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Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… the political position of the PAC by 1959. Support for the party came from mainly residents of township single men’ … another organization known as the Yu…
How cases reach the Constitutional Court
… date so that argument from the parties can be heard. Each party submits written submissions before the date of argument … themselves with the case and the…
PlaceVereeniging, a City in Gauteng
… During this time, he played an active part in Nationalist Party politics and in local educational affairs. He was … in Vereeniging, until his death in 2000…
ArticleHigh Farce in the House
… their rejection) of the Group Areas Act, the Labour Party opposed the application by an Indian person to be …
BiographyShirish Nanabhai
… because Jasmath was active during his youth in the Indian National Congress, which had fought against British rule in … of a democratic South Africa, Shirish…
PlaceCameroon
… colonial occupation. While Alexander Bell was revered as a national hero and elected to represent Cameroon in the French National Assembly, he was seen by…
Full speech - Mamphela Ramphele: Rekindling the South African dream
… I am working with a group of fellow citizens to form a party political platform that will focus on rekindling hope … skills among public servants, improving…
ArchiveA death warrant for Afrikaans by Hermann Giliomee, 11 November 2019
… divisions. Protest movements were not reinforced by national or cultural demands. Gann concluded that the history … rather interest themselves in the history…
ArticleColonial history of Nelspruit
… in the 1830s, and in 1845 Andries Hendrik Potgieter led a party that established the first substantial White settlement … of the Sabie Game Reserve in 1898…
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… wake of the urban revolt of 1976 and with prospects of a national revolution becoming apparent, security police … to the struggle for freedom. Progressive…
Chapter 3 - Historical Lesotho
… were withdrawn. In 1952, the BCP (Basutoland Congress Party) was formed in Lesotho. In 1958 it split into the BNP (Basutoland National Party) and BCP. The…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - In the city by Emilia Potenza
… government came to power. This was a combination of the National Party under Hertzog and the Labour Party under Creswell. The … came to power. This time it…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… of Africans to white cities following World War Two. 5 The National Party won the election of 1948 on a platform that proposed an … included the harmful…
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… scale, segregation and forced removals occurred before the National Party came into power and introduced apartheid legislation … and the recommended…
Save South Africa calls ‘People’s Assembly Against State Capture’
… to unite behind that great symbol of our nation, the National Flag, to a “People’s Assembly Against State Capture” … impact and a consolidated civil society…
Document 24 - De Klerk’s reply to Nelson Mandela
… on the ANC not to move an inch on its current proposal. No party as worth its name can agree to the reintroduction of … governments. COSATU will study this…
Toast remarks by the President Jacob Zuma to the official state banquet held in his honour on the occasion of the state visit to Uganda, 25 March 2010, State House Entebbe, Uganda
… in this country, having visited this country in 2008 on party to party basis, the ANC visiting the National Resistance Movement. Each time we visit, we are …
Cosatu march: For Who, for What? by Simelane and Nicolson (Daily Maverick), 8 October 2015
… listed starting point in the city for Cosatu's protected national strike. “Sorry guys, the march is actually starting … is back on the streets and can pull a…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1948 - Press Reports on the Campaign
… and Mr. Lawrence, Minister of Justices, is a Union National, has been penalised for being in the Union. Seaman … Lena Horne, and Marian Anderson, all of who…
EventW. E. B. Du Bois (95), writer, scholar, intellectual, Pan
… over time. In 1934 he resigned over the issue of a national activist strategy. Du Bois favored a movement toward … a Ghanian citizen and an official member…
EventA bomb blast rocks the ANC London office
… On this day the African National Congress (ANC) headquarters in London, England, was … plan was to bomb both the ANC and South African Communist Party (SACP)…
EventSADF officers dismissed
… 'third force' campaigns, intended to discredit the African National Congress (ANC). The activities included horrifying … weapons and collaborating with the…
ANC NGC 2015 Resolutions on International Relations
… 1. Introduction The important task of our National Democratic Revolution (NDR) is to grapple with the … unemployment, and inequality, are aligned with the…
Document 39 - Statement by S. P. Bunting, October 1931
… Private, for circulation among members of the Communist Party only. … October, 1931. DEAR COMRADES OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY , No doubt you have heard of the…
South Africa: Liberation and Reconciliation Role of International Solidarity, 8 April 2004
… leaders. As Oliver Tambo, the President of the African National Congress in the most difficult and crucial years of … any restraint. Since 1948, the country…
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
… Education Movement; and documents of the SACP. The illegal Party had not yet publicly “emerged” and evidence of its … for the detainees at the international…
EventClarence Makwetu Expelled from PAC
… Congress and disciplinary committee announces that former party President and Robben Island detainee Clarence Makwetu has been expelled party for three years…
Document 18 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to the South African Federation of NativeTrade Unions, 20 September 1930
… you or your Secretary were before the last meeting of the Party Executive, one for the use of a table and two chairs belonging to the Party, one for…
BiographyMatthew Goniwe
… founder member and former secretary general of the African National Congress (ANC)) and his eldest brother, Jacques … at the meeting dispute this. Some claim…
BiographyJohn Langalibalele Dube
… on January 8, 1912, to establish the South African Native National Congress (renamed the African National Congress in 1923). In 1912, Dubeaccepted the ……