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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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 ……
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…
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…
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…
Document 26 - S. P. Bunting, Statement on the Kuusinen Thesis1 , presented at the Sixth Comintern Congress, 20 August 1928
… controversial matter seriously affecting our South African Party. There is a proposal in the Negro Sub-Commission, … with full safeguards and equal rights…
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…
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…
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…