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Chapter 1: Introduction
… banned ANC started negotiating with the ruling National Party (NP) behind closed doors. The negotiations had an … 1985 - 1994 was unbearable, due to the…
ArticleThe Langa March, 30 March 1960
… Native Representatives and members of the new Progressive Party voted against the Bill. In conclusion; Sharpeville , …
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Strategic Debates, the ANC - SACP alliance and the Soviet Union. Convenor: Tshepo Moloi.
… The role and influence of the South African Communist Party in the armed struggle by Patrick Mangashe UFH [email protected] Abstract The Communist Party of…
EventNP wins by election
… formerly Dr. Connie Mulder's seat, the National Party (NP) candidate wins, but with a much reduced majority over the Herstigte Nasionale Party (HNP). The by…
EventSA artist Sydney Khumalo is born
… guidance from Edoardo Villa. In 1967 he visited the United States of America and Europe as a guest of USSALEP (United States/South Africa Leadership Exchange…
EventCaribbean countries refuse to send troops to Haiti
… Community said it would not provide troops for the United Nations (UN) Peacekeeping Force in Haiti. Aristide was … 2004. He claimed that he was abducted at…
EventGhanaian President Kwame Nkrumah calls on world leaders to impose “total economic and political sanctions” on South Africa
… of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, was a leader who strived for a united Africa. Nkrumah was one of the founders of the … continent. In addition, the OAU managed to…
EventUN troops arrive in Congo to help deal with the political crisis
… United Nations (UN) troops arrived to help deal with the … request for assistance from African countries and the United Nations. The secession of Katanga…
Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , “South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home”, International Socialism, 5, Summer 1961
… Unions, but also by the radical program of the Communist Party. There was also general discontent with the … first passive resistance campaign took place…
EventSACP is legally re-launched
… On 29 July 1990 the South African Communist Party(SACP), which had been unbanned in February 1990, was … the feature here. References: South African…
PlaceMaphikela House
… the foundations of what would eventually become the ruling party of the country. The house was built in 1926 and was … of the African National Congress…
EventSouth African Political activist, James Sofasonke Mpanza dies
… Mpanza, a political activist and founder of the Sofasonke Party in Orlando Township, Soweto , passed away at his … Mpanza died in 1970, but his organisation,…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak
… League of the AN C , the Sout h African Communist Party (SACP), and the United Democratic Fron t (UDF). Despite several banning … of such protests…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… supremacy was systematised. The intention of the National Party in 1948 was to reinforce constitutionally the … controlled. This report became the policy of…
Document 37 - “Communist Election Policy Defined: National Conference Decision”, The Guardian, 8 January 1948
… - Everything possible will be done by the Communist Party ling general elections to work for the defeat of the … and Pro-Fascist forces represented in the…
ArchiveCHAPTER 1 - Old Battle-Cries and Borrowed Language by Howard Barrell
… bombs and the like. 3 Within the South African Communist Party (SACP), reconstituted in secret in 1953 three years … liberals, South African whites were…
Umsebenzi
… Umsebenzi, mouthpiece of the South African Communist Party, deals with issues relating to the national liberation … South African communists are included as…
EventDr. Andries P. Treurnicht is re-elected NP leader in the Transvaal
… and Tourism, was unanimously re-elected as the National Party's (NP)leader in the Transvaal. As the chief spokesman … the conservative wing of the NP, he re…
EventSA Prime Minister speaks before the British Parliament
… moving speech to the British Parliament he called for the United States, Russia and Great Britain to take more … as a threat to world peace and called on…
EventThe UN Security Council condemns all violations of its embargo against South Africa
… sanctions were still not in place. On 23 July 1970, the United Nations (UN) Security Council condemned all violations … votes to none against, with France,…
ArticleDefining culture, heritage and identity
… by man as a member of society." More recently, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural … people to name but a few. All of these people are…
PlaceMalawi
… It was renamed Nyasaland in 1907. The first political party named Nyasaland African Congress was formed in 1944. Initially, it was a moderate party. It only…
ArticleThe Jacob Zuma Presidency - 2009 to 2017 (March)
… on a wave of popular euphoria fuelled by voters and fellow party politicians alike. A controversial candidate, Zuma’s … power-struggle, his popularity…
ArticleDespite the 1994 political victory against apartheid, its economic legacy persists by Haydn Cornish-Jenkins
… Fall of Apartheid Apartheid was introduced by the National Party in 1948 following their election success; the system … Blanton, 1997, p.567). Between 1990…
EventOscar Dumisani Dhlomo, politician and businessman, is born
… and Culture. He was later elected Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) Secretary-General On 1 June 1990 Dhlomo resigned … resigned from Inkatha to form the Institute…
EventANC promulgates its constitutional proposals
… and were supported by the South African Communist Party (SACP). During Phase One an all-party interim government council would be appointed by CODESA …
Document 45 - Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Left Opposition to Cape Town comrades, 23 October 1932
… for which reasons the comrades were expelled out from the Party. As to the conditions of membership into the Left … the same manner, on this following…
EventBotha appoints Hendrikse and Rajbansi into his Cabinet
… The leader of the Labour Party, the Reverend H. J. Allan Hendrickse and Amichand Rajbansi of the National People's Party (NPP) are appointed to the Cabinet…
EventTanganyika formally ends all trade ties with South Africa
… sanctions against South Africa in the 1960s. Only the United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK) continued their friendly relations with …
EventUN Secretary General is killed in a plane crash
… United Nations (UN) Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold was … Press reported that the lone survivor, Harold M. Julian, a United Nations security guard, said…