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Dream of Total Liberation of Africa is in Sight - Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 72nd Anniversary of ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1984
… Comrades, Today, the 8th January, your organisation, the African National Congress, is 72 years old. In keeping with … management committees and community…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 72th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1984
… Comrades Today, the 8th January, your organisation, the African National Congress, is 72 years old. In keeping with … management committees and community…
BiographyViacheslav “Ivan” Shiryaev
… bear the imprints of Comrade Ivan’s connection with the African National Congress (ANC) as a liberation movement. … participant in the activities organised…
Document 118 - Johannesburg District Communist Party, Call to a Non-European United Front!
… A NON-EUROPEAN UNITED FRONT! TO ALL ASIATICS, COWURED AND AFRICAN PEOPLE SEGREGATION THREATENS US The Government … locations! It proposes to push them into a…
EventFidel Castro, president of Cuba from 1976 to 2008, is born
… Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, was born into a wealthy family in Cuba. He attended Catholic schools before pursuing … governments, particularly the newly…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the summit on rural Safety and Security Midrand, 10 October 1998
… farms, like crime in general, have been a feature of South African life for many decades, the incidents of murder and assault in farming areas have increased…
ArchiveBiography of Amina Desai by Cole Deal
… through political activism to change the future for the African people and free them from the white regime. Men such … as Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo and…
PlaceMatjiesfontein
… was completed in 1899 during the early stages of the South African War . It wasn’t long before the region grew into a … Matjiesfontein today Following Rawdon…
ArticleNUSAS Wages Commission Timeline 1971-1973
… and distributed by the students to workers in industrial areas, outside factory gates and at taxi ranks. 400 workers … July, A proposal is made at a National…
Political changes from 1750 to 1820
… merchants and traders started to sell their goods in areas other than the Cape, made possible by the establishment … strenuous work on farms it was very…
ArticleSouth Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured
… as forced removals were instigated through the Group Areas Act of 1950. Temples, mosques, halls and other cultural … heritage, bridging generational gaps and…
PlaceRoodepoort, Johannesburg
… Hectares of ground with both landscape and natural veld areas. Witpoortjie Falls is situated in the Middle of the … cemeteries with historical significance: …
ArticleOn Trial: State versus Abram Fischer and Thirteen Others by Norman Levy
… confusing. In “solitary” I was unable to communicate with family, fellow-detainees or legal counsel, write letters or … 3 July. After being charged with…
ArticleTutu and his role in the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
… banishment of their organisations. The proscribing of the African National Congress (ANC), Pan-Africanist Congress … and objective record of the effects of…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 84th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1996
… 84th anniversary of the organisation of the people, the African National Congress. This, our second year of … revolts in Zeerust in 1956 which later spread…
BiographyErnest Malgas
… by police,who were looking for a neighbor.he joined the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL),and in 1962 …
PlaceBishopscourt, Cape Town
… Bishopscourt, Cape Town, was a prime example of the Group Areas Act's cruel impact, where non-white families (the … oaks that line most of the quiet streets…
ArchiveReminiscences of the Arrest of Fikile Bam & Marcus Solomon in 1963 by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
… first when he was employed as a barrier attendant on South African Railways and later when through varied informal means … in Alexandra. He ran his business…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 103th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… We are celebrating 103 years of the existence of the African National Congress. We are the ANC of John … it was, even ten years ago. More people have access…
PlaceOprah Winfrey's Leadership Academy for Girls, Meyerton, Johannesburg
… and have leadership potential. They have to be a South African Citizen or permanent resident and their family or household total income before deductions is…
ArticleGrade 12 - Topic 3 - Civil Society protests 1950s to 1990s
… unionism, women workers, their economic role in the rural areas and in the informal sector; as political anti-pass … is launched and women step forward The…
EventDemonstrating Clergymen are arrested in central Johannesburg
… 27 May the school boycotts spread to universities, rural areas and the homelands. Police were on high alert in Durban … established in schools and the…
EventPassbook laws relaxed
… accepting passbooks - this sparked resistance in the rural areas, with massive and sustained revolts in Zeerust and … of a host of anti-apartheid…
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
… On 9 June 1983, three members of the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), were … on 30 March 1960 and banned the ANC,…
EventElectrically powered units replaced Johannesburg's horse-drawn trams
… 1948, when increased private automobile use and a shift in urban densities convinced local authorities to terminate the …
Archive2015 - President Zuma, Response to the State of the Nation Address, 19 February 2015
… of action for the current financial year. We outlined the areas of work that we believe are necessary to tackle, for us … level. Honourable Manyoni the…
ANC condemns hijacking of Spokesperson, 24 November 2009
… The African National Congress (ANC) condemns in the strongest … to police. Crime fighting is one of the ANC`s key priority areas for the next five years and…
ArchiveNotes on Letters from a Kindred Spirit: Ismail Mohamed by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
… at a conference of the black consciousness oriented South African Students Organisation setting the tone for his active … especially in the Soweto, Newclare…
ArticlePoqo
… movement of its time. Its aim was to overthrow the South African government in order to replace it with a socialist African state. The word 'poqo' means …
PlaceMvezo, Eastern Cape
… known as being the birthplace of Nelson Mandela, whose family serves as its chiefly dynasty. It is Home to the … kick off in Mvezo with the following program…