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EventTwenty former SA political prisoners launched a campaign against apartheid laws
… former South African political prisoners, in defiance of the restriction orders the regime imposed on them after … Their campaign came a month after the…
EventRobert McBride is born
… The African National Congress (ANC) member and current chief of Ekurhuleni Metro Police, Robert McBride, was born in …
EventNelson Mandela is arrested
… Nelson Mandela, African National Congress (ANC) leader and first commander-in-chief of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), was captured in Cedara, a small ……
EventMandela addresses ANC rally in Durban
… an effort to promote peace in Natal, the African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela made a trip to Durban to … Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader…
EventFormer NP member Roelf Meyer is born
… political parties, namely the NP and the African National Congress (ANC). Former Sate President Nelson Mandela rewarded Meyer with the Ministry of…
EventMandela confirms Kerzner’s contribution to the ANC
… that he has told no-one else in the African National Congress (ANC) about the donation. Mandela's confirmation … vindicated Holomisa who was branded a liar…
EventSouth African Foreign Minister, ‘Pik’ Botha denies South African support for RENAMO
… that the country is committed to the Nkomati Accord of 1984. The Nkomati Accord was signed by South Africa and … President, P.W. Botha and Samora Machel,…
EventDr Joshua Nkomo African nationalist and guerrilla leader is born.
… and enrolled at Adams College at Amanzimtoti, south of Durban. In 1944 he enrolled at the Jan Hofmeyr School of Social Science in Johannesburg. While in…
EventSAIC Executive meets in Cape Town
… South African Indian Congress (SAIC) Executive met in Cape Town and pledged full … launched by the Passive Resistance Councils (PRC) of Natal and the…
EventAllan Boesak is born
… influential positions. In 1982 he became the President of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, which claimed to represent about 70 … In 1991 he was…
88. Gandhi’s legacy
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … Mahatma Gandhi (link to bio on site), the father of the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on Receiving the Congressional Gold Medal Washington, 23 September 1998
… Maxine Waters Delivers Remarks at Presentation of Congressional Gold Medal to South African President, … end apartheid, including critically through action…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… South Africa,” in October 1963, ten leading opponents of apartheid went on trial for their lives on charges of … rights by the Apartheid regime made the…
Search for a United Front against racism
… lies in Non-European Front — M.D. Naidoo The salvation of the Indian people in this country lay in a united front of … by Mr. M.D. Naidoo, Joint Secretary of…
EventCourt go-ahead for United Democratic Front meetings
… Democratic Front was granted a court order by the Minister of Law and Order and Divisional Commissioner of Police to go ahead with a meeting to launch the …
EventMangope calls out troops as unrest flares in Bophuthatswana
… registering for the election and the African National Congress (ANC) called for a blockade of the territory. The President, Lucas Mangope, wished for … South…
EventJames Kantor, a lawyer, is arrested for his involvement in Liliesleaf farm activities
… Wolpe. Unbeknownst to Kantor, Wolpe was an active member of uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). Though Kantor…
EventProfessor Bob Hepple is born
… was a trade unionist, Labour Party member and Chairman of the Treason Trial Defence Fund. From the emergence of the South African Congress of Trade Unions …
EventFirst Women Anti-Pass Campaign starts
… campaign was probably the first recorded incidence of protest by women against the Union government. About 700 … passes were stringently enforced to control…
ArchivePolitical school: a concept
… Draft concept document for an African National Congress political school. …
ArticleThe Jacob Zuma Presidency - 2009 to 2017 (March)
… to the South African presidency on 9 May 2009 on a wave of popular euphoria fuelled by voters and fellow party … the way to advance his campaign for African…
Declaration by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… We the delegates to this the 52nd National Conference of the African National Congress, assembled here at the University of Limpopo, in the … more than 600…
EventTwo ANC members gunned down in Swaziland.
… On 4 June 1986, two African National Congress members, Sipho Dlamini and Busi Majola were shot … African Press Agency that the incident “had all the singes…
Zephania Mothopeng - Searchlight South Africa, Vol 1, No. 2, February 1989
… account. When this was received there was no news of an impending release, although it was known that Mothopeng was grievously ill. Part of the document…
Event26 parties meet to discuss future negotiations
… Nine months after the collapse of Codesa II, twenty-six parties - the most representative gathering of South African political groups ever assembled for ……
EventANC Consultative Conference comes to an end
… The African National Congress (ANC) Consultative Conference, which was held in … 30 April 1991, the ANC shall consider the suspension of the whole…
EventMalebane Metsing stages a coup in Bophuthatswana
… A dissatisfied faction of the Bophuthatswana Defence Force and some members of the National Executive Committee of the People's … Malebane fled the country…
ArchiveInternal position
… broad strategy and tactics within the African National Congress. …
EventJournalist and anti-apartheid activist M.P. Naicker dies
… Journalist, anti-apartheid activist, and Director of Publicity of the African National Congress (ANC) External Mission, Marimuthu Pragalathan … Verwey, E.J. …
EventEx-mutineers consider resigning from the ANC
… in exile considered resigning from the African National Congress (ANC). This came after the suppression of political and cultural renewal by the ANC and the…