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ArticleSouth African National Students Congress (SANSCO)
… Background to the formation of the South African National Students Congress … was initially aligned to the BCM and AZAPO. Between its formation and 1986…
ArticleThe African Students Association (ASA)
… banned African National Congress (ANC). At the time of its formation, Durban was the centre of Black student life in the … national movements (ANC and PAC)…
ArticleAftermath of the Bhambatha Rebellion 1906
… the last armed resistance against white rule in before the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910. The Zulu … leadership to establish the first…
ArticleWestern Cape Civic Association (WCCA)
… squatter settlements formed their own organisation. The formation of the Western Cape Civic Association (WCCA) was … Some of the leading members who were…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… its mass base, having started a decade earlier with the formation of the ANCYL and the ANC’s Women’s League. The … union workers of food manufacturer Fattis…
The Development of Indian Political Movements in South Africa, 1924 - 1946 by Essop Pahad
… Early years of Indian Settlement Gandhi in South Africa Formation of the S.A.I.C. and the First Three Conferences … Survey The Emergence of the Radicals in…
The Boerenvereenigingen: precursor to the Afrikaner Bond
… committee was turned down. The Bill was preceded by the formation of the Wijnbouwers Vereeniging in October 1877. … the bill. Hofmeyr exploited the…
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… became active in the resistance movement ahead of the formation of UDF in 1983. The Port Elizabeth Black Civic … stronghold, they were soon associated with…
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
… school protests taking place in the country. Before the formation of the African National Congress Youth League in … workers of the spaghetti and pasta…
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
… - ignited a debate which laid the foundation for the formation of the National Committee of Liberation (NCL). … Berman, Lang and Wentzel played an important…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… the amendment of its discriminatory constitution, the formation of the local committees to facilitate non-racial … denied membership. Nineteen trade unions…
ArticleTeachers League of South Africa (TLSA) conference in 1925
… on this and a number of other issues crystallised in the formation of the first Coloured political organisation, the … that draft constitutions had been…
ArticleSouth African Council of Churches (SACC)
… Brief political context on the formation and history of the SACC ... read on 5 July 1995 …
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… of Non-European Trade Unions in the next decade The formation of the Council of Non-European Trade Unions. World … and socially this played a pivotal role in…
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… and for national self-determination... more The formation of the ANC The South African Native National … Mines and Works Act was passed in 1911. These…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… 'Africans', an ' African Nationlism ' began to emerge. The formation of the ANC The South African Native National … Mines and Works Act was passed in 1911…
ArticleCape Youth Congress (CAYCO)
… July 1983 bringing together 35 youth groups. It was the formation of CAYCO working with COSAS that spurred the … came as an initiative from the coloured…
Protest Art
… The formation of the United Democratic Movement (UDF) in 1983 …
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… challenge the apartheid project. The BCM emerged with the formation of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) … held meetings with black…
Industrial and Commercial Workers Union
… of 4000 workers. Msimang played a vital role in the formation of this organization which was later known as the …
The African Resistance Movement (ARM): An Organisational History
… – ignited a debate which laid the foundation for the formation of the National Committee of Liberation (NCL). … Berman, Lang and Wentzel played an important…
ArticleSouth African Student Organisation (SASO)
… The Origins and formation: The South African Student Organisation (SASO) was … status quo and keep Blacks as second-rate citizens. The formation of SASO was…
Grade 8 - Topic 2 - The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… is mined o Conditions underground o The Randlords and the formation of the Chamber of Mines o Migrant workers (more … Congress (TIC) 1903; Bambatha Rebellion…
ArticleThe Founding of the SANNC
… meeting in Bloemfontein on 8 January 1912 to consider the formation of a dynamic and unified movement that would challenge the White government. The outcome…
ArticleThe Freedom struggle in Cape Town
… elite of the oppressed groups of people precipitated the formation of unions, political organizations and protests …
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
… the interest students internationally inspired the formation of a national union of students of that magnitude … C.I.E. congresses in Europe, was…
ArticleBlack Women’s Federation
… Jeannie Noel and Virginia Gcabashe. A year after the formation of the federation, Fatima Meer, its president was …
ArticleSouth Africa - First 20 Years of Democracy (1994 - 2014)
… of aspects such as socio-economic and health policies; formation of new political parties; establishment of …
ArticleThe history of labour movements in Namibia
… with the broader struggle for independence, led to the formation of the National Union of Namibian Workers (NUNW) on … committee operated and co-ordinated…
ArticleHistory of Africa Day - 25 May
… this committee. Amongst other things agreed to at the formation of the OAU was to change the date of Africa Freedom … date was the replacement of the OAU 38…