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… a spokesperson of the Pan Africanist Congress youth, the party he joined as a schoolboy before the Sharpeville …

… Parliament in the early 80s, Wadee joined the United Democratic Front (UDF) and opposed the co-option of the …

… to the field of journalism and striving for a just and democratic society in South Africa”.  …

… of the Eastern Cape regional executive of the United Democratic Front (UDF). While serving in the post, Ngoyi …

… Mkhonto weSizwe (MK)  and later South African Communist Party leader. The two grew close and as a mark of affection … cauldron -. 1992 He was equally critical of the new, democratic dispensation ushered in by the 1994 elections.  …

… by sympathetic Transkei police officials. Following the democratic elections in South Africa in 1994, Mphahlele went … elected as the PAC President.  Due to problems within the Party, on  6 July 2008 at the 9th National Congress held at …

… when she was fifteen years old. After joining the Liberal Party (LP) , Neame, supporting the aims of the Freedom … in 1962, she decided to become a member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) – later renamed the South African Communist Party (SACP). Although her first choice would have been the …

… alone. During or about July 1986 he went to the German Democratic Republic for further military training. On his …

… (ANC) in the Western Cape during South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994.  Dr Sonn was also a patron of …

… later went to Cape Town, where he joined the  Communist Party of South Africa  (CPSA) and was active in the …

… added responsibility of helping to rebuild the National Party (NP) in the Transvaal. Verwoerd was a staunch … in favour of racial segregation by attacking the United Party’s policy of ‘pampering, levelling and living together’. … Africa that year. The following year, when the National Party led by Dr D.F. Malan came into power, he left his …

… of the TIC. He also became a patron of the  United Democratic Front (UDF)  in 1983 and was detained with fellow … Jassat was a TIC representative at the  Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA)   negotiations. In 1994 he …

… with four other photographers to document the first democratic elections in South Africa. These pictures were … publications:   An End to Waiting: South Africa’s first democratic elections , 1995 Bongani's Day: From Dusk to Dawn …

… to prepare for the 1994 elections. After the first democratic elections, Modise was posted as South Africa’s … to the building of a non-racial, non-sexist and democratic South Africa. He also received the Premier’s …

… Jacob Zuma from 1992 to 1998. At the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), Dlamini-Zuma was part of … for her shuttle diplomacy to end the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo but raised] eyebrows with her …

… it with yet further crackdown. A large number of the Mass Democratic Movement (MDM) leadership was detained. …

… 1989 as a senior lecturer. Following South Africa's first democratic election in 1994 Pandor was elected to Parliament, …

… politics. Dorothy went on to join the African People’s Democratic Union of South Africa (APDUSA) , serving on its …

… of Inkatha.His belief that Inkatha should become a democratic, mass-based organisation led to clashes with Chief …

… enabled him to travel extensively. He covered the first democratic elections across South Africa in 1994. He has …

… the Independent Media Commission for South Africa's first democratic elections in 1994. After this, she went to …

… the elections of 1921 (rather than for the South African Party), because she had become disillusioned with the Jan … She went on to become a prominent member of the Communist Party in Britain. Ruth Alexander died in 1942. …

… paper”. He recalled that he had been told by the National Party's mouthpiece in the Cape,  Die Burger , that under his … the Argus was left of the then  Progressive Federal Party  and more poisonous than the  Cape Times . All these …

… his editor, Joel Mervis led a campaign against the United Party , which culminated in the formation of the breakaway Progressive Party and the eventual disappearance of the official …

… 1938, Bettie du Toit  recruited MaMbeki into the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in Durban, making her the second … agent for Inkululeko (the CPSA’s newspaper), and ran the Party’s night school. In January 1940, she married Govan …

… these were run by members of the South African Communist Party and gave him the opportunity to learn more about … activism was given impetus when he joined the  Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). He was elected to the Pretoria …

… Executive Committee for 6 months in 1969 for what the party termed “factional and disruptive activities and for … Ngakane, and Thami Bongo were officially expelled from the party in December 1975. …

… establishing and became the first president of the Labour Party of South Africa, which has contested elections for …

… the 25 August 1919, in Cape Town. He joined the Communist Party in 1940 when it was still a legal organization. After …