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1983, Volume 7 Dawn page 3 Article: Response to a Crisis
… November white referendum The history of the Nationalist Party is pock-marked with the continuous manoeuvres to …
ArticleSASO till SASCO
… December AZASO president Joe Phaahla addresses the NUSAS National Congress held in Cape Town. 1982 AZASO-COSAS begin … Charter committees within all branches…
ArticleStudent Politics: SASO till SANSCO
… December, AZASO president Joe Phaahla addresses the NUSAS National Congress held in Cape Town. 1982 AZASO-COSAS begin … Charter committees within all…
ArticleAzanian Students Organisation (AZASO)
… with their major concerns being the roles of whites in the national liberation struggle and the question of socialism in … had existed between Black student…
EventSouth Africa's new constitution is approved
The adoption of the South African Constitution on 8 May 1996 was one of the turning points in the history of the struggle for democracy in South Africa. The…
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… as either an exception or a momentary interruption to a “national” narrative overwhelmingly centered on events, … and Indian Congresses 67 The NEUM, Xuma,…
ArchiveA Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai
… within, 1978 78. The Natal Indian Congress calls for a national convention 79. Indian Parliament: separate can’t be … committees: a means to an end 81. The…
ArticleUnited Nations and Apartheid Timeline 1946-1994
… led by Dr. A.B. Xuma, President-General of the African National Congress, arrived in New York to follow the … Defiance against Unjust Laws" was launched by…
ArchiveThe 1957 Alexandra Bus Boycott and its unsung heroes by Roseinnes Phahle, June 2019
… in South Africa. These were the years when the Nationalist Party government was preparing to implement the Group Areas … opposition to the impending forced…
EventThembisile Chris Hani is killed
… Also implicated in the assassination was Conservative Party MP Clive Derby-Lewis, and strangely a theory based … written in 1991, from the South African…
EventFirst victim of the land invasions in Zimbabwe, David Stevens, is murdered
… backed by President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party. Stevens was taken from his property 75 miles (120 …
EventMalawi’s Kamuzu Banda losses election
… defeat to Bakili Muluzi in the country's first multi-party election. With 30 years at the helm as Africa's longest …
EventFeminist writer and activist, Diana E. H. Russell is born
… offer Women’s Studies. In 1963, Russell joined the Liberal Party of South Africa and was arrested while participating in …
EventThe UDF launches the Million Signatures Campaign and by October collect just under 400 000 signatures.
… of its supporters and prospective participants, but the party’s internal conflict, inexperience of its leadership and …
Chapter 13. General Strike, 1932
… was a by-election pending in Germiston and the Nationalist Party was anxious to win the seat. Pirow feared that the strike might impair the chances of his…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1947-Press Reports on the Campaign
… discussion with Major-General Shah Nawaz, of the Indian National Army. Khan Ghaffar Khan supports Passive Resistance; … the leaders The Bombay Committee of…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… analysis of the Cape Town 'answer' to the Bolshevik Party (the Industrial Socialist League). Jewish Trade … of South Africa held on 15 September 1910. The…
Appeal For United Front, July 1948
… for the Indians was the logical outcome of the United Party's segregation programme but because the leaders of the United Party did not make their intentions…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 9
… was Dr. Yusuf Dadoo, a member of the Communist Party and a believer in the policy of uniting all … could not usurp it. Enraged by Kajee's opposition to the…
Archive2010 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2010
… brunt of apartheid. We greet the leadership of the ruling party and Alliance partners, for whom this is an extra … the contribution of those within the…
ArchiveLong live Ruth First by Gavin Williams, 17 August 2019
… African workers at the night schools run by the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). In 1946, during the strike of … by the reconstituted underground…
ArticleThe “Wind of Change” speech
… continent and, whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact. We must all accept it as a fact, and our national…
PAC office bearers
… Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA) Azanian National Youth Unity (AZANYU) The Pan Africanist Student … Movement (PAM) Young African Christian Movement …
The first Bram Fischer Memorial lecture, delivered by President Nelson R. Mandela Market Theatre, Johannesburg, 9 June 1995
… blunted by his having studied at Cambridge. In 1929 the National Union of South Africans Students - NUSAS - was … was not an experience that led him to join…
South Africa After Soweto - O. R. Tambo Interviewed to World Marxist Review, February 1978
… to the armed and unarmed struggle led by the African National Congress, the collapse of Portuguese colonialism has … on the masses in South Africa. In the…
EventDr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert resigns from parliament
… and leader of the opposition Progressive Federal Party (PFP), resigned as leader of the PFP and as a MP. In …
EventRuth First is assassinated in Mozambique
… activist and member of the South African Communist Party , was brutally killed by a letter bomb in Maputo, …
EventThe Prince Imperial of France dies in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879
… in the Anglo-Zulu War when he and a British reconnaissance party were attacked by about forty Zulus in the vicinity of …
EventBram Fischer born today
… the Orange River Colony), became a member of the Communist Party of South African (CPSA), openly participating in its …
EventOmar Bongo, former president of Gabon is born
… multiparty system; Ondimba had led the country under a one party system since he came into power in 1967. During his 41 …