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ArticleDemocratic Alliance (DA)
… 2 1990. With the unbanning of the African National Congress (ANC) , Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and other liberation organisations, and the … Assembly. A…
Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… rights for 'coloured' people. The ANC or African National Congress was formed in 1912. The South African Indian Congress was formed in 1923 to struggle for…
ArticleAbram Fischer Timeline 1908-1975
… Travels to Latvia as a NUSAS delegate at a three-week congress of the Confederation International des Students … Dr A. B. Xuma Bram helps draft the new…
ArticleSocialism
… The anti-apartheid movement, led by the African National Congress (ANC), fought for an equal society and embraced …
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
… and the United Democratic Front and African National Congress (ANC). The violence claimed nearly 20,000 lives …
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… to the introduction of Bantu Education in 1953. The Congress of the People gathrered in Kliptown in 1955 to adopt … laws under a common leadership – by the…
ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
… in March 1950, Bertha Mkize of the African National Congress Womens League (ANCWL) was a leading figure, while … Jurgen Schadeberg. In June 1952 the…
ArticleLenin’s implementation of Leninism in Russia and the changes made
… a result of the teachings of Karl Marx. The Constitutional Democrats were also banned, and its leadership arrested. A … by representatives of many other…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… boycott of South Africa. March 19, The Pan-African Congress (PAC) announces, that it will embark on a campaign … are killed and hundreds are injured. The Pan…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… late 50s the Defiance Campaign launched by the ANC and its Congress Alliance partners was broken. A new approach for … broke away from the ANC and formed the…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… behalf and Dadoo is released. October 7, Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) radicals hold a mass meeting to protest … April 10, 1941. Appointed adviser to…
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
… 12) A Charge of Treason When detectives invaded the Congress of the People on 26 and 27 June 1955, it was clear … of subscribers to Fighting Talk; names of…
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… Moses Kotane and Yusuf Dadoo of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC). Marks, a resident of Newclare, was … South African Coloured People’s Organization …
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… day campaign. The 1 pound a day campaign was waged by the Congress of Trade Unions demanding 1 pound a day as minimum … on Parliament Street with members of…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi: the Zulu nationalist who left his mark on South Africa’s history
… . In 1949 he briefly joined the African National Congress Youth League. He was expelled from the university in … needed to be negotiated. With the African…
ArticleSouth African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO)
… People's Organisation (SACPO) later Coloured People Congress (CPC) in 1953. SACPO managed to forge a political … cooperation with other liberation movements…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… Dr Yusuf Dadoo , future leader of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC), South African Indian Congress (SAIC)) and the South African Communist Party … for two…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… ANC programme of action The logo of the African National Congress (ANC). Image source A Programme of Action was … president of the Natal section of the…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… 1989. Boesman, a member of the banned African National Congress (ANC) , was convicted of the 1985 killing of Mellina … for discussion. The government and the…
ArticleA brief history of domestic service in South Africa
Colonial History of Domestic Work Since slaves were used as domestic servants in the settler colony from the middle to late 18th century, domestic…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and May Day – Some Key Moments
… (also named May Day) in 1950. The CPSA, African National Congress (ANC) and South African Indian Congress (SAIC) passed a resolution to hold a strike on 1…
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
… 1960. Political movements such as the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) were banned and forced underground, and … the…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… As the 1950s gave way to the 1960s the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) both announced plans to tackle the pass laws ……
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
… favour with either White Liberals or the country's Neo-Democrats who have both benefited extensively from the …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… , the couples' second daughter. 1961 The African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) established religious and welfare front … as…
The African Resistance Movement (ARM): An Organisational History
… 1960. Political movements such as the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) were banned and forced underground, and … the…
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… most part, the action occurred while the majority of the Congress Alliance leadership was either banned, on trial or … residence and work were strenuously…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
… Albert Luthuli joined them. 8 April, The African National Congress (ANC) and Pan African Congress (PAC) are outlawed. April, New Age is banned. … a chemist…
ArticleDifferences between Capitalism & Communism and why did it start in Russia?
… in the hands of the peasants. The socialists or the Social Democrats who wanted power in the hands of the urban workers. … political force in the Russian…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… whenever it felt most challenged: at the height of a Congress campaign or at a point when its fascist programme … much more sensible for the ANC and South…