PUBLIC LECTURE BY PROFESSOR KADER ASMAL
Passive Resistance, Then and Now

In August 1908, Mahatma Gandhi organised a Passive Resistance Campaign to get South Africans of Indian origin to resist the law that required all Indians to carry registration certificates. The culmination of the protest was the bonfire of 1908 where 2,000 protestors placed their certificates in a large iron pot and they were set alight. This bonfire of 1908 was an important event in the passive resistance or Satyagraha campaign of Gandhi and as such is part of our South African legacy.
The public lecture is part of a series of events commemorating our history of resistance in South Africa.

Date: 18 August 2008
Time: 19h00
Venue: Constitutional Court

Please RSVP (for catering purposes) to Beatrice Abel (babel@the-edge.org.za), 011-339-1757.
For further details contact Isabel Hofmeyr (Isabel.hofmeyr@wits.ac.za), 011-717-4140/2.

Organised by the Gandhi Centenary Committee, the Centre of Indian Studies in Africa and the Consulate General of India in Johannesburg.