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The International Socialist League (ISL)
… S. P. Bunting was also a popular founding member of the organisation. Many socialists in South Africa, in keeping … League. Members of the League decided to…
ArticlePartial State of Emergency, July 1985
… boycott, although riots and uprisings did take place. Organisation was led by the Metal and Allied Worker's Union … was worried about the level of violence…
BiographyJames Steven Mzilikazi Khumalo
… board of directors of the Southern African Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO), and he served on the Music Committee of …
ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
… , Tabata emphasised the critical need to create an organisation that could become a think tank of the resistance … – ‘We fight Ideas with Ideas’ – evidently…
The African Resistance Movement (ARM): An Organisational History
… While in detention, they debated the need for an umbrella organisation for movements ready to carry out sabotage … although its membership was predominantly…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… Amina Cachalia who formed the steering committee for the organisation. During the early stages of the federation … of FEDSAW. FEDSAW was created to be a…
ArticleSASO till SASCO
… Sono was elected president of the South African Student Organisation (SASO). He was also co-founder of the Black … The president of SASO Themba Sono is…
ArticleStudent Politics: SASO till SANSCO
… Sono was elected president of the South African Student Organisation (SASO). He was also co-founder of the Black … The president of SASO Themba Sono is…
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
… formed the United Women's Congress (UWCO) in 1981. The organisation took up campaigns such as child care, the bread … joined forces with the Women's Front,…
Disbanding, 1990-1991
… clear that the need for the UDF no longer existed. The organisation disbanded in August 1991. In January 1990, the UDF began putting together the pieces of…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… Town. However, the ICU soon developed into a more general organisation, including in its membership skilled as well as … one chief. The ICU was also widely…
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
… youth politics in South Africa. The South African Student Organisation (SASO) was gathering support from campus to … schools. From the early 1970s, the…
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… revolts would not be able to continue without grassroot organisation. The UDF felt it should rather focus on state … 000 and 800 000 staying home, and unions…
ArticleEOAN Group
… Coloured community of District Six . As a cultural welfare organisation it offered a wide range of activities from … in the Isaac Ochberg Hall in District…
Grade 11 - Topic 4 Timeline
… 1902 A Coloured people’s political organisation, African People’s Organisation (APO) , previously known as the African Political Organisation is formed in…
ArticleUniversity Christian Movement (UCM)
… the dismantling of apartheid – the South African Students Organisation (SASO). The UCM was from its inception a … student movement far more radical than any…
Dance For All (DFA)
… in 1991, Dance For All (DFA) is a non-profit dance organisation, originally known as Ballet for All. DFA was an … as contemporary, jazz and latin dance, thus…
New tactics in the revolt
… assistance and co-operation and wanted close contact with SASM. It is not clear how this contact was to be maintained, … November 1977 affords some (limited)…
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… to other life matters. This enabled the leadership of the organisation to establish a clear vision of what the league … on. In 1956 Jean Sinclair , one of…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
… Anti-tricameral Parliament Campaign. Utilising what the organisation learnt from the million signatures campaign, the … the UDF starts taking a more active…
ArticleFederation of South African Women (FEDSAW)
… as the first attempt to establish a broad-based women’s organisation. This was the brainchild of Ray Simons who drew … Amina Cachalia who formed the steering…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… for freedom. A list of tasks was drawn up, focusing on organisation building and highlighting the aim of being an organisation to represent all parts of the…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Democrats (COD)
… COD, many members of the banned Communist Party joined the organisation. The organisation, however, was never communist in nature. It was …
ArticleArts and Cultural Organisations
… Council in Durban National Theatre National Theatre Organisation Nico Malan Theatre Centre The People's … Natal Society of Arts Gallery - KZNSA Natal Visual…
BiographyShirish Nanabhai
Shirish was born one of eight siblings on 1 March 1938 at 51 Commercial Rd, Fordsburg. Jasmath Nanabhai, Shirish J. Nanabhai’s father, was from the village of…
ArticleANC Policy Documents
… is where a range of topics affecting the nation and organisation are discussed and future plans outlined. Here …
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… to take up arms became the decision of the ANC as the organisation, that would have put its Congress Alliance in … was that the perception of the ANC as an…
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
… was banned. Amongst these were the South African Students' Organisation (SASO), Black People's Convention (BPC), Black … Programmes (BCP), Black Women…
The Sweet Workers’ Union
… founded by Fanny Klenerman in the mid-1920s, when that organisation fragmented as a result of its failure to comply … The SWU, by 1941, was a fairly “weak…
Article1973 Durban Strikes – TUCSA – Harriet Bolton
… reached the point where she began to criticise the organisation’s policies publicly for the first time. As the … work with the new unions, despite her…