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Archive2008 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 8 February 2008
… to defend the democratic rights and the democratic Constitution which were born of enormous sacrifices. This is … towards the creation of the South Africa…
PlaceThe Dakawa Arts and Crafts Centre
… it began as a project of African National Congress (ANC) exiles during the time of Apartheid. It was located at …
New Year Message to U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations by O. R. Tambo, 29 December, 1964
… Tambo Deputy President, ANC (S.A.) …
Letter from Oliver Tambo to the Prime Minister of Lesotho, Dr. Leabua Jonathan, 13 January 1982
… calculated act of terrorism will only serve to spur the ANC and the people of South Africa to redouble their efforts …
EventSouth African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang, Club Kevin Carter, commits suicide
… a cross fire while covering an African National Congress (ANC) delegation in the township of Katlehong near …
EventSA signs treaty with Great Britain on the supply of military equipment to South Africa
… State of Emergency followed by the banning of the ANC and PAC cast the South African government in a bad light …
Event90-Days Act comences
… Umkhonto We Sizwe with the African National Congress (ANC) and Poqo with the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) , both …
EventMandela smuggled out the country and appears in Addis Ababa
… which was the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). In his speech, he clarified and justified the turn to …
EventThe Republic of South Africa is established
… as time passed. After Sharpeville (March, 1960) the ANC. and PAC. abandoned their policy of passive resisÂtance …
EventA group of six White and several Black rebel army troops mounted another coup attempt on 21/22 November in Transkei, a Black ‘homeland’
… Holomisa openly supported the African National Congress (ANC) and had unbanned the organisation in the Transkei. …
EventUDF men takes refuge in the US consulate
… willing to negotiate with the African National Congress (ANC) and other liberation movements only if they renounce …
EventTRC gathers evidence against Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
… within the structures of the African National Congress (ANC). She was also earmarked for the deputy president …
EventSA judge jails former state assassin Eugene de Kock for more than 200 years
… were heard here, revealing not only his own involvement in ANC deaths, but the involvement of political leaders at the …
EventFormer Minister of Defence and others are charged with murder
… Freedom Party (IFP) and the African National Congress (ANC). After being released on bail, Malan declared: "What …
Stay-away!
… there were a lot of us who were in the trade union and the ANC and so we talked to the workers at the factory as well as …
EventF.W. de Klerk announces the release of Nelson Mandela and unbans political parties
… Nelson Mandela and unban the African National Congress (ANC), Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), the South African …
Chapter One - From Abbotsdale to Kimberley
… to the British Crown. The African National Congress (ANC), which had been formed in 1912 with the main purpose to … to organise volunteers for the war. The…
Chapter III - The world outside
… members of the PAC, now itself underground like the ANC. Unlike Umkhonto, it did not confine its violence to … It had always been the most militant…
Chapter Two - The year with the ICU: 1921 - 1926
… zenith in numerical terms in 1927. It totally eclipsed the ANC whose prayers and deputations compared' unfavourably with … tailoring privately, Gomas was…
Chapter Four - The Years with the CPSA: 1925 - 1935
… in all the major organisations of the oppressed. The ANC found itself strangled by the conservative and sectarian … associates who represented the…
The Life and Politics of Steve Biko by Yunus Momoniat, November 2014
… more whites than blacks at South African universities. The ANC -aligned African Students Association was in favour of … and ASSECA president MT Moerane…
ArticleJohn Langalibalele Dube Timeline 1940-1950
… which is later renamed as the African National Congress (ANC). 1913 Dube leads a deputation to England to protest …
ArticleThe Sedition Trial 1946 - 1948
… Communist Party , SACP), African National Congress (ANC) and the Council of Non European Trade Unions (CNETU). …
Defining the term 'Bantu'
… in a positive light by black people. In Umsebenzi, a 1940s ANC periodical, the following phrase is used “The Bantu must …
The Black Face of Apartheid
… The incident signalled a split between Buthelezi and the ANC, as the latter did not want to alienate the young Black …
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… then, when things started happening here in terms of the ANC's resistance to the pass laws and so on... the Defiance … the salute of the then banned African…
Chapter X - Trial by detention
… bona fides. We learnt with sadness that on 8 April the ANC and the PAC had finally been declared illegal. It was … not known then that it was the day of the…
Chapter VIII - Treason - South African style 1
… front seat of my car. On trial he was Nelson Mandela, the ANC leader, standing tall, proud and dignified. He was … their counterparts in the country. Nor did…
ArticleThe Seriti Commission
Background Terry Crawford-Brown petitioned the Constitutional Court in 2011 to compel former president Jacob Zuma to establish a commission of inquiry into…
The Durban Strikes and the making of the Political Struggles in South Africa by Vuyisile Msila
… number of challenges. Later though, in the late 1940s, the ANC started to mobilise and grew its muscle from the working …