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EventBishop Tutu receives Martin Luther King Award
… Consciousness groups and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). In August 1983, he was elected Patron of the United …
EventOrganisations forward applicants for amnesty to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
… of their Cabinet ministers. The Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) announced that at least 600 of its members, including …
EventThe United Nations adopts a resolution establishing an eleven member United Nations Council for South West Africa
… African communist Party (SACP), Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and other liberation movements were banned under …
EventSouth Africa and Mozambique sign a non-aggression pact
… African National Congress (ANC) and Pan African Congress (PAC) to establish bases in Mozambique or to transport arms or …
EventConnie Mulder announces banning off WCC officials from SA
… National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) leaders, together with other political exiles and …
EventPassbook laws relaxed
… African National Congress(ANC)and Pan Africanist Congress(PAC). Visit the feature on the pass laws in South Africa from …
EventSouth Africa’s first democratic elections end as counting begins
… 426 (1.73%) of the national votes, Pan Africanist Congress(PAC) won 243 478 of the national votes (1.25%), and African …
ABBREVIATIONS USED
… Union of Distributive Workers OFS - Orange Free State PAC - Pan-Africanist Congress PDL - Poverty Datum Line PUTCO …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… 1960 21 March , In a peaceful anti pass march led by the PAC at Sharpeville, the police open fire on the unarmed and … National Congress (ANC) and the Pan…
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), both of which had been banned in 1960 and were …
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… This grouping went on to form the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). In early December 1957, Xuma participated in a … 8 April 1960, the government banned both…
EventThe Rivonia Trialists are charged with sabotage and attempting to violently overthrow the state
… after the banishment of the ANC, Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and other liberation movements in April 1960. …
EventViolence erupts in Paarl
… marching in front of a group of Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) demonstrators on their way to the Paarl police station …
EventState of emergency declared after Sharpeville Massacre
… near Vereeniging in the Transvaal. On March 21st the PAC led what was supposed to be a peaceful demonstration …
EventNelson Mandela is free
… of leading liberation organisations (e.g. ANC, SACP, PAC) by then South African President FW de Klerk. In …
EventSANDF soldiers strike
… (APLA), the armed wing of the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) into the South African National Defence Force, took a …
PlacePhilip Kgosana Drive, Devil's Peak Estate- Cape Town
… Emergency and banned the African National Congress and the PAC . Driving their movements underground and into …
EventKader Asmal, political activist and future Member of Parliament, is born
… Early in the 1960s, following the banning of the ANC, PAC and SACP, Asmal went into exile. He spent most of his …
EventThe Federation of South African trade unions
… who aligned themselves with the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC). FOSATU has been described as being concerned with …
EventBessie Amelia Head, SA novelist dies
… beginning of 1960, she joined the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). On 1 September 1961, Bessie Emery married Harold Head, …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… of a 30-year ban on the ANC, the Pan African Congress (PAC), the South African Communist Party (SACP) and other … well as the government (many others…
ArticleSouth African General Elections 2019 - List of Political Parties
… Convention Formed in 2007 when leader Themba Godi left the PAC, the APC won one seat in the National Assembly in 2014, … faced accusations of going easy on…
EventFormation of the South African Native National Congress
… declared by the government, both the Pan African Congress (PAC) and the ANC were banned from the country in accordance …
ArchiveWomen Freedom Fighters tell of Sexual Abuse in Camps by Carl Collison (Mail and Guardian), 27 October 2017
… training in exile, she was sexually abused by the then PAC president. (Photographer: Oupa Nkosi) Image source It has … Army, the military wing of the Pan…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… emphasises unity in the movement. 1959 The ANC and PAC organised separate anti-pass campaigns. Dr. H.F. Verwoerd … spearheaded the formation of the Pan…
Event90-Days Act commences
… Congress (ANC) and Poqo with the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), both banned organisations. It also allows people …
EventThe UN General Assembly adopts resolution 1881, requesting South Africa to release all political prisoners
… organizations such as the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), and resulting in incidents such as Sharpeville Massacre …
ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
… the Sharpeville massacre led by the Pan African Congress (PAC). After the government's State of Emergency, following … in 1966 many of its leaders in exile…
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… National Congress (ANC) and the Pan African Congress (PAC), especially after the Rivonia Trial , saw a lull in … rank and file members went into exile to…
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
… %, Democratic Party (DP) 1.7 %, Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) 1.2 % and the African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP) …