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ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
By the 1970s a number of leading figures in the ANC were in prison while others were in exile. Those that remained inside South Africa faced arrest, detention…
South African and World leaders
… where Albertina Sisulu was the only women present. In 1948 she joined the ANC Women’s League and in the 1950s she … that keeps Blacks and Whites apart…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Glossary
… represented the majority of Jews in Palestine form 1920 to 1948. [14] Irgun - This was a Jewish armed group led by … saw the destruction of Palestinian…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… Indian Youth Congress. Zainab Asvat is the Chairperson. 1948 January, The CPSA, at its annual conference, decides to … a special visit to London in the…
Document 47. Minutes of the Annual Conference of the ANC, December 15-19, 1949
… The then incumbent was required to present same audited in 1948, but, on the contrary, was not even present at … GUMEDE: Prof. Matthews gave the Report of…
BiographyMzwakhe Mbuli
… National Party and the oppressive policies introduced in 1948. “The Noble Charter” reflects on the origins of the ANC …
Vella Pillay
… movement that I met Patsy who later I married in June 1948 with both of us traveling to the Cape where marriages …
EventThembisile Chris Hani is killed
On 10 April 1993,Thembisile Chris Hani was shot and killed as he returned home to the racially mixed suburb of Dawn Park, Boksberg (Johannesburg), Hani was…
ArticleLiberation Struggle in South Africa
… Although Apartheid only ‘officially’ started in 1948, repression was rife in South Africa long before that …
ArticleWomen and the struggle against Apartheid
… an actual passbook, click here . Before apartheid began in 1948 there were cases of women fighting racial oppression in … years for the ANC Women's League …
ArticleZulu Family History
… September 1968), son of Solomon kaDinuzulu, king from 1948 to 1968. Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu (b. 14 July 1948), son of Cyprian Bhekuzulu kaSolomon,…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… Timeline pre 1900 1902-1910 1910-1924 1924-1939 1939-1948 1948-1960 1960-1994 1939-1948:- The Second World War and its impact 1939 Aliens …
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
The period after the Sharpeville Massacre and the banning of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan African Congress (PAC), especially after the…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Statement by the head of the ANC NEC policy sub-committee on the release of Policy Discussion documents, 05 March 2012
We welcome senior political editors and editors of the South African media and the international media. The ANC is launching its discussion documents, which…
ArticleAbram Fischer Timeline 1908-1975
… the Communist Party, trade unions and Guardian newspaper. 1948 February, Bram acts as a junior to Harold Hanson in a …
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
… the United Party received a greater share of the votes in 1948, the HNP (with the assistance of the Afrikaner Party) … prime minister and state president in…
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM)
… and English colonisers. Following its victory in the 1948 elections, the National Party (NP) dominated all White … Dutch and English colonisers. Following…
ArticlePassive Resistance in South Africa
… 1907-1914 Indian passive resistance in South Africa, 1946-1948 Defiance Campaign 1952 The Anti-Pass Campaigns 1960 …
A Political Reflection By John Fikile Block
The measurement of any collective is not when the executive tasks in the normal course of organisational work, but when leadership is confronted with the…
PlaceOld Post Office, Rissik Street, Johannesburg
Johannesburg has many historic landmarks and the Rissik Street Post Office is one of them. Built in 1897, it’s among the city’s oldest surviving buildings and…
ArchivePretoria Central Prison execution register entry and prison photograph of Petros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize, recorded as "Mkhise P", File V963
A photocopied page (numbered 134) from the execution register of the former Pretoria Central Prison. The upper portion is a tabular entry recording, under the…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
"Two hundred thousand subterranean heroes who, by day and by night, for a mere pittance lay down their lives to the familiar 'fall of rock' and who, at deep…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 4 Essay Questions and Answers
Shaka Zulu Legacy Essay questions on Shaka Zulu’s legacy will be asked as 8-mark questions where students have to use sources to answer the question. The…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 10) Time for a Chartist Movement The idea of the Freedom Charter and the…
ArticleTanzania and its Support of Southern African Liberation Movements
The role of Tanzania in fostering African Liberation movements The emergence of organised popular liberation movements throughout Africa following the end of…
Tanzania and its Suipport of Southern African Liberation Movements
The role of Tanzania in fostering African Liberation movements The emergence of organised popular liberation movements throughout Africa following the end of…
ArticleOliver Tambo Speeches 1971-1979
… 8 January 1972 1973 " Black Reaction to Apartheid: 1948-1973 ". Address by Oliver Tambo to the Annual Meeting of …
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
In 1959 the Africanists broke away from the ANC and formed the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). The histories of these two organisations are inextricably linked…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… the Sedition Trial of 1946 that lasted two years. In the 1948 elections, the National Party seized power and began to … began the passive resistance campaign…
ArticleGrade 12 - The Cold War
… ‘ Iron Curtain’ speech 1947: Marshall Plan is announced 1948 : February, Communists take over Czechoslovakia 1948 : June, The ‘Berlin Blockade’ begins…