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EventThree people are murdered at Eikenhof
… Army, the armed wing of the PAC. After a lengthy campaign by the ANC and PAC to free the 'Eikenhof Three', …
EventOldest example of written Afrikaans appears in a poem
… on Dutch defensive positions at Muizenberg during their campaign to capture the Cape Colony. The engagement saw Dutch …
EventBophuthatswana is granted independence by the South African government
… earlier. The region’s President, Lucas Mangope, launched a campaign to construct top-class facilities, including …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the South African freedom day celebrations Cape Town, 27 April 1998
… take care, in the cut and thrust of the coming election campaign, that they do not stir up baser emotions which were … to fight this scourge is encouraging…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the South African freedom day celebrations Cape Town, 27 April 1998
… take care, in the cut and thrust of the coming election campaign, that they do not stir up baser emotions which were … to fight this scourge is encouraging…
Statement by Mfanafuthi Makatini in the Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly, 27 November 1981
… on apartheid will further strengthen the international campaign for the isolation of that abominable apartheid … this latest act of terrorism by the Pretoria…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 95th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2007
… our volunteers during the 2006 Local Government Election campaign. PROGRAMME OF THE DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT IN 2007 As we … As the ANC we will therefore…
EventCI and SACC offices are raided
… (BCM) were raided by security police. This was part of a campaign following the outbreak of the Soweto Revolt on 16 …
SASPU National, 1980 - 1987
… in national poliitcal campaigns like the 'Free Mandela Campaign', and through support of consumer boycotts. …
EventImperial German Forces forced to unconditional surrender by Union of South Africa Forces during World War I
… Khorab. References: Paterson H. (n.d.), ‘The South African Campaign in German South-West Africa, 1914 – 1915’ from South …
EventThe Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act is introduced
… was called and soon afterwards a passive resistance campaign, lasting two years, was launched. The Ghetto Act …
EventIan Smith of Rhodesia and Henry Kissinger meet in Pretoria
… by President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia, had started to campaign actively for peace in Rhodesia, but to no avail. …
EventSA pledges support for a negotiated settlement in Rhodesia
… was Vorster's second effort to mediate. He first began to campaign actively for peace in Rhodesia towards the end of …
EventEnforcement of military conscription for all white males in SA
… quell anti-apartheid action.In 1983, the End Conscription Campaign (ECC) was formed to end compulsory military service. …
EventWilliam Brown becomes the first South African officer killed during World War I
… to send the South African brigade to Egypt. Their brief campaign there was successful and they were sent to France to …
EventThe decisive Battle of Bembesi (Bembasi) is fought in the First Matabele War (Ndebele), Zimbabwe
… British Administrator Leander Jameson to set up the 1893 Campaign. The Battle: On 1 November 1893 the Matabele …
ArticleFietas: Pageview timeline 1880-1988
… Indian Congress initiates and implements the ‘Decade of Defiance'. 1953 The Lenasia Industrial Township Company …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 71th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1983
… the apartheid monster is involved in a deliberate campaign of aggression and destabilisation. During these campaign of murder and pillage, our people have…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
… in the framework of the organisation's "mass mobilisation campaign", and to protest against delays in the release of … its post-apartheid policies and…
Document 37 - “Communist Election Policy Defined: National Conference Decision”, The Guardian, 8 January 1948
… full energy upon the carrying out of a broad and intensive campaign among all workers and friends of Labour to secure … basis all workers without…
Chapter I - Learning to live a half life
… Joseph The 1950s had been a decade of protest, from the Defiance Campaign at the beginning to the Treason Trial victory and … over this senseless obligation…
Now You Have Touched the Women - African Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960 by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… African townships. Perhaps the most significant Congress campaign of the decade was the campaign against the pass laws, and in particular, the … Indian…
How to Approach Heaven by Jon Soske (Chimurenga Magazine)
… public throughout most of the 1950s, he waged a ceaseless campaign to maintain the dignity of his office, which he saw … disobedience against apartheid…
Nelson Mandela Letter to F.W. de Klerk, 9 July 1992
… inherent in our campaigns. This was so in the case of the Defiance Campaign of 1952, the Freedom Charter Campaign of 1955, the Alexander Bus Boycott of 1957,…
Chapter 1: Introduction
… since vigilantes took advantage of the situation in defiance of the strong ties between the two parties. It … and isolated incidents became a systematic,…
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… stand in support of the Mass Democratic Movement's defiance campaign, Cape Town, August 1989. others. After 1994, the …
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… occurred frequently. One such example was an anti-pass campaign in Durban in 1930, during which the Durban leader of …
EventTrade unionist Clements Kadalie dies in East London
… Kadalie's attempts to relaunch his trade unionist campaign nationally during the 1930s and 40s failed, but he …
EventDr. Federik Van Zyl Slabbert leads delegation to meet ANC
… economic changes in South Africa. Participants agreed to campaign for a negotiated resolution of the liberation …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… the refusal to demolish huts built on crown land and defiance of white authority. June, Non-European Convention … Party (CP) called for a united front in a…