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Today marks the 80th anniversary of the 1946 Passive Resistance Campaign.
On 13 June 1946, thousands gathered in Durban to oppose the discriminatory "Ghetto Act", which restricted where South Africans of Indian descent could live, work, and own property.
That evening, the first volunteers pitched tents in defiance of the law, knowing they risked arrest.
Among those inspired by the campaign was a young Ahmed Kathrada, who left school during his matric year to join the struggle. It was through this campaign that he would experience prison for the first time, beginning a lifetime dedicated to justice, equality, and non-racialism.
Eighty years later, the campaign reminds us that societies are weakened when people are divided into those who belong and those who do not. Different context, different victims, same dangerous habit of dividing people into "us" and "them."
The courage of those who resisted in 1946 challenges us to build a South Africa rooted in dignity, solidarity, and shared humanity.
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