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EventTripartite Alliance plans mass action
… plan for August. The resolution was adopted after the Convention for Democratic South Africa (CODESA) negotiations …
EventWorld Leprosy Day is celebrated in SA
… to 3 February for the African Leprosy Congress. The convention was coordinated by Wits University to discuss …
EventPolitical activist and lawyer A. P. Mda is born
… Congress (ANC) that formed the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). Mda made his debut in politics when he attended the All-African Convention in Bloemfontein in…
EventThe ANC unveils its proposed constitutional principles
… This was followed by the first plenary session of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), which …
PlaceDurban Main Post Office
… was the first meeting place of the South African National Convention, which took place in a hall to the left of the …
EventGovernment bans 20 Black leaders
… African Students' Organisation (SASO), the Black People's Convention (BPC), the Black Community Programme (BCP), the …
Chapter 9
… the role of passivity to that of active leadership, the Convention was in a position to carry its new policy to the … The reaction of the people was a…
EventMK operatives, Jerry Mosolodi, Terry Mogoerane and Thabo Motaung are executed
… as prisoners of war under the protection of the Geneva Convention. A few weeks before the event at Wonderboom police …
EventProgressive Federal Party is formed
… and the negotiation of a new constitution at a national convention. Liberal, mainly English speaking Whites, were …
EventMulti-party delegates endorses the Interim constitution
… Delegates at the multiparty Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) negotiation …
EventANC and government to surge ahead with reforms
… In spite of Inkatha's rejection of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), the …
ArchiveBlack consciousness: a reactionary tendency
… Students' Organisation (SASO) and the Black Peoples' Convention (BPC) and other liberation movements. There is …
EventTalks between the government and ANC on negotiations proceed
… of Emergency. The Groote Schuur talks were followed by the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) in 1991 and …
ArticleThe 1913 Women’s anti-pass campaign in the Orange Free State
… made servants. Part of the South African Native Convention’s Appeal: “...any law which compels women to carry … and other issues. The newly formed South…
Indian South Africans timeline 1970-1979
… established 29 branches all over Natal and scheduled a convention for the official launch. The venue and date were … African Students Organisation (SASO) and…
ArticleThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
… greeting to the ANC on the eve of its annual congress in 1959, the Soviets asked the African Department of the … and the banning of the ANC and Pan…
Education for Service
… Government, coming together at this first meeting of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), mindful of … shall be entitled to put forward…
EventFormer NP member Roelf Meyer is born
… politician and National Party (NP) negotiator at the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) is born. …
EventTrial of nine BPC and SASO leaders ends
… trial of nine student leaders from the Black People's Convention (BPC) and the South African Students' Organisation …
EventMandela suspends talks in the wake of Boipatong Massacre
… to stop the violence and decided to withdraw from the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA). The …
EventFirst president of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah (62), dies in Bucharest.
… became a republic in 1960. Nkrumah was a founder of the Convention People’s Party. Nkrumah experienced several …
EventMuntu Myeza, SA anti-apartheid activist, is born.
… rally, leading to the arrest of most Black People’s Convention (BPC) and SASO leaders, including Myeza. Myeza …
Chapter 6
… Regeneration of the All-African Convention: The Background In spite of all the forces ranged … disruption they could maim but not completely destroy the…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
… decisions were confirmed and formalized at the Pretoria Convention that took place on 3 August 1881. [71] This convention meant that although the Transvaal…
PlaceUbuhlebezwe Municipality (previously Sisonke District Municipality), Highflats
Ubuhlebezwe Municipality is a local Municipality within the Harry Gwala District Municipality, in the KwaZulu-Natal Province. Ubuhlebezwe is an isiZulu word…
Black Reaction to Apartheid, 1948-1973 - Address to the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association by O. R. Tambo, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, 1973
… massacre which preceded Sharpeville in March 1961. By 1959 the ineffectiveness of every measure taken by the … for more action at a time when both the ANC…
EventCODESA’s starting date set
… negotiations on South Africa's future constitution, a Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) . Its … were joined at the talks by the Pan…
EventThe Democratic Party, now the Democratic Alliance, is formed
… drawn up by members of the Progressive Party in 1959, the forerunner of the Democratic Party which was led by … the first Management Committee Chairman…
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…