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ArchiveUmkhonto we Sizwe - Structure, Training and Force Levels (1984 to 1994) by Tsepe Motumi , African Defence Review No 18, 1994
… Since its inception by the African National Congress (ANC) in 1961, MK has been a political army. MK was … related to having to establish not only MK, but…
ArticleHealth and welfare
… and amongst women. According to the South African constitution , all people have the right to have access to … to alleviate the plight of women within the…
ArchiveHARWU: The Aborted Attempt to Build a National South African Catering Union (1984 – 1990) by Allan Horwitz, June 2018
… split in CCAWUSA with HARWU initially siding with the ANC/SACP aligned Kganare camp • HARWU’s … ideological struggles, the key ‘players’ were the…
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… One was the South African Native National Congress (later ANC) formed in 1912, and the other made up of more radical … self-determination... more The…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… One was the South African Native National Congress (later ANC) formed in 1912, and the other made up of more radical … African Nationlism ' began to emerge…
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…
PlaceDonkin Heritage Trail, Port Elizabeth
… Donkin Street, facing on to the Donkin Reserve, one at 14 Constitution Street and two at 8 and 10 Whitlock Street. The …
EventNigeria becomes the first Anglophone independent state in Africa to become an associate member of EEC
… power was unable to address ethnic tensions or produce a constitution acceptable to all sections of the country. Its …
EventChief Kaiser Matanzima is elected Chief Minister
… After the South African Parliament had passed the Transkei Constitution Act which replaced the existing territorial …
EventNational Party wins general election
… in South Africa had been increased from 150 to 160 by the Constitution Amendment Act of 1965. It is tempting to …
EventAbolition of Internal Security Act
… taken by the forum prior to endorsing the Interim Constitution. It was also agreed upon that the new structure …
EventCODESA 1 convenes in Johannesburg
… system of government and to the writing of a new Constitution for a democratic South Africa. The Conference …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
… brewing in urban areas. The African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General and Journalist attend the … by Pixley ka Isaka Seme . Chief Albert Luthuli , a…
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… awareness. In the 1930s this was done through the ANC , the CPSA and the trade union movements. By the 1930s, … (SANNC) renamed itself, African National…
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…
EventNational Party refuses to serve on Buthelezi Commission of Inquiry
The South African Prime Minister, P.W. Botha lashed out on the Buthelezi Commission of Inquiry concerning the future of Natal. Botha said that the National…
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 …
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…
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…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1910-1919
… (Black Opinion). 1912 The African National Congress (ANC) is formed as the South African Native National Congress … weekly newspaper. 18 May, Future…
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…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the inauguration of the National Council of Traditional Leaders Cape Town, 18 April 1997
… of our new democracy. Your Majesties; When the new constitution was drafted, there concerns were that it did not … of traditional leaders;that it did not,…
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…
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…
Chapter 2 - THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD
… law, many SACP leaders, together with those from the ANC, were forced to flee the country and go into exile, … Party establishing its headquarters in the…
PlaceWallacedene, Cape Town
Wallacedene is an Informal Housing Settlement in the Eastern Suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa. The Settlement was established during the 1980s when the…
EventGabon gains independence from France
… the 1990s Gabon introduced a multiparty system and a new constitution that allowed for a more transparent electoral …