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ArticlePeople and Culture of South Africa
… African rulers founded sizable and powerful kingdoms and nations by incorporating neighboring chieftaincies. The … Zulu, Xhosa, Pedi, Venda, Swazi, Sotho,…
EventLegendary South African Football Administrator Abdul Bhamjee dies
… Football Administrator and founder of the National Soccer League (NSL) Abdul Bhamjee who was affectionately known as …
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… led directly to the West’s decision to support the United Nations (UN) Security Council vote to ban mandatory arms … international agenda almost from the…
President Julius Malema`s address to the KZN Provincial Congress, 22 May 2010
… of the National Executive Committee of the ANC Youth League, a militant, fighting organisation of our young people … Congress with more than 530 branches of…
BiographyPeter Rudolf Gisela Horn
Peter Rudolf Gisela Horn was born 7 December 1934 in Teplice, Czechoslovakia (currently in Czech Republic). At the end of World War II he had to flee his home…
BiographyJon Lynton David Hrusa
Jon Lynton David Hrusa was born in Cape Town on October 24 1965. He matriculated from St Stithians College in the mid-1980’s and went on to study at Wits…
BiographyElizabeth Komikie Gumede
Recorded as one of the most tortured women political prisoners under the apartheid regime, Elizabeth Komikie Gumede was born in 1921. Gumede served as an…
BiographyLetlapa Mphahlele
Letlapa Ngoato Mphahlele was born on 8 December 1960 in Rosenkrantz, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo) to Radikubu and Nkone. He grew up in the village of…
BiographyCecyl Esau
Cecyl Esau was born on 30 September 1955 in Worcester, Cape Province (now Western Cape Province), the youngest of four children. His father was a veteran of…
BiographyGovin Reddy
… crossed the border into Swaziland. He was granted a United Nations (UN) refugee passport enabling him to go to newly …
Document 59 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa to N. J. Barclay, 21 February 1936
… accepted by the majority of the Lenin Club the Communist League was formed but, and this is very important, after … discussion with the Johannesburg group,…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1910 - 1919
… against Indians led to the formation of the Anti-Asiatic League. The Chairman is LJ Philips, an attorney from … Sir Abe Bailey is the first President of the…
Document 34 - Letter from the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, to the Executive Committee, Comintern
… the constitution, petition form and circular letter of the League of African Rights. In taking the initiative in the formation of the League, we have been…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Introduction
… Johannesburg to launch the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL). Motivatedby their desire to shake up the "Old … was quickly catapulted into…
BiographyGibson Magwaza
Gibson Magwaza, from Nongoma District, Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal] was banished for coming into conflict with Chief Cyprian Dinizulu and the state. A document…
ArticleHistory of Africa Day - 25 May
… arose. Consequently on 25 May 1963 , leaders of 32 African nations converged in Ethiopia‘s capital Addis Ababa and … 15 April to 25 May. As a consequence of…
BiographyJohannes Nkosi
A martyr for the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA and SACP after 1953), was the son of Jacobina Nkosi (no details of his father could be traced). Nkosi…
BiographyMohammed Tikly
Mohammed Tikly became involved in the liberation struggle in South Africa when he was in secondary school, in the 1950s. He lived in Pietersburg, (now…
Women delegates to the inaugural conference of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW)
… Town : 1. Dora Tamana – African National Congress Women’s League (ANCWL) , Retreat Women’s Vigilance Association. 2. … Vigilance Association. 8. Gladys Smith…
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… 1941 At the age of 12, Kathrada joins the Young Communist League of South Africa. It is at the Young Communist League’s meetings that he meets Ruth First,…
BiographyJulia Nicol
Julia Nicol worked actively as an anti-apartheid activist in the late 1980s and early 90s, particularly concerned with the anti-discrimination rights for…
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM)
… majority. The General Assembly of the United Nations (UN) passed Resolution 395(V) declaring that "a …
ArticleTimeline for Grade 12.4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
… government does away with apartheid. 1963 The United Nations adopts a resolution demanding that all political …
EventJustice Ludorf convicts thirty men accused of conspiring to overthrow the SWA administration
… was under South African administration, placed by the League of Nations at the end of the First World War in 1919. In 1990 …
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
… the people of the world came together at the first United Nations General Assembly to enshrine a document against … countries of the world banded together to…
EventFirst Women Anti-Pass Campaign starts
… this campaign was the establishment of the Bantu Women's League under the leadership of Charlotte Manye Maxeke. The Bantu Women's League was adopted and…
Constitution of the African National Congress (South Africa), January 1958
… of national liberation and the right to independence of nations in Africa and the rest of the world. 3. MEMBERSHIP : … area to which he has moved. 7…
BiographyJohn Marinus Ferus
John Marinus Ferus (Hennie Ferus), an uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) soldier, was born on 8 February 1940. He joined the South African Coloured Peoples Congress (SACPO)…
BiographyAudrey Coleman
Audrey Coleman was born in 1933. When she was twenty years old she married businessman Max Coleman. They had four sons, and became active members of the…
BiographyAlfred Toto Metele
Alfred Toto Metele was born to farmworker parents,in the farming area of Qumhra, Eastern Cape. He attended school at Mooiplaas, outside East London, where he…