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ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
… Durban protests in March 1950, Bertha Mkize of the African National Congress Womens League (ANCWL) was a leading … Drum Archive / african.pictures In June…
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 5 - Preparing to negotiate
… formal talks to remove the obstacles in the path of multi-party negotiations. However, it was not until nearly ten … of civil war. The effect of the exchange…
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,…
EventMartin Luther King, Junior, is born
… and fined. As the South African Government, led by the National Party under D.F. Malan was introducing Apartheid in 1948, … Atlanta. It emerged from the…
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… 1946 Mine Strike A Salute by the South African Communist Party to South Africa's Black Mine Workers Published by the … Sol Plaatje, the first Secretary…
EventSmuts becomes Prime Minister
… in April 1923, when the two opposition parties, the Labour Party (LP) and National Party (NP), agreed to join forces against the South African …
EventCPSA is founded
… The founding conference of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) took place in Cape Town from 30 July to 1 August 1921, however, the party was founded…
ArticleGrey Street Complex timeline 1800-1999
… April 15 as Africa Day was made this week by the African National Congress, the South African Indian Congress, the … Unions. This decision was taken at a…
Chronology
… , Italy attacks Ethiopia December, Coloured radicals form National Liberation League December 15-18 , Professor D. D. … of AAC December , "Silver Jubilee"…
Chapter 7 - CONCLUSION
… From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The Party, as an organisation, … for our education and establishing which among NLM [national…
BiographyBheki Cele
… Democratic Front ( UDF ), and later joined the African National Congress ( ANC ) underground network. Under the … Goniwe , Cele became instrumental in the…
EventJoe Slovo dies
… with being one of the masterminds of South Africa's national reconciliation, died after a long battle with cancer of the bone marrow. He was a long- time…
Event26 parties meet to discuss future negotiations
… objections to CODESA. They agreed to resume multi-party negotiations early in April. As result of this, what became known as the Multi-party Negotiating…
Chapter 6 - Defining the agenda
… ANC and the NP to address the obstacles preventing multi-party negotiations. The path to multilateral negotiation was … of an 'interim constitution' that…
Negotiations: a strategic perspective
… Statement by the African National Congress on negotiations as adopted by the National Executive Committee on 25 November 1992. Covers … Struggle and…
EventF.W. de Klerk announces the release of Nelson Mandela and unbans political parties
… de Klerk to release Nelson Mandela and unban the African National Congress (ANC), Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), the South African Communist Party (SACP)…
ArchiveBanned
… Council of the University of Cape Town, asking the United Party to explain its stand on the banning of eight persons, seven of whom were office bearers of…
Banned
… Council of the University of Cape Town, asking the United Party to explain its stand on the banning of eight persons, seven of whom were office bearers of…
EventGeneral J.C. Smuts (80), former prime minister of SA, dies
… inspired by the Native Representative Council, the African National Congress (ANC), the Transvaal Indian Council and … of migrant workers. Smuts, on behalf…
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…
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… of Sophiatown. Dominated by the majority United Party (UP), the JMC failed to carry the motion proposed by the Nationalist Party (NP) that Sophiatown be…
EventNP presents its revised constitutional proposals
… The National Party (NP) government put its revised constitutional … All participants in CODESA except the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) objected to the…
EventThe last general election of the Union of South Africa takes place
… it became a Republic on 31 May 1961, was held with the National Party (NP) under Adv J.G. Strijdom, registering a victory. … victory up to that time, while…
EventANC makes second submission before TRC
… An African National Congress (ANC) delegation of 20 members, led by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, made the party's second major submission to the Truth and ……
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… a campaign against the Boers that very day, and attacked a party in the Upper Tugela, as part of a series of attacks … Botha’s South African Party winning…
Harry Snitcher 1, Unite Against Segregation! Condemn the C.A.C. [1943]
… them. The voice of the people must be heard. The Communist Party considers this issue must be approached in the light of … been made in recent years by the…