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ArchiveReport of a meeting with Prof. Willem Kleynhans
… report of a meeting between representatives of the African National Congress and Professor Willem Kleynhans of the … of elections and for becoming a fully…
EventMosibudi Mangena is born
… Mosibudi Mangena, the National Minister of Science and Technology and President of the opposition party Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) was born in …
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… photographed a meeting of the local branch of the National Party, all elderly whites. [14] Billy Partridge best achieved … together was a desire to undermine…
EventANC Constitutional proposals are disclosed
… After a three day meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the African National Congress (ANC), the meeting adopted a new strategic … preparation…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 2 - Explaining the Miracle by Max du Preez
… between 1990 and 1994 in South Africa – the Whites-only National Party had had a firm grip on political and military power … of his deputy-presidents: F.W…
A Brief History of Niger - Part 1 by US Department of State
… 1960, however, membership was allowed to lapse. Single-Party Rule : For its first 14 years as an independent state, … political parties and civic…
EventNegotiations between Nelson Mandela and Mangosutho Buthelezi
… Buthelezi 30 March 1990 Nelson Mandela of the African National Congress (ANC) and Mangosutho Buthelezi of Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) met to negotiate on…
EventANC Consultative Conference comes to an end
… The African National Congress (ANC) Consultative Conference, which was … unbanning, came to conclusion. It was the first party conference held within South…
EventMalebane Metsing stages a coup in Bophuthatswana
… the Bophuthatswana Defence Force and some members of the National Executive Committee of the People's Progressive Party, led by Rocky Malebane Metsing,…
ArticleThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
… and the establishment of the USSR, the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), established in 1922, became a … Later that year he was elected president of…
EventEleven protesters are killed in Sebokeng
… who sought to march on the local offices of the ruling National Party (NP). The incident claimed eleven lives and more than …
Alan Wieder on the Rivonia Raids & South African Non-Violent Struggle
… attacked the Rovonia farm, then occupied by the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party. These two groups, from which Nelson Mandela…
Address by President Jacob Zuma to the 12th International meeting of the Communist and Workers Parties, 3 December 2010, Centurion, Pretoria
… General Secretary of the South African Communist Party, Comrade Blade Nzimande; Comrades` delegates to the … friends, I bring revolutionary greetings from…
EventChris Heunis is appointed acting president
… Botha surprised everyone when he resigned from the National Party (NP) leadership but not as state president, where he …
ArchiveChapter 11 - SACTU in the Congress Alliance
… Nevertheless, as Bunting states, it was "the greatest national political strike ever witnessed in South Africa." … was not in the hands of organised workers,…
EventMoses Kotane receives Isitwalandwe/Seaparankoe
… death Moses Kotane, member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the African National Congress (ANC), was awarded the ANC's highest honour …
EventEuropean Community observers arrive in SA
… fighting supporters of two political parties, the African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). In addition, six police experts joined the…
EventChurch leaders initiate peace summit in Durban
… the violence between local warring factions of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in the KwaZulu-Natal Province. …
EventAfrican Mineworkers’ strike starts
… on this day. The strike was initiated by the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), which was active in … members of the District Committee of the Communist…
EventDr. Connie Mulder is acquitted and discharged on charges of contempt
… became a politician. In 1958, he became a member of the National Party (NP) and was the mayor of Randfontein. Ten years later … In later years, he helped…
EventAlan Paton is born
… after the publication of Cry, the Beloved Country, the National Party came to power in the Union of South Africa and … screenplay Paton contributed. In 1953…
EventHilda Bernstein passes away
… in politics when she joined the South African Labour Party League of Youth, of which she remained a member until 1940, when she left to join the Communist…
Document 75 - A. Mon (M. N. Averbach), “The Historical basis for the Programme of the Fourth International Organisation of South Africa”, Workers’ 1944
… against by white labour. It was not only the Labour Party which based itself in its "socialism" upon the … in South Africa. The struggle for democratic…
Document 52 - International Secretariat of the International Communist League [B-L),Minutes of meeting, 23 April 1935 (Extract)
… groups in three cities) are in the process of founding a party upon theses which the minority of' the Lenin Club … (particularly the one on the constitution…
ArchiveConformity and conflict: Afrikaner nationalist politics in South Africa
… Oxford University. This thesis includes chapters on the National Party,1948-1961; Afrikaner Social Stratification during the …
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… Union (AMWU), which was formed with the aid of the African National Congress (ANC) and Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). In November 1941 history was ……
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Red Lives. Convenor: Arianna Lissoni
… One of the most remarkable figures of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in Durban, Natal (now … in the ideals of Communism. This was linked to the…
Oration by Oliver Tambo at the funeral of Moses Kotane, 26 May 1978, Moscow
… esteemed and completely devoted leader of the African National Congress. His rigorous self-discipline enabled him … Army was second only to his devotion to…
Oration at the Funeral of Moses Kotane by O. R. Tambo, Moscow, 26 May 1978
… esteemed and completely devoted leader of the African National Congress. His rigorous self-discipline enabled him … Army was second only to his devotion to…
EventTutu is outraged by De Klerk’s denial of responsibility for apartheid’s atrocities
… National Party (NP) leader F W de Klerk's failure to accept that the … had abandoned the security forces and then distanced the party from gross human rights…