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Mandela: Message to India
… thread woven during the long, arduous and bitter years of struggle against common enemies: racism, imperialism and … Africans, they have played an…
ArticleFreedom Day: 27 April
… first non racial elections was the culmination of years of struggle and a negotiated settlement which led to the unbanning of the liberation organisations,…
ArticleAllison Drew Collection
… between radical political organisations and the national liberation struggle in South Africa: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a …
ArticleAfricanist News and Views (1968-1973)
… Africa), expressed the Pan-Africanist viewpoint in the struggle for liberation. The first organisational task of the PAC, …
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… between the state and political organisations fighting for liberation. The death of Steve Biko , leader of the Black … A new generation of young Blacks were…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… calling on South Africans to rededicate themselves to the struggle for liberation. 4 October, The ANC issues a press statement on … to those who have made an…
The Order of the Southern Cross
… Tambo and Chief A Luthuli for singular contribution to the liberation struggle. The silver medal has been awarded to Ms N Gordimer …
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO): An Organisational Timeline
… signals a turn of the tide in the discourse of Namibia’s struggle for independence, as passive resistance is traded in … establishes and launches its armed…
BiographyOliver Tambo
… order to gain international support for the South African liberation movement. On 27 March 1960 Tambo was driven by … was to try to bring together…
ArticleThe history of labour movements in Namibia
… Nepela decided to expand their demands into a national liberation movement. In 1960, they created the South-West … organisation, sharing the aims and content…
Document 109 - G. H. Gool and J. A. La Guma, “Appeal of the National Liberation League for a National Convention of the Subject Peoples of South Africa”, The Liberator, September 1937
… Africa with a momentous question! Either a determined struggle to weld our divided and unorganised peoples into one united force for the struggle against…
The Road to Durban: Workers’ struggles, student movements, and the resurgence of resistance politics in Namibia and South Africa by Heike Becker
… of separate post-apartheid narratives of nationalist liberation struggles. My paper argues that the activists in … the Western Cape. She has conducted long…
ArchiveFrom the Archive | The workers’ struggle by Joe Foster (New Frame),28 Feb 2019
… to come. This is an edited excerpt from The Workers’ Struggle: Where does Fosatu Stand? (1982), an address given … Trade Unions). Today, we have set our…
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
… communists, the exception being non-communist members of liberation movements who could get ideological training at … on 2 February 1990 that the ANC, SACP,…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA)
… thousands of students leaving South Africa to join liberation organisations (primarily the ANC and the PAC) … counterparts in the ANC and PAC. By this time,…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… during this period. After the 1948 elections, as the liberation movements intensified their efforts, the … Act in 1950. However, in a determined reaction,…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… Blood River and it was perhaps significant that the armed struggle was launched on this particular day, more than one … a series of events that made it…
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… the ANC 1968 June Presents a paper: Present Stage of the Struggle against Apartheid in South Africa in Stockholm 18 … Delivers a joint statement We Shall Win…
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… etc. All of them had one purpose, the fight for liberation. Yet each organisation operated in isolation from the rest. In other words, the struggle was…
ArticleCongress of South African Students (COSAS)
… the time of its formation the ANC was banned along other liberation movements under the Unlawful Organisations Act. A … for COSAS was the view that the ANC…
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… and MK The late 1950s saw the first hints of an armed struggle occurring in certain parts of South Africa. Various … units, with only a few attendees…
ArticleCongress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… As the struggle for freedom reached a new intensity in the early … of the People and the Freedom Charter united most of the liberation forces in South Africa…
ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
… development of youth who would contribute to the struggle through debate. Two years earlier the African … Soyan youth to integrate themselves with the…
ArticleIsitwalandwe/Seaparankwe Award
… have made an outstanding contribution and sacrifice to the liberation struggle. Isitwalandwe , literally translated, means "the one …
Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… it. Some white people participated actively in the struggle against apartheid, while some black people … Consciousness Movement was an understanding that…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Democrats (COD)
… banned in September 1962. The importance of the COD in the struggle against apartheid was that it showed that there were … Party Government and who wanted to…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress (PAC)
… ideological stance felt that this was a betrayal of the struggle. The deepening of political differences broke out … its armed wing Poqo , later renamed the…
BiographyLetlapa Mphahlele
… His deployment was a cover for an Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA) assignment to strengthen ties with the … Mphahlele gave orders to APLA operatives…
The Ideology of the Black Consciousness Movement
… had jailed, banned or exiled the majority of the Liberation Movement’s leaders. In response to this, an … Portuguese colonialism and the victories of the…