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Article1960-1966: The genesis of the armed struggle
… senior police officer in charge on the day, justified the action by saying, “Hordes of natives surrounded the police … protestors died and 49 were wounded as…
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… movement, residence and work. For the most part, the action occurred while the majority of the Congress Alliance … than that held at the conference decided…
ArticleGrey Street Complex timeline 1800-1999
… National Congress was strongly condemned by the Youth Action Committee of the African National Congress (Natal) and … null and void. Among those who are…
EventWinnie Madikizela Mandela, a stalwart in the fight against apartheid, passes away
On 2nd April 2018, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, also known as the mother of the nation, passed away at the age of 81, at Milpark hospital in Johannesburg. She…
Document 141 “Apartheid Spells Disaster”, Report of the Central Committee of the Communist Party to the Party’s National Conference, Johannesburg,6 to 8 January 1950,2y Freedom, New Series 15 December, 1949
… conditions have in several instances led to direct action by the people affected and in some the actions took … in it in great numbers and when it leads to…
Address to Beijing University Beijing, 6 May 1999
… was established as a world body responsible for collective action for the resolution of conflict. What is happening in … Council is being ignored by the…
ArticleStudent Protests at Tshwane University of Technology - Timeline
… to end outsourscing at the University. As part of protest-action during this time, students blockaded entrances to the … Morgan, announces that the SRC would…
BiographyRuth First
Journalist, academic and political activist, Ruth Heloise First was born on 4 May 1925. She was the daughter of Jewish immigrants Julius and Matilda (neé…
The Wider Significance of the Judgement of the Constitutional Court on the “Nkandla Matter” by Thabo Mbeki, 11 April 2016
… make it possible for all concerned to take such corrective action as might be necessary. The eminent ConCourt Judgement … to the National Assembly how to…
EventSA government threatens to pull out of the UN peace plan for Namibia
… of the United Nations (UN) peace plan for Namibia unless action was taken against the South West African People's …
Inqaba ya basebenzi
… minimum wage and exploitation of workers. Trade union action in the struggle for power by united workers is …
EventMK soldiers threaten armed struggle
… responded with a strongly worded statement promising firm action against anyone who would become involved in such a …
ArticleThe Bambatha Rebellion begins
… white settlers demanded that the colonial government take action to deal with it. In February martial law was …
ArticleAngolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Timeline of Events
… attacks Cuando-Cubango and the MPLA threatens military action. 7 June 1980 SADF launches an invasion …
Black Peoples Convention - National Leadership
… Students Representative Council (SSRC) Soweto Teachers Action Committee (STAC) Transvaal Youth Organisation (TRAYO) …
ArticleWhat was the Great Depression and why did it start in the USA?
… in 1932. Roosevelt was a bold experimenter and a man of action. Early on in his administration he assembled the best …
ArticleAZAPO’s Women’s Wing - Imbeleko
… Movement's emphasis on self-reliance and practical action. The organisation runs skills training programmes in …
ArchiveArt Fair forced to reinstate Mabulu painting after Goldblatt threat by Matthew Krouse (Mail & Gurdian), 28 September 2013
… who claimed that he had done so on his own initiative. The action was apparently taken in order to avoid offending the … veteran photographer David Goldblatt…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Bibliography
… Johannesburg, Maskew Miller Longman, 1998. Bundy, Colin. “Action, comrades, action!” The Politics of Youth-Student Resistance in the …
EventAfrica Women's Peace Train leaves Kampala for Johannesburg
… They therefore called upon world leaders to take action against perpetrators of these horrendous deeds and to …
ArchiveMandla Mandela wants inquest into deaths of Stompie Seipie, Dr Asvat, 19 January 2018, South Africa
… that there was an unreasonable delay in instituting legal action. Madikizela-Mandela was implicated in Seipei's death …
EventDefiance campaign leadership meets with SAIC
… with a commitment to militant African nationalism and mass action and to tactics of boycotts, strikes and civil …
EventThe SACBC urges that lawful means be used to resist Apartheid
… police. At the end of the conference, a twenty-one point action programme was issued for directions to be taken in the …
EventChief Cyprian Zulu warns his people not to participate in the Defiance Campaign
… December 1952 it was decided, "to embark on mass national action, based on non-cooperation, against certain specified …
EventUDF organises boycott of Coloured and Indian parliamentry elections
… and 3 million individuals and in that years mass action had rendered SA ungovernable. This led to a state of …
EventANC Consultative Conference comes to an end
… process" and announced that 1991 would be a "year of mass action". It rejected a call to relax international sanctions …
EventSudanese-born basketball player and political activist, Manute Bol is born
… sport for basketball. An American coach spotted Bol in action and convinced him to move to the United States. In …
EventTwo former Soweto student leaders, Khotso Seathlolo and Mary Loate are given long term sentences
… Jefferson Lengane Paul Langa Hector Pieterson (killed in action) …
EventA two-day All-in African Conference starts in Pietermaritzburg, Natal
… Mr. Nelson Mandela was appointed secretary of the National Action Council. The conference was held four days after the …
Chapter Four - The Years with the CPSA: 1925 - 1935
… played a significant role in the CPSA programme of "Direct Action" and in the propagation of the Black Republic slogan. … called for sound leadership,…