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ArticleThe Drafting and Acceptance of the Constitution
… were many tensions. The ANC and COSATU decided to have a campaign of 'rolling mass action'. The first stayaway was on …
Article1960's Diaries of Nelson Mandela on his trip through Africa
… guerrilla army, one which on 16 December 1961 commenced a campaign of sabotage of state infrastructure and symbols of …
ArticleThe People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN)
… and PLAN was able to wage a serious guerrilla warfare campaign. Military assistance did not only come from Angola, …
ArticleSouth African National Students Congress (SANSCO)
… On 1 April 1987 NUSAS and SANSCO jointly launched a campaign calling for one man, one vote. SANSCO closely …
ArticleColonial history of Nelspruit
… war ground on for another eighteen months as a guerrilla campaign across the Transvaal, the formal life of the ZAR had …
The appointment of Judges
… - right to housing Minister of Health v Treatment Action Campaign (2002) - right to health care and access to HIV/Aids …
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
… soon established it as a colony. They began a deliberate campaign to exterminate the indigenous Aboriginal population, …
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… in South Africa were also introduced, due to a newspaper campaign in Britain that accused Western businesses of …
ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
… worked closely with local organisations and people in the campaign. On 18 May 1953 the superintendent informed the …
ArchiveMandela, From a Freedom Fighter to an Icon of Reconciliation
… ideal for which I am prepared to die." The "Free Mandela" campaign, launched in the 1970s, caught the imagination of … award by South Africa, promoted the …
ArchiveHugh Lewin obituary by Peter Hain (www.theguardian.com), 21 January 2019
… African Resistance Movement and embarked on a sabotage campaign, targeting government installations such as … blackout in prison, but a delighted Hugh heard…
Document 130 - Communists in Conference: The 1943/44 National Conference of the Communist Party of South Africa
… closely associated with the Communist Party), from the Campaign for Right and Justice, and other progressive … Party must go the whole hog in support of the…
Chapter II - Partners in protest
… Defend the Constitution League and embarked on a national campaign of protest, mounting demonstrations outside the … kept within the law. It was a protest,…
PlaceMkumeni Location, Flagstaff
… of enumerators, conducting a comprehensive publicity campaign, canvassing all households to participate, …
EventGermany signs an unconditional surrender which ends World War II
In the early hours of 7 May 1945, the Chief-of-Staff of the German Armed Forces High Command, General Alfred Jodl, signed unconditional surrender documents to…
ArchiveCHAPTER 1 - Old Battle-Cries and Borrowed Language by Howard Barrell
… were unlikely to provide rear bases for a military campaign against the South African government. Conditions … strategy, one which envisaged a long term,…
PlacePhilippi
… city’s food security. The PHA mounted the Food & Farming Campaign and, in early 2016, won a victory when the PHA was …
PlaceBophuthatswana, was Previously a Homeland
… internationally, its President, Lucas Mangope , launched a campaign to build top-class facilities, including hospitals, …
EventThe fall of the fortress town of Tobruk
… The fall of Tobruk was one of the low points in the Allied campaign in North Africa. …
EventWorld Aids Day is internationally observed for the first time
… the theme 'Join the Worldwide Effort'. The World AIDS Campaign, with the support of UNAIDS, facilitates the … (2011). ‘ History of World Aids Day ’ from…
EventThe First Draft of the Constitution is published
… In January 1995 an advertising campaign was launched to elicit public views on what should …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The siege of Okiep, in Namaqualand, starts
… a commando down to the Cape Colony. It was during this campaign that his Commando, as the Boer military formations …
Chapter 8 - The politics of Congress in the late 1950s
… pressure to attain our demands, and we will launch defiance campaigns, stay-at-homes, either singly or together, … of South African Women called for an…
Intensify the Revolution by O. R. Tambo The 'Morogoro Conference', Morogoro, Tanzania, 25 April – 1 May 1969
… the ANC saw it. Thus was born the Congress of the People campaign. In this campaign the African National Congress and … mass campaigning to general strikes,…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… its post-apartheid policies and launches its electoral campaign. The annual January 8th statement is given by Nelson … African National Congress (ANC) called…
ArticleDifferences between Capitalism & Communism and why did it start in Russia?
… programme. As a result of the failure of their campaign, many Narodniks turned to violence as the only means … led by Vladimir Ilych Lenin, had started an…
EventKaunda calls for Thatcher's exclusion from talks on South African sanctions
… against South Africa were concerned. A disinvestment campaign in the United States resulted in a significant …
New tactics in the revolt
… centre of Johannesburg. Early Oct: Intensive anti-drink campaign. 17 Oct: Mass turn-out at funeral of Dumsani Mbatha. … on the edge of illegality. Others…
PlaceKenya
… by colonial forces and local collaborators. [viii] This campaign of ‘pacification’, combined with famine and disease … almost 24 000 Africans from the region…
Speech by Oliver Tambo on behalf of the Liberation Movements, at the twenty-third session of the assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity, 27 July 1987, Addis Ababa
… also for the occupation of Namibia and the merciless campaign of terror against the sister people of that country. … of May, when the Pretoria regime has…