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EventAdelaide Tambo returns to South Africa after 30 years
… active after her grandfather's arrest at the age of ten. While she attended high school, she started to work as a courier for the African National Congress …
EventIFP proposes truce with ANC
… Party (IFP) proposed a truce with the African National Congress (ANC) as an effort to calm violent clashes between members of the two parties. The Secretary…
EventInkatha Freedom Party boycotts parliament
… Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) announced the suspension of its active participation in both chambers of parliament and in the constitution-making process. IFP ……
Appeal to the British public by Dube
… Dube President, South African Native National Congress [This extract from the appeal was published by … with the following editorial note: “The Native Land…
EventGwala and Mothopeng are released from Robben Island
… Two members of the banned liberation movements, Harry Gwala, a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and Zephania Mothopeng a member of the Pan…
EventCollen Chauke, infamous escapee, is captured
… late on Tuesday evening. Chauke, a former member of the African National Congress ' armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe , was arrested in … He died in 2003 in…
ArchiveDemocracy and the Left in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Ben Turok interviewed by Carilee Osborne
… Ben Turok, now 92 years old, was an African National Congress (ANC) Member of Parliament in South Africa for 20 years. Turok is the sole … shows what it is…
Appeal for action against Apartheid - Statement issued jointly by Chief Albert Luthuli and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr,10 December 1962
… King, Jr., 1962 In 1957, an unprecedented Declaration of Conscience was issued by more than 100 leaders from every … took the following measures: BANNED the…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma to National Worker`s Day Rally, 1 May 2011, Athlone Stadium, Cape Town
… President of COSATU, comrade Sdumo Dlamini, ANC chairperson, Comrade … of the working class led firstly by the South African Congress of Trade Unions and…
Statement on ANC central number and information line, 10 October 2005
… The African National Congress has launched a telephone information line which … about the organisation. By dialling one number, members of the public can…
EventANC calls on International community to save lives
… At the end of the Soekmekaar and Silverton trial in Pretoria, three … Tsepo Mashigo 20, and Naphtali Manani were found guilty of high treason, the murder of…
EventKhotso House is bombed
… The South African Council of Churches (SACC) headquarters, Khotso House, based in … harbouring anti-apartheid groups a year after a blast at Congress of…
EventStudents at Durban
… During ongoing unrest at the University of Durban-Westville (UDW) owing to political activism and a … membership was mostly South African National Students…
EventIFP declares attacks on UDF as self-defence
… in this war that started shortly after the emergence of the UDF as a front for the African National Congress. The IFP saw the emergences of the popular UDF…
EventPW Botha refuses to testify before the TRC
… assault" on the Afrikaner by the African National Congress (ANC) led government. Botha, who became Prime Minister of the Republic of South Africa in 1978 and…
EventGandhi leads Satyagraha Passive Resistance Campaign
… in Transvaal (now known as Gauteng Province), Union of South Africa. The campaign was prompted by the introduction of the Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance in…
EventEllen Kuzwayo becomes the first Black woman to receive an honorary degree from Wits University
… woman to receive an honorary degree from the University of the Witwatersrand on 2 April 1987. Kuzwayo was born into a … The family had very strong ties…
EventANC wins the second democratic election
… The African National Congress won the second democratic election by 266 seats. The …
EventANC’s chief representative in Swaziland, Stanley Mabizela, writes a letter to the ANC following a visit by Thabo Mbeki and Max Sisulu
… On 12 March, 1975, Stanley Mabizela the African National Congress (ANC) Chief representative in Swaziland wrote a … be visited by comrade Thabo and Max. It…
EventBanned PAC leader Sobukwe is admitted as attorney
… Robert Sobukwe, former leader of the banned Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC), although still … Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political…
EventNP presents its revised constitutional proposals
… The proposals were based on a NP two-phase plan of transition. It suggested the appointment of multiparty transitional councils by CODESA during the … to the…
African and Indian in Durban by Fatima Meer
… by the Editor to commemorate one hundred years of Indian settlement in South Africa. The large number of … of Natal. Her husband, a prominent Indian lawyer…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Randall Robinson, Executive Director, Transafrica Forum, 2 March 1983, Washington, DC
… How would you assess the current state of affairs in South Africa? TAMBO: The South African regime … in spite of their aggression, the African National…
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… The South African Students Movement (SASM) an organisation of mainly high school students was formed to represent … the period before the banning of the …
EventZimbabwean intelligence officers on trial for attempting to bomb ANC refugees
… car bomb a house in Bulawayo, occupied by African National Congress (ANC) refugees. Unfortunately for the three … O’Malley, P. ‘1988’ , from Nelson Mandela…
EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment
… Founding member and president of the Pan Africanist Congress , Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe , … was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for incitement of…
EventMourners are shot at Ntuli’s funeral in Thokoza
… At least eighteen people were killed on the day of the funeral of Sam Ntuli, an African National Congress (ANC) member murdered on 29 September. During the ……
EventCosatu and TAC table a National HIV/AIDS plan
… On 28 June 2002 the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the Treatment … be no agreement reached in Nedlac on the implementation of the…
EventLaw and Order Minister, Adriaan Vlok implicates De Klerk at TRC
… under oath that while in office, the former president of South Africa, Mr F. W. de Klerk knew of illegal operations by the security forces against Black ……
EventDemonstrating Clergymen are arrested in central Johannesburg
… in central Johannesburg against the detention of a fellow clergyman who had supported the school boycotts … 1980, before spreadingacross the country. The…