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EventThe African National Congress (ANC) calls a meeting to chart a way forward for the Defiance Campaign
… activity. Sources: South African History Online timelines. 1950s. Website: sahistory.org.za The defiance campaign. …
BiographyMarcus Solomon
… Maintaining that human beings make themselves, Marx’s main focus was how people develop. Activists need to …
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
… 1997 to 2002, Motlanthe adheres to the principle that his main responsibility was to maintain the unity of the …
Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 1 - The … Congress (ANC) arose as a mass organisation in the 1950s as the black working…
ArticleFederation of South African Women (FEDSAW)
… women were engaged in production work in the 1950s, the trade unionists, like the nurses and teachers, …
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
… associated themselves with the non-racial policy of the 1950s Congress Alliance. The Transvaal Indian Congress was …
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… . This Act divided the South African population into three main racial groups: Whites, Natives (Blacks), Indians and … several thousand people in Southern…
Conflict among civic organisations
… the third was concentration of electric cables under the main control room. Wilkinson and his girlfriend Gray dug up … devices hidden under his work overalls…
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
… Planning Council (made up of representatives from all the main anti-apartheid groups) is chaired by Moroka on the day … proposes the drawing up of the…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… aimed to unite, on a federal basis, members of the three main 'ethnic groups' - Africans, Coloureds and Indians - … neutrality but more right wing elements,…
EventUnited Party disbands
… The United Party, main political opposition party in South Africa, was formally … and the ruling National Party (NP). Subsequently, the main group decided to…
The South African War
… town, which took place some 21km to its south before the main body of Republican forces retreated to Pretoria. To the …
EventMoïse-Kapenda Tshombé becomes the Prime Minister of the Congo
… provisional council of Katanga and towards the end of the 1950s he became president of the Belgian-supported Conakat, …
EventNuclear Test Ban Treaty signed
… Union concerning a ban on nuclear testing began in the mid-1950s. Officials from both nations came to believe that the …
EventKader Asmal, political activist and future Member of Parliament, is born
… movement as a member of the ANC for the rest of the 1950s. Early in the 1960s, following the banning of the ANC, …
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… a month later. Aerial shot of Liliesleaf Farm showing the main house and out-houses. Source: South African National … that Arthur Goldreich and his family…
Indian Community in Lenasia
… answer to an urgent need. They moved there in the early 1950s, living in barracks that were partitioned off into … soccer teams. A fierce rivalry developed…
SASPU National, 1980 - 1987
… discrimination in education. The mass militancy of the 1950s influenced the union in the latter half of the decade …
PlaceKwaMashu
… implementation of the Apartheid Group Areas Act during the 1950s. The Group Areas Act was a system used by the Apartheid … of the Act. Durban’s rapid…
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… identity searching within the organization throughout the 1950s, the majority of the members were generally unconcerned … this stigma did not remain, as the…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… the heritage of struggle in black sport before the 1950s. It laid the foundation from which the anti-apartheid … was a boycott of Durban's municipal…
Marikana Commission of Inquiry
… the State president on 31 March 2015. The Commission’s main findings and recommendations The report absolved the key …
Marikana Commission of Inquiry
… the State president on 31 March 2015. The Commission’s main findings and recommendations The report absolved the key …
ArticleMarikana Commission of Inquiry
… to the State president on 31 March 2015. The Commission’s main findings and recommendations The report absolved the key …
Chapter VII - The 1980’s
… of the Federation, which had brought us together in the 1950s, was not dead. It would live on in the hearts of the … We had worked side by side in the…
ANC statement on the state of readiness for celebrations of 101 year celebration of the ANC, 9 January 2013
… of the second centenary. The ANC will this year hold its main anniversary celebrations in KwaZulu-Natal at Kings Park … ready to accommodate overflow in the…
EventThe Defiance Campaign against apartheid laws begins
… of Action in the 1949 annual congress, the ANC began the 1950s with mass action campaigns marked by boycotts, strikes …
The Indians of Natal: Resistance to Apartheid, 1971-1985 by Davinder S. Dhillon
… the racist laws that targeted them, to how by the 1950s closer inter-ethnic ties were forged with the other …
EventAfrican National Congress Youth League is founded
… Programme of Action led to the Defiance Campaign of the 1950s." Further reading: Constitution of the ANC Youth …
PlaceAha Hills, Northern Cape Border With Namibia and Botswana
… there are few animals or birds and only a few insects. The main attraction of these Hills is their solitude and … unofficial camping is allowed within 100 m…