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Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against apartheid, 12 January 1982
… inviting me to represent the African National Congress (ANC) at this special meeting which is being held to … against South Africa. This is a meeting which…
ArticleCongress of South African Students (COSAS)
… a clandestine member of the African national Congress (ANC) and was later to be convicted of furthering the aims of the ANC. At the time of its formation the…
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… Party (NP) government and the African National Congress (ANC). In response to the massacre the ANC withdrew from the negotiations, blaming the NP government …
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
… beyond black-white unrest, with Inkatha clashing with the ANC/UDF and breaking their ties. Press freedom was … the country and go into exile. In 1980 she…
ArticlePoqo
… part of the time it was subdued by bannings and the ANC's growing stature as the more powerful liberation … Ruvu was conceived by Leballo to be similar to…
ArticleSophiatown timeline 1899-1955
… of that year. This showed the widespread support the ANC had in the township The Native Laws Amendment Act of 1952 … the resistance to the impending forced…
ArticleSouth African Youth Congress (SAYCO)
… Mandela and other political prisoners The unbanning of the ANC and other organizations Clearly SAYCO, like other … release of political prisoners, and the…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1910-1919
… (Black Opinion). 1912 The African National Congress (ANC) is formed as the South African Native National Congress … weekly newspaper. 18 May, Future…
ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
… debate. Two years earlier the African National Congress (ANC) had adopted its Programme of Action. Phyllis Ntantala … was established in 1959 after its…
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… will be plagued by continued unrest. Smuts in his famous address in May 1917 at the imperial institution in London …
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1900 - 1909
… Mrs Patel and Miss Sonja Schlesin (Gandhi'ss Secretary) address a meeting of Indian women at the Hamidia Society Hall …
Safety and security issues
… The Domestic Violence Act (DVA) In 1996, in an attempt to address the state of affairs, the government introduced the …
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… role in the revival of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), both of which had … not only within South Africa but as…
ArticleObituary: Sheila Weinberg
… slogans and other activities after the banning of the ANC and SACP. She was one of the early detainees in the … take that work into the most relaxed…
Historical Background of the Constitutional Court
… a bill of rights for South Africa can be traced back to an ANC document in the early 1920s. The Freedom Charter of 1956 … organised by the Constitutional…
1. The Way to Fox Street
… Inspired by the African National Congress's (ANC) heightened activism after World War I, he joined the ANC after leaving Bensonvale. The ANC were fighting…
ArchivePrison letter from Petros Sipho Mkhize to his parents-in-law at Zondi, Soweto
A handwritten letter in isiZulu on prison notepaper, sent from "V963 Petros M'Khize, Central Prison, Private Bag 45, Pretoria." It opens "Mama wami noBaba" (My…
ArticleCurries Fountain events timeline
… un-banned, Currie's served has a 'home ground' to the ANC Women's League and Mkhonto-We Sizwe in 1993 and ANC electioneering prior to 1994. Many leaders were…
ArticleUnited Women’s Organisation (UWO)
… who pioneered the organisation had been active in the ANC Women’s League in 1950s. For instance, Dorothy Zihlangu, … Mildred Lesia and Dora Tamana were…
ArchiveCHAPTER 4 - A turn to masses by Howard Barrell
… 1 Introduction Between October 1978 and August 1979, the ANC tried to understand how its very emphasis on armed … its efforts to mount a sustained armed…
Chapter 2 - THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD
… law, many SACP leaders, together with those from the ANC, were forced to flee the country and go into exile, … Party establishing its headquarters in the…
The purpose of the Archie Mafeje Annual Memorial Lecture by Sehlare Makgetlaneng (Pambazuka News), 31 March, 2016
… Dani Wadada Nabudere who, upon my request, gave a keynote address at the launch of the Archie Mafeje Annual Memorial Lecture on 11 March 2010. His address…
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
… in the early 1960s the African National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party (SACP) stepped up … tradition and they argued that labour had an…
Call for papers - “Ukutshona kukaMendi”/ "Ukuzika kukaMendi": The Mendi Centenary Conference
… from students. Artists and poets are invited to address the gathering through poetry, artistic work or … abstracts or proposals by 30 September 2016 to the…
ArchiveThabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa: The people who killed Eskom over 25 years by Ferreira, Harper and Saba (Mail and Guardain), 20 January 2023
… with which the administration of Mbeki and the governing ANC was well acquainted. Factional battles with what was at … generating capacity was when Jeff…
ArchiveNothing groundbreaking in Mandela debate by Steven Friedman, 09 December 2015
… equivalent. The key economic question then was how to address poverty and inequality without damaging the economy. …
Women at the start of the 20th century
… not accepted as members of the African National Congress (ANC) when it was formed in 1912. This acceptance only came in … claim to represent the will of the…
ArchiveLetter to Petros Sipho Mkhize from his father in Macambini, KwaZulu-Natal
… letter in isiZulu on green paper, headed with the address of Mathubesizwe Secondary School, Nyoni (Macambini), …
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 …
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…