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Briefing on Lekgotla outcomes, 27 January 2015
… The African National Congress invites members of the media to a briefing on the outcomes of the NEC … by Zizi Kodwa National Spokesperson African National…
Sechaba
… The African National Congress began publication of Sechaba in 1967. It documents the struggle, from the … documents the process by which the African National…
EventPolitical Organisations are unbanned in Transkei
… leader, Gen. Bantu Holomisa , announced the unbanning of the African National Congress (ANC), the Pan African Congress (PAC), the South African Communist…
EventCosatu celebrates its 18 th anniversary
… The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) celebrated its 18th … trade union in the world to sponsor a CD. The recording of Solidarity Forever was…
Document 12 - Notes prepared by Nelson Mandela for his meeting with P. W. Botha
… it falls to me to say a few words to bring this Special Congress to a close. Vote of thanks First a word of thanks. For myself, and on behalf … need to thank…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… a map that gold is to be found in the approximate vicinity of either the Witwatersrand or the Magaliesberge. 1852 Gold … of 1922. 1912 8 January, The South…
EventIraq boycott SA government’s apartheid policies
… that his country will not recognise the government of South Africa because of its apartheid policies. The … police after a peaceful protest led by the Pan…
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… is held between the Nationalist Bloc, Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) leadership and the Indian Agent-General, Sir … the meeting ends in failure. February,…
Post NEC & Lekgotla Briefing, 30 January 2017
… The African National Congress invites members of the media to a media briefing on the outomces of the NEC … Seme Street, Johannesburg Issued by the African…
EventFirst Multiracial Election is held in Zimbabwe
… After a war of independence fought between members of various liberation … supported by groups such as the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan…
EventCosatu offices in Durban under attack
… supporters spilled into central Pietermaritzburg when the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) offices in the town … and their alleged links with…
EventWinnie Mandela is dismissed from government
… Following weeks of speculations on the fate of Winnie Mandela in the … by parliamentary parties as well as the African National Congress (ANC) and its…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew
… 29 May [1943] Document 4 - B.M. Kies "The Background of Segregation", Address delivered to the National Anti-CAD … of the All-African Convention and the…
EventMandela is awarded the Joliot Curie Gold Medal for Peace
… The paper 'Leader' announced that African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela has been awarded the … Peace the previous week. The announcement came…
EventTripartite Alliance plans mass action
… The Tripartite Alliance, consisting of the African National Congress (ANC), South African Communist Party (SACP) and Congress of South African Trade Union …
EventWorld Leprosy Day is celebrated in SA
… Hundreds of representatives from leprosy non-governmental … from 30 January to 3 February for the African Leprosy Congress. The convention was coordinated by…
EventPolitical parties call for Constitutional changes
… The New National Party (NNP) strove for the insertion of a lockout right as a counter measure to labour's right to … provision for single-language education…
EventPolitical activist and lawyer A. P. Mda is born
… Political activist, teacher and lawyer, co-founder of the African National Youth League (ANCYL) and its … also part of the breakaway group from the African…
EventTrade union federation, COSATU, celebrates its 26th anniversary
… The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), a federation of various labour unions, was established on 2 December 1985 … years in the Tripartite…
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… many years there was tension within the African National Congress (ANC) between those with different ideological and theoretical views. One of these views…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… Introduction: Background to the Strike The formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 was a development that … to six-month terms in prison, the African…
ArticleWomen’s Role in the Negotiations by Nicole Dellaportas
… article was written by Nicole Dellaportas and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership … women were officially allowed into the…
ArticleThe Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial, 1984
… early 1980s the government took steps to control the level of resistance in the country. Its solution was to arrest key … Democratic Front (UDF), the…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 11
… in his own community. He was faced with a rising storm of opposition from he anti-segregationalists led by Dr. Naicker in Natal and Dr. Dadoo in the…
EventCyril Ramaphosa resigns as ANC Secretary-General
… confirmed that he was resigning as African National Congress Secretary-General, as well as from Parliament. … Speculation around Ramaphosa's resignation was…
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… In January 1986, the UDF met the African National Congress (ANC) for talks in Stockholm. It was at these talks that the position and future role of the UDF…
ArticleThe 1992 Whites only referendum ‘For’ or ‘Against’ a negotiated constitution
… President Frederick Willem de Klerk announced the results of a referendum in which only white people were allowed to … to negotiations between the NP and the…
Condolence book for Comrade Ahmed Kathrada, 28 March 2017
… The African National Congress mourns the passing of Isithwalandwe/Seaparankoe, Comrade Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada … from 14h00 this afternoon. Issued by the…
The Mass Democratic Movement, February 1988 - January 1990
… Poert Mzwakhe Mbuli, UDF concert 1989 The State of Emergency's continued bannings and repression only led to … began to work above ground, forming closer…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… British victory in the South African War , the Union of South Africa was forged in 1910 under the British … South Africa’s liberation movements. The African…