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BiographyAdam Small
Professor Adam Small was born on 21 December 1936 in Wellington, Cape Province (now Western Cape) to a mother of Muslim Indian heritage and a slave descendant…
BiographyStephen Bantu Biko
… would like to convey to you congratulations from our local committee on your election as President and a declaration of … of African People of South Africa …
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
… work of the Anti-Coloured Affairs Department (Anti-CAD) Committee and the Non-European Unity Movement (NEUM) both of … the NEF. In the wake of this, a body…
BiographyKasturba Gandhi
… All prisoners were released and a political reform committee was appointed. With the outbreak of the Second … leaders and the population. Thus, the Congress…
BiographyMokgadi Caster Semenya
… after World War II, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) made requirements that each nation certify …
BiographyMary Dorothy Benson
… African to testify before the United Nations (UN) to the Committee on Apartheid in the USA. She spoke about the evils … then-wife Winnie Mandela (Part of My…
BiographyHumphrey Phakade “Pax” Magwaza
… (Malayo). Malayo became a member of the Joint Rent Action Committee, JORAC, which subsequently affiliated to the United …
BiographyZuleikha Mayat
… boycott , Mayat and Fatima Meer were on the parents’ committee. Together with Betty Shabazz (Malcolm X’s wife), …
BiographyFranco Frescura
Franco Frescura was born in Trieste, Italy, on 28 September 1946. Both his parents originally came from Fiume, today known as Rijeka, in present-day Croatia…
BiographyChief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi
… In an address of the ANC’s National Executive Committee to the people of South Africa on the 25th … stopped by an intervention by the Transitional Executive…
Participants in CODESA (1,2, Working Groups and Administration)
… in prep stages] Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson [Technical Committee of Experts in Working Group 3] MR Michael Halton Cheadle [Technical Committee of Experts…
BiographyPhyllis Naidoo
… University (Non-European section) organised a Human Rights Committee at University and helped to raise fund for the …
BiographySunny Girja Singh
… surrogate forces such as Renamo (MNR). In March 1984, South Africa forced Mozambique into signing the Nkomati … removed. Singh was then appointed Chair of…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… to the imprisoned guerrillas and compile a report. The committee recommended that the OAU council of ministers … of Bantustans in the customs union as a…
ArticleNatal Indian Association (NIA)
… who circulated this to all officials, Members of the Committee and Congress Branches throughout Natal. At a fully representative meeting of the Committee…
Journals
… with Nationalist ideologies. By 1990, the editorial committee had persuaded the Bureau that the SAAAH had … and Karin Preller have constituted themselves…
BiographyRaymond Ackerman
… Sam Ram samy, president of South Africa's national Olympic committee. Ackerman was broken-hearted. It was, said his wife …
BiographyViolet Weinberg
… Commission Special Report”, South African Broadcasting Committee, (Uploaded: 16 October 2000), (Accessed: 31 March … Commission Special Report”, South…
BiographyProfessor Fatima Meer
… history. Fatima established the Student Passive Resistance Committee to support the campaign and this propelled her into …
Black Peoples Convention - National Leadership
… OF THE BLACK PEOPLES CONVENTION First National Executive Committee: Interim Committee Mashwabada Mayatula - President Mthuli (Nicodemus) … - Public Relations…
ArticleThe Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) 1995
… and divided into three committees (Human Rights Violations Committee, Amnesty Committee, and Reparations and Rehabilitation Committee). The Human Rights…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… oppression. He was addressing the Transvaal Anti-SAIC Committee (TASC) at a conference in Johannesburg on 23 … At the conference, the TASC leaders proposed…
ArticleSouth Africa and the Olympic Games
… an Olympic Games. Membership to the International Olympic Committee should only be open to invitees De Coubertin was no … and other extremely influential…
BiographyMohandas Karamchand Gandhi
… turned the farewell dinner into a meeting and an action committee was formed. This committee then drafted a petition to the Natal Legislative …
Sadecque Variava
… titled The Spear Lives On. The newsletter’s executive committee consisted of Roy Moodley (chairman), Selva …
Rejuvenation of the ANC and intensification of the struggle 1940s
… was formed. In 1943, Xuma and the ANC’s Atlantic Charter Committee produced a politically significant document … and formed the Congress Alliance. The…
ArticleUnited Nations and Apartheid Timeline 1946-1994
… campaign in the next two years. 24 October, The General Committee of the General Assembly of the United Nations did … South Africa was considered in the…
Abbreviations - Missionary settlement in southern Africa
… : Diocese of Natal (South Africa) DRCSA : General Mission Committee of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (Cape … : Norway’s Free Evangelical Mission…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… November, William H. Andrews is elected to the Executive Committee of the Communist International and spends most of … to take up duties as a full-time…
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… Is unanimously elected as Chairperson of the Students' Committee of his residence, Beda Hall, University of Fort … 1947 Tambo becomes a member of the…