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EventGertrude Shope, former president of the ANC Women’s League, is born
… was 29 years old she decided to join the African National Congress (ANC) and soon afterwards left teaching as part of a …
EventDr Joshua Nkomo African nationalist and guerrilla leader is born.
… Mziwakhe Lembede, two then leaders of the African National Congress and took a little part in political discussions. In …
EventThami Mnyele, SA artist and member of MK, is killed in Gaborone
… in Botswana. He became very active in the African National Congress’ (ANC) military wing Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK). On June …
EventThe British High Commissioner for Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland issues the Prevention of Violence Abroad Proclamation
… of Violence Abroad Proclamation was a Pan Africanist Congress (PAC)member, Mfana Sekaya Gqobose. Gqobose was …
EventSAIC Executive meets in Cape Town
… South African Indian Congress (SAIC) Executive met in Cape Town and pledged full …
EventAllan Boesak is born
… In 1991 he was elected chairperson of African National Congress (ANC) in Western Cape. His meteroric rise was …
EventMangope calls out troops as unrest flares in Bophuthatswana
… registering for the election and the African National Congress (ANC) called for a blockade of the territory. The …
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. …
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…
Women’s Food Committees in Cape Town during the 1940s
… organisations, including the CPSA and the African National Congress (ANC) . From organising the distribution of food, …
Search for a United Front against racism
… by Mr. M.D. Naidoo, Joint Secretary of the Natal Indian Congress, who was released on Tuesday morning, after serving … Dr A.B. Xuma, President-General of the…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Search for a United Front against racism
… by Mr. M.D. Naidoo, Joint Secretary of the Natal Indian Congress, who was released on Tuesday morning, after serving … Dr A.B. Xuma, President-General of the…
II - The Life of Steve Biko
… of the Zimele Trust Fund in 1976, and in that year, at the congress of the Black People's Convention in Durban””a congress he could not attend because of his…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at dinner hosted in his honour by the Minister of External Affairs of India, Mr. P.V. Narasimha, 21 January 1983, Rao, New Delhi
… and Gentleman, Comrades and Friends, The African National Congress is one of those forces in the world which are … of the people of South Africa led by the…
Declaration by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… this the 52nd National Conference of the African National Congress, assembled here at the University of Limpopo, in the … more than 600,000 members of the…