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PlaceSlave Lodge, Cape Colony
28 March 1652, the Dutch Merchantman, the 'Amersfoort', anchored at the Cape with a cargo of 174 Slaves. The Amersfoort's arrival in Table Bay, with Slaves in…
Document 3 - Letter from F. A. W. Lucas to James Ramsay MacDonald,
… supporting branches, formed the International Socialist League of the S.A.L.P.'" Andrews and one or two others … expulsion from the party for supporting…
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…
Chapter Two - The year with the ICU: 1921 - 1926
… in 1917 under the aegis of the Internationalist Socialist League (ISL) where it worked closely with the Transvaal … zenith in numerical terms in 1927. It…
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…
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…
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 …
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
… These organizations generated the National Consumers’ League in 1899 and the National Child Labour Committee in …
ArchiveThe Snape Building Political Demonstration at the University of Cape Town in 1966 by Andrew M. Colman
In the late afternoon of Wednesday, 21 September 1966, I took part in a small political demonstration on the campus of the University of Cape Town (UCT). It…
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…
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…
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…
44th National Conference: Report of the National Executive Committee, 18 December 1955
… work in all spheres. The 42nd Annual Conference of the ANC held in Durban last year decided as a means of fighting … the residents of the area. Thanks to 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…
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…
EventPrime Minister, B.J.Vorster, states that South Africa is still committed to granting independence to Namibia before the end of 1978
… the Allied Powers. However, after the dissolution of the League of Nations in 1946, South Africa refused to renew its …
EventNamibia gains Independence
… was placed under the South African administration by the League of Nations after the First World War. When the United …
EventSmuts becomes Prime Minister
… who contributed tirelessly to the formation of the League of Nations, an international body with the aim of …
EventHilda Bernstein passes away
… in politics when she joined the South African Labour Party League of Youth, of which she remained a member until 1940, …
Cable to the United Nations Opposing Incorporation of South-West Africa, by Dr. A.B. Xuma, January 1946
… Mandate over territory was under Article 22 Covenant League of Nations. Africans South West Africa no share in …
The Role of Women in the Struggle against Apartheid, 15 July 1980
… Since the founding of the African National Congress (ANC) Bantu Womens League in 1913, women have been active in other … of Democrats, a white organisation…
ArticleA Luta Continua Dialogues, Episode 1: Student Activism
Including Qondiswa James, Mbali Williams, Mihla Hanise, Anya Isabel, Kas and Hunter Hosted by Didintle Ntsie Filmed 5 September 2020 Broadcasted 6…
ArchiveCHAPTER THREE: The Emergence Of Grassroots Politics, 1979-1981 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
EventDeath in detention of Imam Haron
… He was influenced by the Muslim Brotherhood, the Teachers' League of SA, the NEUM and progressive trade unionists such …
EventBafana Bafana legend Philemon Raul Masinga dies
… Masinga as one among the first players to play in a major league. He was also labeled as the ambassador for the game …
ArchiveApartheid's Sporting Afterlife by Clark Easley
… of activism. The Bonteheuwel Military Wing, a cell of the ANC’s military wing, came from the area, as did the activists …