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EventNIC calls for Passive Resistance against Ghetto Act
… Natal Indian Congress (NIC) led by Dr. G. M. Naicker, met in an emergency … was designated "Resistance Day" to mark the beginning of Passive Resistance…
EventGriffiths Mxenge is buried
… murdered on 19 November, was buried at his home village of Rayi, near King William's Town. More than 15 000 people attended the funeral. He was the husband…
EventTwelve people are killed in Daveyton
… and two children, were killed in the eastern Rand township of Daveyton, near Benoni. The incident, which was followed by a barrage of criticism, prompted the…
ArchivePolitical Action Committee report
… Report of the Political Action Committee to the 62nd Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University …
EventLesotho and Swaziland threatened with sanctions
… The government of South Africa threatened Lesotho and Swaziland with … sanctions if they continued to harbour African National Congress (ANC) insurgents…
EventOne person killed by bomb meant for Chris Hani
… person was killed in a car bomb explosion at the home of Chris Hani, then Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK) commander in Lesotho. Eben Frederick Coetzee, a department…
EventIFP commemorates Shell House shootings.
… Thousands of Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters marched through the streets of Johannesburg to mark the anniversary of the 1994 Shell … were killed by…
EventFormer South African Prime Minister Strijdom dies
… Former National Party leader and Prime Minister of South Africa, Advocate J. G. Strijdom dies. It was during … Freedom Charter, which embraced the…
EventRobert Sobukwe, first PAC president, dies
… Founder and first president of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) , Robert Mangaliso … midnight and 01h00 on February 27, 1978. Sobukwe died of lung…
EventReginald (Reg) September, prominent trade unionist and anti-apartheid activist, is born
… 'Reg' September was a prominent trade unionist, the leader of the South African Coloured People's Organization and an executive member of the South African…
ArchiveNon-Central Government structures in South Africa today
… Penuell M. Maduna for discussion at the African National Congress in-house seminar on Constitutional Guidelines for a … Freedom Charter perspective, and…
EventSmuts refuses call to postpone Anti
… During the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) Conference held in Cape Town, a deputation of sixty Indians called on the prime minister, Field Marshal …
EventCourt commutes James Mange’s sentence
… bodies such as the United Nations, Organisation of African Unity (now AU), Non-Align Movement, and … Court commuted James Mange's death sentence on a charge…
EventThe ANC sends a report on police violence to President F. W. de Klerk
… The African National Congress (ANC) sent a report on police violence to President … de Klerk and demanded an end to "the shocking inhumanity" of police…
EventThe third democratic elections in SA are held
… its third democratic elections on 14 April 2004. A total of 20.6 million People were registered to vote, making it 2 million more than the 1999 elections…
Article1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
… between the Natal Government and the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Natal Coolie Law, Law 14 of … on 2 January 1919. 4 June 1923 The South…
The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
… The Eastern Cape is regarded by many as the cradle of Black resistance against White oppression. After the defeat of the Xhosa by the British in the frontier…
Introduction - The anti-Apartheid Movements: a 40-year perspective
… Africa. Speakers included Julius Nyerere, future President of Tanzania and long-time fighter against apartheid, … K.Chiume, press secretary of the Nyasaland…
EventPaul Mosaka establishes the African Democratic Party
… organisation had the same goals as the African National Congress ( ANC), but was more committed to determined organisation of mass-support and co-operation…
EventNational Party adopts five year programme
… With the winds of change blowing in South Africa, the ruling National Party (NP) adopted a five year programme of its objectives which included a political …
EventTwelve Africans are acquitted at the Supreme Court
… on trial at the Supreme Court in Grahamstown, accused of having conspired to take over a town and kill Whites, were … from seven to one year's imprisonment…
EventSADF commandos bombs the ANC office in Maputo
… Defence Force (SADF) commandos bombed the African National Congress (ANC) office in Maputo, Mozambique and injured 5 … later and admitted his role in the…
EventThe ANC unveils its proposed constitutional principles
… On 12 April 1991, the African National Congress (ANC) made public its proposed constitutional … a discussion document, which to some extent had the effect of…
A Political Reflection By John Fikile Block
… The measurement of any collective is not when the executive tasks in the … collective into the Centenary year of the African National Congress on the 8th of…
Message to the Rally to Relaunch the ANC Women's League by O. R. Tambo, Durban, 9 August 1990
… from a land far away on this great occasion, the relaunch of the African National Congress Women's League. I should have been with you, but … so…
EventSA is blamed for Harare bombing
… had had a longer relationship with the African National Congress (ANC) military wing. South African covert forces were suspected of having planted the bomb…
EventOlivia Forsyth takes refuge in British embassy in Luanda
… British embassy in Luanda. She was a self-confessed SA spy of the security police in the African National Congress who was held prisoner at the ANC Quatro…
EventCedric Mayson is charged with treason
… treason and being a member or an active supporter of the African National Congress (ANC). He was released on bail, fled the country and … Southern African…
EventJoint call for June 16 Stay away
… The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), United Democratic … to all South Africans, Black and White, in commemoration of the Youth of 1976, who…
EventThe ANC and Government accept the Pretoria Minute
… is agreed upon by the government and the African National Congress (ANC), concerning release of political prisoners, return of exiles, obstacles in the…