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EventThe Rev. Allan Hendrickse steps down as a leader of the Labour Party
… of the Labour Party. He later joined the African National Congress (ANC) and was appointed as an ANC senator in the …
Event26 parties meet to discuss future negotiations
… traditional leaders. For the first time the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), Conservative Party (CP) and Volksunie …
EventVerwoerd’s grandson joins ANC
… main architect of apartheid, joins the African National Congress. Wilhelm Verwoerd risked being alienated by his …
EventANC Consultative Conference comes to an end
… The African National Congress (ANC) Consultative Conference, which was held in …
EventANC and IFP to meet over violence
… The African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) announced that … ifp,' African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP)…
EventMalebane Metsing stages a coup in Bophuthatswana
… Malebane fled the country and joined the African National Congress (ANC). He successfully applied to the Truth and …
EventAmanzimtoti blast kills five
… and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the African National Congress (ANC) later stated that Zondo acted in anger at a …
EventANC claim responsibility for a land mine explosion which kills six
… landmine. The day after this attack, the African National Congress (ANC) announced from Lusaka that it accepted …
EventPresident George W Bush announces his HIV/AIDS Plan
… countries during his State of the Union address at a congress session in the USA. The president introduced this …
EventAllan Boesak guilty on charges of fraud
… of the Western Cape region of the African National Congress (ANC) and director of the Foundation for Peace and …
EventIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union is founded under Clements Kadalie
… members, and pushed the more conservative African National Congress (ANC) into the background during the 1920s. This …
EventJames Kantor, a lawyer, is arrested for his involvement in Liliesleaf farm activities
… we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). Though Kantor himself was secretly funding …
EventProfessor Bob Hepple is born
… Defence Fund. From the emergence of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) in 1955, Bob Hepple devoted …
EventFirst Women Anti-Pass Campaign starts
… League was adopted and relaunched by the African National Congress as its Women's League structure in the 1940s. …
EventANC's Nelson Mandela in a historic political rally
… African National Congress's deputy president Nelson Mandela addressed a crowd …
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Conclusion - By Riashnee Pather
… government. As I have discussed earlier many of the Indian Congress members had also begun to feel that a broader united … which had an overt Indian focus…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on Receiving the Congressional Gold Medal Washington, 23 September 1998
… end apartheid, including critically through action by this Congress. It is also because of the actions of countless … members of the CBC offered the…
88. Gandhi’s legacy
… Mahatma Gandhi (link to bio on site), the father of the Congress of Indian South Africans, was a leader who was alert … an advocate of socialism. And the…
EventJacob Thabo Lengane is murdered in Soweto
… occurred two days after the killing of Soweto Youth Congress (Soyco) member, Masabata Loate, who was killed by a …
Event18 political prisoners are released from Bophuthatswana
… officials. Their release came after the African National Congress(ANC) restated that amongst its fundamental …
EventSA Prime Minister, P.W. Botha calls for unity against Marxism
… At a National Party (NP) Congress in Bloemfontein, the South African Prime Minister, …
EventNelson Mandela announces he will not stand for re-election in 1999
… would mean stepping down as the African National Congress's (ANC's) and as the country’s president. The …
EventANC’s chief representative in Swaziland, Stanley Mabizela, writes a letter to the ANC following a visit by Thabo Mbeki and Max Sisulu
… On 12 March, 1975, Stanley Mabizela the African National Congress (ANC) Chief representative in Swaziland wrote a …
EventPoqo members arrested
… Jada and Qebele Makasa. The Pan African National Congress recorded them as eight instead of the long-held view …
EventAlbert Luthuli accepts the Nobel Peace Prize
… Luthuli, president of the then banned African National Congress (ANC), was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1960 for …
EventManto Tshabalala - Msimang, controversial minister of health, is born
… driven students were ordered by the African National Congress (ANC) to skip the country. President Thabo Mbeki was …
EventSouth African anti-apartheid activist Ronnie Kasrils is born in the Johannesburg
… and its aftermath drew him closer to the African National Congress (ANC). He was renowned for perfectly executing tasks …
EventJournalist and anti-apartheid activist M.P. Naicker dies
… and Director of Publicity of the African National Congress (ANC) External Mission, Marimuthu Pragalathan …
EventBanned PAC leader Sobukwe is admitted as attorney
… Robert Sobukwe, former leader of the banned Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC), although still under a banning order, was …
EventPhotographer, Abdul Shariff, is murdered in Katlehong
… in the back and killed while covering an African National Congress (ANC) delegation visit to Katlehong near …