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BiographyGertrude Shope
… Women (FEDSAW) . In the late 1960s she was provincial secretary for the FEDSAW. Shope got to know Bram Fischer very … and Nigeria . While in exile, from 1970…
ArchiveLetter from D Nokwe to OAU Secretary General
… Letter from D Nokwe, Secretary-General of the African National Congress, to the Organisation of African Unity Secretary-General in Ethiopia. Includes several…
Yunus Ismail Mahomed
… Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP). In 1974 Yunus undertook legal articles in Durban and … movement for fundamental change.In…
BiographyNorman Levy
… into the newly revived South African Communist Party (SACP); he was part of an underground unit that included Rusty … congresses to consult together, serving…
BiographyPhilemon Mathole
… and participated in the Defiance Campaign of 1952. He was elected secretary of the Transvaal ANC in 1955, he also served on the … Union. Participated in the…
EventUnited Nations appoints Kofi Annan as secretary
… A Ghanaian citizen, Kofi Annan, was appointed as secretary-general of the United Nations (UN) to replace the … 1 January 1997. After accepting office, Annan,…
BiographyFrederik Willem de Klerk
… University, but declined the position when he was elected Member of Parliament for Vereeniging in November … 1989, he was succeeded by de Klerk. In September…
BiographyJacob Dumdum Nyaose
… to Johannesburg about 1941 and took a job as organising secretary for the African Bakers and Confectioners Union. … Congress (PAC) and was formed shortly…
BiographyT W Thibedi
… in Ferreirastown, Johannesburg . The same year he was elected to the party's central executive committee. With … African workers' Organisations, personally…
BiographyMolefi Paul Sefularo
… Organisation (AZASO) in 1979. He was subsequently elected Secretary in 1981. That same year he also became president of … and Development Programme (RDP)…
BiographyThabang Sampson Phathakge Makwetla
… in Angola. Between 1984 and 1989, he was the Chair and Secretary of the ANC’s Regional Political Military Committee … as the treasurer of the South African…
BiographyJob Shimankana Tabane
… to Lusaka Zambia in 1978 where served as the Deputy Secretary-General of the Revolutionary Council (RC). During … the ANC. In June 1985 at the Kabwe…
Yoweri Museveni is re-elected as Uganda’s president.
… Yoweri Museveni is re-elected as Uganda’s president. …
EventSouth Africa's first democratic elections
Following a series of tense negotiations and years of liberation struggle, the first democratic election was held in South Africa on the 27th April, 1994. This…
Chapter 8- Gumede walks the ANC and SACP tightrope, 1930–46‘
… of the African trade unions.685 On 18 May 1930 Gumede was elected as a delegate to the International Conference of … claimed that there was no history of…
EventMembers of the ANC and SACP are detained due to Operation Vula
… National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party (SACP). Among those arrested were Sathyandranath 'Mac' … Members of the ANC and SACP are detained…
BiographyCassim Mohammed Bassa
… like factories and shops. His appointment as honorary secretary of the society followed in 1953. As community … all Indian special schools and training…
BiographySheila Weinberg
… of the ANC and the South African Communist Party (SACP) . Her father was an anti-apartheid activist, … early age. She painted slogans and was involved in…
EventThabo Mbeki is elected 2nd President of a democratic South Africa
… Mbeki was sworn in as South Africa's second democratically elected president in front of a vast crowd of dancing and … was also a farewell to South Africa's…
ArchiveConversation with Chris Ledechowski, Cape Town, October 1985
… Conversation with Chris Ledechowski, Cape Town, October 1985 …
ArchiveMkhatshwa ends term as SACBC Secretary-general
… by Smangaliso Mkhatshwa on his resignation as SACBC Secretary-general and the three recent events that have … Mkhatshwa ends term as SACBC Secretary-general …
Letter from S. P. Bunting to the Secretary, Communist Party of South Africa, 22 September 1930
… Letter from S. P. Bunting to the Secretary, Communist Party of South Africa, 22 September 1930 …
BiographyMosiuoa Gerard Patrick "Terror" Lekota
… of the United Democratic Front (UDF) , where he was elected national publicity secretary. As a member of the UDF, Lekota faced police … the African…
BiographyJosie Palmer
… – which later became the South African Communist Party (SACP) in 1953 – and the African National Congress (ANC) , … CPSA in the late1920s, becoming the…
BiographyA. J. Sililo
… , and prominent in the All African Convention, he was elected to the Natives' Representative Council in 1937. In … committee during the 1940s, he was also…
EventCyril Ramaphosa resigns as ANC Secretary-General
… that he was resigning as African National Congress Secretary-General, as well as from Parliament. Speculation … [Accessed 28 May]|50th National Conference,…
BiographyHermanus Gabriel Loots
… ANC delegation that included Oliver Tambo , Mac Maharaj , Chris Hani and Thabo Mbeki , who met with White South African … of Zambia, returned to South Africa…
BiographyFeroza Adam
… structures of the Transvaal Indian Congress . She was elected on to the executive committees of the Azanian … Between 1984 and 1990, Adam worked as publicity…
Report of the Secretary-General
… Report of the Secretary-General …
ArchiveFWN speaks to SFAWU secretary
… FWN speaks to SFAWU secretary …