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ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
… October, 2014]|African National Congress, (1954). Women’s Charter, 17 April. Available at https://www.anc.org.za …
ArticlePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
Introduction We are not dealing with sets of statistics. We are talking about people of flesh and blood, who laugh and cry, who love and hate, who enjoy…
ArticleFinding out about hunter-gatherers and herders
Who were the hunter-gatherers? Many societies all over the world survived by hunting and gathering for most of the last 100 000 years. In southern Africa the…
ArticleUniversity of Witwatersrand Student Protests 2015 Timeline
… scheduled workers protest- October 6 Movement, in which a charter was handed over to University management by workers. … at Wits and UJ to protest unfair…
Why protect worker’s rights?
The exploitation of workers was a feature of life in South Africa for decades. Apartheid thrived on cheap labour: workers had to contend with the migrant…
The Court’s position in the justice system
The Constitutional Court is South Africa's highest court on constitutional matters. So its jurisdiction - the scope of its authority to hear cases - is…
Sierra Leone’s Pre-colonial and Colonial era military and security forces
… their number diminished. Under a new governor and a new charter, a more effective militia was formed. Recruitment for …
10 YEARS PROJECT
… it will be found that they conform to the United Nations Charter and the international Declaration of Human Rights. If …
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 4: A Heritage trail through the provinces of South Africa
… for whites only. She also helped to write the Freedom Charter in1955 and was one of the leaders of the women’s …
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… the people behind their demands as embodied in the Freedom Charter and must cooperate with all other organisations …
ArticleThe Founding of the SANNC
After actively petitioning the National Convention and being ignored during 1910 and 1911, delegates to the South African Native Convention (SANC) decided to…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… National Congress (ANC) proclaims 1980 as ‘The Year of the Charter’ in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Freedom Charter in 1955. 25…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010
… January 8th statement celebrates 50 years of the Freedom Charter. The official celebrations are held in Umtata, … ‘ A people’s contract to advance the vision…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… Congress (SAIC) results in the adoption of the Freedom Charter at Kliptown. 1957 6 March, Ghana (formerly the Gold … absent are movements subscribing to the…
ArticleJune 16 Soweto Youth Uprising timeline: 1976-1986
… the Western Cape. 1985 The 30th anniversary of the Freedom Charter. In the better half of the year the ANC was visited …
ArticleWhat has been the impact of the democratic transformation on the position of women within South African society? by Lucy Doyle
… coalitions (Goetz, 1998, p245). The WNC drafted a Women’s Charter of Effective Equality and successfully lobbied to …
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 1
… focusing on Codesa’s statement of intent and founding charter, the organization of Codesa, and the broad process of … in 1988. These were called a conversion…
ArticleOn Trial: State versus Abram Fischer and Thirteen Others by Norman Levy
… a philosophy behind it. It was committed to the Freedom Charter, which was an open democracy with fundamental basic … of Democrats other than what is…
KwaMsiza - A Ndebele village: References/Bibliography
BATTISS, JUNOD, FRANZ and GROSSERT. 1958. The Art of Africa. Pietermaritzburg: Shuter and Shooter. BEINART, Julian. Undated. The Popular Art of Africa…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… of the People meets at Kliptown and adopts the Freedom Charter. 1956 Johannesburg Mining Houses, headed by the … Azhar Cachalia. August, the UDF adopts the…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… of the committee “to go into the question of the Atlantic Charter and to draft the Bill of Rights to be presented to … to the delegates’ needs. The COP…
ArticleThe Mfecane: Understanding a Period of Transformation in Southern Africa
… Omer-Cooper version of the Mfecane had been adopted as a charter of origins for the new black rulers of the autonomous …
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… coincided with the ANC's political manifesto, the Freedom Charter to engage in 'the broader national democratic …
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArticlePan-Africanism
Pan-Africanism is the belief that people of African descent have common interests and should be unified. Historically, Pan-Africanism has often taken the shape…
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… 'Congress of the People', which proclaims the 'Freedom Charter' , a policy document of the Congress Alliance. …
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… the Congress of the People and the adoption of the Freedom Charter he had begun to express his views in the theoretical …
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… the purposes and principles of the [United Nations] Charter." The vote on the resolution was 9 in favour and 2 … of African Unity (OAU) is formed. The…
ArticleRemembering and Celebrating South Africa’s Iconic LGBTQI+ Women
The shards of South Africa’s fragmented history share a common thread throughout; at the core is a struggle for equality and visibility. Over the course of the…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and Mozambique
The South African Communist Party and Mozambique Introduction The Mozambique Liberation Front, popularly known by its Portuguese acronym, FRELIMO (Frente…