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ArticleEconomic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… 2013 in Soweto. The party was formed by former ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema and former ANC Youth League spokesman Floyd Shivambu. The…
ArticleAfrican Achievements and Potential
… helping to power the economies of Africa’s resource-rich nations. [11] The continent’s two most profitable mineral … including Marseille in France and the…
BiographyAlfred Mangena
Alfred Mangena was born in Escort in present day Kwazulu Natal circa 1879. He managed to acquire little formal public education, and eventually began to study…
BiographyEssop Goolam Pahad
Essop Goolam Pahad was born on the 21st of June 1939 in Schweizer-Reneke in Western Transvaal (now North West Province). He grew up in a family of political…
BiographyJacob Koti Dikobo
Jacob Koti Dikobo was born on 22 April 1962 in the village of Bataung (Makgophong) in Zebediela, Limpopo, where he also grew up. He went to Khureng Primary…
BiographyJabu Sithole
Jabu Sithole was born on 23 October 1949 in Lamontville, Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) where he attended primary school until age seven when he was struck…
PlaceNamibia
… Africa was negotiated between the German and Portuguese nations. In 1890 the first German military fort was built at … of the British War Cabinet, put…
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
… the Smuts Government and raise the issue before the United Nations Organisation (UNO). A NIC mass meeting in Durban on 3 … organisations whose support they…
BiographyMoosa “Mosie” Moolla
Moosa “Mosie” Moolla was born in the small, (then) western Transvaal town of Christiana on 12 June 1934 where his father ran a successful import-export…
Biography of Miriam Makeba by Narcy Negrete
… political songs and deliver two speeches at the United Nations. Key Words Miriam Makeba, music, Pata Pata, Soweto Blues, Graceland tour, United Nations…
BiographyFather Smangaliso Mkhatshwa
Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa was born in 1939 in Barberton, in Mpumalanga (Eastern Transvaal) province. He received his primary schooling in Barberton,…
Amos Ndwalane
Struggle veteran Amos Ndwalane, who escaped the noose by seven days due to the unbanning of the African National Congress (ANC) in 1990, was allowed out of his…
BiographyJoseph (Anti-Pass) M. Kumalo
During the 1955-1956 Evaton bus boycott Kumalo was banished in terms of the 1927 Native Administration Act to Duiwelskloof. From there he was brought to stand…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… gives the go-ahead for the formation of a Congress youth league and nominates ET Mofutsanyana to serve as Secretary … 21 February: The leaders of the newly…
Document 89 “People’s Front and the Cry for Unity in South Africa”, The Spark, 2, 4, April 1936
… step towards a Workers' and Peasants' Republic. A "broad" League against fascism and war was duly formed -on paper, of … War broke out, a subsidiary…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… on the British to release Gandhi and for the United Nations to intervene to hasten the independence of India from … in India, the Indian National Congress,…
BiographyMotlotlehi – His Majesty King Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho
… (OAU – now known as the African Union - AU) and the United Nations Security Council on various issues including the …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939
… Party leaders in the Cape, form the National Liberation League (NLL), the first expression of a radical new national … to a conference called by the National…
ArticlePAC’s African Women’s Organisation
… fully conscious of their conditions. The African Women's league was formed in April 1986 in Katlehong and has ever …
BiographyWilliam Sinclair Winship
William Sinclair Winship was born on 18 March 1927, in Edinburgh, Scotland. When he was a few months old, his parents moved to Mpwapwa, Tanzania, before…
BiographyMarion Monica Sparg
Marion Monica Sparg was born in East London and was one of six children. She grew-up in a white middle-class English-speaking South African family in the…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… the Peace Conference. We want the Government of the United Nations to know and act in the light of our interpretation of … Empire, the United States of…
ArticleDefiance Campaign 1952
… In December 1949, with the support of the ANC Youth League, a new leadership came to power in the ANC. Walter … in a number of other respects. The resistance…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Tributes to Lembede After His Death
… He was founder and President of the present Congress Youth League which has sent a delegate to the world youth rally at … of the leading figures in the…
BiographyEve Hall
Eve Hall was born on 20 March 1937 in Paris, France, to a Jewish father and a German mother. When the Second World War broke out, her father was on a visit to…
Address by ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa at Freedom Charter Forum, 29 September 2015, Pietermaritzburg City Hall
… in this Freedom Charter Forum organised by the ANC Youth League. I wish to commend the Youth League for placing the Freedom Charter at the centre of its ……
BiographyMazizi Magekaza
A member of the African National Congress (ANC). He was killed in his hospital bed, in a raid in Lesotho, 1988.
BiographySefelaro Magashule
A member of the African National Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK). Died of natural causes in Tanzania
National Council of African Women (NCAW)
… for Africans. It apparently absorbed the Bantu Women's League (BWL) and Charlotte Maxeke , who had headed the BWL, …
BiographyDaniel Crosby Mabaso
Daniel Crosby Mabaso (Tommy Shenge) was executed by order of African National Congress (ANC) military tribunal in Angola