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ArticleThe South African general elections: 1994
… National Congress (ANC), South African Communist Party (SACP) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and a commitment … the National Assembly. On 9 May 1994,…
BiographyGovindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo
… British Indian Association in 1907, of which Gandhi was secretary. In September 1906, Transvaal Indians held a large … he was active in mobilising the people…
BiographyMohandas Karamchand Gandhi
… Gandhi set to work on another petition to Lord Ripon, the Secretary of State for Colonies. Within a month the mammoth … and made an, initially, successful…
Grade 4 term 2 Timeline: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… Youth League (ANCYL). He marries Evelyn Mase 1948 He is elected National Secretary of the ANCYL 1951 He is elected President of the ANCYL 1952 The defiance…
BiographyPeter Becker
… was an accomplished musician, artist and photographer, and secretary of the West Rand Arts and Crafts Association and …
BiographyEllen Phyllis Hellman
… Joint Council of Europeans and Bantu, serving first as secretary and later as chairperson; but she was to make her …
BiographyGeorge Sewpersadh
… After its revival, Mewa Ramgobin was banned and I was elected President of the NIC. When the NIC was revived we …
BiographyLuis Inácio Lula da Silva
… was inaugurated as President on 1 January 2003. He was re-elected as President in 2006 for a second term, which ended …
BiographyRev. Theo Kotze
… man, Reverend Seth Mokitini. In 1964, Rev. Mokitini was elected as the first African President of the Methodist …
BiographyPaul Alberts
… were never published before. In December 1999, Alberts was elected by the University of the Orange Free State as one of …
BiographySakumzi (Saki) Justice Macozoma
… join its Department of Information and Publicity. He was elected on to the ANC's national executive committee at its …
BiographyStephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger
… to his God characterized his life. In 1883 he was elected president of the ZAR. He proceeded to negotiate the …
BiographyDr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker
… upper hand in the Natal Indian Congress (NIC), he was elected as president, an office, which he held until 1963. …
BiographyNjabulo Simakahle Ndebele
… the Institute for Democracy in Africa (Idasa). Ndebele was elected Chair of the Southern African Regional Universities …
EventCOSATU conference prohibited and organisers restricted
… for more than ten days. The seven restricted included Chris Ndodebandla Dlamini*, first vice president of COSATU, Fholisani Sydney Mufamadi, assistant…
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… followed by the regime”.2 The consultative gathering elected a committee to oversee the proposed conference, but … of this work he found expertise among the…
A Tale of Political Conspiracy and Incomprehensible Judicial Imaginings by Thabo Mbeki, 15 February 2016
… On 12 September 2008, Justice Chris Nicholson, Judge in the then Natal Provincial Division … aside.” Celebrating this decision, Blade Nzimande, General…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications
… chairperson, Barney Segwai, Andrew Lukele, Thomas Ranuga, Chris Nteta, Haroon Variava and Sipho Buthelezi, who … they would leave the terrain of struggle to…
ArchiveHARWU: The Aborted Attempt to Build a National South African Catering Union (1984 – 1990) by Allan Horwitz, June 2018
… split in CCAWUSA with HARWU initially siding with the ANC/SACP aligned Kganare camp • HARWU’s re-establishment … and Restaurant Workers Union (HARWU…
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
… and member of the banned South African Communist Party (SACP) is detained for three months under the state of … to exhibit work at the Botswana National…
EventThe Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) invade the World Trade Centre, during constitutional negotiations, in Kempton Park, Johannesburg, Transvaal
… Party (IFP) in Kwazulu-Natal (KZN). The assassination of Chris Hani , a popular ANC leader, at his home in Benoni, …
PlaceQunu, Wild Coast of Eastern Cape- Where Mandela Spent His Childhood
… era - Walter Sisulu , Thabo Mbeki , Steve Biko , Chris Hani and Oliver Tambo - making this Area’s claim to be the …
BiographyPatrice Émery Lumumba
… of Congolese civilians. The United Nations, through Secretary General Hammerskjöld, blamed Lumumba for the …
BiographyGraça Simbine Machel
… the huge cost of their removal. She was appointed by the Secretary General of the United Nations as an Expert to Chair …
BiographyReverend Beyers Naudé
… against apartheid. He succeeded Archbishop Tutu as the secretary-general of the South African Council of Churches in …
BiographyZachariah Keodirelang Matthews
… 1961. The same year Matthews moved to Geneva to become secretary of the Africa division of the World Council of …
BiographyFort Calata
… the Reverend Canon James Arthur Calata , was the Secretary General of the African National Congress (ANC) from …
BiographyAhmed Gora Ebrahim
… and at the United Nations in New York. In 1969, he became Secretary for Foreign Affairs for the organisation, while … ANC, PAC Chief Representative to…
ArticleTimeline of the 1973 Durban Strikes
… executive committee consisting of exclusively workers in elected. April - Industrial strikes erupt at the Mandini and … (GFWBF). Alpheus Mthethwa, an…
Chapter 2 - THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD
… by the Prague meeting to consist of those leaders who were elected at the 5th Congress, its responsibilities were to: … members such as M.P. Naicker, Flag…