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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…
Says no to xenophobia, 19 April 2015
… The African National Congress has emphatically denounced attacks on foreign … in our country. We have further called on the people of Africa to unite against…
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…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… This article was written by Baruch Hirson A Short history of the Non-European Unity – An insider's view Where is the … and socialists of various hues in the …
EventMike Gatting's rebel cricket tour is curtailed
… and that the event had been overrun by the politics of the day. It also confirmed that the tour was divisive and … between SACU and the NSC included reducing…
EventJournalist and political activist Selby Msimang dies
… Edendale, Pietermaritzburg. Msimang was a founding member of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC), renamed the African National Congress (ANC)…
ArticlePolokwane/Pietersburg Timeline 1835-1995
… 1835 Migration of disaffected Dutch farmers from the Cape Colony 1836 Louis … 1838 Trichardt reaches Delagoa Bay 1849 Treaty of Derdepoort signed by the…
EventNatal Indian Organisation delegation meets Premier Smuts
… by A. I. Kajee and others who had left the Natal Indian Congress (NIC). The NIC had grown more radical in its … held moderate views. Kajee, the former…
Mandela: Message to India
… Mandela: Message to India 18 June 1994 [ On the occasion of an India-South Africa Solidarity Meet to discuss the … Mandela sent a message in his capacity as…
ArticleBlack Sash
… The Women's Defence of the Constitution League In 1955 a small group of white middle-class women who were predominantly … also criticism from the white…
Document 22 - Letter from Douglas Wolton to E. R. Roux, 8 May 1928
… handy, but was not able to reply earlier as the question of the World Congress was not settled. So far as our information now goes, … to GENEVA after…
ArticleStudent protests in democratic South Africa
… in democratic South Africa South Africa has a long history of student protests going way back to the anti-Apartheid … own struggles. In recent years, there…
Umrabulo Roundtable discussion, 7 March 2016
… The African National Congress will hold an Umrabulo Roundtable discussion today, … Gugile Nkwinti and Professor Somadoda Fikeni. Members of the media are…
ArticleZion Christian Church (ZCC)
… The largest and fastest-growing of the African independent churches in the 1990s is the Zion … missionaries, and the church reflects some elements of that…
ANC media statement on comrade Carl Niehaus, 10 July 2009
… The African National Congress (ANC) has noted a public apology made by Comrade … role that he has played in the struggle for the liberation of South Africa…
EventANC’s Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe rally support against Urban Bantu Councils Act
… African National Congress (ANC) leaders, Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe went … Councils Act. The Bantu Urban Councils Act, Act No 79 of 1961 created black…
EventInkatha Freedom Party is formed
… to fill the vacuum in Black politics caused by the banning of the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). It was the precursor to…
EventDefiance campaign leadership meets with SAIC
… Campaign Executive members meet with the leadership of South African Indian Congress (SAIC) to recommend a massive defiance campaign to … The Defiance…
EventThe Rev. John Langalibalele Dube dies
… Dube (Mafukuzela), politician and founder and first editor of the Zulu newspaper Ilanga lase Natal (now Ilanga), dies in … and first president of the South…
”Africans and San Francisco.” Statement by Dr. A. B. Xuma, May 8, 1945
… have asked me personally what part the African National Congress is taking to bring to the attention of Allied Nations and [the] outside world the back…
EventPeter Mokaba is born
… He was born under the cruel injustices and violence of the Apartheid system. His parents, Albert and Priscilla, … was one of the founding members of the…
EventBlack People Convention is formed
… Twelve years after the banning of the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), a new political movement, the Black People …
EventSACTU launches a national potato boycott.
… and slave wages. In articles in New Age the brutality of this system was exposed in 1947, nationalising the issue. … in 1944. In support of these workers,…
EventAcademic and ANC politician Z.K. Matthews dies
… On 12 May 1968, South African academic, African National Congress (ANC) politician, and Botswana's first ambassador to … the old guard and the more militant…
EventFrontline states call on RSA government to release Mandela and end Apartheid
… The six frontline states of Angola , Botswana , Mozambique , Tanzania , Zambia and … its ban on political parties such as the African National Congress (ANC)…
EventEducation Minister, Sibusiso Bengu warns Stellenbosch University that it can’t to be exclusively Afrikaans-speaking
… The former South Africa Minister of Education, Dr. Sibusiso Bengu warned the University of Stellenbosch that it could not continue to be an … higher…
EventZuid-Afrikaansche Republiek decides that December 16 will be a public holiday called Dingaan's Day
… about 470 Voortrekkers at dawn. With the advantage of gun powder Zulu warriors were repelled with an estimated 3000 warriors killed. The blood of casualties…
EventEducation Minister, Sibusiso Bengu warns Stellenbosch University that it can't to be exclusively Afrikaans-speaking
… The former South Africa Minister of Education, Dr. Sibusiso Bengu warned the University of Stellenbosch that it could not continue to be an … higher…
EventCosatu calls for three days national protest against the Labour Relations Amendment Bill (LRA)
… At its Special Congress in May, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) called for … South African Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race…
EventNational Party unveils its policy plan focusing on anti-poverty strategies
… Following the National Party (NP)'s first federal congress since its withdrawal from the Government of National Unity (GNU), its policy plan was unveiled ……