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ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 2000-2014
… effective, according to calculations by the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and researchers at the University of … and his desire to spend more time with his…
ArticleUnited Nations and Apartheid Timeline 1946-1994
… South Africa". 1 April, TheSecurity Council, in its first action on SouthAfrica, adopted resolution 134 (1960) … asking all States to consider separate and…
Learning about local history through pictures
… of British Parliament who fought against the British appeal to turn Cape Town into a convict colony or place for …
Historical Background of the Constitutional Court
… hear cases by direct access, as well as by referral and on appeal. A question that arose in the negotiating process …
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… leaders could not mobilize their members for large-scale action. Isolated incidents such as livestock theft, work … for success was greater. The ICU failed…
ArticleAftermath: Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… Council and governments worldwide condemned the police action and the apartheid policies that prompted this violent … who were imprisoned with their leaders,…
Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
… with a commitment to militant African nationalism and mass action and to tactics of boycotts, strikes and civil … few whites and coloureds were engaging in…
ArticleContinued resistance and internal criticism 1920s and 1930s
… Congress (ANC) leadership evolved to be more inclined to action than passive deputation, but very little was achieved … was also due to the fact that the…
ArticleDrum Magazine
… and 'realistic' means with which to document protest action, and appeal to a largely illiterate readership. Drum's picture …
ArticleLiberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)
… Firstly, the LPSA had to find its own programme of action that would distinguish it from other political … 1959, leaders of the ANC, SAIC and LPSA issued a…
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
… and repressive laws, and in 1949 adopted the Programme of Action. This prompted open defiance against the government, and action against pass and other…
Passive resistance in South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 2 June 1966
… Lincoln translated these great principles into concrete action. The United States Government has made some forthright … opposition persistently offered by…
ArchiveJune 26: South Africa Freedom Day
… ANC booklet containing an appeal for solidarity with the liberation struggle. …
Presidential Address to the Extended Meeting of the National Executive Committee of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, April 1975
… Unity Having analysed the situation and decided on the action to be taken, this meeting must address itself to the … prominence is precisely to express this…
Document 136 - “Report on the Relationship of the Party to other Workers’ Organisations in South Africa”, Freedom 5, 4 August 1946
… and groups, with a. view to securing * a united political action". As you will remember, the Labour Party Conference … Party. It is perhaps not without…
BiographyTim Bruwer
… would-be politicians and their political theories did not appeal to me, but I still did not possess any alternative …
Article1973 Durban Strikes
… 1950s – and to exercise the power of factory based mass action. The strikes signalled the beginning of a turning … regime. The Durban strikes marked the…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: Impact on the Indian Working class: the Growth of Indian trade unions
… law into their own hands’ and volunteered to lead any such action. Indian Opinion , however, called for peaceful demonstrations, arguing against any …
Document 2 - Letter from the Cape Labour Party to James Ramsay, 12 August 1908
… that nothing seems to have been done in the matter of our appeal before your Parliament rose. You evidently do not … of the same flesh & blood in a British…
ArchiveSouth African Communist Party
… and red poster. September membership month. SACP logo. Appeal for membership and contributions. …
ArchiveFighting Talk August 1962
… Fighting Talk - special issue with an urgent appeal to readers and subscribers to keep the magazine in …
ArchiveNicaragua must survive
… Black, white and pink poster. Women in Nicaragua Container Appeal. Photograph of three women in a field. …
ArchiveTerrorism trial and Nkotsosu P. Motsau
… An appeal for rededication and commitment in the struggle by way …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… relating to its internal structure and a programme of action. It decides to make a concerted effort to enrol … The NIC sends a cable to the Government of…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Albert John Luthuli
… in resistance tactics from patient litigation to assertive action. His campaign of civil disobedience, aimed at … many will have fallen by the wayside as a…
ArticleMarikana Massacre - 16 August 2012
… strike. A wildcat strike, or 'unofficial industrial action', is strike action undertaken by unionised workers without the … and worked to support the…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications by Allison Drew
… the ALSC wanted for South Africa: a unity of the left in action. The publications each had a print run of 2,000. Basil … in South Africa, the ALSC members…
Passive Resistance in South Africa by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "Southern Africa in Transition by Davis, John A. and James K. Baker"(Pall Mall Press), London, 1966
… Lincoln translated these great principles into concrete action. The United States Government has made some … opposition persistently offered by the…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
… also elects Nelson Mandela as secretary of the National Action Council. 29 March, The accused in the Treason Trial … and Dr. Martin Luther King Jnr issue a…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… finally passed it suffered opposition from the Franchise Action Council. The Franchise Action Council organised a one-day strike in which Black and … 1 of…