Resisters burn registration certificates in Johannesburg

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.

About 3,000 Indian and Chinese residents met at the Empire Theatre and pledged to defy compulsory registration. The meeting marked the beginning of organized satyagraha in South Africa.

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.

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...

The resistance campaign paused when Jan Smuts entered negotiations with Gandhi. The unresolved conflict later resumed after government promises were not fully implemented.

The Umlazi arrived with the final group of indentured Indian workers, ending more than fifty years of officially sponsored Indian indenture in Natal.