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How Zuma, the smiling spy, controls South Africa by Joe Brock and Ed Cropley (World News), 04 May 2016, Johannesburg
… As head of intelligence for the outlawed African National Congress during apartheid, Jacob Zuma neutralized … who work around Zuma say. He has also changed…
From Segregation to Apartheid
… people were once again forcibly removed. In addition, the National Party tried to promote the economic development of the … tide of militancy, they were…
Umrabulo - Issue No.11, 2nd Quarter 2001
… society - Gwede Mantashe Social emancipation and national liberation - Ngoako Ramatlhodi Organisation Through … The Charter recognizes the symbiotic link…
ArchiveSouth African political prison-literature between 1948 and 1990: the prisoner as writer and political commentator
… for political reasons. This thesis examines the National Party's policy pertaining to the holding of political …
EventThe twentieth anniversary of the arrest of Nelson Mandela is marked by a call for his release by China
… anniversary of the arrest of Nelson Mandela, African National Congress (ANC) leader and first commander-in-chief … his release by China. This was publicized…
EventThe Separate Representation of Voters Amendment Act commences
… by the opposition - even within the ranks of the National Party (NP) there were people who did not approve of the …
EventSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) is formed
… trade union co-coordinating body, and ally of the African National Congress (ANC) led Congress Alliance. The federation … members of organisations like the…
EventPolitical activist, Dr Yusuf Dadoo is re-elected President of Transvaal Indian Congress
… in Marxist literature and determined to mobilize a national liberation movement. In 1939, Dadoo formed and … and was an active member of the South African…
EventButhelezi says Zulus would continue carrying cultural weapons
… At a meeting held in Ulundi, Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi warns that the deals struck between the African National Congress …
EventAt least 150 people die in clashes between the ANC and IFP
… Conflict broke out between supporters of the African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and resulted in the death of at least 150 people…
EventFifty killed over three days during Inkatha
… killed over three days in battles between Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and United Democratic Front (UDF) supporters in … and totally disrupt the negotiations…
EventAngolan government signs peace treaty with UNITA
… Jose Eduardo dos Santos and the rebel organisation, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) … it into government forces, become a…
EventNelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu on Robben Island 5 August 1982
… anniversary of the arrest of Nelson Mandela, African National Congress (ANC) leader and first commander-in-chief … his release by China. This was publicized…
EventANC leader Walter Sisulu is convicted and sentenced to six years in prison for contravening the unlawful Organisations Act
… On 04 March 1963, the African National Congress (ANC) leader, Walter Sisulu was sentenced … Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), South African Communist Party …
EventJacobus Johannes (Jim) Fouché is born in Wepener in the OFS.
… State and a staunch republican as well as member of the National Party . He first served as the Minister of Defence up until …
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… the Coalition Government made up of Afrikanar Nationalist Party headed by General Hertzog and the South African Labour Party took away their right of the…
Statement at the Conference of The Socialist International and Frontline States on Southern Africa, Harare by O. R. Tambo, 15 February 1989
… Ambassadors and High Commissioners, Fellow leaders of the National Liberation Movement, My compatriots, comrades in … Friends: It is my honour today on…
Biography of Bessie Emery by Elizabeth Venditti
… Movement, or the PAC, [xiii] in the 1950s, and the Liberal Party in 1961. [xiv] Regrettably, Bessie Head died 1986, due … Daymond also wrote, “while she…
Document 61 - A. Mon [M. N. Averbach] 4 , “A Comment on Trotsky’s Letter to S.A.”, Worker’s Voice, 1, 3, July 1945 […]
… position from where we are to set out along the path of national and agrarian emancipation, through the social … forms part and parcel of the entire problem…
Historical Overview of Black Resistance, 1932-1952 - The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign by Ismail Vadi, New Delhi, 1995
… Political Organisations in the 1940s The Transition to a National Mass Movement, 1949-1952 Campaign for the Congress … Mandela asserted: ... in any case the…
EventBarend Strydom kills 8 People in Pretoria
… in prison until 1992. He was released as a part of the National Party and African National Congress prisoner exchange, in which ANC member …
EventRobert McBride is arrested in Mozambique
… alleged that the guns were used to arm Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) members. Dr Pieter Mulder of the Freedom Front … Organisation of African Unity, George…
First Matabele War
… British Fort Victoria. Reacting, a large Ndebele raiding party attacked the Mashonas, massacring as many as 400 before … December 1893. From a painting by…
Document 105 - John Gomas, “Cape Town: Liberation League Activities”, South African Worker, 17 April 1937
… Hall, Cape Town, on March 22 last. It was organised by the National Liberation League of South Africa and supported by … the S.A. Indian Congress, Cape Malay…
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
… and many of his companions turned to alcoholism and a party life to cope with the bigoted intolerance they had to … of apartheid in South Africa was…
Chapter 14
… the Assembly met Dr. A. B. Xuma, President of the African National Congress. The aims of the Assembly were fully … one of the first sponsors. Dr. Xuma…
“Exodus without a map”: What happened to the Durban moment? by Edward Webster
… Alliance, comprised of Cosatu, the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the African National Congress (ANC) in the eighties and nineties without … their…
ArchiveDiana Mitchell obituary by Julia Gallagher (The Guardian), 08 February 2016
… a campaign to save one school led Mitchell to establish a national drive for better education of black children. … for the regime’s end. She helped establish…
EventMalebane-Metsing stages a coup in Bophuthatswana
… the Bophuthatswana Defence Force and some members of the National Executive Committee of the People's Progressive Party, led by Rocky Malebane-Metsing,…
Chapter 7 - Defining the process
… a full stare department. He also appointed the head of the National Intelligence Service (NlS) Neil Barnard, to the new … applied equally to the right wing…