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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 ……
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…
ArchiveThe women's suffrage movement: The politics of gender race and class by Cheryl Walker
… over the age of 18. 1 For the 4 000 or so members of the national women's suffrage body, the Women's Enfranchisement … strategy of attack by General Hertzog…
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…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Timeline 1961-1990
… (Spear of the Nation or MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), was jointly formed by leading … members of the banned ANC and South…
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…
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…
Address delivered at The 9th COSATU Congress, 18 September 2006, Gallagher Estate, Midrand
… I bring you warm and revolutionary greetings from the National Executive Committee and the entire membership of the African National Congress. Comrades, the…
ANC statement on more lies inside the Cape Town story, 14 May 2011
… revelations, which have punched countless holes in the party`s so-called the Cape Town Story`, bear the hallmarks of a party desperate for electoral support…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
… organisations in South Africa ”” namely the African National Congress (ANC), the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) ”…
EventZach de Beer is elected as leader of the PFP
… as leader of the anti-Apartheid Progressive Federal Party. The officials of the Party had hoped that De Beer would turn the fortunes of the party around…
ArchiveInternational Bulletin, No 25, December 1989
… 25, December 1989, produced by the South African Communist Party. Issue covers an SACP delegation to the 14th Congress of the Romanian Communist Party, SACP…
EventSA Special Forces accused of train violence
… the violence on trains. The two Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters who applied for amnesty for their part … participating in a political conflict between…
Early Beginnings
… 5 September 1928 General Secretary C.P.S.A. [Communist Party of South Africa] Dear Douglas, I am at present … demands culminate historically in a single…
ArchivePik Botha: sympathetic obits fail to recognise that he protected apartheid by Alet Pretorius, 23 October 2018
… tone of the commentaries – including the governing African National Congress (ANC’s) - has been sympathetic. Many have … a good man working for a bad…
Biography of Johnny ‘Mbizo’ Dyani by Brandon Norman
… through the medium of music and assisted the African National Congress (ANC) by performing at events in Africa and … Johnny Dyani, jazz, music, double bass,…
Chapter Seven - Re-examining the Past
… which reflected much of his own difficulties with the Party in South Africa. Taking his cue from Padmore, he … himself as competent "after 37 years in the…
Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk, 26 June 1992
… and extremely dangerous. The NP government is placing party political interests above national interests by trying to minimise the seriousness of … 4…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 21 August 1990
… it so happens that the Central Executive of the African National Congress, the leaders of the African National Congress, comprise mainly Xhosa speaking…
Hendrik Verwoerd: 10 quotes by Hendrik Verwoerd (Politics Web), 20 September 2016
… 2016 was the 50th anniversary of the assassination of National Party Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd on the floor of the … opportunities for its own…
ArchiveThe Emperor has no Clothes by Liz Timbs
… since 1975, when Zwelithini became involved in the Inala party, a political organization spearheaded by Chief … Zwelithini’s position. In 1993, the formation…
Esau Mokhethi reburial speech by AZAPO President Cde. Koti Dikobo
… is highly polluted. We have witnessed how the ruling party has pushed the Secrecy Bill through the National Assembly. They used their majority to bulldoze ……
EventViolence breaks out at the University of Zululand
… The violence between an estimated 500 Inkatha Freedom Party supporters and a group of UDF aligned students … was triggered when students aligned to the…
Event1 575 people are detained under a state of emergency
… of Patrick Duncan, a prominent member of the Liberal Party prevented bloodshed and secured the release of Kgosana … Unlawful Organisations Act, thereby…
Opening address by Albert Luthuli to the Twenty-second Biennial Conference of the South African Indian Congress, 19 October 1956, Gandhi Hall, Johannesburg
… this tyranny, especially at this time when the Nationalist Party Government, through the Group Areas Act and other … Africa, climaxed by the tyrannical rule…
ArticleThe International Criminal Court: Origins, Jurisdiction and the ‘African Bias’
… involved bringing about the destruction of a particular national, ethnic, racial or religious group. The Nürnberg … concerns acts committed with the intent…
The Soul Of The ANC Under Attack by Frank Chikane
… gainsaying that this development is a great threat to the national democratic revolution (NDR), the premier strategic … Provinces in the next four to nine…
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
… Dave Hemson from the University of Natal, together with National Union of South African Students (Nusas) students, … on Philip Frame of the Frame Group. Even…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Royal Visit - 1947
… led out by Mr. Billy Peters, secretary of the Communist Party, held a meeting outside the Hall. There were a number … this opportunity of publicly endorsing…