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ArticleDefiance Campaign 1952
… The post-1948 period saw the African National Congress (ANC) abandoning its traditional reliance on tactics of … and deputations. In December 1949, with the…
ArticleCape Youth Congress (CAYCO)
… responsible for the growth in popular support for the ANC in this region, which was not a stronghold of the ANC. For instance, after his election in 1984,…
Biography of Mandla Langa by Carol Sale
… did not cease to work with the African National Congress (ANC) to end apartheid and write as well as encourage others … education. [ii] His family had an…
ArticleThe Nelson Mandela Presidency - 1994 to 1999
… elected the president of the African National Congress (ANC), and his friend and colleague, Oliver Tambo , was elected the ANC’s national chairperson…
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
… Covenant’. Since the 1920s, the day was also used by the ANC, SACP and other political organisations to mount protest … weSizwe (MK) and launch of the armed…
Conflict among civic organisations
… WECUSA was formed and launched in 1989 as an alliance of ANC aligned squatter leaders, particularly areas that were … The new organisation brought together a…
ArticleWomen and the struggle against Apartheid
… of choice, but also because the African National Congress (ANC) was reserved for male membership. This began to change when in 1943 the ANC decided to allow…
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… in December 1960. It charted the way forward following the ANC and PAC’s banning and the government’s holding of a … The holding of an all-party convention…
Timeline: All-Africa Convention (AAC)
… Ka Isaka Seme, President of the African National Congress (ANC), Africans from different political spectrums and from … from the AAC and joins the African…
ArticleDefeat of the Liberation struggle
… Unlawful Organisations Act on 7 April 1960, banning the ANC and the PAC. By 6 May 1960, 18,000 persons were detained … June 1987. Exile circumstances were…
Biography of Lindiwe Mabuza by Kayla Johansen
… Malibongwe and One Never Knows. Keywords Lindiwe Mabuza, ANC, Chief Representative, One Never Knows, Malibongwe, South … theirs’. [15] She joined the African…
ArticleAnti-Pass Campaign
… more advanced than their leaders. The history of the ANC, the PAC alleged, was studded with evidence that leaders … If the people had become disillusioned…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and May Day – Some Key Moments
… May Day) in 1950. The CPSA, African National Congress (ANC) and South African Indian Congress (SAIC) passed a … the history of the CPSA, but also for their…
ArticleSouth African major mass killings timeline 1900-2012
… organisation from the African National Congress (ANC), the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) staged an anti-pass … control headquarters of the African National…
ArticleCosatu timeline
… COSATU spends about R2 million campaigning for the ANC. After a decline in the vote towards the ANC, General secretary of COSATU, Zwelinzima Vavi warns the ……
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… of pass laws Planning the 1960 anti-pass campaigns: ANC and PAC At the annual conference of the African National Congress (ANC) held in Durban on 16 December…
ArticleThe ‘four nation’ thesis
… thesis can be viewed to be intrinsically linked with the ANC’s political stance as the original four wagon wheel spokes on the ANC’s flag represented the…
ArticleSharpeville
… the country and the world. The African National Congress (ANC) President, Chief Albert Luthuli, called on people to … Unlawful Organisations Act, on 7 April…
Indian South Africans timeline 1990-1999
… interim leadership group of the African National Congress (ANC) in 1990 and was elected to the National Assembly of the South African Parliament in 1994,…
Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws
… During its long history of struggle, the ANC has always been in the vanguard of the struggle against … upon which the younger generÂations could build. When…
ArticleManto Tshabalala-Msimang timeline 1940 - 2009
… one of 27 young members of the African National Congress (ANC) who goes into exile following the South African … of human resource development and deployment…
Indian South Africans timeline 1950-1959
… in his discussions with African National Congress (ANC) branches in Natal. ” Some took pride in the 1949 riots.’ … Naicker, in turn, delivered the opening…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
… students aligned to the UDF and African National Congress (ANC) oppose an attempt by Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi of the … PW Botha declares that the UDF is an…
South African Government of National Unity (GNU) – 1994 – 1999
… (GNU) under the leadership of African National Congress (ANC). Clause 88 of the interim Constitution of South Africa … were rejected as invalid. The African…
Article1949 Anti Indian Pogrom in Durban
… Indian Congress (SAIC) and the African National Congress (ANC) formed a joint council "to advance and promote mutual … among our respective peoples." A.W.G…
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
… movements such as the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) were banned and … spared the wrath of the state. The…
ArticleHighlights for 2013
… by Algerian forces. Aligeria January 17 2013 Algeria ANC enforced a 50% representation of women in leadership for the first in its history. South Africa…
Indian South Africans timeline 1980-1989
… replace Mosie Moolla , as the African National Congress (ANC) representative, for six months. 1983 December, 25,160 … Naidoo , was assassinated on an African…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… its ties to local nationalist organizations, such as the ANC. During the years it was banned, while the ANC continued to operate legally, the CPSA viewed the…
ArticleThe Langa March, 30 March 1960
… of emergency was declared the African National Congress (ANC) and the PAC were banned under the Unlawful Organisations … arrest of thousands of Black people…