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Document 12 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi19 to E. R. Roux 20, 27 January 1927
… Malemela + Ronald Kwenyama to attend meetings of the Party. More especially Group Meeting Y.C.L. Meetings on … c/o Communist Party …
EventSeretse Khama is asked to renounce chieftaincy
… that there was no chance of the pro-British opposition party winning the next all-white election in South Africa, if … Seretse Khama became leader of the…
EventThe Group Areas Act comes into effect
… In 1948 the Nationalist Party won the general election on a platform of separate …
EventBram Fischer dies
… Former leader of South African Communist Party (SACP) Bram Fischer died of cancer at his brother Dr …
EventPresident F. W. de Klerk announced the opening of four hitherto Whites-only residential areas to mixed settlement
… in 1966. The reform was described by Conservative Party (CP) spokesman Clive Derby-Lewis as quite disgraceful. …
PlaceRiebeek Kasteel
… same name. The Area was first visited in 1661 by a Dutch party who named the peak, after their Commander, Jan van … same name. The Area was first visited in…
Political Overview by the Gauteng ANC Chairperson, Paul Mashatile, at the Provincial General Council, 8 June 2012, St George`s Hotel, Tshwane
… National Chairperson of the ANC, Comrade Baleka Mbethe Deputy … Council. We have convened this PGC to prepare for the national policy conference. The PGC…
ArticleFootball in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012
… who becomes the Treasurer of the South African Native National Congress in 1915. They are the first South African … Association (SAIFA) is founded in…
ArchiveAssia Djebar: A Life of Resistance and Inspiration by Logan Landry
… directed the film La nouba des femmes du Mont Chenoua (The Party of the Women of Mount Chnoua) (Chronology Assia … a new Marxist-oriented constitution in…
Rick Turner: Thirty Years On by Jann Turner
… for our country? If neither candidate, nor indeed the party, is offering a vision of a better and more just … Opposition to apartheid went underground and…
Need for New Level of International Action against Apartheid. Statement at the special session of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, Stockholm by O. R. Tambo, June 18, 1968
… first of all, Sir, to express the gratitude of the African National Congress for the invitation extended to me to submit … to be welcomed to Sweden by the…
EventAbram Fischer fails to arrive in court
… being a member of the banned organisation, the Communist Party of South Africa. He was served with life imprisonment. …
EventChris Hani is elected SACP Secretary
… as secretary-general of the South African Communist Party (SACP) at its first legal congress in four decades …
EventCOSATU withdraws from parliamentary session on budget
… parties also raised their discontent. The Democratic Party claimed that the budget made provision for high taxes, …
EventEli Weinberg, trade unionist and photographer, is born
… Libau, Latvia. Weinberg was a trade unionist and communist party member. He co-founded the African Garment Workers' …
ArticleTimeline for Grade 12.4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
… alliance. The South African congress had the African National Congress (ANC), and its allies such as the South … the apartheid government were charged…
Olof Palme and the liberation of Southern Africa by Oliver Tambo, 01 March 1988
… Swedish people. Without it, the definition of a Swedish national consciousness is incomplete. Thus it is not an … relations which is not based on the…
ArticleANC Origins and Background
… The African National Congress (ANC) was formed in 1912 as a result of … is considered a precursor to the South African Native National Congress (SANNC)…
ArchiveIntroduction by Howard Barrell
… no solution to South Africa's crisis unless the African National Congress, its foe for 30 years, was a partner in … white minority domination in favour of…
ArticleYouth Politics in South Africa in the 1970s
… to Soweto, without any serious attempt at forming a national body. The state’s response to the students’ uprising … SASO and the SSRC in October 1977 left…
EventTunisia gains independence from France
… the French and the Neo-Destour (“New Constitution”) party, which was backed by the trade unions. Tunisia, located …
EventZambia gains independence from Britain
… Kaunda, the country’s first president, proclaimed one-party rule at independence. . Their independence came four …
EventKwame Nkrumah orders release of political prisoners
… which had rejected multiparty rule in favour of one party rule and scientific socialism. …
EventNigerian President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is inaugurated
… rivals were MuhammadBuhari of the All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP) and Vice President Atiku Abubakar. …
PlaceTsolo, Eastern Cape
… where, he felt, they would be safe. The next day the party, which included the mission staff and the family of the … they remained penned in until the…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1960 - 1969 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Sayed on December 16, 1960 it marked the birth of a truly national newspaper/or the Muslims of this country. Because of … Arabs [also called Zanzibaris or…
Article16 June 1976 - Soweto Uprising
… historic 1948 white elections that gave the Nationalist Party power, there was a system of segregated and unequal … live bullets. It is commemorated today by…
Document 50 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: The Trade Union Question (No division On this question) (1934)
… two existing Workers' Parties, the South African Labour Party and the Communist Party, we see the same erroneous and harmful attitude as … such a policy is…
ArchiveHamba kahle Jennifer Davis 1933-2019
… racial oppression wherever it occurred. In 1948, when the National Party came to power in South Africa, Jennifer took her first … Africa’s people, and she…
Rivonia: Telling it as it was, 2 July 1988
… that the 'headquarters' of the illegal ANC and Communist Party had been 'captured' of the trial and its head-on … always - they were there somewhere, in the…