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74. The Freedom Charter, 1955
… at the Congress of the People People that gathered at Kliptown on 25-26 June 1955. The C.O.P. adopted the Freedom …
73. The Congress of the People, June 1955
… and the S.A. Congress of Democrats, gathered at Kliptown on 25 and 26 June 1955, resolved to unite 'all … S. S. Singh Collection. The Congress of the People…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… Stephen Dlamini as chairman. June, Congress of the People (Kliptown) . South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) …
Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement
… our leaders that the number of Whites subscribing to the Kliptown Charter will increase so that one day a White party committed to the Kliptown Charter will…
Eulogy by President Jacob Zuma at the funeral of Mme Ruth Mompati, Vryburg, North-West Province 23 May 2015
… few years that followed saw the Congress of the People in Kliptown which adopted the Freedom Charter, the Women's march …
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… on Robben Island. His book was published in London by Kliptown Books. 1990 The Two Thousand Days of Haimbodi Ya … The Autobiography of a Namibian Freedom…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… culminated in the Congress of the People, a gathering in Kliptown, and the adoption of the Freedom Charter. … SAIC, the Coloured People’s Congress, and SACTU…
South Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, VolumeTwo 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew - Bibliographical note and further reading
… Namedia Foundation and Sterling Publishers and London: Kliptown Books. Davids, Arthur (1950), "A Critical Analysis …
Document 76 - The Speakers’ Notes - A Brief Course on the Training of Organisers [Document found by the police during the Rivonia raid of 11 July 1963]
… to draw up a Freedom Charter. This was done in 1954 at Kliptown, when 3 000 delegates met, coming from all parts of …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… 26 June, The Congress of the People was convened in Kliptown near Soweto . 3000 delegates, including 320 Indians, …
Oration by the President of the Republic of South Africa, Kgalema Motlanthe, at the funeral service of the late Cleopas Mododa Nsibande, 3 January 2009, Benoni
… true to the principles of the Freedom Charter adopted in Kliptown in 1955, believing that South Africa belongs to all …
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu Timeline 1918 - 2011
… Albertina Sisulu witnessed the Congress of the People in Kliptown, not far from their home. Because of a banning …
Chapter X - Final word
… it has grown three feet high over that football field in Kliptown where the Congress of the People was held. Now the …
Archive”I am Albertina Sisulu”, Interview from Blue Portraits
… African Women, the launching of the Freedom Charter in Kliptown. In 1956 we organised twenty thousand women to go to …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) meet in Kliptown near Soweto in a Congress of the People. 26 June, … Charter is adopted at the Congress of…
First National Consultative Conference: The Freedom Charter revolutionary programme of the ANC, 26 April 1969, Morogoro
… of all the people of South Africa which met at Kliptown, Johannesburg on June 25 and 26, 1955. The three thousand delegates who gathered at Kliptown were…
Chief Albert Luthuli Memorial Lecture by President Jacob Zuma at Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, 24 November 2010, Durban
… and Dr Yusuf Dadoo at the Congress of the People in Kliptown, in 1955. It was at this historic gathering of South …
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… ANC. 26 June, Sisulu witnesses Congress of the People in Kliptown, not far from his home. Because of a banning order, …
Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… Charter was agreed upon at the Congress of the People in Kliptown, Soweto. The Congress of the People was a joint …
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… Charter , adopted by the Congress of the People in Kliptown on June 25-26, 1955. A major task of the Federation …
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… the women key note speakers at Congress of the People in Kliptown. Sister Bernard Ncube enters the Companions Catholic …
Local Government
… some 17 miles south west of Johannesburg, near present-day Kliptown. Development of these facilities was brought to a …
Document 18 - The Pretoria Minute
… Charter, adopted in 1955 by the Congress of the People at Kliptown near Johannesburg, was the first systematic …
ArchiveBiography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak
… [10] That same year, police stopped her bus on its way to Kliptown where she planned to attend the Congress of the …
ArchiveBibliography by Howard Barrell
… Repression and the Law in Apartheid South Africa (London: Kliptown Books, 1988). Brooks, A., and Brickhill, J., … 1987). Dingake, M., My Fight Against…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 2000-2014
… address at the 6th Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture in Kliptown, Soweto. 18 July, Mandela and the world celebrate …
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 85th Anniversary of the ANC- 8 January 1997
… of this century, what we mapped out in general terms at Kliptown in 1955, what we planned and theorised about in the …
Excerpts from Chief Luthuli’s evidence at the treason trial dealing with his understanding of a non-violent liberation struggle
… to the Congress of the People of South Africa, meeting at Kliptown, on June 25, 1955, by yourself and Mr. Yengwa? Yes. …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 103th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… of the Freedom Charter at a Congress of the People in Kliptown, Soweto in 1955. It is our task to take forward the … sixty years since the Congress of the…
ArchiveGoldblatt: I'm after a particular sense of stillness by Ivan Vladislavic, 27 September 2013
… structures. The Walter Sisulu Square of Dedication in Kliptown strikes me as the apotheosis of grandiose thinking …