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BiographyGeneral Jan Christiaan Smuts
… South Africa's constitution as a delegate to the National Convention. In 1908, Smuts was also confronted with …
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
… since 1935 with the establishment of the All-African Convention. Those efforts had failed to unite the political … was decided upon. The support of the All…
ArticleSouth African General Elections 2019 - List of Political Parties
… — almost 11.5 million votes — in 2014. African People’s Convention Formed in 2007 when leader Themba Godi left the PAC, the APC won one seat in the National…
BiographyArchibald Jacob Gumede
… Don Davidson Jabavu (one-time president of the All African Convention) who were lecturing at Fort Hare. Gumede returned …
The Role of Women in the Struggle against Apartheid, 15 July 1980
… Act No. 52 of 1957 rolled back the fare increase. In 1959, Cato Manor, near Durban, became the site of large-scale … In December 1959, the Pan Africanist…
EventZeph Mothopeng, President of the PAC dies
… Mothopeng, President of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) since 1984 dies in Johannesburg at the age of 77. Mothopeng's death came at the time when the PAC…
ArchiveInterview with Potlako Kitchener Leballo
… as its secretary general from its founding in April 1959, and later as its acting president in exile. A man of … mercurial temperament, he was responsible…
Internal Security Amendment Act No 79
… Suppression of Communism Act with some amendments. The 'Sobukwe' clause for indefinite detention was deleted and a …
ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
… the decade came to an end, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) was established in 1959 after its members split from the ANC. This split seems … struggle…
ArticleSouth Africa and the United Nations, 1946-1990
… government instead reacted with banning the ANC and PAC. From this point on the UN decided to follow steps to try … gain more votes in this way and increase…
The Black Face of Apartheid
… of Biko’s supporters agreed. In 1978 in Graaff Reinet, at PAC leader Robert Sobukwe's funeral, Buthelezi was jeered at and stoned by … apartheid structures…
BiographyHemant Kumar Waghmarae
… he became involved with the work of the Black Peoples’ Convention , Black Community Projects and generally any …
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew
… [1943] Document 6 - Report of Delegation to All-African Convention and Unify Conference 16-17 December 1943. … Document 17 - Letter from I. B. Tabata to…
BiographyLouis Botha
… Customs Conference, laid the foundations for the National Convention. Botha played a leading part in the deliberations of the National Convention that…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
… July, The Executive Committees of the All African Convention (AAC) and the African National Congress (ANC) meet … the Nationalist Bloc in Natal. December,…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959
… Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959 1950 January 6-8, The Communist Party of South Africa … Party of South Africa convene the Defend Free Speech Convention,…
ArticleDemocratic Alliance (DA)
… that year. However, the history of the DP goes back to 1959 when a number of liberal members of the United Party … African National Congress (ANC) , Pan…
75. 1960: We are at a turning-point in the history of our country
… banned African National Congress which had resolved at its 1959 conference to make the year 1960 the greatest anti-pass … was obtained for a Republic. THE…
ArticleDrafting of the Final Constitution
… on procedural rules) at the World Trade Center as the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA). By … of the ANC was opposed and the Pan-Africanist…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… and Journalist attend the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) meeting. He urges the convocation to coordinate … Kadalie is banned from the Rand. June, Non-European…
Key players in the various passive resistance campaigns
… 1960 Nelson Mandela Albert Luthuli Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Lillian Ngoyi Potlako Leballo Patrick Duncan Phillip …
Chapter Seven - Re-examining the Past
… from the ANC in 1958, to form the Pan African Congress (PAC). In a letter to the "Speaker" of the ANC Conference held … to be asserted, not only in theory,…
People associated with Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… Ahmed Kathrada Fatima Meer Father Trevor Huddleston Robert Sobukwe Kitchener Leballo Ben Turok Ralph Sepal Michael …
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… (for Mozambique), amending Article XXXII of the Mozambique Convention. April, The Leader of the United Party reiterates … Pretoria court rules that the…
BiographySunny Girja Singh
… (NIC) team, a part of the alliance of the ANC, at the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (Codesa) talks, …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… Below is a letter written by the leader of the PAC Robert Sobukwe, just before the AntiPass Laws march campaign on 21 … on the 27 August 2021 ] 3…
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… South Africa and self-governing Territories Act No 46 of 1959. The Representation of Natives Act No 16 of 1936 The … of the public to be declared unlawful…
BiographyJohannes Henricus Brand
… thereby reversing the policy set out in the Bloemfontein Convention . Brand tore up the peace treaties of 1866 in …
ArticleAftermath: Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… the border into Bechuanaland to mobilize support for the PAC. International sympathy lay with the African people, … Dr. Verwoerd praised the police for their…
Chapter IX - Treason - South African style 2
… belongs to all who live in it, black and white . . ." In 1959, the Pan Africanist Congress had established itself, the … the Pan Africanist Congress, to be…