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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…
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…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… Rev. J.A. Calata makes a presidential address at the ANC Provincial conference in Cape Town. Four fifths of … African students loyal to the African National…
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…
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…
ArchiveThe Importance and Power of Gender Safe Spaces by Shanél Johannes
As gendered individuals, our lived experiences are not static, for our positionalities and realities differ. The creation of a safe space is important to…
EventSouth Africa Declares Gender-Based Violence a National Disaster
On this day in 2025, South Africa officially classified gender-based violence and femicide as a national disaster, following nationwide protests where women…
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 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…
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 …
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…
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…
ArchiveCHAPTER THREE: The Emergence Of Grassroots Politics, 1979-1981 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
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…
EventHaile Selassie, deposed Ethiopian emperor, dies
… also spoke out against the use of chemical weapons at the League of Nations. Exiled in 1936, he was restored to power …
ArchiveThe Final Prize: Family - chapter 1
… with him to the next weekly meeting of the Young Communist League, to be held in the city. And so it was that I went 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…
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,…
ArchiveThe women's suffrage movement: The politics of gender race and class by Cheryl Walker
… organisations such as the African National Congress (ANC), formed in 1912, a year after the WEAU was to defend the … it to women, who were not even…
Chapter 5 - The Indian Tobacco Workers Strike of 1920: A Socio-Historical Investigation by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… know, however, that from 1915 the International Socialist League (ISL) started organising Indian workers. 6 The ISL was … labour movement, and was as off…