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The International Socialist League (ISL)
… in September 1915. It was created by a progressive faction of the South African Labour Party (SALP) as a reaction to the … S. P. Bunting was also a popular…
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO)
… in 1990. The SWA territory was entrusted by the League of Nations to South Africa under an administrative mandate … movement in the early 1960s because it…
EventSANDF soldiers strike
… Problems with the integration of " uMkhonto we Sizwe" (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Azanian People's Liberation Army…
EventSecurity Council examines violence in South Africa
… At the instigation of a letter titled the Question of South Africa from the … Forty-Eight Member States as well as the African National Congress President…
Apartheid power in crisis
… From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman The year 1989 … which could be said to have ushered in…
2002 ANC National Policy Conference: Closing Statement by Jacob Zuma, 30 September 2002
… This National Policy Conference of the ANC, held over the four days of September 27th to 30th … serves, in turn, as a major step towards our 51st National…
EventInkatha Freedom Party is concerned about stability
… lower south coast region, following the murder of IFP politician Sqoloza Xolo, who was blamed for the murder of G'caba by the African National Congress. Mr…
68. Passive resistance 1946-1947
… June 1946 and finally suspended on 31 May 1948. The report of the Passive Resistance Council, reproduced here almost in … by a policy of weak-kneed…
Chapter 10 - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 10 - … burnt his pass. Mass support swung once again behind Congress. The Monday stay-at…
ArticleSouth African General Timeline 1976
… January 1976, a group of people with Mosima Sexwale are taken by two cars a Fiat … in Swaziland to Tim Maseko’s house who is the principal of St Christopher…
EventMlungisi Sisulu dies.
… On 3 January 2008 Mlungisi Sisulu, the grandson of Walter Sisulu died in London from Cerebral Malaria. … both in the 1970s and 1980s. As a youth, he joined…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 6
… and the woman to three months. There were two children of the marriage. In justifying the sentence imposed the … Restriction Bill, Kajee was in almost…
WE HAVE THE KEY TO FREEDOM NOT THE OPPRESSOR, December 16, 1957
… Presidential Address to the Forty-fifth Annual Conference of the African National Congress, Orlando, Johannesburg, December 16, 1957 The powers … Conference?…
EventAmy Biehl is murdered in Cape Town
… years old), was dragged from her car by a 100-strong mob of youths in Gugulethu, a township just outside Cape Town, … surrounded the vehicle, shouting the…
EventDate is set for constitutional talks
… preparatory talks in Johannesburg, on a date for the start of negotiations on South Africa's future constitution. … to make final arrangements for CODESA…
Article“Fees will Fall, Not Us”: A glance at Stellenbosch University
… rise in tertiary education fees and for the decolonization of the curriculum peaked. [1] During 2015 this student-led … in the Western Cape, which changed…
Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
… The African National Congress (ANC) in exile developed strategies to influence … in the 1980s. From late 1984 onwards, a series of meetings between the…
ArchiveFrom conscience politics to the battlefield
… and took its active opposition beyond the boundaries of parliamentary politics . Members of the Natal Division … succeeded in developing a good working…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Tributes to Lembede After His Death
… surprised when they read the news item headlined "Death of a Noted African Lawyer." They were surprised because they … for the General Presidency of the…
EventThe Rivonia Trialists are charged with sabotage and attempting to violently overthrow the state
… 11 July 1963, the police arrested many prominent leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto weSizwe (MK). Amongst them were, … years after…
EventFollowing the infamous Treason Trial, ANC leader Chief Albert Luthuli is banished by the Apartheid Government for five years
… Chief Albert John Luthuli , President of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1952 to 1967 and Nobel Peace Prize winner … in the 1952 Defiance Campaign,…
Covert operations
… From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman Up to this point … example, after detaining a large…
EventPaarl Riots report submitted
… the 1962 Paarl Riots. The report analysed the main causes of the riots, and included information on Poqo, an armed offshoot of the Pan Africanist Congress …
ArchiveNotes on political relations in Robben Island
… Handwritten notes sent from Robben Island on Pan-Africanist Congress and African National Congress relations. Covers the PAC hostility towards the ANC …
The Freedom Charter
… Freedom Charter set out in black letters. Transvaal Indian Congress Logo in centre. Issued by the Transvaal Indian Congress. …
Political assassinations 1974 - 1994
… Dr. Rick Turner Banned political scientist at University of Natal Shot dead at home. - Swaziland John Majola ANC … dead. 15 Nov. Sebokeng Petrus Mnisi UWCC…
EventThree people are murdered at Eikenhof
… murdered on the old Vereeniging road, near Eikenhof, south of Johannesburg. Boy Titi Ndweni, Sipiwe James Bholo and Sipho Samuel Gavin, three African…
PlaceAlbertynhof, Kimberley
… Suburb of Kimberley to the South of the Big Hole and North-West of … of Inquiry into the poor white 'problem. The National Congress held a Congress in 1934…
EventPAC’s leader, Potlako Leballo confirms that Poqo is the organisation’s military wing
… Potlako Leballo, the leader of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), confirmed in Maseru, … 1963. At the time of his claims, the PAC, African National Congress …
ArchiveNotes on Letters from a Kindred Spirit: Ismail Mohamed by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
… wrote to me in 1980/81/87. But first I give a snapshot of his life, achievement and involvement in the struggle for … United Democratic Front; and in 1994…