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BiographyDavid Wilcox Bopape
… defy the orders by attending the Congress of the People at Kliptown. Bopape was arrested again following the declaration …
BiographyMary Moodley
… June 1955, Mary was amid the representatives that met in Kliptown. The COP epitomised a fundamental historical moment …
BiographyMoosa “Mosie” Moolla
… COP campaign with the adoption of the Freedom Charter in Kliptown on 25 and 26 June 1955. Mosie was later elected onto …
BiographyBilly Nair
… Nair addressed the 3000 strong Congress of the People in Kliptown . He played a leading role in the formation of the …
BiographyAlex la Guma
… at the historic Congress of the People that took place in Kliptown, in June 1955. La Guma’s writing career took off in …
BiographyRuth First
… , but was unable to attend the Congress of the People at Kliptown in 1955 because of her banning order. In 1956, both …
BiographyNimrod Sekeramane Nathale
… of 1955 when the ANC proclaimed the Freedom Charter at Kliptown. Speaking on 23 January 1955 at Dadoo Plain, …
BiographyArchibald Jacob Gumede
… led the Natal delegation to the Congress of the People in Kliptown, Johannesburg . After the formation of the Liberal …
BiographyRonald “Ron” Press
… South Africa to draw up the draft Charter. At the COP, in Kliptown, he was under the speaker's platform looking after …
ArticleCongress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… social order. The Congress of the People gathered at Kliptown, outside Johannesburg on June 25 and 26, 1955. This … the future. The three thousand delegates…
Launch of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… area. Joe Modise and his unit were to sabotage the Kliptown area while Masondo and his unit were given the … accident took place. The explosion we heard on…
ArchiveANC : June 26 - Freedom Day Rally
… Anniversary of the Freedom Charter. Event to be held at Kliptown on 27th June 1992. ANC Logo. …
ArchiveJune 27 Freedom Day Rally
… yellow striped poster. Rally on 27th June 1992. Venue - Kliptown Market Place (Historical site - Freedom Charter). …
ArchiveCelebrating 50 years of South Africas Freedo
… poster of the signing of the Freedom Charter in Kliptown, Johannesburg on 26th June 1955. 1955 - 2005. 26th …
The Freedom Charter
… An article adopted at the Congress of the people in Kliptown, Johannesburg regarding the declaration made by the …
Celebrating 50 years of the Freedom Charter - June 26 1955-June 26 2005
… History Archives, Wits Archive, Mayibuye Centre, Sowetan, Kliptown Museum, New Age, Jurgen Schadeberg, South Photos, …
EventFormer South African Prime Minister Strijdom dies
… J. G. Strijdom dies. It was during his tenure in 1955 in Kliptown near Johannesburg, that the Freedom Charter, which …
EventNelson Mandela is acquitted of high treason
… were executed a year after the Congress of People met at Kliptown in 1955 to endorse the Freedom Charter and was an …
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
… for South Africa. On 26 June 1955, a meeting was held in Kliptown in Johannesburg with over 3000 delegates from across …
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… “Police brutality must stop!” or “A good sports field for Kliptown!” But into which category was the demand for “A … was printed for distribution at the COP…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… June. ↵ [4] Jenkin T., 1987 "Escape from Pretoria" London, Kliptown Books, pg 69 ↵ [5] Jenkin T., 1987 "Escape from Pretoria" London, Kliptown Books, pg 69 ↵…
EventFormer South African Prime Minister JG Strijdom dies
… minister in 1954. It was during his tenure, in 1955, in Kliptown near Johannesburg, that the Freedom Charter, which …
Congress of the People - I was there
… the dates of the Congress of the People which was held at Kliptown to discuss and finally adopt the historic Freedom … to be collected to send delegates up…
EventArchibald Gumede, former President of the United Democratic Front, is born in Pietermaritzburg.
… leading the delegation to the Congress of the People in Kliptown in 1955 and in the campaigns against the extension …
EventJoe Slovo is born
… was unable to attend the Congress of the People held in Kliptown because of his restriction order. In 1963 Slovo …
EventSophiatown residents are forcefully moved to Soweto
… the same year (1955), the Freedom Charter was adopted at Kliptown, where Africans, Indians, Coloured and Whites came …
BiographyNelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… historic Congress of the People on 25-26th June 1955 in Kliptown near Soweto. However Mandela, Sisulu and Ahmed … their participation. They viewed the…
BiographyOliver Tambo
… from a hiding place at Stanley Lollan’s residence in Kliptown, overlooking the square where the Congress was …
ArticleFederation of South African Women (FEDSAW)
… Charter" , adopted by the Congress of the People in Kliptown on June 25-26, 1955. A major task of the Federation …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.3 No.1 Feb 1980
… Cover Photographs: Front: Abe Cindi by Alf Kumalo Back: Kliptown, …