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Address by President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of 60th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter, Kliptown, Johannesburg, 26 June 2015
Director of the programmeDeputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and all ANC Officials,ANC NEC members,Vice-President of COSATU and theLeadership of the ANC, SACP,…
ArticleChieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa
Introduction In a democratic society, the observance of chieftaincy faces many problems. One of the key issues relates to chieftaincy operating on principles…
EventBhekisani Manyoni, artist, is born in Greytown
… On 6 September 1945, Bhekisani Manyoni was born in Greytown, Natal (now …
EventFirst United Nations General Assembly opens
… against an aggressor country. It was dissolved in 1945 and replaced by the UNO UNO held its first general …
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)
… political scene for over a decade, and only reappeared in 1945 when he was introduced to, and joined, the Workers … MN Averbach—in the Workers Voice…
ArticleSita’s story
… shock for me after Akola. I stayed in Sevagram until 1945 when the school term began. This was a very enlightening … where it could be now. The holidays were…
A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group
… the Netherlands Bank had a total of 22 branches in 1945. By 1938 Volkskas was taking funds in investment … and it began issuing cheques from 1 March 1941…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Zoutpansberg
… known as Pietersburg) looked like between 1892 and 1945 as well as an insight into the architecture, celebrities …
EventWorld Health Day
… Day. This date commemorates the formation of the WHO in 1945. The WHO's Constitution came into effect on 7 April …
EventHeadman Tshabalala, founding member of the band Ladysmith Black Mambazo, is shot and killed
… Headman Tshabalala was born in 1945 in Ladysmith, Kwa-Zulu Natal. In 1960, he joined the …
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… Palmer is the first person on the right in the front row. 1945. © Communist Party Publication The 1940s opened with the … against the authorities. There was…
EventThe ANC calls for a day of protest and observes this day as 'South Africa Freedom Day' for the first time
In 1950 the apartheid government introduced the Unlawful Organisations Act and the Suppression of Communism Act. In March 1950 the African National Congress …
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… sweep the board in elections in Langa location, Cape Town. 1945 The Port Elizabeth branch of the ANC organises protest …
PlaceAlbertynhof, Kimberley
… of the Commission of Inquiry into City Conditions (1945-'47), he wrote a published report entitled: "Church and …
EventUSA drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki
… atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. On 9 August 1945, the "fat man" nuclear bomb was detonated over Nagasaki. …
EventPolitical activist, Professor ZK Matthews is born
… although he found dealing with the Native Education Act of 1945 a "valuable experience" not for the process but for the …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
By the 1970s a number of leading figures in the ANC were in prison while others were in exile. Those that remained inside South Africa faced arrest, detention…
ArchiveBibliography by Howard Barrell
… Foreign Policy. The search for status and security 1945-1988 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990). … 1986). Lodge, T., Black Politics in South Africa…
Enuga S Reddy: Notes on meeting with Dr. Cassim Jadwat -1997
… Guardian , the Communist weekly. [He left for England in 1945, by the first Liberty ship which sailed after the end of … - CAPE TOWN I worked in the Guardian…
Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson
… - 1935 Chapter Five - The Fighter for Black Unity: 1935 - 1945 Chapter Six - The Fighter in Turmoil: 1946 - 1960 …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Introduction
From the book: Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education Zinzi Mandela at Jabulani stadium 10 February 1985 © Mayibuye…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and Mozambique
The South African Communist Party and Mozambique Introduction The Mozambique Liberation Front, popularly known by its Portuguese acronym, FRELIMO (Frente…
PlaceUniversity of the Orange Free State, Grey's College School
… of the Faculties of Law, Education, and Social Sciences (1945), followed by Economic and Administrative Sciences …
EventStudents at Lovedale strike against new Code of Conduct
… the college had been in a state of periodic riots since 1945. Therefore, harsh measures were taken to deter further …
EventSouth African artist, Gerard Sekoto, dies
… In 1942, Sekoto moved to District Six, Cape Town and in 1945 moved again to Eastwood, Pretoria. In his paintings he …
EventThe trial of Dr Allan Boesak on charges of theft and fraud starts
… Born in 1945 in the North West Cape, Boesak developed deep interests …
31. Cape traders protest against the Hawkers’ Licences Act
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Act 35 of 1906, which dealt with hawkers'…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959 1950 January 6-8, The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) holds its last legal conference in Johannesburg prior to…
PlaceKamiesberg Municipality, Northern Cape
… seen in the Illustration) which ran aground in 2003 and 1945 respectively. In July 2016, the 'Jahleel' started …
Chapter 7 - SANSCO:The Ideology and Politics of Non-Racialism, the Freedom Charter and National Liberation
My concerns in this chapter are two-fold. The first is to sketch the formation of SANSCO in late 1979. The second is to analyse SANSCO's ideology and politics…