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EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa’s first black president
… democratic elections held in April 1994, the president of the African National Congress (ANC), Nelson Mandela, was sworn in as South …
EventFormer ANC president, Z.R. Mahabane, is born
… Clergyman, teacher, politician and president of the African National Congress (ANC) Zaccheus Richard Mahabane, who combined … and during the 1950s he was…
OR Tambo lecture by Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa
… The Deputy President of the ANC, Comrade Cyril Ramaphosa, will deliver a lecture to celebrate the life and times of Oliver Reginald Tambo during the Mid-term…
National spokesperson to address a lecture on OR Tambo
… This month, October 2014, the African National Congress pays homage to our late former President, … Comrade Oliver Reginald Tambo. As part of the month long…
EventBantu Holomisa is dismissed
… Tourism Minister after revealing that the African National Congress (ANC), received a sum of R2 million from former Prime Minister of the Transkei, Stella…
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…
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…
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…
ArchiveA despot’s time to face democracy by Niren Tolsi
… contempt is also how Zuma seems to have regarded the rule of law and the millions of South Africans from whom almost R9-billion rands was … State Security…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…