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EventANC’s economic plans
… African National Congress (ANC) Deputy President Nelson Mandela stated that his party was prepared to abandon its long-held policy of …
EventMandela confirms Kerzner’s contribution to the ANC
… but stated that he has told no-one else in the African National Congress (ANC) about the donation. Mandela's … after finding him guilty of misconduct and…
EventChief Mangosuthu Buthelezi meets President Kaizer Matanzima in Tongaat
… proposals which exclude blacks. In 1983, the National Party (NP) Government introduced an amendment to the South …
EventNkomo, leader of ZAPU forms a coalition government with Robert Mugabe
… government with Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe. Nkomo's party won twenty seats in the new Assembly, all in his tribal … of ZAPU were arrested by Robert Mugabe's…
EventANC’s Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe rally support against Urban Bantu Councils Act
… African National Congress (ANC) leaders, Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe … Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), South African Communist Party (SACP) and others. These…
EventThe ANC calls for a day of protest and observes this day as 'South Africa Freedom Day' for the first time
… Suppression of Communism Act. In March 1950 the African National Congress (Transvaal), the Communist Party of South Africa, the Indian Congress and the…
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…
EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first democratic President
… After South Africa's first national democratic elections in April 1994, Nelson Mandela … in Pretoria on 10 May 1994.. He replaced the outgoing National Party…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArticleTimeline — Land Dispossession and Restitution in South Africa - 1995-2013
… Land Affairs Thoko Didiza states in her response in the National Council of Provinces that the state owned at least … More than 1 000 members of the South…
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…
ArticleBattle of Cuito Cuanavale 1988
… Angolan independence in 1975, the Marxist orientated party Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), … the African continent. It was also backed…
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…
Ahmed Timol: Three Documents by Politicsweb, 27 June 2017
… reopened into the death of the South African Communist Party (SACP) underground operative Ahmed Timol while in the … October 1971, and literature for 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…