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From Protest to Challenge: Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964 Volume 1
… The Seventh Annual Conference of the Communist Party of South Africa, which lasted from Saturday evening, … 20 black and 10 white. The visitors were guests…
EventDr Albert Hertzog confirms that television would not be introduced in South Africa
… the monopoly, controlled by the white minority National Party government. The National Party's Minister for Posts and Telegraphs, Dr Albert Hertzog, … saw…
EventThe NNP joins the ANC
… The New National Party (NNP) announced its dissolution and merger with the … under the banner of the ANC. Officials would retain their party membership and…
ArchiveCelebrating and commemorating twenty-years of the Harare declaration by Kgolane Alfred Rudolph PHALA
… PW Botha to the rulers of England, the Soviet Union, the United States of America and West Germany;from the National … to the apartheid army at Cuito…
”Report on Talks between the PAC and the OAU liberation Committee Sub-committee” by Potlako K. Leballo, Dar es Salaam, November 20,1968
… in Dar es Salaam, on November 12, 1968. At these talks the Party was represented by the Acting President, Mr. Potlako K. … Molotsi, their partners in the…
ArchiveReport on Talks between the PAC and the OAU liberation Committee Sub-committee by Potlako K. Leballo, Dar es Salaam, November 20,1968
… in Dar es Salaam, on November 12, 1968. At these talks the Party was represented by the Acting President, Mr. Potlako K. … Molotsi, their partners in the…
PlaceSouth End Museum, Port Elizabeth
… Indians, Chinese, Jews, Greeks and many more were united in their attitude towards family Values, Faith and … pirit was all but crushed when, in 1948, the…
Hendrik Verwoerd: 10 quotes by Hendrik Verwoerd (Politics Web), 20 September 2016
… was the 50th anniversary of the assassination of National Party Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd on the floor of the … hold the stronger position, and the…
EventGeneral Louis Botha wins elections
… 1910, General Louis Botha and Hertzog's South African Party (SAP) won the majority number of seats in the House … and General Louis Botha leader of the…
Article1973 Durban Strikes
… the evolution of an alliance between workers, the broad united front of progressive organisations and the banned …
ArticleFrontline States
… community when more European countries, including the United States increased their support for the SADCC. SADCC …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 71th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1983
… have made in the struggle, to ensure the widest possible united action of the forces of progressive change in our … ourselves that are blocking the…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 4 February 1974 in reply to a motion of no confidence in the Government by the Leader of the Opposition
… increased purchases, but where, with the exception of the United States of America, South Africa's oil prices are still … would be the standpoint of Dr…
EventVan Zyl Slabbert is elected as the leader of the PFP
… Zyl Slabbert was elected as the leader of the opposition party, the Progressive Federal Party (PFP). He took over from Colin Wells Eglin, who was elected the…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… consent from 16 to 19. 2) Outlaw dildoes. 3) The "men at a party" clause, which prohibited two or more men to be … of the end for the apartheid government;…
ArticleBureau of State Security (BOSS)
… department to promote the political aims of the National Party with the help of government funds to gain control over … substantial amounts of government…
ArchiveThe Emperor has no Clothes by Liz Timbs
… since 1975, when Zwelithini became involved in the Inala party, a political organization spearheaded by Chief … governments to blacks) of 1984 and the…
A Brief History of Mali by US Department of State updated 01 October 2015
… and withdrew from the French Community. Socialist Single-Party State : President Modibo Keita – whose party Union Soudanaise-Rassemblement Démocratique…
History lesson: When Vorster stuck the knife in Ian Smith's back by Jamie Miller (Rand Daily Mail), 17 September 2016
… In 1976, the United States suddenly turned its attentions to Southern … Smith’s Rhodesian regime, Rhodesia’s nominal rulers in the United Kingdom, and South…
ArchiveCuito Cuanavale, Angola 25th Anniversary of a Historic African Battle by Ronnie Kasrils (Monthly Review), Africa, Angola
… the Seventh Congress of the South African Communist Party was held in Cuba in April 1989. When Jorge Risquet, one … consulted Moscow over Havana’s massive…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1992
… with the past: the adoption of new forms of struggle as a united people. It signalled the beginning of a process to … Democrats and the then underground…
EventProposal for a new constitution
… ANC wanted an Interim government, whereas the Democratic Party and Inkatha Freedom Party favoured the Nationalist Party government to remain in power during…
EventIndependent Democrats benefits from floorcrossing rule
… The Independent Democrats (ID), a political party which was formed by Patricia de Lille, who had defected … of parties at all three levels of government to…
BiographyMafika Pascal Gwala
… except boredom and germinating thoughts Remember mixed and united Verulam? All that is a dream circling around people’s …
Move from Condemnation to Confrontation of Apartheid and Colonialism - Statement in Committee II of the International Conference of Experts for the Support of Victims of Colonialism and Apartheid in Southern Africa, Oslo by O. R. Tambo, 11 April 1973
… Mr. Chairman, (1) in your contribution as Chairman of the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonisation, you dwelt … of the integration of the…
Address at the UN General Assembly, New York, 12 September 2002
… welcome Switzerland and East Timor to membership of the United Nations. Mr. President, Two years ago, the world's … leaders met at this place and through the…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Socialism, Culture and Networks. Convenor: Omar Badsha
… up the question about the role played by the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA/SACP) in shaping SA’s culture of … to Radicalisation: Jews in the South…
International Year of Older Persons 1999
… of people of different nationalities around the globe. United Nations logo. International Year of Older Persons 1999 logo. United Nations, Department of…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 108th Anniversary of the African National Congress by Cyril Ramaphosa, 8 January 2020
… Notwithstanding the hardships we face the nation remains united in its resolve to overcome the challenges of the … the enormous potential of our youth by…
Neither I nor Young did plan the march: says student leader
… of a march during the visit of Andrew Young, the United States ambassador to the United Nations …