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ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… the Sharpeville Massacre and the banning of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan African Congress (PAC), … broke away from the White-led student…
EventFormer IFP chairman Jiyane register Nadeco with IEC
… Former Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) chairman, Ziba Jiyane, registerd a new political party, the National Democratic Convention (Nadeco), with the Independent …
Afrikaner
… This community developed their own language, national identity, history and religion. They differed … faith in Africa. The influence of their Christian…
EventDr Ben Ngubane is born
… (Ben) Ngubane, political activist and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) politician, was born at Inchanga Roman Catholic … and technology in President Mandela's…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… (The People), newspaper of the South African Native National Congress. Afrikaaner Nationalist Party formed by General Hertzog - pledged to achieve … gathered…
EventPrime Minister B.J Vorster supports changes to Black labour
… came seven years after Vorster was unanimously elected national leader and Prime Minister by the parliamentary … had to deal with a revolt by far right…
Baleka Mbete: In The Centre Of The Maelstrom by Greg Nicolson (Daily Maverick), 17 February 2015, South Africa
… a president and ANC under fire have all coalesced in the National Assembly. Speaker Baleka Mbete is at the centre of … history. It's now marred by her role…
ArticleTimeline of the Marikana Massacre 2012 - 2013
… in Johannesburg following news of the massacre. 17 August, National Police Commissioner General Riah Phiyega confirms … Lonmin Mine in Marikana. 23 August,…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 2000-2014
… January, The partnership is formalized by South African National Aids Council (SANAC) to review its two years of work … President Thabo Mbeki gives the…
EventSouth Africa's first democratic elections
… contrary to fears of political violence. The African National Congress (ANC) won the election with 62.65 % of the vote. The National Party (NP) received 20…
EventPieter Willem Botha resigns as state President of SA
… of the general elections. In 1990 Botha resigned from the National Party (NP) in protest against President F.W. de Klerk's … of some influential…
Yet another Myth: Mbeki and the Monopolisation of Power by Thabo Mbeki, 25 January 2016
… and aloofness. Above all, the President treated his own party, the African National Congress, as if it were no more than a vehicle to … movement, it was…
EventApartheid becomes official policy
… On 26 May 1948, the Herenigde Nasionale Party (Reunified National Party) took power from Jan Smuts' … Afrikaner Party officially merged in 1951 to become the…
ArticleThe Landless People’s Movement
… campaigns for rural and urban landless people on a national scale. [1] The movement’s demands were for land … it. [2] Formation The LPM was originally a…
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… For many years there was tension within the African National Congress (ANC) between those with different … the liberation struggle. Many members of the…
ArticleDefiance Campaign 1952
… The post-1948 period saw the African National Congress (ANC) abandoning its traditional reliance … and a number of Youth Leaguers were elected to the…
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
… However, the moderates, who assumed the leadership of the national and provincial Congresses, rejected militant … beginning the SAIC was to spearhead the…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… Ten , Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) , the Labour Party , the South African Council of Churches (SACC) and the … wings as well as myriad organisations…
Archive'Fuck White People' Magistrates Court ruling in Cape Town, 4 July 2017
… Case number: EC02/2017 In the matter between Cape PARTY (Kaapse Party) and IZIKO - South African National Gallery …
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Afrikaner Response and the 1914 Rebellion
… 1914 voted in favour of the invasion. The South African Party was supported by the Labour Party and the Unionists. Herzog’s National Party voted against the…
BiographyOliver Mtukudzi
… Zimbabwe’s independence by singing the country’s new national anthem ‘Ishe komborera Africa’ (God bless Africa) …
BiographyLawrence Ndzanga
… 53, a former secretary of the Railway Workers Union and a national executive committee member of the South African …
BiographyMhlabuvelile Hlamandana
… Committee. While this movement clearly involved African National Congress (ANC) supporters, the revolt appears to …
EventF.W. de Klerk is unanimously elected the new leader of the Transvaal NP
… Affairs, was unanimously elected the new leader of the National Party (NP) in the Transvaal. His election came after Dr Andries Treurnicht quit the party. At…
Extract from a speech made at Heilbron on 16 August 1968
… on this occasion to state his policy as Leader of the National Party clearly and categorically. The Premier dealt with a … of the Republic, and so on. In the…
BiographySipho Samuel Hashe
… During this period he became a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) in the … in Post Chalmers Farm in Cradock and…
BiographyTeboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… , turned him into an instant hero and an activist of national importance and setting off a tumultuos student … large numbers of youth joining the ranks of…
EventNico Basson says that SADF had supplied weapons and covert assistance to IFP in order to weaken the ANC
… assault rifles) and covert assistance to Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in order to weaken the African National Congress (ANC). IFP leader Chief Mangosuthu ……
ArticleAnti-South African Indian Council (SAIC) Campaign
… a mass dumping on its territory forced the Nationalist Party government (Nats) to accept the presence of Indians in … these individuals to discuss the…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… campaigns were organised in the 1930s by the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and various trade unions. The … opposition to discrimination became…