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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…
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 …
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
… June, 2884 delegates attend the Congress of the People in Kliptown where the Freedom Charter is adopted Septembe,. …
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…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter
… Adopted at the Congress of the People, Kliptown, on 26 June 1955 We, the People of South Africa, …
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 …
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 ,…
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 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 …
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…
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 …
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)…
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 …
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… during the Annual National Congress on 26 June 1955 in Kliptown where the Freedom Charter was adopted. The …
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 …
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…
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 - 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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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 …