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ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
… to 1987. In 1988, a number of organisations including the United Democratic Front (UDF) and Congress of South African … which was widely described as the …
PlaceTsolo, Eastern Cape
… groups throughout the Transkei and Basutoland had united in common revolt. Under the pretence of joining the … where, he felt, they would be safe. The next…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… Union, the whole of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and scores of Provincial and local leaders of the … Indian Congress (SAIC) sent to the 1946…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… itself being branded a terrorist organisation by the United States and the United Kingdom, due to its ties with communism in both China … Pan Africanist…
Statement at the 25th Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity by O. R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 24 – 26 July 1989
… Javier Perez de Cuellar, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Your Excellency Ide Oumarou, Secretary … We take this opportunity to extend our thanks to…
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… a campaign against the Boers that very day, and attacked a party in the Upper Tugela, as part of a series of attacks … government was established in 1853,…
72. The Defiance Campaign, 1953
… Congress and the South African Indian Congress. The United Party, through its leader, Mr. J. G. N. Strauss, in … mines'. Fundamentally there was no…
72. The Defiance Campaign, 1952
… Congress and the South African Indian Congress. The United Party, through its leader, Mr. J. G. N. Strauss, in … mines'. Fundamentally there was no…
Enuga S Reddy: Notes on meeting with Dr. Cassim Jadwat -1997
… support for the struggle in South Africa. [He moved to the United States in the early 1960s(?)] 1920s As a child I heard … of the Johannesburg district…
ANC NGC 2015 Resolutions on International Relations
… G77 + China (G77) will be to lead the G77 to Paris for the United Nations Framework for Climate Change Convention … the G-77 + China in ensuring that the…
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
… in Durban and this structure was run like a political party. Membership of the new structure within NUSAS was … In 1983 NUSAS forged an alliance with the…
ArticleThe Drafting and Acceptance of the Constitution
… On 2 February 1990, the National Party government unbanned political parties, released many … were killed. After this the ANC stopped talks. The Multi-party…
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… Weinberg, Jew, exile, apartheid, anti-Semitism, Communist Party, political activism, religion Eli Weinberg : … his prominence through his involvement in the…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… the lives of many liberal minded Americans.2 In the United Kingdom a less draconian bill than the US version was … in Australia, Menzies promised to renew…
ArticleGrade 12 - The impact of the Cold War in forming the world as it was in the 1960s
… period of conflict and competition between the capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union, and their … Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev held…
ArticleTimeline for Grade 12.4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
… African government does away with apartheid. 1963 The United Nations adopts a resolution demanding that all … of many African countries. These African…
Chapter 2 - Historical Background
… Whites, who were until then at war with each other, united to form a government that excluded the African … The birth of the ANC provided the African…
ArticleEconomic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… announced its formation on 27 July, 2013 in Soweto. The party was formed by former ANC Youth League leader Julius … Marxist-Leninist and Fanonian …
Chapter 4. From The Poverty of the Platteland to the Slums of the City: Farm Girls Turned Into Factory Hands
… major political parties, and especially the Nationalist Party, adopted throughout a most bitterly hostile attitude … With regret, it must be stated that even…
ArticleThe 1992 Whites only referendum ‘For’ or ‘Against’ a negotiated constitution
… referendum was a gamble for both De Klerk and the National Party (NP) and an opportunity to silence the white … The latter group, constituted as the…
ArticleA Spiral of Trials by Norman Levy
… the miners’ strike in 1946. In that instance the Communist Party committed itself entirely to the strike, assisting the … of Mines or provide ammunition for…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter Three - By Riashnee Pather
… the franchise to Indian males. Stallard of the Dominion Party, amongst others echoed this objection to the Act and … Smuts also faced much criticism from his…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1930-1939
… as representatives of the opposition South African Party. 12 January - 4 February, During the Second Round Table … tensions and work against the attempts to…
Assessment task: Fascism and Nazism
… appears at the bottom as fearful of the Allies, pictured united and powerful above him. 2.1. Which three countries are … Hitler? (3) 2.2. Why is it ironic…
Statement at the Conference of The Socialist International and Frontline States on Southern Africa, Harare by O. R. Tambo, 15 February 1989
… by Frederick de Klerk, the newly-installed ruling National Party leader, succeeding P.W. Botha. De Klerk declared … was outlawed but not before the vision of…
Communique of the Second National Consultative Conference of the ANC, presented by O. R. Tambo at a Press Conference, Lusaka 25 June, 1985
… We must continue to pose the alternative of a united, democratic and nonracial South Africa. The conference … noted and paid tribute to the contribution that…
Second National Consultative Conference Communiqué, 25 June 1985
… We must continue to pose the alternative of a united, democratic and non-racial South Africa. The … noted and paid tribute to the contribution that the…
Article20 Years of Democracy (1994 - 2014) - Profiles of the Presidents
South Africa’s advent to democracy was ushered through the 1993 Interim Constitution, drawn up through negotiations among various political parties,…
Arthur Chaskalson Chief: Justice Emeritus, Constitutional Court of South Africa
… Committee on Constitutional Issues, appointed by the Multi Party Negotiating Forum in May 1993 to give advice on … of a committee of senior judges appointed…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes
… boycotted it, and it was disbanded in 1951 as the National Party government began implementing its apartheid policies. … At the 1946 ANC convention, with…