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Event1300 Volkswagen workers dismissed for unprocedural strike against NUMSA leadership
… of rank-and-file members responded with immediate strike action. VW warned that striking workers would be retrenched …
ArchiveThe Mission by Denis Goldberg - Foreword by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… upon ‘racism by law.’ It is a story of commitment and action that led to him spending 22 years in prison and when …
Duties as Minister of the Interior, Resettlement, Township Administration, Inkatha and KwaZulu politics
… ANC Youth League 05:53 -06:86 - Youth League programme of action 06:86 - 08:40 - Career as a doctor 08:40 - 10:22 - …
The Durban Moment: Revisiting politics, labour, youth and resistance in the 1970s
… movement emerged with a leadership oriented towards action among students and in communities, and influenced by …
EventGermany invades Poland, starting World War II
… to 12 046 dead (including 4 347 who were killed in action or died of wounds), 14 363 wounded and 16 430 captured …
American Supporters of the Defiance Campaign by George M. Houser
… struggles. George Houser, a pioneer in nonviolent direct action in the United States against racism and one of the … the repeal of certain apartheid laws,…
Document 28 - Brian Bunting, “Problems of the Multi-Racial Conference”, Liberation, 28, November 1957
… to reach new heights of militancy in political action (against passes for women, the Mamathola removal … section of the oppressed peoples in effective…
BiographyArchbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu (known fondly as the "Arch”) was born in Klerksdorp on 7 October 1931. His father, Zachariah, who was educated at a Mission school, was the…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 1
… also took place in a period marked by uncertainty, mass action and increasing violence, violence involving the … elections. The declaration then ended with a…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 108th Anniversary of the African National Congress by Cyril Ramaphosa, 8 January 2020
… the enormous potential of our youth by embarking on united action to significantly reduce joblessness, poverty and … are most adversely affected. Unless…
ArchiveCHAPTER 8 - Leading from behind Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 by Howard Barrell
… to victory lies in a systematic combination of mass action and organised revolutionary violence within the … to carry out [our] offensive are daily…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 96th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2008
… and to itself remain a united, coherent organ of popular action. The ANC belongs to all its members equally. … be defeated through conscious, resolute and…
Closing Address of Comrade Nelson R Mandela, Deputy President of the ANC 16 December 1990
… handled issues like negotiations, the suspension of armed action, the violence in which thousands of our people have … Some comrades have insisted that we…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew
… Cape Town, 24 August 1938 Document 116 - Committee of Action of the Non-European United Front, Non-European United …
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… 1 April, The United Nations Security Council, in its first action on South Africa, adopts Resolution 134 (1960) … also elects Nelson Mandela as secretary of…
ArticleThe Western Cape Farm Workers Strike 2012-2013
… That issues relating to wages; dismissal; disciplinary action; evictions and intimidation on the farms should be … After the strike, there were reports of…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1900-1909
… reformed and stationed at Estcourt. January 21, Corps in action at Spionkop. Bearer's carry wounded through heavy … British Committee and East India…
ArchiveCHAPTER 4 - A turn to masses by Howard Barrell
… black consciousness supporters to engage in solidarity in action with anti-apartheid whites, 3 and it disagreed with … quite how divorced the ANC was from a…
ArchiveLetter to Zuma by David Goldblatt (Mail and Guardian), 25 November 2011
… not attempt to describe it here. Suffice to say that this action severely undermines our brave but fragile democracy …
Document 17 - Letter from E. R. Roux to W.G. Ballinger, 19 March 1929
… C.P. insists are: real trade union organisation; strike action not to be ruled out; and freedom of all workers to …
Document 40 - Anti-CAD, Why You Should Not Vote [1958]
… made provision for the establishment of the Council of Action, whose function was to decide upon the institution to …
PlaceScottish War Memorial, Johannesburg
… conduct at the Battle of Delville Wood, but killed in action at the Battle of Arras. Next Beattie persuaded the …
Document 24 - De Klerk’s reply to Nelson Mandela
… in the trenches and remain ready for possible further action in defence of their demands. Any complacency and early …
ArticleAnti-pass campaigns, 1910s
… (Wells 1993:3). It also set the tone for later anti-pass action by militant African women. The second episode, which …
ArticleThe 1992 Whites only referendum ‘For’ or ‘Against’ a negotiated constitution
… a right-wing Pretoria regime and would demand punitive action. The Federation of Economic Organisations in Japan …
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
… and Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi opposed the government action, the ANC responded positively. Under the Emergency …
ArticleMessage of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, delivered by Mr. Tambo, at the funeral of Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo
… and inexhaustible energies to the arena of political action - the struggle to resolve the fundamental question of …
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… to repress civic organisations. Attempts at coordinated action among the civic groups continued, and workshops were …
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… (Wells 1993:3). It also set the tone for later anti-pass action by militant African women. The second episode, which … to launch a total boycott of the…
ArchiveThe 1957 Alexandra Bus Boycott and its unsung heroes by Roseinnes Phahle, June 2019
… organisations and formed the Alexandra People’s Transport Action Committee (APTAC). On 5 January, the Standholders … interdict restraining Putco from raising…