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EventNine members of the ANC are officially banned in Dakawa, Tanzania
… decision on the three groups of people detained by the organisation. These three groups were: (a) self-confessed … by the ANC and forbidden from taking…
Chapter 7 - SANSCO:The Ideology and Politics of Non-Racialism, the Freedom Charter and National Liberation
… higher education students of a national political student organisation. However, there were ongoing skirmishes between … genesis and relationship, it came…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and May Day – Some Key Moments
May Day celebrated on 1 May annually, is a celebration of workers and their work. It has a long history, being a day of commemoration and celebration of the…
Document 15 - E. R. Roux, Black and White Trade Unionism in South Africa, 28 July 1928
… not more than 20 000. NATIVE TRADE UNIONISM. The native organisation, the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union, … of a trade union. In reality it is a…
Article#Am I Next? A Global Question
During September 2019 protests against Gender Based Violence (GBV) peaked after Uyinene Mrwetyana, a student at the University of Cape Town (UCT), was brutally…
Chapter 2
… social structure of the Africans and broke up the tribal organisation and relationships. The African had to learn new … still tenaciously clung to the tribal…
Chapter 5
… period 1935-37 marked the highest point of development in organisation affecting them as a group. The political … theory the people brought into being a form…
An interview with Mr. A.W.G. Champion
… provided a sort of fertile soil, unexplored by any other organisation. S. Trapido : Would you say that the ICU was primarily a trade union organisation, or…
EventSix PAC members are sentenced for the killing of PAC leader David Sibeko
… in 1960. He soon became a leading figure within the organisation, and by 1975 he was a member of the PAC's … he was ambushed and shot dead by assassins from…
Event19 die at Shell House massacre
… Jeppe Street, Johannesburg, was home to the ANC after the organisation was unbanned. This incident reflected the rising … was finalised. The IFP is based on…
EventEugene Terre Blanche, controversial leader of the AWB ( Afrikaner Resistance Movement), is born in Ventersdorp.
… Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), an ultra right-wing organisation, in a garage in Heidelberg, in the then … Boer ‘volk’ (people). The AWB functioned as a semi…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… in the 1950s started these structures. There was one organisation that was established by two women who were … Both the newly formed ANC and the African…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Glossary
NSDAP- Stands for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei and was a national Socialist German Workers’ Party.[1] Communist Party- The Communist party…
Address of the President of South Africa and the current Chairperson of the G77 and China, Thabo Mbeki at the 61st Session of United Nations General Assembly 19 September 2006, New York
… Once again, we have convened at this seat of the Organisation of the Peoples of the World, representing the … out during one of the most challenging periods…
Joint Communique of the Meeting of the National African Federated Chambers of Commerce and the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 27 May 1986
… In this regard, the NAFCOC delegation explained that their organisation has, for many years, been involved in various … The NAFCOC delegation also…
EventJosiah Gumede is succeeded by Pixley ka Isaka Seme as ANC president
… the South African Native National Congress (SANNC). This organisation was renamed the African National Congress (ANC) … stance. This was an unhappy chapter…
Document 31 - S.O.Y.A. National Executive Committee, The Maritzburg Conferences and the Tasks of the Immediate Future, 31 May 1959
… over the All-African Convention. As a whole National organisation of intellectuals and organisers the S.O.Y.A. has … these defectors possibly to desert with…
Document 34 - Letter from the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, to the Executive Committee, Comintern
… circular letter, we do not aim at making the League a mere organisation of leaders, but desire to develop it on the … Kadalie is opposing it, ostensibly on…
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
In the 1920s, with the First World War (1914-1918) over, the pattern of female employment began to change. The war and the protectionist policy of the Pact…
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1999
… (MF), Afrikaner Eenheids Beweging (AEB), Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO), Abolition of Income Tax and Usury Party …
ArticleDefeat of the Liberation struggle
… and unrest grew after Steve Biko , a South African Student Organisation (SASO) leader was killed in detention. Within a …
The Ideology of the Black Consciousness Movement
… Black workers and the youth. The South African Students Organisation (SASO) - an arm of the movement - was founded by …
Chapter 5 -The Character, Role and Significance of SASO
… of internal discipline.... It was primarily a students' organisation" (1978: 149, 193). It was "led by intellectual, … of politics, it is best understood as…
Fatima Meer: Portfolio
… that neither the present government nor any single party/organisation presides over the process alone. AND FURTHER … not later than 5 April 1993; 3. Each…
EventANC adopts the Programme of Action
… of the most important turning points in the history of the Organisation's existence up to that time. The adoption was … was transformed in the following…
Document 15 - ‘A document to create a climate of understanding’; Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk
… in December 1968. Much as they did not want to form any organisation, this was imperative as this was discovered to … was drafted. This then is how the South…
Chapter 14
… Dr. Xuma pointed out that, as National President of his organisation, he was unable to sponsor a purely provincial … preservation of their own position of…
ArticleAfrica South Art Initiative (ASAI)
Africa South Art Initiative (ASAI) is a non-profit company specialising in research and publication on the visual arts in Africa. ASAI began in 2005, concerned…
Letter by Oliver Tambo to the OAU Secretary-General, Mr. William Eteki Mboumoua, 01 June 1974
… all the more urgent and pressing. Our people and their organisation, the African National Congress, moved by their … to be free. Thanks to the unwavering…
Letter to the OAU Secretary-General, Mr. William Eteki Mboumoua by O. R. Tambo, 1974
… all the more urgent and pressing. Our people and their organisation, the African National Congress, moved by their … to be free. Thanks to the unwavering…