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At least 460 refugees, most of them women and children, are massacred in Liberia, allegedly by rebels led by faction leader Cha
The Minister of Justice asks for an extension of emergency powers granted to one area troubled by faction fighting to the entir
At the Rivonia Trial, Nelson Mandela, former leader of the banned ANC, blames the actions of the government for adoption of pol
BiographyKenneth Mfiki
Kenneth Mfiki was from Mooiplaats, East London, Eastern Province [now Eastern Cape]. He allegedly “stirred up factions in the location” and ”insulted and…
BiographyGeorge Gangen Ponnen
… the Black workers. They discussed ways and means of taking action. George approached the White women in his department to get unity among all workers in any…
BiographyRobert Gabriel Mugabe
… others were severely punished and displaced. This military action is known as Gukurahundi. Mugabe went after Joshua …
BiographyEmily Hobhouse
In 1899 Emily Hobhouse was appointed secretary of the South African Conciliation Committee, which was a group that opposed the British government policy…
BiographyJacqueline Daane-van Rensburg
… in local newspaper about a local primary school taking action against Apartheid where she was the guest speaker and …
BiographyHemant Kumar Waghmarae
… Riots triggered his anger against Apartheid into organised action. Ismail Meer phoned his Uncle, Dr. Jaga, to inform him …
BiographyCecil John Rhodes
… over the land to push the British Government to take action. The Government sent John Smith Moffat , the then … for Lobengula. With the permission to engage…
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
… learning cells which also creatively engaged in resistance action. Through this Tariq made contact with the older … based in the concept of “acknowledgement…
BiographyIsaiah MacDonald Maseko
A chairman of the Orlando African National Congress (ANC) during the 1952 Defiance Campaign and elected to the ANC national executive committee in December…
BiographyCaleb Mayekiso
Caleb Mayekiso was an African National Congress (ANC) supporter who was arrested on 16 January 1964 in Graaff-Reinet, Cape, and sentenced to three years`…
'The People Accept the Challenge of the Nationalists' Statement issued by the National Executive of the A.N.C., April 6, 1963
… THE CHALLENGE OF THE NATIONALISTS. OUR POLITICAL LINE OF ACTION. Our mass political line of action is inspired by our historic National Conference held … It…
BiographyJames la Guma
… got his first taste of spontaneous working-class political action when he participated in the so-called 'hooligan riots' …
BiographyMagnus Malan
Magnus Malan was born in Pretoria on 30 January 1930. His father, Avril Ire de Merindol, was a professor of biochemistry at the university of Pretoria, and…
BiographyMzwakhe Mbuli
… to Mbuli, most of his poetry“consists of a call to action” as it questions the decisions and actions of the …
BiographyThabiso Johannes Thelejane
Thabiso Johannes Thelejane (55) was from Pabellong, Matatiele in the Eastern Cape. He began working for Lonmin in October 2011. On 16 August 2012 Mr Thelejane…
BiographyPhyllis Naidoo
… it did not believe in party politics and the kind of action undertaken by the African National Congress (ANC) , …
BiographyNana Sita
… with the armed struggle and international solidarity action, in forcing the racist regime to seek a peaceful …
BiographyDr Abdullah Abdurahman
… rights. In the 1920s and 1930s he led a rearguard action against state initiatives that undermined the economic …
BiographyCharles W H Kohler
As the driving force behind the creation of the Ko-operatieve Wijn-bouwers Vereniging van Zuid-Afrika, Beperkt (The Co-operative Wine Growers' Association of…
ArticleANC January 8th Statements
… listed below. January 8th, 2024 - The Year of United Action to Defend our Freedom and Advance a Better Life for … Decisive Victory! January 8th, 2023 - The…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… leaders could not mobilize their members for large-scale action. Isolated incidents such as livestock theft, work … for success was greater. The ICU failed…
ArticleAftermath: Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… Council and governments worldwide condemned the police action and the apartheid policies that prompted this violent … who were imprisoned with their leaders,…
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM)
… 1 April 1960, The Security Council of the UN, in its first action on South Africa, adopted Resolution 134 deploring the …
ArticlePassive Resistance in South Africa
… the aftermath of the campaign. Passive or non-violent mass action campaigns against the apartheid state, includes the …
BiographyChristopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu
… Mpofu worked on include that of Patricia de Lille’s legal action against the Democratic Alliance (DA) for attempting to …
BiographyMatthew Nkoana
Matthew Nkoana was born about 1930 in the rural northern Transvaal near Pietersburg. After completing elementary school he took a job selling newspapers. In…
ArticleSouth Africa and the United Nations, 1946-1990
… and the USA did not support it. The one possible form of action against South Africa was the introduction of economic … Africa by the General Assembly, with…