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EventA few days after deciding to establish a Dutch newspaper in South Africa, the name De Burger is chosen
… soon after the founding of de Nasionale Pers ("the National Press", now Naspers). Dr. D.F. Malan was elected to … cause and apartheid, and was the mouthpiece…
Chapter 5 - TOWARDS PEOPLE’S WAR
… From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The 1980s were the culmination of … "It is the right and duty of communists working in the…
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…
BiographyThomas Madikwe Manthata
… of the Johannesburg-Pretoria (REESO) branch of SASO in1973,national vice-president of SASOin 1974,and a member of the …
BiographyLydia Kompe
… him. In 1994 Kompe was one of the women on the African National Congress (ANC)’s candidates for members of …
BiographyTwalimfene Joyi
… of Communism Acts along with eleven other African National Congress (ANC) members in Pietermaritzburg. On …
BiographyAlfred Msutu
… and it was alleged that meetings of the African National Congress (ANC) were regularly held in his kraal. As …
Chapter 3 - THE MOROGORO AFTERMATH
… From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The end of the 1960s was another … "there was unanimous support for the integration of all…
BiographySara “Saartjie” Baartman
… where he criticised racial science. Following the African National Congress (ANC)’s victory in the South African …
BiographyNontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho
… Politically, she adopts a position critical of the African National Congress and its leaders, whom she castigates for …
BiographyMonica Hunter Wilson
… intellectual history. Her name appears in the African National Congress's list of 100 foremost heroes/ heroines of …
BiographyZainab Ebrahim Asvat
… establishment of the Collaborationist South African Indian National Council. Mostly Indian women from Johannesburg and …
BiographyDr Essop Essak Jassat
… to Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia to treat members of the National High Command of MK. The last time he went there was …
BiographyNkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma
… 1970s Dlamini-Zuma became active in underground African National Congress (ANC) activities while serving as the …
EventThe SA government presents a promotion of Constitutional Development Bill
… of P.W. Botha’s career as both the South Africa and National Party leader. The following year Botha was succeeded by FW de … de Klerk met with the imprisoned…
ArchiveIn defence of the African image and heritage
… to the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party statement entitled The enemy under the same colour. From an African National Congress breakaway…
ArchiveBreakthrough!: vote second from the bottom
… Yellow poster with black and blue lettering. National Party election poster. Red arrow pointing to photograph of De … border at top. Includes Minority Front…
Speech of the Deputy President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, at the rally to relaunch the SACP Johannesburg, 29 July 1990
… political opinion which was not certified by the ruling National Party as legitimate and permissible. Surely, there are, … right of the Communist Party to…
ArticleStudent protests in democratic South Africa - Timeline
… experienced student protests concerning accommodation, National Student Financial Aid schemes (NSFAS) support, … increase fees, and at Pretoria the call was…
ArticleHistory of Africa Day - 25 May
… and Tunisia. There were also representatives of the National Liberation Front of Algeria and the Union of … of liberation movements. From South Africa, the…
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… the Godfrey South African Challenge Cup (1936) were new national competitions that electrified crowds of 5 000 to 10 … institutions and networks on a local,…
Document 49 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: Introduction (Minority) (1934)
… are in power. Next to these on the ladder comes the national bourgeois of town and country, who turning their … from this point of view can we conclude that…
Chapter 9 - Negotiating the transition
… had realized the urgent need for the resumption of multi-party negotiation. However, the question was, where did one … meetings, the ANC adopted a resolution…
ArchiveInterview with Peter Donald Hjul
… Peter Donald Hjul who was a leading figure in the Liberal Party, which existed from 1953 until 1968. Born in Northern … by a strong social conscience and a…
EventSouth Africa's first multiracial elections start
… resulted in the establishment of the new Government of National Unity (GNU) led by the African National Congress (ANC). Three parties, the ANC (who won the…
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… by local and grassroots political formations unrelated to national movements? This feature examines the causes of … of 1948 in the minds of white voters was…
South African Labour history
… South African Party and the National-Labour Pact Government …
ArticleConstitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996
… in Sharpeville , Vereeniging. On 2 February 1990 the National Party (NP) government unbanned political parties and began a …
EventProposal for a new constitution
… in 1991 and be completed within two years. The African National Congress suggested that equal status be given to all … ANC wanted an Interim government,…