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ArchiveRegional mini-conference report, Lusaka
… Report on an African National Congress mini-conference held in Lusaka, Zambia, April 1985. …
Alan Wieder on the Rivonia Raids & South African Non-Violent Struggle
… the Rovonia farm, then occupied by the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party. These two …
EventFormer ANC President, Oliver ‘OR’ Tambo, is born
… 1917, Oliver Tambo, who would become African National Congress (ANC) President, was born at Bizana, Transkei (now … Cape). During the 1940s, he enrolled at…
EventSolomon Kalushi Mahlangu is born
… Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu, a soldier of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), who was executed by hanging in Pretoria…
EventLuthuli Combat Detachment crosses the Zambezi
… The 'Luthuli Detachment', made up of units of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) operatives, and the Zimbabwean … ‘Umkhonto we Sizwe – timeline’ from African National…
EventTrevor Manuel unveils GEAR
… In a long-anticipated move the recently appointed Minister of Finance, Trevor Manuel announced the government's … to tighter fiscal policy and the steady…
Africans’Claims in South Africa,
… pages the reader will find what has been termed "Bill of Rights" and "The Atlantic Charter from the African's Point … adopted by the Annual Conference of the…
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… 1497 - 1699 1497 24 December, A flotilla of three Portuguese ships under the command of Capt Vasco da … African Indian political organisation, the Natal…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes
… Lembede Booker T. Washington's educational philosophy of self-help and vocational and technical training inspired a … the 1943 Bloemfontein conference of the…
EventPolice open fire to disperse a rioting crowd in Cato Manor, Durban
… a shanty town, is situated 10 kilometres from the centre of Durban; it was named after Durban’s first mayor, George … Christopher Cato. The area has a…
EventOver 60 people are killed by RENAMO in Mozambique
… the convoy along its length, firing from both sides of the road. Two events of the same nature, before this one, happened on the same … pledged to end…
Zola Skweyiya, former Social Development Minister, to work at ANC Headquarters, 7 May 2009
… which would be invaluable in ensuring the effectiveness of the Office now that most comrades will be moving to the … retire from parliamentary politics. The…
EventANC stalwart and Rivonia Trialist, Govan Mbeki, is released from Robben Island Prison
… On 5 November 1987, Govan Mbeki , member of African National Congress (ANC) National Executive Committee and Umkhonto we … the government restricted him to…
EventFormer NP leader Sam de Beer joins UDM
… Former leader of the National Party (NP) in Gauteng, Sam de Beer, resigned … Roelf Meyer and Bantu Holomisa. De Beer mentioned lack of charisma from the…
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is born
… Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe who would become a leader of Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) was born to Hubert and Angelina Sobukwe at … Province (now known as…
EventCyril Ramaphosa is born
… trade union activist was born in Johannesburg. He was one of the chief negotiators at the Codesa talks that opened the … the political scene in 2012 during…
Commemorating the 55th death anniversary of Suliman Saloojee
… 9th September 2019 marks the 55th anniversary of the death in police detention of Suliman “Babla” Saloojee … legal clerk and a member of the renowned…
Event90-Days Act commences
… The General Laws Amendment Act of 1964 (passed in 1963) or the 90-Day Act, commences on this … to align Umkhonto We Sizwe with the African National Congress …
EventLabour Party Colonel Creswell’s move to support the war wins majority
… At a special conference of the South African Labour Party (SALP), Colonel Creswell’s … annual conference which was held in East London in January of the same…
Event19 die at Shell House massacre
… African National Congress (ANC) security guards at Shell House killed nineteen … planning to attack the building. The Nugent Commission of Inquiry on what…
EventThe ANC threatens to suspend constitutional talks
… The African National Congress (ANC) threatened in an open letter to President F. … ministers Adriaan Vlok and Magnus Malan, punishing members of the security…
Closing address by President Neslon Mandela at the 49th National conferenceof the ANC Bloemfontein, 22 December 1994
… ANC has held many national conferences in its history. One of these was the 1949 Conference, which was held here in … one of conflict and tension. Then there…
Document 39 - “Walter Sisulu, “Boycott as a Political Weapon”, Liberation, 23, February 1957
… February 1957 A timely article by the banned ex-Secretary of the African National Congress, now on trial for treason. Boycott has been used as … the British…
EventPresident F. W. de Klerk rings in cabinet changes
… in size and for the first time appointed non-White members of Parliament (MPs) to cabinet posts. Five members retired to … the system. The five among others…
EventSABC TV News Editor, Joe Thloloe resigns
… (SABC) was plunged into a crisis when the Editor-in-chief of television news, Joe Thloloe, announced his resignation … just days after the corporation…
EventTwelve ANC supporters are killed in eSikhawini
… The political rivalry between the African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) rose … Rights groups raised concerns regarding the…
EventReport on ANC detention camps is released
… The African National Congress (ANC) released a report by an internal commission of inquiry (the Skweyiya Commission), appointed to … abuse allegations in ANC…
EventNelson Mandela is free
… renamed Drakenstein Correctional Centre) on the outskirts of Paarl and was driven the 60 kms to Cape Town by African National Congress'(ANC) Rose Sonto along…
EventBanned PAC Leader, Robert Sobukwe, is refused an exit permit to leave SA
… 22 June 1971 a Pretoria court ruled that the former leader of the banned Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), Robert Sobukwe, would not be allowed to use his exit…
EventGeraldine Fraser is born
… on 24 August 1960, in Lansdowne, Cape Town, the daughter of a teacher and factory worker. She became politically … she enrolled for a Teachers Diploma at the…