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Constitution of the ANC
… 29a. Constitution of the ANC 1. NAME: The name of the organisation shall be the African National Congress. 2. OBJECTS: The aims of the Congress shall be: (a)…
BiographyMildred Lesiea
… Town in the 1930s. She grew up in the racially mixed area of Kensington. Her father, Sello Ramakaba, was from Lesotho … . Local meetings were organised by…
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, submitted to the Annual Conference, December 15-17, 1950
… The year 1950 was a turning point in the political history of the African people in this country. It was marked by a … of the Korean people. The attitude of…
Opening address by Oliver Tambo to the Conference on “Whites in a changing South Africa”, Convened by the five Freedoms Forum and the African National Congress, Lusaka, 1 July 1989
… by the five Freedoms Forum and the African National Congress, Lusaka, 1 July 1989 …
BiographyElijah Nkwenkwe Loza
… and Canning Workers' Union.He joined the African National Congress (ANC) and Communist Party (CP),and in 1955 … River which helped organized in the Western…
BiographyNellie Jibiliza
… was born in 1926 to parents who were African National Congress (ANC) activists in Cape Town. Thus, she grew up in a … active household and began attending…
BiographyThabang Sampson Phathakge Makwetla
… student in 1974. Makwetla fled South Africa in the middle of his matriculation examinations in 1976 and matriculated … became a front commander and head of…
BiographySusan Shabangu
… served as the assistant secretary for the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) and the Federation of … for the T&GWU. Shabangu was also a member of the…
BiographyIsaiah MacDonald Maseko
… A chairman of the Orlando African National Congress (ANC) during the … called the "Bafebagiya" group. He later became president of the Swaziland National…
BiographyBransby Ndobe
… , Bransby Ndobe did much to organise African National Congress (ANC) branches between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth … and also to radicalise Coloured farm…
BiographyDavid Patrick Russell
… an early age. He did his first degree at the University of Cape Town, and then studied for a Masters Degree at Oxford … University. He trained for the…
BiographyIshmael Mkhabela
… (BCM). After the BCM was banned, he served as a member of the Soweto Action Committee which was organized to deal with the increasing detention of anti…
BiographyMolefe Pheto
… teacher. In 1970, as a young man he was active member of the Black Consciousness Movement of Azania (BMCA) for … as a member of the BMCA and of the African…
BiographyNadine Gordimer
… originally from Latvia and her mother, Nan Myers, was of British descent. From her early childhood, Gordimer … organisation, being a founder member and…
BiographyAzhar Cachalia
… Azhar Cachalia was born in Edinburgh Scotland on 26th of June 1956. He attended school there and then later in … National Assembly in 1994, and the South…
BiographyDon Mattera
… grandparents not his parents. He grew up in the mixed area of Johannesburg called Sophiatown before the apartheid … of his life. He then joined the African…
BiographyJeremy Patrick Cronin
… (now KwaZulu-Natal). He grew up in Cape Town, the son of a naval officer who died when Cronin was ten. He was … at the Sorbonne in Paris. He joined the…
BiographyPitness (Stalwart) H. Simelane
… Pitness Simelane was born in 1910. He was a leader of the African National Congress in Natal in the 1950s. As a teacher in the 1930s he … a pharmacy. In…
BiographyGoolam Hoosein Ismail Pahad
… in 1925 and also organised a big reception for the Indian Congress leader, Maulana Shawkat Ali in the village Kholvad. … Tilley in 1933 and was elected in…
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
… When Black workers in Durban embarked on a wave of strikes in January 1973, the government and employers were … being the rise and eventual demise of the…
BiographyJohn S. P. Motloheloa
… Town in 1938. In the mid-1950s he was acting secretary of the African National Congress (ANC) in the Western Cape. He attended the 1956 … return to…
BiographySimon Tyeku
… Chairman of the Sophiatown African National Congress in the … mid-1950s and a first-string accused in the Treason Trial of 1956-1961 . Tyeku was born in…
BiographyMahomed Dawood Barmania
… Mahomed Dawood Barmania was the son of Dawood Barmania, owner of commercial and farming … politics by joining, in the mid 1930s, the Cape Indian Congress…
BiographyDikobe Ben Martins
… with the struggle for liberation and a just society free of race, class and exploitation." – Dikobe Ben Martins, The … we Sizwe (MK) the liberation army of…
BiographyJohannes (Joe) Modise
… Johannesburg, on 23 May 1929. He was the only child of Miriam and Ezekiel Modise. Modise completed his Junior … for various companies. Modise joined the…
BiographyVictor V. T. Mbobo
… at a Pretoria high school, he participated in the founding of the Youth League and in 1947 was chosen as the league's delegate to a conference of the World…
BiographyDilizantaba Mji
… and M.S. degrees, then studied medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he graduated in 1952. In 1950 he participated in the organisation of…
Peter Papela Nthite
… Born 1929, the son of a labourer, he grew up in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. From … working as a truck driver. Joining the African National Congress during…
BiographyTrineke Weijdema
… to support the freedom struggle in Angola . The whole of southern Africa became a zone of concern, and with the AC’s aim being reached in Angola in … freedom…
BiographyCijimpi Mnyandu
… Cijimpi Mnyaundu, a trade union leader and African National Congress (ANC) member, who worked in Durban, was from the … Makhanya Tribal Area, Umlazi District…