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EventCongress of the People starts in Kliptown
… The historic multi-racial convention called The Congress of the People started in … by the ANC national conference held in December. The convention was…
Nelson Mandela Letter to the United Party, 23 May 1961
… called on the government to convene an elected National Convention of representatives of all races without delay, and to charge that Convention with the task…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
… of violent change (1792-1794) The Jacobins, the National Convention and the Committee for Public Safety In the April … of September, a radical Assembly known…
Document 10 - Letter from Nelson Mandela to Sir de Villiers Graaff, leader of the United Party
… called on the Government to convene an elected National Convention of representatives of all races without delay, and to charge that Convention with the task…
EventLondon hosts an international conference on the protection of the African elephant and rhinoceros
… difficult to find, records show three years earlier the "Convention Relative to the Preservation of Fauna and Flora in their Natural State (1933)" was put…
Chapter 5
… The Significance of the All-African Convention Notwithstanding the temporary vicissitudes, which overtook the Convention, the indubitable fact remains that…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
… and Journalist attend the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) meeting. He urges the convocation to coordinate … into almost total moribundancy.” June, Non-European…
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… in the Cape from the voters roll. The All Africa Convention, the awakening of a people by IB Tabata The … the liberation organisations to send…
Document 91 - John Gomas, “The Native Representation Bill is Passed: What Must be Done Now?” Umsebenzi, 25 April 1936
… against the Native Bills at the All African National Convention and the protests all over South Africa should have … the Native Bills at the Bloemfontein All…
PlaceConstitution Hill Museum, Johannesburg
… icons like Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Robert Sobukwe and Albert Luthuli, all spent countless hours and …
Chapter 3
… The Formation of the All-African Convention: The Background In 1935 the Union Government … to the European farms and into the mines. The Calling of…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1920-1929
… and La Guma travel to the Soviet Union. 15 April, At the Convention of Bantu Chiefs held under the auspices of the … CPSA and ANC withdrawn. To read other…
ArticleJohn Langalibalele Dube Timeline 1940-1950
… 1909 March, Dube attends the South African Native Convention , convened in Bloemfontein. Dube placed the school … Black teachers. Dube becomes a member of…
ArchiveVerwoerd lets loose terror
… Circular by the All-African Convention and the Unity Movement regarding arrests of members of the All-African Convention and the Unity Movement. …
Chapter 14
… on the other side unwanted by the people. The All African Convention for its part was consolidating its gains. The … account, this broke down primarily…
EventSouth Africa completes destroying its stockpile of anti-personnel mines
… South Africa in Oslo Norway pushing for an international convention that would ensure a total ban on the manufacture … On 18 September 1997 the Diplomatic…
ArchiveLetter from Zithulele N Cindi to the South West African Peoples Organisation (SWAPO)
… letter of invitation from Zithulele N Cindi, Black Peoples Convention, to the South West African Peoples Organisation … to attend the 2nd Annual Congress of…
ArchivePress release to the Rand Daily Mail
… The Black People's Convention press release, signed by Nkwenkwe Nkomo, National Organiser, states that the convention has been mandated by Black people to…
ArchiveLetter from N Z Cindi to Clemens Kapuo
… from N Z Cindi, on behalf of the President, Black Peoples Convention, to Clemens Kapuo inviting him to be the guest … at the Annual National Congress of the…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… emerging nationalism and socialist resistance 1900-1959 1900-1959 1960-1994 Related References … July, The Executive…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1970-1979
… 25 August, Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi calls for a National Convention of all races in South Africa to decide the … The ANC issues a press statement on the…
EventThe ANC calls for a day of protest and observes this day as 'South Africa Freedom Day' for the first time
… African People Organisation organised a "Freedom of Speech Convention" in Johannesburg. The Convention was called to protest the Suppression of Communism ……
EventSouth Africa Freedom Day - 26 June 1950
… African People Organisation organised a "Freedom of Speech Convention" in Johannesburg. The Convention was called to protest the Suppression of Communism ……
Document 92 “Communist Party of South Africa Plenum Held from 5th to 8th April 1936”, Umsebenzi, and 16 May 1936
… the significance of the June meeting of the All National Convention in the struggle against the worsening of the … 3. That every effort be made by the Party…
Thabo’s pen versus perceptions by Tinyiko Maluleke (Sunday Independant), 24 January 2016
… late Van Zyl Slabbert. This was a precursor to Codesa, the Convention for a Democratic South Africa, and Mbeki was the … Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor,…
EventSouth Africa signs CITES treaty on international trade in endangered species of wild flora and fauna
… South Africa was a founding member of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species in Wild Fauna and Flora, known as the CITES Treaty. This…
ArticleCo-operation and conflict on the Highveld
… British and some of the Boers got together. They held a convention or great meeting in Bloemfontein in 1854. At the Bloemfontein Convention, the British…
EventArmistice negotiations are concluded during the First Anglo-Boer War
… end of the war was finally reached with the signing of the Convention of Pretoria on 3 August 1881, recognising limited … Republic. The Volksraad accepted…
EventA conference is held in Geneva, Switzerland (1949) to revise the original Geneva Conventions.
… wounded and sick armed forces on land and sea, the third Convention provides rules for the treatment of prisoners of war who are captured during wartime…
Regional Formation Schools.” Report in SASO Newsletter, September 1970
… be averted only by the calling of a sovereign national convention representative of all South Africans, to draw up a new non-racial and democratic…