the Hamidia Mosque, where Indian and Chinese resisters burned more than 2,000 registration certificates after the government failed to repeal the discriminatory law.

The British Parliament's South Africa Act united the settler colonies while protecting white political supremacy. Black South Africans were excluded from national political power.

African Political Organisation activists and allies observed the Prince of Wales's arrival as a day of mourning, protesting the South Africa Act's disenfranchisement of African, Coloured and Indian...

The four settler colonies formed the Union under the British Crown. The constitution concentrated power in white hands and preserved racial exclusions that stimulated later national liberation...