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ANC NDC moves hearing venue to another location, 6 September 2011
… also considered many factors, including the pending legal action against the ANCs continued holding of the …
EventANC leader, James Arthur Calata, dies
… capacity, Calata was signatory of the 1949 Programme of Action, though he found the proposal of the Youth League too …
EventJohannesburg municipal workers strike
… class consciousness and willingness to take militant action despite the possible consequences during the strike. …
Event2000 Students march through Cape Town
… June 1976 uprising of Soweto school children to take action against Apartheid and demand better education. Click …
EventThe Chinese Community in South Africa is granted ‘White’ status
… will be able to benefit from government affirmative action policies aimed at undoing the effects of Apartheid. …
EventCOSATU intensifies campaign against apartheid
… its members and supporters to join a campaign of sustained action against apartheid in the week before the country's …
EventMandela asks for commitment to fight AIDS
… gift the next day than a commitment by the world to take action against Aids. This was Mandela's birthday plea to the …
EventSA cricketer, Herschelle Gibbs is born
… team mates on a tour and in 2007, he faced disciplinary action after making racist comments during the 1st Test …
EventUnrests break out in the Coloured townships
… also pledged their support. In Lenasia, the Parents’ Action Committee was established to provide political and …
EventUN and OAU take a stand against Apartheid policy
… On 1 April 1960, the UN Security Council, in its first action on South Africa, adopted Resolution 134 condemning the …
EventThe 41st annual conference of the ANC in Queenstown gets underway
… The period 1950 -1952 began with a commitment to mass action and to tactics of boycotts, strikes and civil …
PlacePrimville, Soweto- Johannesburg
In 1904, after the outbreak of Bubonic Plague, near present day Newtown, the African population in the Area was moved to the Farm; 'Klipspruit', twelve Miles…
PlacePofadder, Northern Cape
Pofadder is a small town situated in the Northern Cape of South Africa. While pofadder means: 'Puff Adder'-(a type of snake). This town was named not for a…
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… movement, residence and work. For the most part, the action occurred while the majority of the Congress Alliance … than that held at the conference decided…
Oliver Tambo, 1 October 1987 - Reproduced in Oliver Tambo and the Struggle against Apartheid, edited by E. S. Reddy
… mitigation of white racist oppression, and called for mass action instead of deputations and petitions to the racist … 1949, to secure the adoption by the…
Oliver Tambo, October 1987
… mitigation of white racist oppression, and called for mass action instead of deputations and petitions to the racist … 1949, to secure the adoption by the…
ArticlePrevention/Treatment
… in the HIV and AIDS sector  led by the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) were largely focused on challenging the … care and treatment, all pointed towards a…
Apartheid - The early 1980s
… united and so active during this period. There was mass action from the people, and although they were all part of … to play a very important role in pushing…
Article1960-1966: The genesis of the armed struggle
… senior police officer in charge on the day, justified the action by saying, “Hordes of natives surrounded the police … protestors died and 49 were wounded as…
ArticleThe Cape Coloured Corps and the First World War
… to withdraw 50 metres and dug in on a ridge. The next action took place on the Makonde Plateau, where a German … was wounded in the battle of Square Hill…
Document 69 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 22 March 1937
… the unemployment spectre by a wave of militancy. The bold action of the Scaw workers would have been impossible two … ago with jobs so scarce, but today we…
ArchiveSome reflections of civilisation in Africa
… change in aptitudes, beliefs, habits, and continued social action.The author discusses human relations throughout …
EventBishop Ambrose Reeves returns to South Africa
… while Black rallies were called to protest against the action taken against him. Reeves was lovingly called 'our …
EventBlacks are making bonfires of their “passes” in Johannesburg
… bonfires of their reference books in Johannesburg. Their action was the latest gesture of defiance against the pass …
EventAfrican leaders issue a call for African unity
… inspired by common principles and a common programme of action for the achievement of the liberation of the African …
EventEleven people are killed in eSikhawini township
… northern Natal by unknown killers armed with pump action shotguns. The massacre took place a few hours after …
EventMandela suspends talks in the wake of Boipatong Massacre
… Tokyo, that his government had a plan to counter mass action. That plan included mobilisation of the army, the …
EventSebe seeks International Court of Justice to mediate in the ‘Kei dispute
… for interfering in Ciskei internal matters calling its action "terrorism and abduction". Ciskei demanded their …
EventTobacco Products Control Ammendmant Bill passed
… outrage by cigarette manufacturers, who threaten court action against the legislation. Critics (Manufacturers, …