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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…
BiographyAdrian Leftwich
… formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the ANC. In the thirty-six months of its active existence, it did …
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 …
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…
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…
Chapter Three - The Black Republic Question and the Third Period
… such as Gomas and La Guma, as well as the young Communist League, was beginning to question the conventional wisdom of … as a CPSA delegate. Another delegate…
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…
PlaceA History of Ottosdal and Letsopa
… fought together with the African National Congress (ANC) and the United Democratic Front (UDF) to challenge the … the town was completely dependent on black…
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,…
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…
ArticleGrade 12 - Civil Resistance in South Africa 1970s to 1980
… countries these included the African National Congress (ANC). Hector Peterson carried by Mbuyisa Makhubo, besides … meetings with the then exiled African…
ArticleDemocratic Alliance (DA)
… 1990. With the unbanning of the African National Congress (ANC) , Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and other liberation … the first in which all South Africans…
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… . Albert Luthuli was elected president - general of the ANC in 1952. The goverment imposed several bans on him, … Prize. Picture: New History of South Africa…
ArticleNguni Stick Fighting
Introduction This article looks at the history of an indigenous Nguni sport known as Stick Fighting, which was popular in the Nguni ethnic group (Zulu). It…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… party, some eschewing parliamentary politics. A Socialist League, Socialist Party, Socialist Labour Party and the … of African miners in the event of a…
Document 59 - Letter from Ruth First to The Secretary, South African Institute of Race Relations’, 17 August 1944
… of Race Relations', 17 August 1944 Young Communist League of South Africa Box …
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
… South African government, the African National Congress (ANC) , the South African Communist Party (SACP) and other … in the 1994 national election. The…
ArticleAftermath: Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… apartheid policies that prompted this violent assault. The ANC Vice-President, Oliver Tambo, was secretly driven across … A week after the state of emergency…
How to Approach Heaven by Jon Soske (Chimurenga Magazine)
… attempts to exclude him from policy decisions in the ANC with this mordant aside: “it cannot be supposed that we … political allies forced the agenda. After…
ArticleCOVID-19: The Whens and Whats of the Deadly Virus
COVID-19 versus the Corona virus: What is COVID-19 Exactly? COVID-19 is an infectious respiratory disease that developed from a type of Corona virus. [1…
PlaceNederlandse Hervormde Kerkgebou, Pretoria
The ‘Nederduitsch Hervormde' congregation was founded on 8 and 9 September 1855 in Pretoria. It was one of the independent churches started by the …
Chapter X - Trial by detention
… bona fides. We learnt with sadness that on 8 April the ANC and the PAC had finally been declared illegal. It was … not known then that it was the day of the…
Women in the apartheid society by Fatima Meer
… organisations. The African National Congress Women`s League (ANCWL), for instance, appears not only to have been … of African Women and the African National…
EventWomen protest against passes in the Free State
… by Charlotte Manye Maxeke, co-founder of the Bantu Women's League, the organisation that had organised the protest. Two …
ArchiveCHAPTER EIGHT: Indian Resistance Politics In Transition, 1990-1996 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
ArticleBattle of Cuito Cuanavale 1988
… part of Angola led to the withdrawal of the South African, ANC and Cuban presence in Angola, and to the Independence of … It was also backed by the African…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… under the leadership of the African National Congress (ANC) , the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) and the … formation of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), …
ArticleSharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960
… At the annual conference of the African National Congress (ANC) held in Durban on 16 December 1959, the President General of the ANC, Chief Albert Luthuli ,…
ArticleSouth African General Elections 2019 - List of Political Parties
… in December 2017 by Makhosi Khoza after she left the ANC, but Khoza resigned from the party four months later. It is now helmed by apartheid-era unionist and…