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EventFourth Nuclear bomb test by France in the Sahara
… Organisation and the position occupied by Britain and the United States in this military alliance. This situation was … and American allies to defend French…
EventThe Balfour Declaration is accepted
… within the British Empire. The Declaration stated that the United Kingdom and the Dominions were "autonomous Communities … any aspect of their domestic or…
EventThe first regional committee of the UDF is established in Natal
… Anti-apartheid organisations united under the umbrella of the United Democratic Front. One of the first steps in creating … at: www.nelsonmandela.org …
EventScientists find the virus that may cause Aids.
… The development was announced in Washington by the United States of America Health Secretary, Margaret Heckler … Africa leaving large numbers of children…
EventSouth African writer J.M. Coetzee is born in Cape Town.
… Mathematics the following year. In 1962, he left for the United Kingdom where he worked as a computer programmer for … he received his PhD from the…
EventEduardo Mondlane, president of FRELIMO, dies
… to study at Lisbon University in Portugal and later in the United States, earning an MA and a PHD. In 1957 Mondlane was a research officer in the Trustee…
PlaceHammarsdale, KZN
… particularly strong in KwaZulu-Natal. The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) , formed in 1975 by former ANC Youth League … and currently the Country’s fourth…
PlaceEswatini (formerly Swaziland)
… The Public Order Act was also passed and forbids party politics in the kingdom and stipulates police … the spread of AIDS. Another drought struck in 2002 and…
EventBlack People Convention is formed
… of racial segregation and apartheid policies. When the party assumed a radical anti apartheid political agenda the government began to restrict its…
ArchiveDemocracy and the Left in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Ben Turok interviewed by Carilee Osborne
… underground leadership of the South African Communist Party, which he joined in the late 1950s and from which he … national assembly. Its high point was in…
Document 49 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: Introduction (Minority) (1934)
… from this point of view can we conclude that the Labour Party talk of segregation - the Communist Party talk of a Native Republic is Utopian as an idea ……
Chapter eight - Conclusion
… during its "golden age" shifted the interest of Gomas and Party to black workers. Within the ICU, it was Gomas, the … by Gomas. Individuals himself helped…
EventSouth African anti-apartheid activist Ronnie Kasrils is born in the Johannesburg
… executing tasks entrusted to him by the leadership of the party. He was a member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK). He…
EventHertzog and Smuts to form a coalition
… opposed moves to form a coalition between the National Party (NP) and the South African Party of Jan Smuts in 1933, and rejected the resulting …
EventThe SA government presents a promotion of Constitutional Development Bill
… P.W. Botha’s career as both the South Africa and National Party leader. The following year Botha was succeeded by FW de … lifted the ban on the ANC, the…
ArchiveThe Arthur Chaskalson I knew by George Bizos, 5 December 2012
… would never have been a secret member of a political party Speech by George Bizos SC, Constitutional Litigation … the then Basutoland. The election victory…
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament, 1983-1984
… for from the 1976/7 provincial congress of the National Party (NP), and once it became a reality in 1984, it … vote. Parties to both the left and right of…
ArticleSlave Resistance
… over all their slaves into the hands of the 'military' party, give them food and a place to sleep. The next morning the party proceeded from farm to farm,…
African National Congress Press Statement by O. R. Tambo, 5 November 1979
… power by the people and the use of that power to build a united democratic, nonracial and peace-loving South Africa as … reiterate its appreciation of the…
ArchiveThe Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)
… had been a one-time nun in the leadership of the Workers Party of South Africa. But no details were available, even … Documents at Nanterre in 1991 to look…
ArchiveDiana Mitchell obituary by Julia Gallagher (The Guardian), 08 February 2016
… for the regime’s end. She helped establish the Centre party in 1968, at the time the only party dedicated to a non-racial future, and became its press ……
EventMiriam Makeba, South African singer, dies
… had been revoked. In 1963 Makeba testified before the United Nations (UN) of how the apartheid government had … citizenship. After speaking out against…
Chaskalson transcended his bias and loyalties by Tony Leon, 4 December 2012
… ability to reconcile two seeming irreconcilable things: party loyalty and judicial independence. Only a statement by the South African Communist Party (SACP)…
Political Overview by the Gauteng ANC Chairperson, Paul Mashatile, at the Provincial General Council, 8 June 2012, St George`s Hotel, Tshwane
… tasks of our National Democratic Revolution; to build a united, non-racial, non-sexist, democratic and prosperous … to unite the people of South Africa…
Gertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… each race. The Afrikaner Nationalism of Malan’s National Party posited that each race has their own biological skills, … still lecturing, traveling to other…
Community histories of Rustenburg
… Reformed or Gereformeerde Church) also known as the United Church. Members of the ex-Reformed (Hervormde) Church … he arrived in Rustenburg. The Hervormde…
ArticleInanda Seminary and its Influence on Education in South Africa by Claire Wilt
… of closure and it had to be supported and managed by the United Congregational Church of South Africa. This gave the … the ANC, the Natal Organisation of…
Letter to the Chairman of the Special Committee against Apartheid by O.R. Tambo, President of the ANC, 06 October 1975
… will use his good offices to inform Member States at the United Nations of the contents of this document and call on … immediately it is printed. (Signed) O…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.3 No.1 Oct-Dec 1958
… of Betrayal. Cartoon, David Marias. An Open Letter to the United Nations, Paramount Chief of the Hereros. South West Africa and the United Nations, Mburumba…
EventUN names four experts to investigate apartheid in South Africa
… On 13 January 1964, the United Nations Secretary-General named a team of four experts … (Ghana), Josip Djerdja (Yugoslavia), Sir Hugh Foot (United Kingdom)…