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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…
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,…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939
… Party leaders in the Cape, form the National Liberation League (NLL), the first expression of a radical new national … to a conference called by the National…
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArticleTimeline: Father Trevor Huddleston
… of Selly Oak, Birmingham. Huddleston is awarded the United Nations Gold Medal. 1984 The Zambian government awards …