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BiographyRobert Sobukwe
Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe was born to Hubert and Angelina Sobukwe on 5 December 1924 at Graaff-Reinet, Cape Province. He was the youngest of five boys and one…
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
… June, 2884 delegates attend the Congress of the People in Kliptown where the Freedom Charter is adopted Septembe,. …
Message by Albert Luthuli, 1 May 1955
… and 26, only five weeks from now, there will assemble in Kliptown, near Johannesburg, people from all corners of South …
ArchiveThe Congress of the people
… thing happened. We organized the Congress of the People at Kliptown. Ooh! What a wonderful thing was there! All over the … They went around to all the houses…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… Education in 1953. The Congress of the People gathrered in Kliptown in 1955 to adopt the Freedom Charter and the women’s … of the People . This was convened…
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
… of 3 000 South Africans from all walks of life, met in Kliptown to ratify the document that was to become the …
ArticleThe Freedom Charter
… Adopted at the Congress of the People, Kliptown, on 26 June 1955 We, the People of South Africa, …
PlacePrimville, Soweto- Johannesburg
… in Johannesburg) Walter Sisulu Square in the heart of Kliptown , Soweto, is South Africa’s first township … Walter Sisulu Square in the heart of Kliptown ,…
ArticleThe South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO)
… the People, which adopted the Freedom Charter, was held in Kliptown from 25 to 27 August 1955. SACPO had started working …
Indian South Africans timeline 1950-1959
… to Durban, from the Congress of the People (CoP) at Kliptown, there were report-back meetings. A meeting of the …
ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
… that was adopted by the Congress of the People , held in Kliptown near Johannesburg, from 25-26 June 1955. The … On 25-26 June 1955 nearly 3 000 delegates…
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… committee that drafted the Freedom Charter in Kliptown on 25-26 June 1955. Following the Doctors’ Pact, … the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
… was unsustainable. At the Congress of the People held in Kliptown on 26 June 1955, the Freedom Charter , spelling out …
Interview with Swami Gounden by Vino Reddy, 29 May 2002
… together and then they had a draft, you know, Charter in Kliptown. It was a Kliptown Conference, you know? VR: Yes. SG: Ja, Freedom … a bus. We all got…
Twentieth Anniversary of the United Nations Sanctions Resolution: Statement by Oliver Tambo at the plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, 05 November 1982, New York
… which adopted the famous Freedom Charter - held in Kliptown, Johannesburg, which was attended by one of the …
Presidential address by Alberth Luthuli to the Annual Provincial Conference of the Natal Branch of the African National Congress, 5 July 1956
… shows this! "The Bandung Declarations show this! "The Kliptown Freedom Charter Our own Charter shows this! "It …
ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
… the People, which adopted the Freedom Charter, was held in Kliptown from 25-27 August 1955. After the Freedom Charter …
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… during the Annual National Congress on 26 June 1955 in Kliptown where the Freedom Charter was adopted. The …
ArticleSouth African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO)
… the People, which adopted the Freedom Charter, was held in Kliptown from 25-27 August 1955. After the Freedom Charter …
Chapter V - Acts of conscience
… how little we know of how blacks live. The river in Kliptown doesn't flood every year when the heavy rains come. When there are no floods, Kliptown squatters…
Chapter V - South Africa belongs to all who live in it
… doing. The congress was to be held on a football ground in Kliptown outside Johannesburg, adjacent to Soweto, as no hall … (Volkswagen Microbuses). Not every…
ArchiveJonas Gwangwa embodied South Africa’s struggle for a national culture by Gwen Ansell
… band had played at the adoption of the Freedom Charter in Kliptown. He said Everybody shared a perspective – you didn’t …
ArchiveSurvey shows ignorance about big moments in South Africa’s history – like the Sharpeville massacre (TheConversation.com)
… adopted on 26 June 1955 at the “Congress of the People” in Kliptown, Johannesburg. The 1976 Soweto Uprising was sparked …
Address by ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa at Freedom Charter Forum, 29 September 2015, Pietermaritzburg City Hall
… numbers, leading to the adoption of the Freedom Charter in Kliptown on 26 June 1955. The Congress of the People was the … the clause of the Freedom Charter…
Address by Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe to the 25th Anniversary celebration of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), 1 December 2010
… run up to and during the Congress of the People, held in Kliptown in 1955. The impact of the trade union movement at …
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew
… Freedom Charter adopted at the Congress of the People at Kliptown, Johannesburg on 25 and 26 June 1955 Document 24 - …
Appendix - The Freedom Charter
… The Freedom Charter Adopted at the Congress of the People, Kliptown, on June 26, 1955 We, the People of South Africa, …
ArticleChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli timeline 1800 - 1967
… Charter is adopted by the Congress of the People at Kliptown, Johannesburg. Chief Luthuli is given the title, …
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… this case the bus operator was forced to reduce fares. In Kliptown south of Johannesburg Public Utility Transport …
ArticlePan Africanist Congress (PAC)
The Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) is a political party whose presence in the South African political landscape spans just over half a century. The PAC’s…