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ArchiveWebinar Programme: The SACP and Early Socialist Traditions. Convenor: Natasha Erlank
… hundreds of thousands. By the mid-1920s, the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) saw black workers as the … “‘Hundreds of Native Workers are Joining the…
PlaceHammarsdale, KZN
… particularly strong in KwaZulu-Natal. The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) , formed in 1975 by former ANC Youth League … and currently the Country’s fourth…
EventNelson Mandela is elected Deputy President of the ANC
… prison. He also announced the unbanning of the African National Congress (ANC), Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), South African Communist Party (SACP) and other…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… Strike of 1922. 1912 8 January, The South African Native National Congress (SANNC) is formed in Bloemfontein. It later changes its name to the African…
EventThe ‘Afrikaner Volksfront’ is founded
… up of twenty-one right wing parties, known as Afrikaner National Front (Afrikaner Volksfront or AVF) was founded by … as result of mounting right wing…
EventANC members meet with Adriaan Vlok and Gen. Magnus Malan
… An African National Congress (ANC) delegation headed by Walter Sisulu, … violence in the townships between ANC and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters. …
EventNatoo Babenia is born
… In South Africa he was a member of the African National Congress (ANC), South African Communist Party (SACP) and Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK) and served sixteen ……
EventJB Marks is born
… and was a staunch member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the African national Congress (ANC). …
EventIFP makes election threat
… Officials of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) announced that they would not present their list … Following indications by opinion polls that the African…
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
… demand in 1896 finds a sympathetic response. 1894 The National Bank of the South African Republic opens its first … Platinum Mines established. 1948 The…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… pneumonia." - Sol Plaatjie, first Secretary of the African National Congress , describing the lives of black miners in … be the impact it had on the…
EventSouth West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) is founded to oppose South African rule
… Namibia) on 19 April 1960 by Herman Toivo Ya Toivo. The party was originally formed to advocated immediate Namibian … from South Africa and became the…
EventMorgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
… Tsvangirai, and the cabinet, with the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and the Movement for … fleeing to neighbouring countries, the…
EventPAC’s leader, Potlako Leballo confirms that Poqo is the organisation’s military wing
… in 1963. At the time of his claims, the PAC, African National Congress (ANC), the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA)and other liberation movements … and…
BiographyPhindile Mfeti
… to Botswana to meet with a delegation from the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Congress of …
BiographyWinston Ntshona
… honoured with a Living Treasures award from South Africa’s National Arts Council. …
BiographyEdward Sineke Tyaliti
… noted that he was an active supporter of both the African National Congress (ANC) and the All African Convention [AAC], … Member of the African National…
BiographyThomas Benjamin Davis
Thomas Benjamin Frederick Davis, the son of Thomas Leipold, a fisherman, and Jemima Davis was born in April 1867 in Jersey, Channel Islands, a British Crown…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… the institute not to proceed with its proposal to hold a national conference to “analyse the position of the … conference, Professor Z.K. Matthews proposed…
EventMinister Kobie Coetsee on meeting between Botha and Mandela
… he refused to denounce violence and break the African National Congress (ANC) ties with the South African Communist Party (SACP). … statement on his…
Women’s Food Committees in Cape Town during the 1940s
… of food during the Second World War . The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA, now SACP) was quick to become … organisations, including the CPSA and the…
EventDie Burger publishes the term 'Apartheid' for the first time
… commonly used in defence of Afrikaner nationalism and National Party policies. Die Burger, in many ways, promoted the … Today Die Burger remains one of the…
EventArchibald Gumede, former President of the United Democratic Front, is born in Pietermaritzburg.
… two years. He returned to Natal and joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1949 and became secretary of the … subsequently became its president in…
EventRuth Perry is elected to lead Liberia, thus becoming Africa's first female head of state
… in a non-partisan capacity, Perry was a member of the National Democratic Party of Liberia. She was leader of Liberia from 3 September … for her efforts in…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications
… political currents within the trade unions, student and national liberation organisations could contribute towards … cartoons. Bob Symes, a Workers…
PlaceBotswana
… educated in South Africa.) Their Bechuanaland People's Party began to demand that all White people should leave … , members of the House of Chiefs are not…
ANC NGC – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly by Marius Strydom (News24 Voices), 12 October 2015
… Members of the audience wanted to know "why the African National Congress (ANC) compromised so much (on … Nyanda, were arrested along with many others. he…
Time for ANC members to speak out when democracy is at stake by Denis Goldberg (Sunday Times), 17 April 2016
… Members of the party can no longer follow party orders to remain silent on … Secretary-General It seems to me that the demand from the national executive…
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, to the OAU Ad Hoc Committee for Southern Africa Arusha, 28 April 1992
… regime initially rejected out of hand our calls for an All Party Congress, an Interim Government of National Unity to oversee free and fair elections for a ……
EventANC adopts the Programme of Action
… The adoption of a Programme of Action by the African National Congress (ANC) at the December conference marked one … time. The adoption was precipitated by…