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EventGeneral J.C. Smuts (80), former prime minister of SA, dies
… Representative Council, the African National Congress (ANC), the Transvaal Indian Council and other organisations, …
EventViolence breaks out at the University of Zululand
… when students aligned to the African National Congress (ANC) and UDF opposed an attempt by Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi … of Justice and Constitutional…
EventThe Prime Minister announces the appointment of a Commission of Inquiry into the reporting of defence matters, to be headed by Justice M.T. Steyn
… was damaging to government, lest they too were banned. The ANC government is today faced with media that is allowed a …
EventTatamkhulu Afrika South African poet, writer and struggle activist dies
… (MK) the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC) in the early 1980s. As a result of political activities, …
Article1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
… of its members, the Lawrence Committee is dissolved in 1942. 15 May 1940 The Government established the Indian … Dr A.B. Xuma , President of the African…
ArticleThe Politics Behind Water
… These circumstances caused the African National Congress (ANC) to implement a new water policy after 1994 when South …
Raymond Tucker: Attorney interview with Rupert Taylor 26 January 2000, 32 St John Road, Houghton, Johannesburg
… of course quite an important reason for that, is that the ANC didn’t have trained people to move into many of those … Taylor: Mmm. Tucker: And they weren’t…
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… the popular groups included the African National Congress (ANC) . The ANC slowly started to support the acts of violence that … or all of those under the…
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… of the country virtually doubled from 1939 to 1946. In 1942 Prime Minister Smuts appointed an Inter-Departmental … resistance spread and in 1949, after the…
PlaceDurban International Airport
… held in South Africa. This election was won by the ANC and Nelson Mandela was elected the president of South … held in South Africa. This election was won by…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on Receiving the Congressional Gold Medal Washington, 23 September 1998
… Tambo, Govan Mbeki, to name a few. We all embraced the ANC. We worked to break down the lies and distortions the world had been fed about the ANC. We took…
ArchiveReminiscences of the Arrest of Fikile Bam & Marcus Solomon in 1963 by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
… his affiliation to the African National Congress (ANC). Back in South Africa in the aftermath of the 1960 … had declared a state of emergency. Leaders of the…
Press statement by Oliver Tambo in Moscow, 06 November 1986
… and, within the context of our own requests, to assist the ANC, SWAPO and the peoples of our region to achieve these … year, we shall be observing the 75th…
Address by President of the Republic Commander-in-Chief of SANDF and Patron-in-Chief of Military Veterans at the funeral of Major General (retired) Mongameli Johnson Tshali (aka Lennox Lagu), Thaba Tshwane, 17 September 2011
… loyal until his death. At a time in our history when the ANC leadership sought to advance into South Africa, and asked … the Front-Line-States as part of the…
150th Anniversary; Anxieties of Commemoration - Towards a National Dialogue by Omar Badsha and Jon Soske
… assertion of a racialist nationalism by sections of the ANC Youth League and its open attacks against minorities … has been rather muted both within and…
Remembering Sol Plaatje as South Africa’s original public educator (The Conversation), 05 October 2016
… later became the now-governing African National Congress (ANC). He was also a novelist and journalist. But many may not … regional and language divisions…
ArchiveA History of Botsotso by Allan Horwitz
… retreat from radical change that came to identify the ANC adoption of neo-liberal economic and political policies. … mass democratic movement has tested the…
PlaceChris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Johannesburg
… Baragwanath" . The situation internationally in 1941 and 1942 looked bleak for the Allies. There was thus real urgency … 6 months the first patients could be…
PlaceSA Army College, Roberts Heights, Pretoria
… it was renamed again on the 19 May 1998 by the incoming ANC regime, this time called Thaba Tshwane instead. This was done by the ANC to rid the Area’s…
Address by President Mandela at a Masakhane rally in Vosloorus Katorus, 21 September
… soon receive attention. I went to Buyafuthi Hostel where ANC and IFP members jointly welcomed. Today if I visit … certainly happening here in Katorus!…
Document 64 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa to the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L), 1 July 1936
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 64 - Letter from the Workers' Party of South…
For Africanisation of the Party Letter from Moses M Kotane in Cradock to Johannesburg District Party Committee dated February 23, 1934.
… left-wing members who had been driven out of the Cape ANC by the dictatorial action of the chairman ‘Professor’ … Cape by Justice Minister Pirow, and the…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Introduction
… the National Party (NP) to the African National Congress (ANC). Contrary to many predictions, South Africa avoided a … (acolytes). Upstairs in the…
Africans’ Claims in South Africa, 14 December 1943 by Alfred Xuma
… session of the natives Representative Council in December, 1942, indicated that the Freedoms vouchsafed to the peoples … which subscribed to the Atlantic…
EventRay Alexander Simons, founder of Food and Canning Workers Union, arrives in South Africa
… South West African People's Organization (SWAPO) and the ANC acknowledge the importance of the role played Ray …
EventThe Erasmus Commission’s report implicates Rhoodie, Mulder and van den Bergh in SA’s infamous ‘Information Scandal’
… internationally to counter the growing popularity of the ANC and other liberation organisations . Condemnation of …
EventBophuthatswana decide not to publish report of Smith Commission
… Africanist Congress (PAC) and African National Congress (ANC) claimed responsibility for the shooting. Although the …
PlaceKroonstad
… 1997). Minister Ndebele was the Provincial Chair of the ANC from 1998 to 2008. The colonial powers used …
ArchiveStatement fron Anant Singh on the 30th Anniversary of Nelson Mandela's Release from Prison
… the film industry was catalysed by the call Madiba and the ANC made in the 1980’s for people to speak out against …
Excerpts from Chief Luthuli’s evidence at the treason trial dealing with his understanding of a non-violent liberation struggle
… in this case, an allegation by the Crown, that the ANC either is adopting a violent policy or educating the … the suggestion is made by the Crown ”” really…