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The turn to armed struggle
… weSizwe (MK). MK members came from the ANC, SACP, South African Indian Congress (SAIC) and the South African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO). On 16…
ArticleEnuga Sreenivasulu Reddy Timeline 1924 - 2020
… organized by the Council in front of the South African Consulate. 8 November, Reddy meets a delegation of African National Congress (ANC) President-General…
General Factory Workers Benefit Fund (GFWBF)
… the GFWBF. It became a dynamic point of contact between African workers in different industries and the Bolton Hall … by the 1973 strike wave. Alongside semi…
ArticleSharpeville
… sent shock waves around the country and the world. The African National Congress (ANC) President, Chief Albert … banned leading political figures. The ANC,…
The Development of Indian Political Movements in South Africa, 1924 - 1946 by Essop Pahad
… to Segregation Negotiations between the Indian and South African Governments The Round Table Conference Reactions to … Socio-Economic Factors 2. The…
ArticleThe San
… of Stone Age hunter-gatherers populated the South African landscape for nearly two million years, yet for most … give us clues as to the development of the…
ArticleThe Women’s Charter
… at the Founding Conference of the Federation of South African Women Johannesburg, 17 April 1954. The Charter … and aims of the newly established Federation…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Opening Address by President Jacob Zuma, Midrand, 26 June 2012
… all of you to the National Policy Conference of the African National Congress. The conference takes place during … account the need to deepen the…
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
… organisations was banned. Amongst these were the South African Students' Organisation (SASO), Black People's … application of the ideas of Lenin and Marx to…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… 4-6 April, An Africanist group who broke away from the African National Congress holds its first national meeting in … Ngcobo National Organizer Elliot Mfaxa…
ArticleConvention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA)
… party, such as the United Nations or the Organisation of African Unity . Other more extremist organisations such as … MK, and the role of the public…
Indian South Africans timeline 1970-1979
… HA Naidoo passes away while still in exile. 17 February, African Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA) … bridge. Rick Turner , who was…
Article1960-1966: The genesis of the armed struggle
… of political rights by the apartheid regime also saw the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist … 21 March 1960 marked an important turning…
BiographyNarriman Gadija Bazier Samuels
… Gadija Bazier Samuels represents a generation of South African activists who transitioned from opposing apartheid to …
ArticleKing Kong the Musical 1959 -1961
… King Kong: An African Jazz , was the first all-Black South African musical which opened in 2 February 1959. The musical … for Black South Africans in the…
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… and ethnicity have been and still is at the heart of South African history, politics, society and economy since the … Act No. 30 of 1950 . This Act divided…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March, Pretoria, 9 August
… Walker describes the impressive scene: Many of the African women wore traditional dress, others wore the … commemorated each year as a national holiday…
ArticleColonial history of Nelspruit
… that had until then lain on the margins of the South African Republic (ZAR). The mineral revolution created both … Spoorweg-Maatschappij (NZASM), the…
ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
… to the struggle through debate. Two years earlier the African National Congress (ANC) had adopted its Programme of … of Young Africa (SOYA) was a youth…
The ANC Women’s League in the Struggle for Women’s Rights in South Africa by Meghan Knapp
… Methodist University partnership project Abstract The African National Congress was created in 1912 and a year … the league has been very active in the…
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 3: Democracy and the Constitution
… perse number of people and cultures, but we are all South African. National symbols such as a national flag, an anthem … a part of that country and all its…
ArticleGrade 4 - Term 2: Learning from leaders
… follow the example of good leaders? Further reading 1. African Traditional leaders 2. For an A-Z of South African profiles visit www.sahistory.org.za/people …
ArticleNational Newspapers and News Sites
… News Sites: Independent Online - Union of several South African newspapers such as Cape Argus, Cape Times, The Star … - Main Newspaper for KwaZulu Natal…
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
… Golden City Post Can Themba was born a Black South African in a country where his race comprised of the … the brutalities of the apartheid regime in various…
ArticleThe Langa March, 30 March 1960
… event has been seen by some as a turning point in South African history. Kgosana agreed to disperse the protestors in … This march is seen by many as a…
Biography of Mandla Langa by Carol Sale
… in South Africa. He was and still is a well-known South African writer who, while in exile in Botswana in 1977 and … Lesotho in 1980 and after, did not cease…
ArticleThe Cordoned Heart
… and activist Omar Badsha who Curated the exhibition South African The Cordoned Heart what became a seminal travelling … Wilson, then head of the Department…
The people armed, 1984-1990
… a demonstration. Photograph by Shadrack Nkomo © Bailey's African History Archive. Numerous factors characterised the … For instance, the car bomb explosion…
ArticleCosatu timeline
… 2010 19 January: ( Congress of South African Trade Unions ) COSATU affiliate The Food and Allied … action such as rallies and marches at or near South…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… towards homosexuality and history of homosexuality within African society Most denominations of Christianity rejected … Christianity has played a role in…