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ArticleThe South African Communist Party and May Day – Some Key Moments
… banners – for the CPSA, the miners, the Young Communist League (YCL) and the Building Workers Industrial Union … May Day) in 1950. The CPSA, African National…
BiographyMafika Pascal Gwala
… The leaders of BPC realized the potential for bringing ANC and PAC leaders into the wider BC movement. After careful negotiations between SASO, BPC, BC, ANC…
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
… helped in the formation of the short-lived Soweto Students League (SSL), with Oupa Mlangeni as its President. SSL never … 1981 opinion poll rated the African…
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… The party then asked the African National Congress (ANC) to help, and party members Mofutsanyana and Gaur Radebe approached the ANC. Radebe, who was a member…
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…
EventThabo Mbeki, former President of SA, is born in Idutywa, Transkei
… was a prominent member of the African National Congress (ANC) in the Eastern Cape. The young Mbeki joined the ANC Youth League at the age of 14 and became…
EventFirst Egyptian woman to file for divorce under new law
In 2000, a 32 year old Egyptian housewife became the first woman to file for a divorce without having to prove physical or psychological abuse. Under Egypt’s…
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… of Anton Lembede, a group of young people form the ANC Youth League (ANCYL). At its official inauguration , OR is elected … a member of the National…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew
… E.R. Roux to Victor Danchin, 6 March 1929 Document 32 - League of African Rights, Petition, 1929 Document 33 - League of Atrican Rights, Announcement of…
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… 1945-1949 Introduction 62 Post-War Changes in the ANC and Indian Congresses 67 The NEUM, Xuma, and the … 79 The Xuma-Dadoo-Naicker Pact 85 Backlash in the…
SAHO Timeline and Milestones
… a CD in 2012. Book publication One Hundred Years of the ANC: Debating Liberation Histories Today Edited by Arianna … to the Constitutional Court Museum in…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 22 July 1992
… Accord. I would not say that none of the supporters of the ANC are actually - if I said none of them break the Peace … to say that certain areas in KwaZulu…
National Council of African Women (NCAW)
… for Africans. It apparently absorbed the Bantu Women's League (BWL) and Charlotte Maxeke , who had headed the BWL, …
ArticleIndian South Africans Timeline 1910-1919
… equal treatment. Gordon Lee of the International Socialist League (ISL) forms the Durban Workers' Industrial Union. The … Lee and represents the Union at the…
BiographyYusuf Joe Jacobs
… on educational issues. The school was to cater for young ANC cadres returning from exile, as well as those in the …
BiographyGraeme Williams
… Reuters in 1989 covering the transition from apartheid to ANC rule as a photographer. In 1991 he started contributing …
EventMore than a dozen people are killed, including seven children, in Kwamakhutha Massacre
… escalated in the 1980s with the African National Congress (ANC), Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and covert elements in … apartheid government structures playing…
Archive”I am Albertina Sisulu”, Interview from Blue Portraits
… died in 1987. He was assassinated. From there I joined the ANC Women's League. As you know, ANC has been banned for the last thirty years, and in 1989 it ……
EventAnti-apartheid activist, Norman Levy is born
… when he joined and participated in the Young Communist League (YCL) and, by 1946, in the Communist Party of South … continued to participate in African…
EventWinnie Mandela released from banning order and house arrest
… of the original African National Congress Women's League (ANCWL), along with other legends of the women's … it was banned, along with the African National…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - Introduction by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… with her involvement in the African National Congress (ANC); and with her involvement in the organization of women through the ANC Women's League and the…
Introduction - My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… with her involvement in the African National Congress (ANC); and with her involvement in the organization of women through the ANC Women's League and the…
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… segregation on Indians. 5 March, The Natal Indian Youth League’s first AGM is held in Clairwood. George Gangen Ponnen … to raise money. December, The African…
PlaceTanzania
The Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama explored the East African coast in 1498 on his voyage to India. By 1506, the Portuguese claimed control over the entire…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Essay Questions
Impact of Slave Trade and Colonisation on Indigenous Societies at the Cape Based on the 2012 Grade 10 NSC Exemplar Paper: Grade 10 Past Exam Paper …
Timeline: All-Africa Convention (AAC)
… Ka Isaka Seme, President of the African National Congress (ANC), Africans from different political spectrums and from … from the AAC and joins the African…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… been active participants in the African National Congress (ANC) . In every case it has been nationalist ideology which … Teachers Association (CATA), the…
EventBeverly Palesa Ditsie is the first out lesbian woman to address the United Nations about LGBT rights
On 13 September 1995, Beverley Palesa Ditsie made a statement at the Beijing Women’s Conference about the importance of including lesbian rights in discussions…
PlaceHammarsdale, KZN
… The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) , formed in 1975 by former ANC Youth League member; Mangosuthu Buthelezi and currently the … they laid to rest the ghosts of…
ArticleList of people banned under Apartheid
… solitary confinement and imprisonment. As a leader of the ANC Women's League and the Federation of SA Women she was brought to … on her return from jail…