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BiographyJacqueline Daane-van Rensburg
… their brutality continued in Claremont in 1957and in 1958 in Swellendam Daane filed a complaint against a police …
BiographyChief Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk
… period, which saw the introduction of the Group Areas Act (1958) that he experienced apartheid discrimination at its …
BiographyHemant Kumar Waghmarae
… years. The family arrived in South Africa from India in 1958. He completed his primary education at the Surat Hindu …
BiographyOlive Peace Landman
… account of a meeting of London CPC 9/10/1965; FAL /20/1966 Resolution adopted by National Committee, Dec 1965 received …
BiographyDr Kwame Nkrumah
… to be expected, was divided on its approach to challenging imperialism and in their varied conceptions of social … Conference, 1945 and the All Africa…
BiographyChris Hani
… Institute in the Eastern Cape, where he matriculated in 1958. Hani was exposed to Marxist ideology while a student at …
Jonas Malheiro Savimbi
… Angola. His secondary school studies began in Angola. In 1958, he was granted a scholarship from the United Church of …
BiographyRaymond Hoffenberg
… Fellowship to the United States of America in 1957. In 1958, he was a senior researcher in endocrinology supported …
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
… at the core of which was the question of ‘race’ and imperialism. They had to make sense of what was happening … to emphasize how significantly ‘race’ was an…
Evelyn Ntoko Mase
… – Long Walk to Freedom” Mandela filed for divorce in 1958 after three years of separation. Mase raised their …
BiographyChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli
… He was re-elected president-general in 1955 and in 1958. Although bans confined him to his rural home throughout …
EventSouth Africa becomes a charter member of the United Nations
… South Africa's representation at the UN from 1955 to 1958 was greatly weakened. When South Africa repeatedly … on 6 November 1962 the UN General Assembly…
BiographyDieter 'Felix' Gerhardt
… first wife, British-born Janet Coggin whom he married in 1958. Coggin says she became aware of her husband’s Cold War …
BiographyJoseph Chamberlain
… Treaty of Vereeniging was signed on 31 May 1902. Post-war Imperialism: Chamberlain in South Africa After the peace was …
ArticleUnited Nations and Apartheid Timeline 1946-1994
… The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted resolution 44(I), expressing the opinion that the treatment … Assembly of the United Nations was unable to…
BiographyReggie Vandeyar
… they would assist when it worked in its constituency. In 1958, the Congress Alliance called for a national …
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… S.R. Naidoo and S. Rustomjee, backed A. Christopher's resolution, "to offer the services of the Indians" and the … the main pillar in the struggle against …
ArticleAfrican National Congress (ANC) office bearers
… - present Deputy President Period Nelson Mandela 1952 - 1958 Oliver Tambo 1958 - 1985 Nelson Mandela 1985 - 1991 Walter Sisulu 1991 - … Calata 1936–1949…
Document 52 - International Secretariat of the International Communist League [B-L),Minutes of meeting, 23 April 1935 (Extract)
… be a hundred times less dangerous than while nationalism (Imperialism). The implacable struggle against English imperialism and for separation from England…
EventIndependent African States resolve to impose sanctions against South Africa
… Independent African States held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia a resolution calling for sanctions against South Africa was … for sanctions against South Africa…
BiographyMichael Guthrie Scott
… and self-sacrifice” in standing up to tyranny (Scott, 1958). Though he made several high-ranking contacts, his … awareness on SWA and working for the Africa…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1920-1929
… the first international conference of the League Against Imperialism in Brussels. At the end of the conference Gumede … La Guma and Nikolai Bukharin, in…
Fifty Fighting Years by A. Lerumo. The Communist Party of South Africa, 1921 - 1971 - Foreword to Book, by Dr Yusuf M. Dadoo,1972
… of the oppressed South African working peoples against imperialism and racial oppression. The book, I have no doubt, … interwoven. Both have for long been…
BiographyWinnie Madikizela-Mandela
… their engagment together in Johannesburg on 25 May 1958. Despite government restrictions on the movements of … Trial defendents, Winnie and Nelson got…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew
… "The Opposition in Congress", The Citizen 3, 3, 4 March 1958 Document 30 - W. M. Tsotsi, "Presidential Address to the … Convention Conference", Edendale, 14…
BiographyPieter Willem Botha
… Coloured representation in Parliament in 1956. In October 1958 Dr H. F. Verwoerd appointed Botha as Deputy Minister of …
ArticleInqaba ya basebenzi
… Government apartheid policies. Capitalism, socialism, imperialism and reformism are issues debated at length, …
Document 37 - “Communist Election Policy Defined: National Conference Decision”, The Guardian, 8 January 1948
… over 50 delegates from all parts of the country. The resolution on the general elections points out that the … a Socialist Democracy, and of rallying the…
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
… bar in Johannesburg, and practised as an advocate until 1958. Prime Minister JG Strijdom died in 1958, and Verwoerd succeeded him. A change in the … Vorster…
Document 87 - “Lessons of the All-Bantu Convention”, The Spark, 2, 2, February 1936
… resolutions. When the Convention dared to put through a resolution of its own, the Executive Committee brushed it … delegate, every reporter can tell him…