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BiographyCyril Matamela Ramaphosa
… Terrorism Act. On his release he joined the Black People’ Convention (BPC) , holding posts on various committees. He …
BiographyJames Barry Munnik Hertzog
… negotiated and he was one of the delegates to the national convention in 1908 -1909. Hertzog and M. T. Steyn went to …
Siphiwe Nyanda
… of the armed struggle. In addition, he is a member of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa support group …
BiographyBessie Amelia Head
… in Johannesburg . She joined the Pan-African Congress (PAC) during the Anti-Pass Laws Campaign in 1960, and although … retained a lifelong admiration for…
David Pratt
… inquiry into the Sharpeville massacre, the trial of Robert Sobukwe , the police sealing off townships on the Rand, and … National Congress (ANC) and the Pan…
ArticleThe Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… Black resistance movements, in particular the ANC and the PAC. Black leaders, who were not imprisoned by the state, … the Extension of the University…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… Indian Congress (TIC) hold a ‘Defend Free Speech’ convention in Johannesburg in response to the Suppression of … breakaway in Durban emphasises unity in the…
BiographyKing Sekhukhune
… prison in Pretoria. He remained there until the Pretoria Convention of 3 August 1881 was signed between Britain and … it the First Boer War of Independence…
BiographyPravin Jamnadas Gordhan
… Gordhan was involved in the preparatory meeting for the Convention of a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) in 1991 as … - Transitional Executive Council -…
BiographyDennis Brutus
… in 1958. In July 1961 he take part in the Malmesbury Convention,an attempt to forge unity among coloured political …
BiographyOlive Schreiner
… proposed and black people were left out of the ‘National’ Convention which met to discuss it. The delegation was …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
… campaign, which resulted in the banning of the ANC and the PAC following the Sharpeville Massacre. In response to the … and political bodies. The conference…
BiographyJackson Mphikwa Mthembu
… Between 1990 and 1994, Mthembu participated in the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) …
BiographyAubrey Mokoena
… in this year that the ANC and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) were banned. While Steve Mokoena made his son … activity, and the formation of the Black People’s…
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
… at the special court in the Old Synagogue at the end of 1959, when the accused had the satisfaction of witnessing the … been thrown completely into disarray…
BiographyNorman Levy
… action frameworks for the Labour Relations Forum of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) – …
ArticleA history of Apartheid in South Africa
… racial group. Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act, 1959 This Act said that different racial groups had to live … National Congress (ANC), the Pan…
ArticleHistory of Africa Day - 25 May
… (LPSA). Duncan later joined the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). Patrick Duncan (left) and Alfred Hutchinson (right) … of George M. Houser, African Activist…
Chapter 10 - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… and its aftermath In the early months of 1960 the PAC leadership launched a campaign against the pass laws. The … and negotiation." It called for "a new…
BiographyMoosa “Mosie” Moolla
… and served as a member of the TIC/NIC delegation to the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA). In 1995, …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
… Communist Party (SACP) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) ”” were banned. Most of their leaders went into exile or … African Students’ Movement was formed…
Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement
… are asked, through their spineless leaders," wrote Robert Sobukwe in The Africanist (December 1957), "not to … the real nature of the "status quo", namely…
BiographyProfessor Kader Abdul Asmal
… degree through the University of South Africa (Unisa). In 1959 he went abroad to study law at London school of … and 2002 was one of the party's delegates to…
BiographyDr. Walter Benson Rubusana
… Jabavu withheld his support from the South African Native Convention, which met in Bloemfontein in 1909, it was natural … Church, President of the South…
BiographyEs’kia Mphahlele
… to be held on African soil and hosted by Ghana in 1959. It was in West Africa that he began to blossom as a … appeared in 1984 as Afrika My Music , written…
BiographyMagasvarie Govender
… in the early 1990s, Govender was a delegate to the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) . Maggie …
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… new Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd deposed a chief in 1959 in Sekhukhuneland in the Eastern Transvaal, and … Massacre took place when the Pan Africanist…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… (ANC) establish the African Students' Association (ASA), PAC sympathising students form the African Students' Union of … Conference held in Pietermaritzburg…
BiographyTaubie Kushlick
… unfamiliar to the stagehands. In a bold break with convention, she imported an entire Greek company of women, …
BiographyAlex la Guma
… in 1953 helped found the South African Coloured People’s Convention (SACPC) , which was changed to the South African Coloured People’s Congress (CPC) in 1959…