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EventSecurity police raid offices of the United Democratic Front
… September 1984 in Sebokeng, Vaal. The UDF was an umbrella organisation of anti-apartheid groups. It filled a void …
EventFirst Multiracial Election is held in Zimbabwe
… and the illegal Rhodesian government, with the liberation organisation supported by groups such as the African National …
EventNatal Indian Congress is formed
… in Natal. The party became the first permanent political organisation to strive to maintain and protect the rights of …
Sechaba
… of Sechaba in 1967. It documents the struggle, from the organisation's perspective, for freedom in South Africa and …
ArchiveThe birth of the African Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… then decided to sponsor the formation of political organisation on a nation-wide scale, and thus the beginning …
ArchiveThe preliminary nature of the Constitutional document
… and rights of minorities, reconciling freedom of speech, organisation and electoral activity with the need to combat …
EventOscar Dumisani Dhlomo, politician and businessman, is born
… Institute for Multi-Party Democracy, a political research organisation, serving as the executive chairman. …
EventSADF raid Southern Angola
… Between two and three hundred South West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) fighters are believed to have been …
EventVan Wyk de Vries Commission submits its report to Parliament
… be empowered to declare any inter-university or student organisation engaged in political activities, undesirable. …
EventSASO adopts the Alice Declaration
… The South African Students' Organisation (SASO) adopted the "Alice Declaration" during a … [Accessed 28 May 2014]|South African Student Organisation, SASO, '…
EventPolitical Organisations are unbanned in Transkei
… Communist Party (SACP), the South African Students' Organisation (SASO), the Marxist Front, COSATU and the …
EventThe Transvaal National Union is established
… The Transvaal National Union, a political organisation, was set up with J. Tudhope as president. The …
Letter from Neville Curtis, NUSAS, to Dear Sir
… relationship between NUSAS and the South African Students Organisation and a description of recent attacks on NUSAS …
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
… up an ‘in house union’ as an attempt to undermine worker organisation. It had the opposite effect as increasing …
Worker Culture: It’s Emergence, Gains and the Implications of Decline by Frank Meintjies
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference The first shoots of worker culture emerged in the early eighties with…
EventCourt commutes James Mange’s sentence
… led by international bodies such as the United Nations, Organisation of African Unity (now AU), Non-Align Movement, …
EventAfrikaans Writer Breytenbach is sentenced
… had pleaded guilty for entering South Africa to start an organisation Atlas or Okhela, a resistance group fighting …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… of one year and states that there can be no political organisation among urbanised Africans. 9 April, Attempted … aviation. 26 June, South Africa:Signs…
EventNigerian political campaigner, women's rights activist and traditional aristocrat, Funmilayo Ransome Kuti is born
… October 1900 in Abeokuta, Nigeria. Kuti founded a women's organisation with 20 000 members that comprised of literate and illiterate women. The organisation…
Input by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the Farewell service for former President Nelson Mandela, Waterkloof Airforce Base, 14 December 2013
… some into house-arrest some, and finally banning the organisation in 1960. When the organisation was banned in 1960, after a period of persuasion … do…
ArchiveBlack consciousness and white liberals in South Africa: paradoxical anti-apartheid politics
… of South African Students and the South African Students Organisation; Steve Biko and his influence on the activities …
EventInaugural Conference of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… SACTU office bearers in exile re-established the organisation and used it to mobilising international …
EventTwelve Africans are acquitted at the Supreme Court
… one year's imprisonment for being members of the illegal organisation Poqo, armed wing of the Pan Africanist …
EventConstant Viljoen announces his resignation from AVF
… and doubted that he could ever work with the organisation again. After he broke ranks with the FA on 14 …
EventSanctions are applied on Libya over Lockerbie bombing
… the bombing of a French plane over Niger in 1989. However, Organisation of African Unity (OAU) countries decided to …
EventUDF distances itself from Madikizela
… Front (UDF), Frank Chikane and Azar Cachalia, about the organisation's suspicion of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's …
EventPolitical activist and trade unionist James La Guma is born
… and president of the South African Coloured People's Organisation (SACPO) from 1957 - 1959 was born in …
Devout domesticity?
… Africa: A Conceptual Overview 2. Class, Consciousness and Organisation in the Political Development of Indian South …
Black Student Politics
… provided a detailed analysis of a specific movement or organisation - its historical development, social base, …
When your position can't be sustained, create a scarecrow - The Menace of Post-Apartheid South Africa by Thabo Mbeki, 18 January 2016
… could not foresee and prepare for all the challenges the organisation would face in terms of its work. Part of what … demand that in addition to its normal…