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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…
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…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Glossary
… by Von Hindenburg and it suspended all articles in the constitution that guaranteed peoples key freedoms and …
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…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… a group of South African exiles - mostly members of the ANC - convened at the University of Botswana to discuss the … the apartheid government began to…
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
EventGabon gains independence from France
… the 1990s Gabon introduced a multiparty system and a new constitution that allowed for a more transparent electoral …
EventA Whites-only referendum in SWA gives a support on Black majority.
… thousand of them voted yes on the Turnhalle draft constitution in May 1977, with almost 95 percent of them …
EventBishop Tutu receives Martin Luther King Award
… save a suspected informer from a murderous mob. When a new constitution was proposed for South Africa in 1983 to defend …
EventHelen Suzman is born
… times at Robben Island. When Nelson Mandela signed the new constitution in 1996, Suzman was along side him. In the …