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BiographySelbourne Charlton Sobizwa “Selby” Mvusi
… of the growing, influential radical nationalist African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) and other student …
BiographyMary Moodley
… meagre earnings. Aunty Mary was a member of the African National Congress (ANC) , a founder member of the South …
BiographyGraeme Williams
… Museum of Ethnology (Holland) 1994 - South African National Gallery (Cape Town, South Africa) 1992 - Oxfam and …
Thoko Phillip Mamogobo
… at the age of 25, Mamagobo formally joined the African National Congress (ANC) in Mofolo, Soweto. Mamagobo met his …
BiographyFrancois Pienaar
… Botha retired. This paved a way for Pienaar to lead the national team. He received a call up from the coach Ian … and played flanker for the South African…
BiographyHerbert Hayton Castens
… of being the first played to lead the South African national rugby team. He played in the front row in his one …
BiographyKewpie
… queer culture in Cape Town. In 2018 her story was given a national stage when the Gay and Lesbian Archives (GALA), …
BiographyBoy Mvemve
… John Dube (or simply JD), while serving as the African National Congress (ANC) deputy chief representative in … Boy Aldophus Mveme was a member of the…
BiographyAaron Sipho Madondo
… of school and in October he was recruited into the African National Congress (ANC)’s armed wing uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK). …
BiographyMabel Palmer
… South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) , the National Council of Women of South Africa (NCWSA) – of which …
BiographyNadirshah Ardeshir Cama
… (TIC) and attended the Amritsar Congress of the Indian National Congress in 1919 as a delegate from South Africa. In …
Statement of Acceptance of the Ho Chi Minh Award Bestowed on the ANC by the World Peace Council by O. R. Tambo, Luanda, 15 December 1986
… are greatly honoured to receive, on behalf of the African National Congress, the illustrious Ho Chi Minh Award, … and the Popular Movement for the Liberation…
EventCastro decides to send troops to Angola to fight South Africa
… movements in Southern Africa such as the African National Congress (ANC), the Zimbabwe African People's Union … People's Organization (SWAPO). When Angola's…
EventYoweri Kaguta Moseveni becomes president of Uganda
… Uganda, returned to power for the second time after multi-party elections. The election outcomes were contested as the … Movement (UPM). The UPM later…
EventANC President Oliver Tambo meets with Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow
… The African National Congress (ANC) leader, Oliver Tambo met Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU)’s Central…
EventChris Hani is born
… of Staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe, military arm of the African National Congress (ANC) and General-Secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP) since…
EventBram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment
… for being a member of the illegal organisation Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). He was later released on bail … Fischer was convicted of conspiring…
EventGoldstone Commission confirms SADF complicity in violence
… findings of a "dirty tricks" campaign against the African National Congress (ANC). The Commission reported the finding … existence the Commission could find…
EventViolence erupts in Richmond
… political tensions between supporters of the African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party resurfaced in KwaZulu Natal in the late 90's. In order…
EventSecurity officials report that levels of political violence have dropped significantly in SA
… Two days after the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) agreed to participate in South Africa's first … measures, the lifting of a 30-year ban on the African National…
EventWidespread violence and intimidation in 1996 Kwazulu-Natal
… to reschedule the elections after the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) aligned traditional chiefs (amakhosi) had prohibited the African National Congress (ANC)…
BiographyJotello Festiri Soga
… one of the people who inspired the founding of the African National Congress (ANC – formerly known as the South African Native National Congress (SANNC)) in…
BiographyWalter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela
… Freedom , the underground station used by the African National Congress (ANC) as a tool for fighting apartheid, he … time of his death, he was the founding…
Chapter 8 - The politics of Congress in the late 1950s
… in Black-White relations”¦Rather than outlaw the African National Congress or persecute its members and supporters, … of organisations and bodies, among them…
ArchiveChapter 1 Break down the walls by Denis Goldberg
… deeply involved in the liberation politics of the African National Congress, the South African Congress of Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party…
PlaceCabo Verde
… the 1980s [iv] . Since 1991 Cape Verde has been a multi-party democracy, with a change in their ruling party in … Cape Verde. Cape Verde after Independence…
Chapter 18. Disrupting the Trade Unions
… or disrupting all mass organisations in the interest of National Socialism. The leaders of the Nationalists, having … had all been brought under the tutelage…
EventAfrican Mineworkers' strike starts
… on this day. The strike was initiated by the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), which was active in … members of the District Committee of the Communist…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… of the Federation of Black Women in South Africa - a national body which campaigned for education and rural … to persuade Indians not to vote for the white…
The genesis of the armed struggle, 1960-1966
… rights by the apartheid regime also saw the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) … or the safety of the public to be…