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Dream of Total Liberation of Africa is in Sight - Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 72nd Anniversary of ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1984
… the 8th January, your organisation, the African National Congress, is 72 years old. In keeping with established … Allow me to begin by extending to you all,…
BiographyFrank Chikane
… Frank Chikane, the son of James and Erenia Chikane, was born on 3 January 1951 in … 1997, he was elected to the NEC of the African National Congress (ANC)…
BiographyJack Mkhuseli
… Humansdorp on 31 May 1958. Jack was the second youngest of eight children of Fikile and Alice Jack, a domestic … the banning of SASM, was among those who…
BiographyEnoch Mankayi Sontonga
… Province (now Eastern Cape) around 1873 as a member of the Xhosa-speaking Mpinga clan of the Tembu tribe. He … a closing prayer at the South African Native…
BiographyReginald (Reggie) September
… was born in Wynberg in Cape Town on 13 June 1923, the son of Florence, a housewife, and Nicholas September, a … Peoples Organisation (SACPO), which became…
BiographyMosiuoa Gerard Patrick "Terror" Lekota
… 1948, into a working-class family. He was the eldest of seven children. Most of Lekota’s schooling was completed … years and six months in jail. When the …
ArticleThe Early History of Rugby in South Africa
… Prior to the passage of apartheid laws both Black and White South Africans played rugby, albeit separately. After the onset of apartheid Black South Africans…
BiographyJohn A. Mavuso
… times as a messenger and a shopkeeper. He was a member of the African National Congress national executive committee from 1955 to 1956 and … in the Alexandra…
BiographyKenneth Hlaku Rachidi
… were both school teachers in the area. He spent most of his early years staying with relatives in Limpopo and … role of Secretary General of the organisation…
BiographyEdwin Thabo Mofutsanyana
… Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana was born in the Witzieshoek area of the Orange Free State in 1899. He worked at various times … A. B. Xuma in the 1940s he served…
BiographyPatrick Baker Duncan
… A controversial White champion of African rights, Patrick Duncan played a conspicuous role … Defiance Campaign . Unable to join the African National…
BiographyEdward “Eddie” Roux
… Roux was born in the northern Transvaal in 1903, the son of an English mother and. an Afrikaner father. He grew up … he went to Moscow as a South African…
BiographyChristina Jasson
… the treason trial proceedings. She was acting secretary of the Eastern Cape Action Committee from 1954 to 1955. In 1956 she was a committee member of the…
BiographyDr Nomava Eslinah Shangase
… she participated actively in the struggle for the rights of African nurses, having suffered the indignities of racial … discrimination herself. In 1962, the…
Lionel Morrison
… a clerk and a journalist. In 1955 he was elected secretary of the Cape Town branch of the South African Coloured People's Organisation and in … After leaving…
BiographyIqbal Shaik Mohammed
… Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) and received training in the use of and maintenance of firearms and limpet mines. He and Ismail were established … maximum propaganda…
BiographyHamilton Kraai
… in Johannesburg, where he joined the African National Congress (ANC). In 1918 he was arrested on charges of incitement in connection with the Rand "bucket…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… station for the Dutch East India Company. Members of the occupation forces were settled as free farmers. They … member of the Commonwealth 1912 African…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 1: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
… Tombouctou, is a city in the western African country of Mali. Often used as a popular term to describe a distant and mystical place, the city of Timbuktu was…
BiographyNimrod Sekeramane Nathale
… Sejake was born on 8 August 1920 in Evaton, south of Johannesburg, to Basotho parents. He attended a mission … 1950s, Sejake was a leading member of the…
BiographyJoseph Morolong
… in ANC campaigns in the Cape Town area and was a member of the South African Congress of Trade Unions. A defendant in the Treason Trial from … Member of the…
EventPresentation of South African National budget of 1991
… million, with cuts in deficit spending, but an increase of 15 per cent in social spending. To help fund increased … (SAPS), which was responsible for…
A Chronological look (1943 to 1986) at the Life and Times of Mr George Ponnen
… GANGEN-GEORGE PONNEN - SPEAKS OF HIS LIFE AND INVOLVEMENT IN THE TRADE UNION, POLITICAL AND … political organisation, the old reactionary Natal Indian…
G. H. Gool and J. A. La Guma, "Appeal of the Ncrtional Liberation League for a National Convention of the Subject Peoples of South Africa", The Liberator, September 1937
… G. H. Gool and J. A. La Guma, "Appeal of the Ncrtional Liberation League for a National Convention of the Subject Peoples of South Africa", The Liberator,…
BiographyFrank A. Pendla
… Frank A. Pendla was the president of the Cape African Congress in the early 1940s until … a clerk, and a restaurant proprietor. President of the Cape African…
BiographyVincent Tshabalala
… at a young age by the Bethal Trial in 1977 where a number of Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) members were accused. After completing his … Member and Chairman…
Sabata Manaka
… in Botswana, in 1982, where he was living under the name of Tshepo Nkosi. After this his family lost contact with him. Sabata Manaka died of natural…
Lennox Madikane
… Lennox Madikane was a member of the Pan African Congress (PAC) and Poqo , the military wing of the PAC. Following Poqo attacks in Paarl, Cape Province …
Address by President Mandela to the Meeting of Directors-General Establishing a Forum of Directors-General
… Address by President Mandela to the Meeting of Directors-General Establishing a Forum of Directors-General …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the opening of the African Cup of Nations Tournament
… Address by President Nelson Mandela at the opening of the African Cup of Nations Tournament …