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EventSouth African Communist Party leader Abram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of communism
… he helped A. B. Xuma revise the African National Congress (ANC) constitution, and was charged with incitement during the …
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 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…
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 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…
Statement at the 50th Session of the OAU Coordinating Committee for the Liberation Of Africa by O. R. Tambo, Harare, 13 May 1988
… Just how much of a pipe dream the notion was, that the ANC could be destroyed, has once more been demonstrated this … to the problems of our country can be…
PlaceKhami Ruins, Zimbabwe
… programme, to maintain stone walls and landforms and to address factors that contribute to deterioration, such as …
Tribute to Prof Meer on her 80th birthday by Ari Sitas, 23 August 2008
South African History Online Tribute to Prof Meer on her 80th birthday by Ari Sitas 23 August 2008 Fatima Meer's career at Natal University spanned…
PlaceSaldanha Bay
Saldanha is a seaside village that lies in the Northern most corner of Saldanha bay - the largest and deepest natural bay in the Country. The Saldanha…
PlaceRichards Bay
Once a little fishing Village, Richards Bay is now a busy Harbour Town and popular KwaZulu-Natal Holiday Destination. Where one can enjoy activities like: …
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 …
Event90-Days Act commences
… Umkhonto We Sizwe with the African National Congress (ANC) and Poqo with the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), both …
Pretoria Socialist Society
… among the African people in the Union of South Africa, to address this letter direct to you as head of the government … and chaos in the country. The…
David Goldblatt, once and future freedom hero by Rebecca Davis (Daily Maverick), 28 November 2012, South Africa
… the effects of Aids, poverty and unemployment under the ANC government, with his latest project focusing on crime and … is the final straw in his growing…
Albie Sachs: From freedom fighter to justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court by Morris Arvoy
… with Oliver Tambo and other African National Congress (ANC) leaders in exile. A 1988 car bomb planted by security … blind in one eye. In early 1990, Nelson…
The ‘special branch’
… never forget it, I was with Makiwane and them, some of the ANC leaders, and we went to a place called George in the … to organize the people and to hold a…
Call for papers: 100 years of the SACP
… liberation struggle and has, since 1994, been part of the ANC-led governing coalition through the tripartite alliance. … perspectives reflecting on the…
ArticleThe Cape Minstrels: Origins and Evolution of Tweede Nuwe Jaar (Second New Year) in the Cape
… However, most of the troupes were in support of the ANC, which made efforts to improve the organization of the … in Cape Town. Their presence at the State of…