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Chapter 28. I Fight Back - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… speakers from various organisations, including the United Party and the Labour Party, addressed the assembled crowd. At 11 a.m. I came … of the South African…
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…
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…
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)…
PlaceDistrict Six, Cape Town
… of what the Apartheid government, inaugurated by the National Party coming into power in 1948, needed people to believe and …
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…
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…
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. …
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…
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…
EventGovernment's final consolidation of 'homelands'
… The Nationalist party government announced its intention to consolidate the …
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…
ArchiveTen commandments for voters
… out for wolves in sheep's clothing. Do not vote for a party without knowing its aims and policies 3. People who …
ArchiveSPRO-CAS Occasional Publication Number 3: Directions of change in South African politics
… trends; Some thoughts on the common society; The United Party plan for a new realism in South African politics; The …
ArchiveInterview with Alexander Hepple
… South African parliament for the white socialist Labour Party from 1953 to 1958, and edited its newspaper "Forward". …
EventChris Hani succeeds Joe Slovo as Chief of MK
… appointed general secretary of the South African Communist Party (SACP). MK was intensifying its struggle against South …
EventFormer SADF Chief Tienie Groenewald is acquitted
… with other members of the SADF and Inkatha Freedom Party members such as M.Z. Khumalo. …
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…
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…
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…
EventRuth First is born
… activist and the wife of former South African Communist Party (SACP) leader Joe Slovo was born in Johannesburg , …
EventViolence escalates in German South West Africa during Herero Revolt
… Samuel Maharero allowed missionary Eich with his small party of German women and children safe passage from …