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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 …
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…
Afrikaner
… This community developed their own language, national identity, history and religion. They differed … faith in Africa. The influence of their Christian…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 ……
EventANC celebrates its 79th anniversary in Durban
… The African National Congress (ANC) celebrated its 79th anniversary in … Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and South African Communist Party (SACP) in 1960. …
ANC Negotiations Bulletin
… period of negotiations. Report of discussion about the All-Party Congress, information about the Patriotic Front and negotiations, exploratory talks with the…
EventSACP is legally re-launched
… On 29 July 1990 the South African Communist Party(SACP), which had been unbanned in February 1990, was … the SACP faced allegations of conspiring with the…
Liberal Opinion/Reality
… Liberal Opinion (1961-1968) was published by the Liberal Party of South Africa which was established in 1953 by Alan Paton, after the National Government had…
The International Socialist League (ISL)
… by a progressive faction of the South African Labour Party (SALP) as a reaction to the party’s support for South Africa’s participation in the First … that…