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ArticleContinued resistance and internal criticism 1920s and 1930s
… In the following years, the African National Congress (ANC) leadership evolved to be more inclined to action than … very little was achieved during the 1920s…
Class, Consciousness and Organisation: Conclusion by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… failed to secure the two-thirds majority required by the constitution to abolish the voting rights. Secondly when the … Act of 1953 This Act was passed as a…
ArchiveAppendix 7 South Africa, the transition to democracy and the banning of torture, by Denis Goldberg
… South Africa has become a democracy and we have, in our Constitution, banned torture. We brought an end to the … understanding our past it is necessary to…
Document 11 - Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of Africa, Annual Conference Agenda, St Phillips School, Chapel Street. District 6, Cape Town, 18 January 1923
… for the Natives Workers on the Mine 16. Revision of the Constitution and to decide as to Languages in which the Constitution to be printed into. 17. Revision…
Marikana Commission of Inquiry
… Commission of Inquiry, in terms of section 84(2)(F) of the Constitution . The commission was known as the Marikana …
Marikana Commission of Inquiry
… Commission of Inquiry, in terms of section 84(2)(F) of the Constitution . The commission was known as the Marikana …
ArticleMarikana Commission of Inquiry
… Commission of Inquiry, in terms of section 84(2)(F) of the Constitution . The commission was known as the Marikana …
Journals
… of fund-raising for future editions of the journal. The Constitution of the SAAAH indicates that the Editorial …
ArticleThe legacy of the French Revolution
… was based on the ideas of Rousseau and the American Constitution. It promised freedom to the people of France. …
ArticleHermanus Loots aka James Stuart Timeline
… 1961 Is recruited into the African National Congress (ANC) military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe’s (MK) Luthuli … [iii] 1979 - 1983 Appointed chief representative…
PlaceSouth Sudan
… Salva Kiir, South Sudan's president, signed the interim constitution. However, even as South Sudan celebrated its … South Sudan also needed to establish a…
Biography of Barry Gilder by Sofia Pullen
… Barry Gilder – The ANC Musician, Soldier, and Spy Abstract Barry Gilder is one … African National Congress into exile in 1976. He aided the ANC through his…
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… way forward in light of the African National Congress’ (ANC) ban and the imposition of a state of emergency. Among … , Govan Mbeki , Mhlaba , Kotane and a…
ArchiveDemocracy and the Left in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Ben Turok interviewed by Carilee Osborne
… Turok, now 92 years old, was an African National Congress (ANC) Member of Parliament in South Africa for 20 years. Turok … vocal critic of corruption and…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Timeline 1961-1990
… or MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), was jointly formed by leading members of the banned ANC and South African Communist Party …
Address of the President of South Africa and Commander-in-Chief of the SANDF, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the Presidential Fleet Review, 5 September 2008, Simonstown
… of dignity would be enjoyed and celebrated by all. Our Constitution, the fundamental law of the Republic, enjoins us … integrity and its people in accordance…
ArticleThe African Students Association (ASA)
… the auspices of the banned African National Congress (ANC). At the time of its formation, Durban was the centre of … League (ANCYL) before it declined after…
BiographyHendrik Frensch Verwoerd
… emergency was declared, and the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) were banned. …
Statement by Oliver Tambo at lunch hosted by the Foreign Minister of Venezuela, 13 July 1987, Caracas
… among the white electorate, the regime amended the constitution of the country, entrenching the exclusion of the … the extra-parliamentary opposition, in…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… Women The Defiance Campaign of 1952 would catapult the ANC Women’s League into a new era of action and multi-party … Bantu Education and she threw herself…
The armed struggle and state repression of the 1960s
… people, the Sharpeville incident and the banning of the ANC and the PAC. Soon after the break up between the ANC and the PAC, the ANC organised a protest…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the president’s budget debate in the Senate 18 June 1996
… of our society. In a matter of weeks, we expect the final constitution to be certified. And this may therefore be the … to take our democracy to new heights…
PlaceConstitutional Court of South Africa, Johannesburg
… affluent Parktown and bureaucratic Braamfontein - is now Constitution Hill , the home of South Africa's highest court. Constitution Hill represents South…
From Amsterdam with euphoria
… head of the Department of Arts and Culture of the ANC, began her speech with these lines of poet Mongane Wally … of Human Rights and of the Freedom Charter…
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… in Engcobo District in the Transkei, in the same year, the ANC was formed. 1920 Walter returns from his aunt Agnes’ home … in East London, Walter vainly…
National General Council 2005: Consolidated Report on Sectoral Strategies, 3 July 2005
… of civic education that familiarises all citizens with the Constitution, new structures, citizen rights and obligations, … to engage with government policies…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 21 August 1990
… African situation. Do you think the differences between ANC, UDF, COSATU, and Inkatha have now developed an ethnic … with each other, and yet the violence…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… details for the adoption of the Transvaal Indian Congress constitution January 24, The Transvaal Indian Congress … strike Committee in which the African…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… as an armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). The formation of the MK Umkhonto weSizwe ("Spear of the … white minority government. The African…