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EventThe Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.
… uprising, these included among others, the Black People's Convention (BPC), the South African Students' Organisation …
Appeal To Students by Nelson Mandela
… called upon the government to convene a National Convention, before 31 May this year, of all South Africans, … constitution. If the government failed to call…
EventKwame Nkrumah is released from jail
… a year later on 12 February 1951, after his party, the Convention People's Party (CPP), won the 1951 elections. As …
EventANC makes demands changes to facilitate democratic elections
… the resumption of multilateral talks in the form of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), ensuring a …
EventSecurity officials report that levels of political violence have dropped significantly in SA
… the town of Klerksdorp and the United Kingdom Embassy in Pretoria was attacked. The violence continued countrywide and … just a few. Some of this violence…
EventThe Azanian People’s Organisation is formed
… Whites. AZAPO emerged from the ashes of the Black People's Convention (BPC), the South African Students' Organisation …
EventBanning orders served on NUSAS leaders
… condemning the Pass laws, endorsing a call for a National Convention, and protesting against the 1962 Sabotage Act. …
EventCODESA 1 convenes in Johannesburg
… described by many as tension-driven and known as the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), took place … ArchivalPlatform.org (2011). ‘Convention…
EventPixley Seme, lawyer, journalist and co-founder of SANNC is born
… On 1 October 1881, Pixley ka Isaka Seme was born at the Inanda mission … to re-launch his political career with the 'All Africa Convention' was not very…
EventCODESA’s starting date is set
… on South Africa's future constitution through the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA). Its' …
EventThe Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.
… uprising, these included among others, the Black People's Convention (BPC), the South African Students' Organisation …
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Some Aspects of the Native Bills
… promises made to the Imperial Parliament by the National Convention delegates in 1909 during the passage of the Union … submission of all the Bills to an…
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… movement increased in significance when the Black People's Convention (BPC) was established in 1972. A number of women, …
ArticleThe Inquest into Biko’s Death and his funeral
… driven, naked and manacled in the back of a police van, to Pretoria. He died there on 12 September 1977. Biko's funeral … vigil prior to their departure by…
EventA Whites-only referendum in SWA gives a support on Black majority.
… the independence aspirations reflected in the Turnalle Convention. Although led by a White, Dirk Mudge, the party …
EventANC Constitutional proposals are disclosed
… set February 1993 as deadline for the resumption of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) talks. The …
EventNP presents its revised constitutional proposals
… revised constitutional proposals on the table during the Convention for Democratic South Africa (CODESA) discussions. …
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Opening Ceremony of the Second Festival of the Cultures and Civilisations of World Deserts, Dubai: 16 April 2005.
… This meeting needs to send a clear declaration to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the…
Document 90 - “Hertzog’s Native Bill Passed: Only 11 Oppose Reactionary Measure”, Umsebenzi, 1 1 April 1936
… shall be removed there from." ALL EYES TO THE NATIONAL CONVENTION All-eyes are now turned on the African National Convention which meets in Bloemfontein in…
EventPresident Cyril Ramaphosa appears before protesters against gender- based violence in South Africa
… World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town International Convention Centre, but he had to address the crowd instead. …
Document 64 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa to the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L), 1 July 1936
… writing there is being held in Bloemfontein an All African Convention to which all political organisations that have … attending. There is a movement a foot…
Frances Baard Launch of the ANC Volunteer Corps, 11 July 2013
… by the actual launch at 15h00, at the Mitta Seperepere Convention Centre. The Speakers at all these programs will be …
Event’Viva Frelimo’ rallies, organised by the BPC and SASO, take place even though they were banned by Government
… Consciousness Movement organisations, the Black People's Convention (BPC) and the South African Students' Organisation …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… and State President F.W. de Klerk hold discussions in Pretoria on the progress of the Groote Schuur Minute. 4 June, … are in decline 6 August, After 14-hours…
PlaceBaavianskloof Pass
This spectacular Kloof (which is part of the R332 route) links the Western section of the Baavianskloof with the higher Karoo hinterland, and more specifically…
ArchiveInterview with Absolom Zithulele Cindi
… in the late 1960s. In 1972 he joined the Black People's Convention [BPC] when it was founded, and rose through the …
EventDay of the African Child
… on Human and People's rights as well as the United Nations convention on The Rights of the Child. Despite the …
EventA resolution against the use of Afrikaans is taken during SASM conference in Roodepoort
… conference Aubrey Mokoena, a member of the Black People's Convention (BPC) and the Black Parents Association (BPA), …
Chapter 4
… possible that they could run out on the 1935 decisions of Convention and flout the expressed wishes of the people and … full force of these Acts. When,…
PlaceLuthuli House Museum, KwaDukuza
The mission of this Museum is to conserve, uphold, promote and propagate the life, values, philosophies and legacy of the late Chief Albert Luthuli in the…