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EventDr Stanley Mogoba is born in Polokwane
… Mogoba, future president of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) in 1997, was born in Polokwane on this day. He was …
EventBishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
… National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) to resort to violence as a last resort. However, he … was not introduced into South Africa by the…
Chapter Seven - Re-examining the Past
… from the ANC in 1958, to form the Pan African Congress (PAC). In a letter to the "Speaker" of the ANC Conference held … and pursued up to the time of the…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… receives the Dag Hammerskjold Peace Prize. 1986 April , PAC's African Women's Organisation is formed in Katlehong … Executive Committee of the Pan African…
BiographyNokukhanya Luthuli
… announced the following day that the ANC and the PAC have been banned under the Act. This state of emergency …
My Spirit Is Not Banned - Abbreviations by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… (South Africa) FSAW ”” Federation of South African Women PAC ”” Pan-African Congress (South Africa) SACTU ”” South …
ArchiveInterview with Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe
… in April 1959, jailed for several years as a result of the PAC anti-pass campaign, restricted to living in Kimberley and …
EventANC leader Nelson Mandela meets Boutros Boutros
… the Security Council on this issue. Pan African Congress (PAC) President Clarence Makwetu also met with the UN …
EventCODESA II Talks end in deadlock
… Organisation (AZAPO) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). The first sitting of CODESA laid an important … elections in South Africa in 1994. This time the…
ArchiveInterview with Potlako Kitchener Leballo
… mercurial temperament, he was responsible for much of the PAC's success before Sharpeville, as well as for most of its …
EventF.W. de Klerk announces the release of political prisoners
… National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). This demonstrated the government's readiness to submit …
Twenty-four people are killed in Operation Beanbag in Maputo, Mozambique.
… an attack by the South African army on the ANC and PAC in Matola, a suburb of Maputo, Mozambique. Portuguese …
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) after the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960 – a series of … although this did not translate into…
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… president “in the mistaken belief that he was either PAC-inclined ( Pan Africanist Congress ) or would unite … front comprising the African National Congress…
EventANC's Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe rally support against Urban Bantu Councils Act
… other liberation movements like Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), South African Communist Party (SACP) and others. These …
EventSecurity police raid offices of the United Democratic Front
… National Congress (ANC), Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), South African Communist Party (SACP) and others were …
EventFirst Multiracial Election is held in Zimbabwe
… National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and the Rhodesians by the Apartheid South African …
ArticleElections in post Apartheid South Africa
… the Democratic Party (DP), The Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and the Azanian Peoples Organisation (AZAPO). Other …
Disbanding, 1990-1991
… African Communist Party (SACP), Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and other political organisations. This ushered in a new …
EventPolitical Organisations are unbanned in Transkei
… African National Congress (ANC), the Pan African Congress (PAC), the South African Communist Party (SACP), the South …
EventOver a thousand people are detained under state of emergency following the Sharpeville massacre
… African National Congress (ANC), Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), and other liberation movements were banned by …
EventUN Special Committee on Policies of Apartheid appeals for assistance to families of apartheid victims.
… This came four years after the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) led a peaceful protest to Sharpeville police station, …
EventTwelve Africans are acquitted at the Supreme Court
… Poqo, armed wing of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and forerunner of the Azanian People's Liberation Army …
EventParties start submission to the TRC
… and nation building. The Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) acknowledged that its armed wing, Azanian People's …
EventPolitical activist and lawyer A. P. Mda is born
… Congress (ANC) that formed the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). Mda made his debut in politics when he attended the …
EventCODESA’s starting date is set
… were joined at the talks by the Pan Africanist Party (PAC), Democratic Party (DP), South African Communist Party …
EventMinister reports 23 acts of sabotage in RSA
… (MK), liberation armies of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and the African National Congress (ANC) respectively, …
EventFrontline states call on RSA government to release Mandela and end Apartheid
… National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). They also urged the United States and other European …
Event18,000 people have been detained since the declaration of the State of Emergency in March
… National Congress (ANC), the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and other organisations under the Unlawful Organisations …
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… aware of what apartheid authorities referred to as the "PAC-Poqo menace", they panicked. The police and army were … rushed legislation through Parliament to…