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EventNP wins by election
… at Randfontein, formerly Dr. Connie Mulder's seat, the National Party (NP) candidate wins, but with a much reduced majority over the Herstigte Nasionale…
Fatima Meer: Portfolio
… organisations and administrations assembled in this Multi-party Planning Conference: BEING FULLY CONSCIOUS of the … individually and collectively to the…
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… suffering from tuberculosis. 1944 2 April, The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL), the youth wing of the African National Congress is formed…
Extract from a speech during a political meeting held on 17 June 1971 at Naboomspruit in the Waterberg constituency
… in Waterberg was of particular significance to both the National Party and the Re-constituted National Party. The HNP knew that it would mean a great deal …
South Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, VolumeTwo 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew - Bibliographical note and further reading
… Drew Bibliographical note and further reading African National Congress (1977), ANC Speaks: Documents and statements of the African National Congress 1955…
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…
BiographyDr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy
… time that Dr Ponnusamy encountered members of the African National Congress (ANC). This coupled with early experiences … Member of the African National…
Negotiations
… Thornhill branch of the ANC on negotiations between the National Party and the African National Congress. …
EventSouth Africa holds a referendum to decide if SA should become a republic
… The South African government led by National Party (NP) held a referendum in which white voters decided … than Afrikaners, voted against it. The opposition…
Umsebenzi
… Umsebenzi, mouthpiece of the South African Communist Party, deals with issues relating to the national liberation struggle, from a Communist ideological ……
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… political economy. District Committee of the Communist Party. Josie Palmer is the first person on the right in the … White politics took a dramatic new turn…
ArchiveA Place In The City - The Rand On The Eve Of Apartheid by Luli Callinicos
… walk. It’s no use talking, to gold-propped ears When the National Party won the 1948 election, white liberals were horrified. … black South Africans had a…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
… only advance in their struggle if they cooperated with national organisations representing African and Coloured … during this year he attended the South…
ArticleTreason Trial 1956 - 1961
… as 'co-conspirators'. Amongst those released were African National Congress (ANC) President Chief Albert Luthuli; African National Congress Secretary General…
EventANC promulgates its constitutional proposals
… The African National Congress (ANC) announced its constitutional … and were supported by the South African Communist Party (SACP). During Phase One an all…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… stalinists and socialists of various hues in the African National Congress (and its ancillary movements) before it … group of Congress Militants and, of…
15th Anniversary of 1922 Rand Strike - South African Worker, 27 February 1937
… Communist Party Calls Mass Demonstration to Commemorate", South African … and murder and kill. UNITED DEMONSTRATION The Communist Party of South Africa calls…
EventBotha appoints Hendrikse and Rajbansi into his Cabinet
… The leader of the Labour Party, the Reverend H. J. Allan Hendrickse and Amichand Rajbansi of the National People's Party (NPP) are appointed to the Cabinet…
EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa’s first black president
… After South Africa's first national democratic elections held in April 1994, the president of the African National Congress (ANC), Nelson Mandela, was sworn…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… conviction due to lack of evidence that they were actually party to the conspiracy. However, Mhlaba was found guilty on … Raid Nelson Mandela, second from…
EventSouth Africa closes its borders with Lesotho
… was the case particularly under government of Basutoland National party (BNP) led by Chief Leabua Jonathan who came to power as … of apartheid while…
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… In January 1986, the UDF met the African National Congress (ANC) for talks in Stockholm. It was at … the people's courts. People's power was the theme at the…
EventPresident. F.W. de Klerk lifts the state of emergency
… political uncertainty for de Klerk and his ruling National Party. The release of Nelson Mandela from prison and the unbanning of the African National…
EventConstant Viljoen announces his resignation from AVF
… Viljoen, announced his resignation from the Afrikaner National Front-Afrikaner Volksfront (AVF), the anti-election structure constituted by the Conservative…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Glossary
… influential in politics during the decades following the National Party’s takeover in 1948 agent provocateur, pl. agents … Tanzania, Zambia and, from 1980,…
BiographyChristiaan Neethling Barnard
… on Dr Philip Blaaiberg , whose dauntless spirit made him a national hero in his own right. Blaiberg lived for twenty …
BiographyWinston Monwabisi Ngozi
… events such as the annual Standard Bank Grahamstown National Arts Festival in 1990, 1991 and 1993, the “Sax …
BiographyErnest Cole
… had taken were still being used extensively by the African National Congress (ANC) in their newsletters and magazines …
The 1994 South African Election by Phyllis Jordan
… The incoming government will be a so-called “government of national unity”, composed on a proportionate basis, of … One of the last election holdouts, the…
BiographyReginald Dudley Forde
… positions such as Area Commissioner: KwaZulu-Natal, National Commissioner for Training: South Africa and Chief … • Anon, 2011, Presentation Of National…