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Chapter 7 - Gumede keeps the bright fire burning, 1928-29
… people”. As Gumede set out to propagate the aims of the League Against Imperialism and the new African republic … through the Bantu People”.568 The…
ArticleHow Lenin and Stalin are remembered today?
… and their common enemies were defeated, the two strongest nations in the world became embroiled in a bitter power …
ArchiveInterview with Ambrose Makiwane
… strike. At Fort Hare he became Chairman of the ANC Youth League branch, and in 1957 the president of the SRC …
ArticleBiography of Lindiwe Mabuza by Kayla Johansen
… 617. ↵ [5] Ibid., 618. ↵ [6] Ibid., 618-619. ↵ [7] United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, “Mabuza, Lindiwe,” United Nations High Commissioner for…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… groups their freedom. The General Assembly of the United Nations became an effective platform for the nations of the Third World to vent their anger over…
Appiah Saravanan (AS) Chetty
Appiah Saravanan (A.S.) Chetty was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 3 April 1929. He was the second of five children of Appiah and…
BiographyJudge Erns Jansen
Judge Erns Jansen was born in Pietermaritzburg on 27 June 1918. He was the son of Ernest Jansen, Minister of Native Affairs in the National Party…
BiographyKenneth Mosenyi
Kenneth Mosenyi was jailed for a month during the uprising in Bahurutshe. He was involved in the African National Congress (ANC) prior to his return from…
BiographyElliot Shabangu
Shabangu was an active organiser at the street level for the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) in Dube,…
BiographyLot Kgagudi Maredi
Following widespread resistance, the Native Affairs Department (NAD) was forced to abolish the Bapedi tribal authority because of a lack of support. This led…
BiographyMaqashu Leonard Mdingi
Leonard Maqhatshu Mdingi was born on 2 February1926. He grew up at his family homesteads first near Bizana, and then in Amadiba Location towards the coast in…
BiographyMolefi Nathanael Oliphant
Molefi Nathanael Oliphant was born on 6 March 1952 in Kroonstad, Free State. He started his career as a teacher in 1975 at Lekoa Shandu High School in…
BiographyMakhosi “Tholi” Nyoka
Makhosi “Tholi” Nyoka was born on 3 April 1957 and grew up in KwaMashu, a township north of Durban, where she attended Umzuvele Secondary School. Nyoka was…
EventWhite women achieve suffrage in South Africa
… the twentieth century. The first Women's Enfranchisement League (WEL) in South Africa was established in 1902 in … settled in Natal in 1886. Subsequently…
ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
… 1950, Bertha Mkize of the African National Congress Womens League (ANCWL) was a leading figure, while in Port … to the crowd Dora Tamana , a member of the…
EventHarold Cressy is born in Rorke’s Drift
… Harold Cressy , co-founder of the Teachers League of South Africa (TLSA), educationist and teacher, is …
ArticleA History of the Springbok Legion
… Order of Tin Hats (MOTH) and British Empire Service League (BESL), which constituted of those who had served in … and Roy du Preez. With the formation of the…
Call for the observance of Human Rights Day: Albert Luthuli, 12 December 1959
… The formulation and declaration by the United Nations Organisation of human rights and the fundamental … would be contrary to the nature and spirit of the…
EventDaryll Cullinan, SA cricket player, is born in Kimberley.
… He took up a position as a coach with the Indian Cricket League. …
EventJoyce Kgoali dies
… (NEC) member of the African National Congress Women's League (ANCWL) and a Provincial Executive Committee member of …
Letter to the Chairman of the Special Committee against Apartheid by O.R. Tambo, President of the ANC, 06 October 1975
… use his good offices to inform Member States at the United Nations of the contents of this document and call on them to … it is printed. (Signed) O.R. Tambo…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.3 No.1 Oct-Dec 1958
… Cartoon, David Marias. An Open Letter to the United Nations, Paramount Chief of the Hereros. South West Africa and the United Nations, Mburumba A. Kerina. …
EventInternational Year of Mobilisation for Sanctions against South Africa is launched
… The United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid (originally … Government under review throughout the year. The United Nations had been concerned…
From retirement to parliament
… the Peace Conference. We want the Government of the United Nations to know and act in the light of our interpretation of … Empire, the United States of…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… the world for 1000s of years. However, the Modern idea of nations/nationalism first emerged in Western Europe during … who live in, black and white”. This…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the football banquet Pretoria, 1 March 1996
… Africa had dared to expect much of the African Cup of Nations. We felt we would acquit ourselves well. We believed … for their sterling work in support of…
Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women in South Africa and Namibia, 11 August 1981
… of Lillian Ngoyi, National President of the Women's League of the African National Congress . The 20,000 women … decades and in violation of repeated calls…
EventCalvin Thusago is stabbed to death
… to his hands, arms and back. Members of the ANC Youth League turned over suspects in the killing to police the …
’Appeal for action to stop repression and Trials in South Africa’, Statement at the meeting of the Special Political Committee of the General Assembly, New York, 8 October 1963
… recognising, as I did, the supreme effort which the United Nations is making to induce the South African Government to … to man. But we feel we cannot too…
ArchiveChapter 3 University by Denis Goldberg
… was no embarrassment about discussing such matters. The League of Nations and the UN charters assert the right of … have been under United Nations…