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EventGwala and Mothopeng are released from Robben Island
Two members of the banned liberation movements, Harry Gwala, a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and Zephania Mothopeng a member of the Pan…
PlaceClermont, a Township of Durban
… Development was established in 2013 as a community tourism organisation by Durban Tourism and the KZN Department of Tourism. The aim of the organisation was…
EventSouth Africa Freedom Day - 26 June 1950
… South Africa, the Indian Congress and the African People Organisation organised a "Freedom of Speech Convention" in … Act. This call was supported by the…
4. The ANC underground between Rivonia and 1976
… association with the ANC was more than a formal political organisation; it was a cultural link for many people, a … symbols and activity represented both…
ArchivePress cuttings-repression of youth
… the youth in Soweto that has been organised by a community organisation in the same month, an artilcle on Sowetan …
ArchiveThe agrarian problem
… by I B Tabata to the Society of Young Africa (SOYA); an organisation affiliated to the Unity Movement and consists …
EventMembers of Mau Mau uprising in Kenya to receive death penalty for resisting colonial rule
… of the colonialists, when ordered to do so by the organisation. The British used concentration camps to …
EventAbdullah Abdurahman, medical doctor and Cape community leader, dies in Cape Town
… Founder and leader of the anti-apartheid African People's Organisation (APO) , he was the first non-White to become a …
EventSchool boycott in Port Elizabeth ends
… an estimated 80 percent of the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation (PEBCO) aligned labour force downed tools in a …
Event26 parties meet to discuss future negotiations
… Volksunie participated; only the far-left Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) and several extreme Afrikaner parties …
EventVerwoerd’s grandson joins ANC
… card-carrying member of the ANC even before he joined the organisation. His main aim of joining was to reconcile with, …
EventANC Consultative Conference comes to an end
… Conference, which was held in Johannesburg following the Organisation's unbanning, came to conclusion. It was the …
EventA police mob attacks big SWAPO rally
… a rally organised by the South West African Political Organisation (SWAPO). The meeting was held in Katatura, …
EventSouth Africa approves the Constitution of the African Civil Aviation Commission
… AFCAC is a specialised and independent body of the Organisation of African Unity (now the African Union) which … of the African Civil Aviation Commission',…
EventA strike by White mineworkers turns into open rebellion
… Revolt. Read more about History of Labour struggles and organisation in South Africa. …
EventMoses Kottler, A leading South African sculptor of his time, is born
… as a sculptor. Kottler was a member of the New Group. The organisation's aim was, among other things, to bring artists …
EventProfessor Bob Hepple is born
… himself to building up this newly formed multi-racial organisation. He was joint editor of the SACTU newspaper, …
EventTwo former Soweto student leaders, Khotso Seathlolo and Mary Loate are given long term sentences
… South Africa illegally and being a member of a banned organisation in exile. Other key leaders who played a major …
Document 61 - A. Mon [M. N. Averbach] 4 , “A Comment on Trotsky’s Letter to S.A.”, Worker’s Voice, 1, 3, July 1945 […]
… which would become used to the traditional methods of organisation and struggle - trade union and political - of … national slogans Trotsky rendered great…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of the 90th birthday of former President Nelson Mandela, 2 August 2008
… for us to appreciate the manner in which you have led this organisation and our people. We are able to learn from your … high level of discipline, your…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Conclusion - By Riashnee Pather
… NIC in the early 1940' - and had been accused of using the organisation to further the position of the wealthier Indians … the revival of the NIC in 1971 was…
Document 2 - Against the C.A.D. for Full Democratic Rights [1943]
… us in a bad time, for they find us in a very poor state of organisation. We are still prepared, every man and woman … low ebb. Unfortunately, there exists no…
ArchiveIsisebenzi December 1972 (English Translation)
ISISEBENZI COVER PAGE IS STAMPED (NATAL SOCIETY 1 DEC 1972 COPYRIGHT) LOCO ( WORKERS HAND HOLDING A CHAIN) EDITORS NOTES: We have a lot of issues…
The Durban Strikes and the making of the Political Struggles in South Africa by Vuyisile Msila
… Durban strike, there would never have been the political organisation in South Africa that amounted to the …
Esau Mokhethi reburial speech by AZAPO President Cde. Koti Dikobo
… that in 1994 the BCM (A) and AZAPO merged to produce a new Organisation called AZAPO. There has never been doubt in our … We have agreed on a Programme of…
EventIraq boycott SA government's apartheid policies
Iraqi Foreign Minister, Hassim Jawad, announced that his country will not recognise the government of South Africa because of its apartheid policies. The…
The death of Mama Luthuli,16 December 1996
… in peace for the seeds of her struggle and that of her organisation, the ANC, are beginning to germinate. South …
EventJacob Thabo Lengane is murdered in Soweto
… politically motivated. Although both the Azanian People’s Organisation and the United Democratic Movement expressed …
EventThe launch of the Progressive Women’s Movement of SA
… to launch a new national women’s movement, a non-profit organisation called the Progressive Women's Movement of South …
EventThe participants at the multi-party forum negotiations agreed on both new structures of the police and defence force
… (ANC), Pan African Congress (PAC) and Azanian People Organisation (AZAPO). In recent years, police have come under …