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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 …
EventThe UN lifts mandatory sanctions against SA
… not accepted and efforts were made to expel SA from the Organisation. The conflict centred on SA's contested mandate …
EventNamibians vote for a Constituent Assembly
… registered voters voted. The South West Africa People's Organisation (Swapo) won the election overwhelmingly and on …
EventThe Democratic Party, now the Democratic Alliance, is formed
… the formation of the Democratic Party in Johannesburg. The organisation was reformed as the Democratic Alliance (DA) in …
EventPretoria disputes compensation for Gaborone raid
… pay compensation for the loss of life. According to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), now African Union …
ArticleLegacy: A Timeline of HIV/AIDS by Carlos Motta
1908 Scientists suggest that yet unnamed Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) was first transmitted, from one chimpanzee to one human, as early as 1908 in the…
EventSteve Tshwete is born
… year he was tried, found guilty of belonging to a banned organisation and sentenced to 15 years on Robben Island. … its National Organiser, responsible for…
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
… of Step-Up 4 Life – an avante guarde voluntary non-profit organisation working with youth development and the building …
BiographyKasturba Gandhi
… the founding of the Natal Indian Congress . The aim of the organisation was to produce “sustained agitation”, which was …
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 …
EventDutch Foreign Minister Luns is asked by the Johannesburg
… Luns became the Secretary General of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), leaving the post in 1984 …
EventCheryl Carolus is born
… was an active member of the South African Students' Organisation (SASO). She was one of the founding members of …
EventKwame Nkrumah is released from jail
… policy, playing a key role in the formation of the Organisation of African Unity(now African Union -AU) in 1963. …
EventBram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment
… was arrested in 1964 for being a member of the illegal organisation Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). He was …
EventWaluz and Derby-Lewis are sentenced to death
… to death, an equivalent of death penalty at the time, the organisation was totally opposed to the death penalty. Their …
EventANC makes demands changes to facilitate democratic elections
… ANC president Nelson Mandela indicates that his organisation will not insist on elections in 1993 if their …
EventChief Mhlabunzima Maphumulo is shot dead
… The president of the traditional leaders organisation CONTRALESA and African National Congress (ANC) …
EventThree Delmas trialist released
… 22 men were arrested for being members of the illegal organisation, the African National Congress. The state argued …
EventThe UN requests States to terminate restrictions on economic relations with South Africa with immediate effect
… and efforts were made to expel South Africa from the Organisation. The conflict centred on SA's contested mandate …
EventEdgar D. Ngoyi, South African ANC leader who spent seventeen years on Robben Island, is born.
… Ngoyi and Henry Fazzie joined Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation (PEBCO) in 1984, soon after their release from …
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…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Timeline 1961-1990
… countries. Several members and leading figures in the organisation were arrested in the 1960s and given long sentences or death severely crippling MK. The…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… African National Congress , a Union-wide premier political organisation among the African people in the Union of South … the Government's reply to the views…
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
… marked the end of nearly three years of planning and organisation, beginning in August 1976 in Botswana. Botswana … Mabasa and Ishmael Mkhabela, both of the…
Archive’Operation Mayibuye.’ Document found by police at Lilliesleaf Farm, Rivonia, 11 July 1963.
… trained in all aspects of military operations. A proper organisation of the almost unlimited assistance which we can … under the auspices of the office there…
Documents, and articles relating to the Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… an honest commitment to peace before it will talk to the organisation. This is the precondition we are required to … requires to be drastically changed. No…
ArticleFietas: Pageview timeline 1880-1988
… Congress (TIC) or the ‘nationalists’, the Transvaal Indian Organisation (TIO) or ‘accomodationists’ and the Transvaal Indian Youth Organisation (TIYO) made…
The genesis of the armed struggle, 1960-1966
… peaceful approach adopted by the ANC and other liberation organisation's prior to 1959 as well as on ideological … time, trying to slow down the influence of…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… an organization has been banned it becomes an unlawful organisation. Since 1950, 24 organisations have suffered this …