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ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications
… Officer (February 1988). She also wrote ‘The Workers’ Charter,’ a report on Neville Alexander’s address to the …
ArticleAnti-South African Indian Council (SAIC) Campaign
… of separate institutions of representation and adopted the Charter for Change which proposed guidelines for a democratic …
ArticleCosatu timeline
… steering ANC policy towards the promises of the Freedom Charter and the Reconstruction and Development Program (RDP). …
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… frustrated by its moderation, expressed in the Freedom Charter in 1955. Early in 1960 both the ANC and PAC embarked …
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… on the theme “Towards Black Education” and produces a “Charter for a Black University”. The Charter is seen as the foundation of education for … for the new…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… state failed to prove that the ANC or the Freedom Charter were communist and thus all accused (including …
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… on white supremacy. It was the decade in which the Freedom Charter, the central document of the anti-racist movement, … democratic movement, based on the…
Apartheid - The early 1980s
… also increased support for ideas embodied in the Freedom Charter and a strong move towards mass organization. The UDF …
Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… Bill of Rights that was inspired in part by the Atlantic Charter. Freedom in our lifetime, the collected writings of …
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1654-1899
… been introduced to Natal by E.R. Rathbone. 1856 The Natal Charter of 1856 is proclaimed. Natal receives representative …
ArticleHuman Rights and the South African Constitution
South Africa's Constitution (1996) enshrines the supremacy of the Constitution and the rule of law. Everyone in South Africa, including the government, and all…
ArticleTransition and negotiation, 1990-1994
'Laws do not make a better society, people do ... it is crucial that the people of South Africa unite around a common respect for the Constitution…
The Afrikaner Bond
… British South Africa Company, which was about to receive a charter from the British government, would be placed under … support of Bondsman TP Theron for…
A new class struggle
… Colonial territories. For example, according to the Natal Charter of 1856, ... "time expired Indians are in all …
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… by the policies of the ANC, expressed in the Freedom Charter in 1955. Robert Sobukwe's leadership of the PAC was …
ArticleStudent Protests at Tshwane University of Technology - Timeline
… can be seen as legitimised through the 1955 Freedom Charter, which is one of the founding documents of South Africa’s democracy. The Freedom Charter states, …
The people armed, 1984-1990
… or sympathetic to it, and principles of the ANC’s Freedom Charter were endorsed. Civic organisations had been formed to … MDM was adherence to the provisions…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… or sympathetic to it, and principles of the ANC's Freedom Charter were endorsed. Civic organisations had been formed to … MDM was adherence to the provisions…
List of exhibitors - South African Society of Artists
A Amshewitz, John Henry, RBA Andersen, Nils Severin Ariba Friba, Franklin Kaye Kendall B Barclay, Dorothy Bayliss, Sir Wyke PRBA …
Durban Historical & community
Did you know An interesting history to mention is that of Inanda just outside Durban. Inanda was home to three key figures in South African and World history…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… The ANC draws up a Bill of Rights based on the Atlantic Charter drafted by Churchill and Roosevelt. Non-European …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… the formation of a youth wing and adopts the “Atlantic Charter from the Standpoint of Africans within the Union of …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1600s
… Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC) trading company receives a charter from the States General, the highest authority in the …
Grade 8 - Topic 2 - The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
Grade 8 - Topic 2 - The Mineral Revolution in South Africa Background and Focus of Grade 8- Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa The Mineral…
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… and negation of the letter and spirit of the Atlantic Charter and the United Nations Charter... It calls on the government forthwith to abolish …
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
… minister of industry, said that South Africa ‘violates the Charter of the United Nations by the inhuman and fascist …
International Boycott of Apartheid Sport by Mary Corrigall
… example, the first fundamental principle of the Olympic Charter states: "No discrimination is allowed against any … in the Olympic Games despite open…
ArticlePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
Introduction We are not dealing with sets of statistics. We are talking about people of flesh and blood, who laugh and cry, who love and hate, who enjoy…
ArticleGayle: The Language of Apartheid South Africa’s Gay Underground
The socio-political landscape of Apartheid South Africa was a challenging one for members of the LGBTQI+ community. Under the former National Party (NP),…
ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
… October, 2014]|African National Congress, (1954). Women’s Charter, 17 April. Available at https://www.anc.org.za …