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ArticleThe World and South Africa when Nelson Mandela was born
… and revolution.In the course of this unrest the Spartacist League led by Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht played a leading role. The Spartacist League was…
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
… the Smuts Government and raise the issue before the United Nations Organisation (UNO). A NIC mass meeting in Durban on 3 … organisations whose support they…
ArticleEconomic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… 2013 in Soweto. The party was formed by former ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema and former ANC Youth League spokesman Floyd Shivambu. The…
Biography of Miriam Makeba by Narcy Negrete
… political songs and deliver two speeches at the United Nations. Key Words Miriam Makeba, music, Pata Pata, Soweto Blues, Graceland tour, United Nations…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… gives the go-ahead for the formation of a Congress youth league and nominates ET Mofutsanyana to serve as Secretary … 21 February: The leaders of the newly…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… on the British to release Gandhi and for the United Nations to intervene to hasten the independence of India from … in India, the Indian National Congress,…
ArticleDefiance Campaign 1952
… In December 1949, with the support of the ANC Youth League, a new leadership came to power in the ANC. Walter … in a number of other respects. The resistance…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… the Peace Conference. We want the Government of the United Nations to know and act in the light of our interpretation of … Empire, the United States of…
ArticlePAC’s African Women’s Organisation
… fully conscious of their conditions. The African Women's league was formed in April 1986 in Katlehong and has ever …
National Council of African Women (NCAW)
… for Africans. It apparently absorbed the Bantu Women's League (BWL) and Charlotte Maxeke , who had headed the BWL, …
ArticleIndian South Africans Timeline 1910-1919
… equal treatment. Gordon Lee of the International Socialist League (ISL) forms the Durban Workers' Industrial Union. The … Lee and represents the Union at the…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1910-1919
… the 1913 Land Act, the formation of the Bantu Women’s League and the formation and growth of working class … 2004) Lillian Ngoyi , future leader of the ANC…
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… six women into the Women’s Defense of the Constitution League, today known as The Black Sash. Although racial … the decades. This transformation was prompted…
ArticleOliver Tambo Speeches 1971-1979
… 1 March 1973 " Tribute by Oliver Tambo to the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid ". Statement at … Celebration of the Twenty-first…
Industrial and Commercial Workers Union
… Aliwal North, and Charlotte Maxeke of the Bantu Women’s League of South Africa. The delegates at the Bloemfontein …
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… 1953 Resistance before 1959 *South Africa and the United Nations Organization *South Africa’s Foreign Policy This … Council. With the backing of the Natal…
ArticleBlack Sash
… The Women's Defence of the Constitution League In 1955 a small group of white middle-class women who … called The Women's Defence of the Constitution League…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
… Apartheid in New York. In his address he urged the United Nations to do everything in its power to maintain the … resigns from the Executive of both the ANC…
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO): An Organisational Timeline
… OPC’s petition to New York for presentation at the United Nations, but is intercepted by South African authorities and … in Windhoek, Namibia. Toivo ya…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… also known as the Magna Carta, was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948. Due to the … leftist movements, including the…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1920-1929
… Congress; attend the first international conference of the League Against Imperialism in Brussels. At the end of the … the ANC. 1929 Sidney Bunting and…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010
… 29 September, Nelson Mandela addresses the United Nations Security Council on the Arusha Peace Process. 13 … Congress (SASCO) and African National Congress…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… Indian Congress. Founded the Durban and District Women's League immediately on the heels of the 1949 Riots, … as the ANC and NIC. She was the Secretary of…
ArticleThe History of May Day in South Africa
… Ivon Jones . Members of this group formed the War on War League in September 1914, with S. P Bunting as its treasurer. In 1915 the War-on-War League…
ArticleSouth Africa’s World heritage sites
… A World Heritage Site is declared by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation …
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… the go-ahead for the formaÂtion of the Congress Youth League Walter Sisulu joins the African National Congress. The … 1941 is passed April, The African…
Political assassinations 1974 - 1994
… Sithembiso Dlamini, Siphephelo Dlamini Both Clermont Youth League Killed in Sithengele High School. 14 April near Durban … home of brother Joe. 11 August…
ArticleNew identities and the construction of heritage
… of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the United Nations Organisation (UNO) in 1948. It is the basis for human … (SADC), the African Union, the Commonwealth…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… General at first national conference of ANC Women's League. Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi returns from exile at … sworn in as the country's first President by…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… in India, such as the Indian National Congress, the Muslim League and the Indian Liberal Federation. They held numerous … Government of India arraigned the…