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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…
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…
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,…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu Timeline 1918 - 2011
… not join the League because it was very much a young men's organisation at the time. Walter Sisulu, Anton Lembede, … to sabotage and ”¢ Furtherance of the…
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…
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…
BiographyJames Steven Mzilikazi Khumalo
… board of directors of the Southern African Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO), and he served on the Music Committee of …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
… Sharpeville Youth Club and the Black People’s Convention (BPC), Matsau was imprisoned for five years for attempting to … of nine South African Student…
ArticleANC Policy Documents
… is where a range of topics affecting the nation and organisation are discussed and future plans outlined. Here …
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…
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…
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…
Message from the Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology
… the South African Society of Artists, the oldest surviving organisation of its kind in our country, marks its centenary. … itself to its mission. As our most…
ArticleSouth Africa’s World heritage sites
… by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco). For a place to be included on the …
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… Name Koni Benson & Asher Gamedze Organisation University of Cape Town Biography Asher Gamedze … thought and engaging critically with the social organisation…
ArticleCongress of South African Students (COSAS)
… correspondence colleges. Soon after their formation, the organisation set up branches in the Eastern Cape, Western … to play an active role although it was…
ArticleList of parties 2009 Elections
… Pan Africanist Congress Minority Front Azanian People's Organisation African People's Convention National Alliance …
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
… 1918 disaffected Afrikaners were brought together in a new organisation called Jong Suid-Afrika (Young South Africa). … name was changed to the Afrikaner…