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ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… regard to Article 2, paragraph 7 of the United Nations Charter that it had no competence to adopt the draft … are held to collect demands to be included in…
EventUDF activist Toto Dweba's mutilated body is found
… the United Democratic Front (UDF) and of the Natal Freedom Charter Committee was found on this date at the Natal North …
ArticleSPEAK Magazine (1982 - 1994)
… women. This is where the ANC Women’s League campaign for a charter for women’s rights comes in ’ ( SPEAK 36). From 1990 … the new South Africa were going to…
EventThe European Community announces that it will lift economic sanctions against South Africa
… "separately or collectively, in conformity with the charter" to break diplomatic relations with South Africa, to …
EventFormer South African Prime Minister JG Strijdom dies
… in 1955, in Kliptown near Johannesburg, that the Freedom Charter, which embraced the ideological principles of the …
EventThe Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.
… adhering to the African National Congress’ (ANC) Freedom Charter which promotes non-racialism. AZAPO boycotted the …
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
… driven by the state against non-White women. The Women’s Charter was adopted at the inaugural conference which was …
ArchiveDeputy President Cyril Ramaphosa: Memorial Service of Steve Mokone
… just a few months after our people adopted the Freedom Charter. It was in this seminal document that our people … in the year that we commemorate 60 years of…
Document 24 - “Wreckers at Work”, (Editorial), Liberation. 18, April 1956
… attack to indicate his methods. He attacks the Freedom Charter without indicating a single clause or phrase with … "World" that the Free State A.N.C. had…
EventJoe Slovo is born
… He was instrumental in the drafting of the Freedom Charter, but was unable to attend the Congress of the People …
EventThe Organisation of African Unity is formed and Africa Day is declared
… OAU started its operations on 13 September, 1963, when its Charter was adopted. The OAU was committed to helping bring …
EventSophiatown residents are forcefully moved to Soweto
… to “triumph”. In June of the same year (1955), the Freedom Charter was adopted at Kliptown, where Africans, Indians, …
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… Congress of Democrats and the drawing up of the Freedom Charter in 1955. In the infamous Treason trial that followed the Freedom Charter in 1956, 156 people…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki on the Occasion of the Freedom Day Celebrations at the ABSA Stadium, Durban 27 April 2005
… It also takes place on the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Charter, which was adopted at the Congress of the People in … of Freedom as well as the golden…
Demonstrations against Proclamation of Republic: Answers to Questions by May 1961
… non-racial democracy based on the United Nations freedom charter. Drum , Johannesburg, June 1961 …
EventInternational Year of Mobilisation for Sanctions against South Africa is launched
… to conform both to the letter and to the spirit of the Charter of the UN, and to take the most prompt and energetic …
Statement at the 2053rd meeting of the Security Council by Mfanafuthi Johnstone (Johnny) Makatini, 9 December 1977
… such as economic sanctions under Chapter VII of the Charter and strict observance of the limited arms embargo it … against the South African regime under…
ArchiveDemocracy
… cultures and languages Democracy The children’s charter Given a name and nationality as soon as I am …
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… the formation of a youth wing and adopts the “Atlantic Charter from the Standpoint of Africans within the Union of … Professor D.D.T Jabavu issues a…
From Amsterdam with euphoria
… Nations Declaration of Human Rights and of the Freedom Charter adopted by the ANC, UDF and COSATU, culture belongs … Conference presupposed an …
Statement by Denis Goldberg, ANC at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners
… of peoples enshrined in the United Nations Charter, and their actions, including armed struggle, are … of all the provisions of Chapter VII of the United…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… and economic disabilities. Furthermore, the "Women`s Charter" , written at the first conference in Johannesburg … all laws and customs that denied women…
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
… campaign The African National congress The Freedom Charter The women Resistance movement Sharpeville Massacre … campaign The African National congress The…
EventNatal is formally separated from the Cape Colony
… formally separated from the Cape Colony by means of the Charter of Natal. The Cape Governor still held the position …
EventUN Security Council urges SA government to end Rivonia Trial
… putting the question of apartheid in the context of the UN Charter. Another reason why the British Government was keen …
EventDetectives testify against members of the ANC and the Congress Alliance in the infamous Treason Trial
… to Fani, Tshume stated in a meeting that a Freedom Charter had been adopted by the Congress Alliance.. "We …
EventThe UN decides not to support the request of the Union of South Africa concerning the treatment of Indians in SA
… and the relevant provisions of the United Nations Charter. …
EventThe AA is formed to coordinate motoring clubs
… Cape Town based Automobile Club of SA received a royal charter and became known as the Royal Automobile Club of …
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… People and is on the drafting committee of the Freedom Charter , but is unable to attend due to her banning order. …
ArticleMoses Kotane Timeline
… Bathini Xuma invites Kotane to serve on the Atlantic Charter Committee which draws up a document on African …