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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 …
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…
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…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… the end of the decade, the ANC adopted the ‘Programme of Action’, which proposed the abandonment of moderate methods – … and deputations to government – in…
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, …
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…
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…
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…
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…
EventWinnie Madikizela Mandela, a stalwart in the fight against apartheid, passes away
On 2nd April 2018, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, also known as the mother of the nation, passed away at the age of 81, at Milpark hospital in Johannesburg. She…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to New African, 05 January 1980, London
… Unity in Action Decisive Question : How would you assess the Lancaster … that our liberation can only come through the united mass action of the people,…
ArchiveChapter 11 - SACTU in the Congress Alliance
… of a Republic. The regime's mobilisation against this action was the most intensive of the decade: nightly police … activists played the major role in…