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FREEDOM IN OUR LIFETIME, Durban, December 12-14, 1958
… Address to the 46th Annual Conference of the African National Congress, Durban, December 12-14, 1958 Sons and … 46th Annual Conference when the fury of the…
Document 24 - E. R. Roux, Thesis on South Africa, presented at the Sixth Comintern Congress, 28 July 1928
… on South Africa contains the following passage: "The Party should put forward as its immediate political slogan in … envisages two stages in the revolution: …
The Bill of Rights
… anyone on one or more grounds in terms of subsection (3). National legislation must be enacted to prevent or prohibit … which includes the right- a. to…
ArticleHow did the Nazis construct an Aryan identity?
… Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party, argued that the Germans was superior to all other … To control every part of every German's life, the Nazi Party…
72. The Defiance Campaign, 1953
… Bridglal Pachai A joint planning council of the African National Congress and the South African Indian Congress … the first time, Indians joined hands with…
72. The Defiance Campaign, 1952
… A joint planning council of the African National Congress and the South African Indian Congress … the first time, Indians joined hands with Africans in a…
EventDonald James Wood journalist and Anti apartheid activists is born
… idea of separate development but was critical of the way National Party (NP) led government implemented the policy. As he … development he entered politics…
EventSuppression of Communism Act, No. 44 of 1950 approved in Parliament
… Act, No. 44 of 1950, according to which the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) was declared an illegal … of Communism Act, banned the South African…
Chapter Four - The Years with the CPSA: 1925 - 1935
… optimism and his determination to make CPSA the vanguard party which led Gomas largely to ignore the anti-black … it was also attempt by Gomas and his Party…
EventSACC publishes a report condemning apartheid as a false faith hostile to Christian beliefs
… months after the SACC was constituted in 1968. By then the National Party had been governing the country for twenty years and the …
EventHarold Strachan is served with restriction order
… Air Force pilot in World War 2 and member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National…
EventNP Secretary-General Stoffel Van der Merwe resigns
… of President F.W. de Klerk to take up the appointment of National Party (NP) secretary-general, a post which he held for only …
EventNelson Mandela announces intentions on nationalisation policy
… The African National Congress (ANC) Deputy President Nelson Mandela stated that his party was prepared to abandon its long-held policy of …
EventANC stage marches in major cities
… The African National Congress (ANC) and its allies staged marches in … the political prisoners, responded by re-assuring the party that the due processes had…
EventCharles Taylor wins presidential election
… 1989. He secured more than 70% of votes. In addition, his National Patriotic Party (NPP) won an overwhelming majority in both houses of …
EventZimbabwean politician and trade unionist Morgan Tsvangirai is born
… of nine children. Tsavangirai joined the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), which later became ZANU-Patriotic … policies and broke away from ZANU-PF to…
EventThe South African Bureau of State Security (BOSS) is established
… country and to collect, evaluate, correlate and interpret national-security intelligence information. BOSS was also supposed to propose a "policy relating to…
ArticleDifferences between Capitalism & Communism and why did it start in Russia?
… the Provisional Government with the communist Bolshevik Party. The Soviet Union (as Russia came to be known) … In 1902, the peasant revolutionaries formed…
From Protest to Challenge: Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964 Volume 1
… The Seventh Annual Conference of the Communist Party of South Africa, which lasted from Saturday evening, … 20 black and 10 white. The visitors were guests…
Document 89 “People’s Front and the Cry for Unity in South Africa”, The Spark, 2, 4, April 1936
… with all the other Stalinist parties, the Communist Party of South Africa , i.e... the few officials left from the former Party, received this important…
ArticleOrigins of the Battle of Blood River 1838
… from Sikonyela and on 3 February 1838 Retief and his party reached the Zulu capital, Mgungundlovu, with the … and accepted the invitation. As soon as the…
On Post Colonial African Liberation Movements
… Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command will be hosting National Spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi. This event will take … on the radical pronounciations…
EventCourt go-ahead for United Democratic Front meetings
… the UDF sent out a call for the unbanning of the African National Congress on 5 June 1986. The UDF issued the call a … by the government, which portrayed the…
ArchiveInterview with Julius Nyerere
… to work on the revitalization of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU), the country's ruling party. In May 1963 the Organization of African Unity was …
EventANC and IFP to meet over violence
… The African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) announced that they would hold a meeting of the … ifp,' African National Congress (ANC)…
EventNP demands apology from TRC
… Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), lawyers for the National Party (NP) demand an unconditional apology from chairman …
EventFormer Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd is born
… Africa in 1903. Verwoerd was elected by the caucus of the National Party as its new leader and prime minister on 2 September …
EventFrederik Willem de Klerk is elected President of South Africa
… 1990 to release Nelson Mandela and unban the African National Congress (ANC), Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), the South African Communist Party (SACP) and…
EventThe Young Communist League (YCLSA) is officially formed
… League (YCL) were laid in 1921 when the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) was established. Youth groups … about 2000 of them. In May that year they…
EventSpecial Committee on Apartheid publishes its first Interim Report
… black people. The Apartheid policy was introduced by the National Party (NP) after it won the heavily contested elections of … (Accessed: 12 April 2013)…