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EventPolitical activist, Professor ZK Matthews is born
… a founder member of the African National Congress (ANC). Matthews devoted the first part of his life exclusively … involvement. He found his true political…
Introduction of A Crime Against Humanity
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman This is a book about repression. More specifically, it…
EventNgoako Abel Ramathlodi is born
… (now Limpopo) and current Africa National Congress (ANC) National Executive Committee member, was born in … North, Ramathlodi left the country for Lesotho…
EventPhyllis Naidoo escapes to Lesotho
… In Lesotho she joined the African National Congress (ANC) and was involved in providing for children who had left … members of the South African Communist…
EventDumisani Makhaye passes away
… Affairs and member of the African National Congress (ANC), Dumisani Makhaye, succumbed to lung cancer at Parklands … to pass away in office. A committee was…
Chapter 3: The Role of the Police and the Government in Vigilante Activities
… strong in that region. They also had strong ties with the ANC in exile. It was therefore not even surprising that both … the UDF and COSATU were regarded as…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 5 August 1991
… or special intelligence units or whatever to undermine the ANC in its own community, do you think sufficient evidence … are people in government service who…
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
… in the early 1960s the African National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party (SACP) stepped up … non-violent resistance. Rick was strongly…
EventMaluzi Gigaba is born
… Previously, he had been African National Congress (ANC) member of parliament and president of the ANC Youth League. References: Hayes, S. (ed)(2000). Who's…
EventThe Pretoria Minute is agreed upon
… The government and the African National Congress (ANC) reaffirmed their commitment to the Groote Schuur Minute … Internal Security Act and suspension of…
ArchiveWinnie Madikizela-Mandela: Revolutionary who kept the Spirit of Resistance alive by Shireen Hassim (The Conversation), 3 April 2018
… politics. A stalwart of the African National Congress (ANC), she nevertheless stands above, and at times outside, … and actions of men). This misrecognition…
EventThe Bisho Massacre occurs
… was led by several senior African National Congress (ANC) leaders, including South African Communist … men were shot in the back as they fled. According to…
EventFormer Vaal policeman Gerhardus Peens admits his role in the Boipatong Massacre
… in township violence. The African National Congress (ANC) claimed that the police were complicit in the massacre … indefinitely and also withdrew from CODESA…
EventButhelezi and Mandela meet and call for cease-fire
… was held in Durban between the African National Congress (ANC) and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). The meeting was … addressed by Zulu Chief Mangosuthu…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… administration of SWA to the United Nations. 1952 With the ANC’s Defiance Campaign under way in South Africa, Namibian … but under white minority rule. SWAPO…
Memorandum of the National Committee for Liberation. London, mid-1963
… their positions as being the revolutionary arms of the ANC and PAC. It has however an undoubted initiative over the … The parties here consist of the NCL's…
EventLesotho and Swaziland threatened with sanctions
… if they continued to harbour African National Congress (ANC) insurgents. Their refusal to co-operate in this regard … regime and announced backing down of…
EventCourt commutes James Mange’s sentence
… to 20 years' imprisonment. The African National Congress (ANC) applauded the achievements of this international … statement issued by its Secretary General,…
EventMandela and De Klerk hold emergency talks
… feud between the supporters of African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). Mandela was hoping that … solution to the conflict and avert…
Down with Afrikaans - Oakes, D. (ed)(1988). Illustrated history of South Africa – The real story, Reader’s Digest story: Cape Town.
… The government and the ANC have held discussions at the Presidency, Pretoria, today 6 August 1990. 1. The Government and the ANC have again committed…
ArchiveInterview with Ashby Peter Solomzi Mda
… the Transkei. He was prominent among the founders of the ANC Youth League in 1943-44, and served as its president … became a partisan of the Africanist…
EventA list of people prohibited from attending gatherings is published in the Government Gazette
… attending public meetings were African National Congress (ANC) leaders. They included Albert Luthuli, Oliver Tambo, … At the time of its publication…
EventInaugural Conference of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… union co-ordinating body and the trade union wing of the ANC led Congress Alliance. After Sharpeville most of the … went into exile, were banned, banished,…
EventWalter Sisulu, Raymond Mhlaba and Ahmed Kathrada address the public after 26 years
… Sisulu, Raymond Mhlaba of the African National Congress (ANC) and Ahmed Kathrada of the Transvaal Indian Congress … (TIC) on 15 October 1989, a rally was…
EventLegal action against election results
… in those areas. This followed African National Congress (ANC) complaints about administrative chaos and intimidation … the second election of a democratic…
EventPolitical parties call for Constitutional changes
… clause proposed by the NNP. The African National Congress (ANC) was criticised for supporting the NNP call. They were both (ANC and NNP) accused of…
EventPolitical activist and lawyer A. P. Mda is born
… Youth League presented the Programme of Action (PA) at the ANC's Cape Provincial Conference held in Port Elizabeth in … of the breakaway group from the…
All Gwede’s horses and all Gwede’s men… can’t put Cosatu together again by Stephen Grootes (The Daily Maverick), 11 November 2014
… He’s been Chair of the SACP, Secretary General of the ANC, and general secretary of Cosatu’s now biggest affiliate … is “bad for Cosatu, bad for the alliance…
Dr Piet Koornhof, one of the most controversial figures in South African history, dies
… Koornhof surprised many of his comrades when he joined the ANC, serving as Member of Parliament. His eldest son, Dr Gerhard Koornhof, also joined the ANC in…
EventTrade union federation, COSATU, celebrates its 26th anniversary
… Tripartite Alliance with the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Communist Party (SACP). The … strong despite COSATU’s disagreement with…