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ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… Party (NP) government and the African National Congress (ANC). In response to the massacre the ANC withdrew from the negotiations, blaming the NP government …
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
… beyond black-white unrest, with Inkatha clashing with the ANC/UDF and breaking their ties. Press freedom was … the country and go into exile. In 1980 she…
ArticlePoqo
… part of the time it was subdued by bannings and the ANC's growing stature as the more powerful liberation … Ruvu was conceived by Leballo to be similar to…
ArticleSouth African Youth Congress (SAYCO)
… Mandela and other political prisoners The unbanning of the ANC and other organizations Clearly SAYCO, like other … release of political prisoners, and the…
ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
… debate. Two years earlier the African National Congress (ANC) had adopted its Programme of Action. Phyllis Ntantala … was established in 1959 after its…
ArchiveKora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis
… my way from members of the Koranna and Griqua community in Bloemfontein in whose midst the book was first conceived; and …
Colonial history of Polokwane
… When Alfred Milner met Kruger at a June 1899 conference in Bloemfontein, his terms were so uncompromising that no …
ArticleTransformation in Southern Africa Timeline 1700-1800
… of the Vaal River or the Transvaal. 1854 February: The Bloemfontein Convention takes place and results in the …
ArticleRole of Black people in the South African War
… were employed by Lord Roberts' columns on his journey to Bloemfontein. The British army also provided the Kgatla chief …
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… role in the revival of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), both of which had … not only within South Africa but as…
ArticleObituary: Sheila Weinberg
… slogans and other activities after the banning of the ANC and SACP. She was one of the early detainees in the … take that work into the most relaxed…
Historical Background of the Constitutional Court
… a bill of rights for South Africa can be traced back to an ANC document in the early 1920s. The Freedom Charter of 1956 … organised by the Constitutional…
Chapter Five - The Fighter for Black Unity: 1935 - 1945
… closer to the white Labour Party and the dormancy of the ANC, Gomas and other activists in and outside the CPSA … c. 1916 St Michaels and all Angels School…
ArticleCurries Fountain events timeline
… un-banned, Currie's served has a 'home ground' to the ANC Women's League and Mkhonto-We Sizwe in 1993 and ANC electioneering prior to 1994. Many leaders were…
ArticleUnited Women’s Organisation (UWO)
… who pioneered the organisation had been active in the ANC Women’s League in 1950s. For instance, Dorothy Zihlangu, … Mildred Lesia and Dora Tamana were…
His Life and Legacy - Oliver Tambo
… elected government, and affirmed the abiding vision of the ANC itself. The African National Congress has consistently … was remarkable for the profound…
PlaceWelkom
… Africa. It is located about 140 Kilometers, North East of Bloemfontein. Welkom is also known as: 'Circle City, City … Africa. It is located about 140…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… non-racist. The UDF had a Christian heritage, like the ANC , and in many ways looked like an internal wing of the ANC, but it did not associate with the…
Chapter 8
… When the All African Convention held its Conference in Bloemfontein, on the 16th and 17th December, 1943, the … National Congress was holding its Conference,…
Liberation organisations
… . The UDF was supported by the African National Congress (ANC) in exile. The End Conscription Campaign The South … Civics were organised from the bottom up,…
PlaceHaartbeespoort
… Case”) is written in big Roman letters: "SINE AQUA ARIDA AC MISERA AGRI CULTURA"-(Without water agriculture is …
Message sent to Canon Collins by ALbert Luthuli, 1 March 1956
… about the meeting of the African leaders recently held in Bloemfontein under the auspices of the African Ministers` …
PlaceMossel Bay, (400 km From Cape Town)
… Bay in 1850, to avoid confusion with Aliwal North, near Bloemfontein. It became a Municipality in 1852. (The form …
ArticleGrade 12 - Civil Resistance in South Africa 1970s to 1980
… countries these included the African National Congress (ANC). Hector Peterson carried by Mbuyisa Makhubo, besides … meetings with the then exiled African…
ArticleDemocratic Alliance (DA)
… 1990. With the unbanning of the African National Congress (ANC) , Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and other liberation … the first in which all South Africans…
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… . Albert Luthuli was elected president - general of the ANC in 1952. The goverment imposed several bans on him, … Prize. Picture: New History of South Africa…
PlaceGauteng Province
… Dutch ‘goud’ for gold. This Province was created by the ANC , in 1994 after the Country’s first democratic election . … the other two are Cape Town - the…
Indian passive resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948 by E. S. Reddy
… and their organisations, the African National Congress (ANC) and the African People's Organisation (APO). Dr. A.B. Xuma, President-General of the ANC,…
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
… South African government, the African National Congress (ANC) , the South African Communist Party (SACP) and other … in the 1994 national election. The…
ArticleAftermath: Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… apartheid policies that prompted this violent assault. The ANC Vice-President, Oliver Tambo, was secretly driven across … A week after the state of emergency…