Category: Ela Gandhi
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June the month of the Freedom Charter, the start of Passive Resistance, and youth month
The importance of the 1946 Passive resistance struggle which later transformed to the 1952 Defiance campaigns, the 1955 Congress of the People resulting in the birth of the Freedom Charter, the 1956 Women’s march against the pass laws and 1976 youth uprising against bantu education, is the affirmation of the power of nonviolent mass action.…
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Paolo Friere’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Gandhian Education
Discussion about colonial education and how to decolonise education is rife everywhere in S.A. Here are ideas of two personalities who have written much about education and how education can be used to oppress and how it can be used to liberate. This is just a trigger to start discussion on what needs to change.…