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EventUN passes resolutions on South Africa
… imprisoned leader of the banned African National Congress (ANC). The UN General Assembly also called for the abolition of apartheid, the unbanning of the ANC…
EventDr Louis Luyt resigns as president of the SARFU
… Australia and New Zealand. References: http://www.anc.org.za/anc/newsbrief/1998/news0511 Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: …
EventPixley Seme, lawyer, journalist and co-founder of SANNC is born
… in 1912, which was renamed the African National Congress (ANC) in 1923. The organisation was formed as a result of … SANNC in 1912. He was the barrister and…
EventFormer MK members are dismissed from SANDF
… Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) of the African National Congress (ANC). Those who failed to return, were viewed as deserters … who missed an opportunity to remain in…
Gandhiji and the struggle for liberation in South Africa
… policies of powerful nations much more than justice. The ANC was branded by Western intelligence services as … for African lives One of the first mass…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 3 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… to stop what we were doing and us. In 1958 they banned the ANC in some places, like in Zeerust, where there had been a … that time of the State of Emergency…
The tragedy of history: When caricature displaces the truth by Thabo Mbeki, 11 January 2016
… to define my character as I served as President of the ANC and the Republic, and argued that this characterisation … that Mbeki was aloof, intellectual, out…
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… revived on the initiative of the SACP and the Transvaal ANC, our late Chairman, JB Marks, became the President and … trade unionist and public speaker, long…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
… of the four different colonies to discuss the drafted constitution for the Union of South Africa. [129] The drafted … the Union of South Africa went ahead…
Second National Consultative Conference Communiqué, 25 June 1985
… The Second National Consultative Conference of the ANC has taken place. It opened on June 16th, the ninth … our leaders said: "We were most delighted to hear…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the South African Communist Party Cape Town, 28 July 1996
… join others in proclaiming;many happy returns. We, in the ANC, wish you all the best not merely out of sentiment. We … millions, is their cry of anguish;and…
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… Congress (SANNC), renamed the African National Congress (ANC) in 1923. In the first 30 years of its existence, the ANC had an upper house of chiefs who…
Chapter 2: The Nature and Character of Vigilantes in Kwazulu-Natal
… that the IFP had built in Lindelani through Shabalala, the ANC was unable to operate in the area. Shabalala's power made … led to the continuation of…
African National Congress Press Statement by O. R. Tambo, 5 November 1979
… struggle in all its forms. It is therefore the task of the ANC and all other patriotic forces in South Africa … The urgent need to respond to the call issued…
Chapter 8 - ‘Creative Organisers’ rather than ‘Powerful Speakers’: Education as a Site of Struggle
… also formally relate to SANSCO. The lawyer and underground ANC activist Griffiths Mxenge, assassinated in 1981, urged … publications officer and women's…
Extracts from the book ‘A long walk to Freedom’. Nelson Mandela’s autobiography
… - 25 November 1992. The strategic perspective of the ANC is the transfer of power from the white minority regime … Africa were making it increasingly…
ArchiveThe ANCs first armed military operation: the
… tells the story of the African National Congress' (ANC's) first armed military operation and its Luthuli … 31 July 1967 into Rhodesia. Their mission was…
EventCharlotte Maxeke, politician and founder of the Bantu Women’s League of South Africa, is born
… in political activities in the African National Congress (ANC). She co-founded the Bantu Women’s League of South Africa, later renamed the ANC Women’s League…
EventSA Prime Minister sends a goodwill message to the new government of Mozambique
… 1981, 13 exiled members of the African National Congress (ANC) were killed in Matola, Mozambique.This was the first … for attacks on one another. Mozambique…
EventFourteen are killed in Phola Park violence
… and residents, mainly African National Congress (ANC) supporters, became serious when residents from Thokoza … General Election of 1994, because of attempts…
EventThe United Nations adopts a resolution establishing an eleven member United Nations Council for South West Africa
… South Africa was bleak as the African National Congress (ANC), South African communist Party (SACP), Pan Africanist … West African People’s Organisation …
ArchiveThe end of an era - A tribute to Cde Govan Mbeki, by Jacob Zuma, 8 September 2001, Port Elizabeth
… South Africa. In addition, Oom Gov passes on just as the ANC is preparing for a celebration of its 90th birthday next … A disciplined and hardworking member…
ArchiveJordan Ngubane – forgotten founding member of the Congress Youth League by Sbonelo Radebe (Mail and Guardian), 10 January 2023
… of the Congress Youth League (CYL) — the forerunner of the ANC Youth League — is told, usually it is only Anton Lembede, … told. Perhaps his political…
Africans’Claims in South Africa,
… colour-bar and/or discriminatory clauses in the Union's Constitution, that is the South Africa 1909 Act; (b) the …
ArchiveChapter 16 Tee Shirts, Music and More Solidarity by Denis Goldberg
… people. Mandela’s name was better known than that of the ANC. We in the ANC worked hard to change the focus of the campaign from being focused on a…
65th Anniversary of the South Africa Communist Party - Joe Slovo
… that, sooner or later, they will have to reckon with the ANC which, in the eyes of the greater part of the black … power in our land. Since there is no way…
Article by Oliver Tambo in World Marxist Review, 06 March 1980
… whites; and third, the revolutionary forces headed by the ANC and its allies. Unlike the ANC, the moderately liberal white opposition, represented in … and…
Racism in Isolation by O. R. Tambo, World Marxist Review, March 1980
… whites; and third, the revolutionary forces headed by the ANC and its allies. Unlike the ANC, the moderately liberal white opposition, represented in … and…
Statement of alliance secretariat following meeting held 5th Feb, 6 February 2015
… The Alliance National Secretariat, composed of the ANC , SACP , COSATU, SANCO met yesterday, 5 February 2015, at … political activities in Mpumalanga which…
EventGoldstone Commission investigate the Bisho Massacre
… whereas Cyril Ramaphosa, African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General was busy negotiating with the National … with the Ciskei authorities. Click here…