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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 …
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 …
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…
PlaceHaartbeespoort
… Case”) is written in big Roman letters: "SINE AQUA ARIDA AC MISERA AGRI CULTURA"-(Without water agriculture is …
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…
Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… was founded and demanded rights for 'coloured' people. The ANC or African National Congress was formed in 1912. The … elected government. Africanist members…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… Ngawethu! and the clenched fist and upright thumb of the ANC. Some unfurled banners – "We Are Proud of Our Leaders" – … the Apartheid regime made the African…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… - 25 November 1992. The strategic perspective of the ANC is the transfer of power from the white minority regime … Africa were making it increasingly…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… By the late 50s the Defiance Campaign launched by the ANC and its Congress Alliance partners was broken. A new … led by Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe broke away…
ArticleThe Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial, 1984
… used by its leaders and by the African National Congress (ANC) for their own purposes. The State also saw the SAAWU as … NIC and TIC had also allegedly…
ArticleCongress of South African Students (COSAS)
… a clandestine member of the African national Congress (ANC) and was later to be convicted of furthering the aims of the ANC. At the time of its formation the…
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…
ArticleSophiatown timeline 1899-1955
… of that year. This showed the widespread support the ANC had in the township The Native Laws Amendment Act of 1952 … the resistance to the impending forced…
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…
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…
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 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,…
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…
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…
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 …
BiographyAdrian Leftwich
… formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the ANC. In the thirty-six months of its active existence, it did …
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…
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,…