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EventTalks between the government and ANC on negotiations proceed
… the South African government and the African National Congress (ANC) were held on 2, 3 and 4 May 1990. These talks took place at the most delicate stage of…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Introduction
… Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education Zinzi Mandela at Jabulani stadium 10 February … My father says: “I am a member of the…
Joint Statement by Chief Albert Lutuli, Dr. G.M. Naicker and Peter Brown appealing to the British People to Boycott South Africa, 5 December 1959
… In May, 1960, the Union of South Africa will be 50 years old. The Government is … Albert J. Luthuli President-General, African National Congress (sd) G.M…
Appeal For United Front, July 1948
… Yusuf Dadoo and Dr. G. M. Naicker, respectively Presidents of the Transvaal Indian Congress and the Natal Indian Congress, at a function in Cape Town in July…
Zindzi Mandela is born
… Zindziswa (Zindzi) Nobutho Mandela, second daughter of African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela and his second wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela…
EventSouth African refugees leave Lesotho
… The Lesotho government announced that an undisclosed number of South African refugees have decided to leave Lesotho voluntarily. Most of the refugees…
EventANC agrees to facilitate SA rugby’s return to international games
… The African National Congress (ANC) in Harare, Zimbabwe, agreed to "use its good offices" to facilitate the readmission of South African rugby into…
EventMa Tambo dies in Johannesburg
… Adelaide Frances Tambo (77), widow of former African National Congress (ANC) leader Oliver Tambo, died at her home in … lovingly called, became involved in…
Last kicks of a dying horse July 1992 - June 1993
… From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman The era of destabilisation entered its third year in…
EventDutch Reformed Church in Africa talks with the ANC
… A delegation of four members of the Dutch Reformed Church in Africa, led by Dr Nico Smith, talked with the African National Congress (ANC) in Lusaka, Zambia…
EventEbrahim, Maseko and Dladla are abducted in Swaziland
… South African Security Forces abducted African National Congress (ANC) activists Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim, Mandla … and transferred them to stand trial in SA…
EventO. R. Tambo leaves South Africa for exile
… after the Sharpeville massacre , on the instruction of the African National Congress (ANC). The international world strongly sympathised with South Africa in…
EventThe MK and ZIPRA formally announce that they had formed a military alliance
… Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Zimbabwean People’s Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA), military wing of…
EventANC members, Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe go overseas under false names
… African National Congress (ANC) members, Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe, went … Romania, where they attended the communist "World Festival of Youth and…
EventThe NNP joins the ANC
… dissolution and merger with the ruling African National Congress (ANC). A NNP statement said that individual members of the NNP would be encouraged to join…
EventANC President, Oliver Tambo, denies that the ANC is in secret negotiations with the South African government
… The African National Congress (ANC) President, Oliver Tambo denied that the ANC … government. His denial came two months after a Member of Parliament and…
EventSouth Africa and Lesotho establish a consultative committee to resolve border disputes
… to resolve misunderstandings arising from the movement of people across their common border. The relationship … friction. This was the case particularly…
EventSouth Africa’s first multiracial elections start
… Four years after the unbanning of the liberation movements and release of political prisoners, SA held its first multi-racial … of National Unity (GNU) led…
EventWinnie Mandela is elected ANCWL president
… Mandela’s former wife and politician was elected President of the African National Congress’ Women’s League (ANCWL) on 8 December 1993. The … all ANC…
EventFive prominent anti-apartheid activists released
… Rasool, Mountrain Qumbela and Hilda Ndude, all officials of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in the Western Cape region, and Mzonke Jacobs, president of the…
EventTutu and Mkhatshwa join solidarity fast
… Bishop Desmond Tutu of the Anglican Church, and Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa of the Catholic Church, held a morning-to-sunset hunger … officials, specifically…
EventUp to 100 ANC members are reported to have been detained in Swaziland
… Around 100 African National Congress (ANC) members were reported to have been detained in … by the Swaziland Police Commissioner and a large cache of arms in…
EventAn intricate prisoner exchange takes place in Maputo, Mozambique
… information on "hostile elements which threaten the Safety of South West Africa (Namibia) and South Africa". These included SWAPO, the African National…
EventAfrikaans Writer Breytenbach is sentenced
… apartheid in exile and was intended to be the White wing of the banned African National Congress (ANC). He remained a political prisoner until his … (1999)…
EventMandela and De Klerk hold emergency talks
… as long standing political feud between the supporters of African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP). Mandela was … Nelson Mandela…
ArchiveSouth Africa and the Communist International : A Documentary History, Volume 1 : Socialist Pilgrims to Bolshevik Footsoldiers 1919-1930 edited by A. Davidson, I. Filatova, V. Gorodnov and S. Johns
… and Bolshevik Realities South Africa and the Archives of the Communist International Document 1 Report of M. … [July–August 1921] Document 12 Official Report…
Chapter 2
… be viewed as one further step in the political development of the African people. In order to appreciate this step more … organisations outmoded. The Birth…
EventANC’s economic plans
… African National Congress (ANC) Deputy President Nelson Mandela stated that … his party was prepared to abandon its long-held policy of nationalisation if…
EventJohannesburg Magistrate court is bombed
… police officer at John Vorster Square at the time, was one of the personnel who attended to the first explosion not … it was a decoy. The second explosion…
EventThe Security Council begins deliberations on the situation in South Africa
… under an agenda item entitled: "The situation arising out of the large-scale killings of unarmed and peaceful demonstrators against racial … the event of 21…