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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…
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 …
EventPresident Cyril Ramaphosa appoints Justice Raymond Zondo as Chief Justice
… Ramaphosa has, in accordance with Section 174(3) of the Constitution, decided to appoint Deputy Chief Justice Raymond … subject to the process outlined in…
Class, Consciousness and Organisation: Conclusion by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
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…
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…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… in the country and elsewhere in the world. The Union Constitution of 1910 placed political power in hands of white … 1924, the SANNC changed name to African…
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…
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. …
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
BiographyHendrik Frensch Verwoerd
… emergency was declared, and the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) were banned. …
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…
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…
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…
ArticleThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
… Tom Jackson. Founding father and later president of the ANC, Josiah Gumede , visited the USSR in February and later … he was elected president of the African…
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
… New leadership elected to African National Congress (ANC) Youth League including Walter Sisulu and Oliver Tambo . Dr. James Moroka elected as President of…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… By the 1970s a number of leading figures in the ANC were in prison while others were in exile. Those that … These countries played an important role for the…
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…
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…
EventSharpeville Deputy Mayor killed
… increases and poor education facilities. In addition, the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 110 of 1983 … and was due to go into effect later…