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EventActivist and Journalist, Robert Resha dies in exile
… Robert Resha was an activist, journalist and a member of the African National Congress (ANC). As an activist, he strived for a non-racial, … for…
EventPhyllis Naidoo escapes to Lesotho
… others. In Lesotho she joined the African National Congress (ANC) and was involved in providing for children who had left South Africa, assisting members of…
EventANC and IFP joint peace rally is called off
… The African National Congress (ANC) called off a peace rally to be held with … convinced the ANC national executive that in view of hostility between the two…
EventDumisani Makhaye passes away
… Government, Housing and Traditional Affairs and member of the African National Congress (ANC), Dumisani Makhaye, succumbed to lung cancer at …
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…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.6 No.1 Oct-Dec 1961
… Ronald Segal. Cartoon. The Great Smear: Communism and Congress in South Africa, Duma Nokwe. Out of the Strike, Nelson Mandela. Techniques of Revolt, A…
EventSouth African black activist and poet Benjamin Moloise is hanged for allegedly killing a police officer
… government on 18 October 1985. Moloise was accused of murdering a black police officer. The African National Congress claimed responsibility for the murder…
EventBrett Kebble is shot dead
… Mining magnate and African National Congress member Brett Kebble was ambushed in Melrose, … Andile Nkuhlu, Kebble's business partner and member of the ANC…
EventWinnie Mandela’s Soweto home reported burnt down
… The Sowetan reported that the Soweto home of Winnie Mandela, wife of an imprisoned leader of the African National Congress (ANC), Nelson Mandela, was burned…
EventLindiwe Sisulu is detained
… in political activities. The police suspected her of being in possessions of the then banned African National Congress (ANC) funds. She spent 11 months in…
EventMarthinus van Schalkwyk is born
… Marthinus van Schalkwyk leader of the New National Party was born on 10 November 1959. He replaced FW de Klerk as leader of the National Party in 1997 and…
EventDe Klerk and Mandela receive UNESCO peace prize
… President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela jointly accepted the … Africa. In the process they set an example to the…
EventWynand Malan leads the newly formed National Democratic Movement
… Former National Party (NP) member of parliament, Wynand Malan, lead the newly formed Afrikaans … In 1988 a meeting was held between the African National…
EventANC celebrates 90th anniversary
… On 6 January 2002, the African National Congress (ANC) celebrated its 90th Anniversary at a rally in … eight years post the first South African non-racial…
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki is inaugurated at Union Buildings
… After the African National Congress (ANC) registered a landslide victory in the 1999 … as the party's leader, became the second Black president of the…
EventF. W. de Klerk is implicated
… implicated former state President and Deputy President of the Government of National Unity, F.W. de Klerk, of knowing and condoning a … campaign that was…
EventWalter Sisulu evades security police and goes underground
… On 19 April 1963, African National Congress (ANC) leader Walter Sisulu forfeited R6000 bail and … The incident happened while he was awaiting the outcome of…
Document 25 - Response by Nelson Mandela to De Klerk’s 2 July 1992 memorandum
… COSATU has noted the African National Congress NEC's decisions on the Basic Conditions of Employment as reflected in the statement dated 14 July … so that…
EventSA cross-border raid in Maputo kills several
… African army on the planning and control headquarters of the African National Congress (ANC) in Matola, a suburb of Maputo, Mozambique. Three houses were…
EventWinnie Mandela speaks out against Terrorism Act
… Winnie Mandela, wife of the then imprisoned African National Congress leader, Nelson Mandela ends her thirteen years of enforced silence with a strong attack…
EventANC denies responsibilities for the unrest in homelands
… On this day in 1990, the African National Congress (ANC) veteran leader, Walter Sisulu, denied … SA homelands. Sisulu described the unrest as consisting of a…
Roelf Meyer and Bantu Holomisa confer
… Roelf Meyer, former chief negotiator of the National Party during the multi-party peace negotiations, met with Bantu Holomisa, former leader of the Transkei…
Reclaiming Radical Traditions of Workers' Education by Linda Cooper and Sheri Hamilton
… South African trade unions have a long and rich history of inventing creative approaches to workers’ education. The … following the 1973 strikes and the…
PlaceTrafalgar High School
… In the time of Education and its opposition to the Apartheid system, … newspapers and on radio. As the oldest School, for people of colour in South Africa,…
PlaceMount Currie Nature Reserve, KZN-Kokstad
… conservation and associated activities in the province of KwaZulu-Natal in the Republic of South Africa. The primary focus of the organisation is…
Document 83 “Native Bourgeoisie as a Class”, Umsebenzi, 16 February 1935
… as a Class", Umsebenzi, 16 February 1935 To the Editor of "Umsebenzi" In your issue of 2 February, there appeared an … article deals in length with the role…
71.The Group Areas Act
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … Only the names in the story are fictitious. (a) The Congress…
EventANC leader, James Arthur Calata, dies
… African National Congress (ANC) leader and Anglican clergyman, James Arthur … secretary-general. In this capacity, Calata was signatory of the 1949 Programme…
EventANC and government to surge ahead with reforms
… In spite of Inkatha's rejection of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), the African National Congress (ANC) and government decided to go…
EventTrader and art collector Habib Rajab is born
… Rajab was born in Durban. He was a trader and collector of oriental art, remembered for his role in preventing the … also extended to the political and…