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EventBantu Women’s League protests against pass laws
… resistance on 7 January 1919 against the application of pass laws to women. What precipitated the 1919 protest was … Bantu Women's League (BWL) was formed in…
EventA car bomb explodes in Durban, killing five and injuring 27 people
… Reconciliation Commission (TRC) by Rayman Lalla, a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and a senior officer in Umkhonto we Sizwe … Durban area,…
EventDr. Federik Van Zyl Slabbert leads delegation to meet ANC
… On 6 July 1987, Dr. Federik van Zyl Slabbert led a group of fifty-two mainly Afrikaans-speaking intellectuals, to meet with the then-banned African National…
EventWalter Sisulu's appeal is dismissed
… The Transvaal section of the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by the African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General Walter Sisulu against a six years…
Freedom movement in South Africa: Its International impact by E.S Reddy
… and for generations. Such was the great freedom movement of Ireland, and I believe the movement in my own country, … – were among the founders of the…
PlaceGauteng Province
… The Area of Gauteng Province is small; stretching from Pretoria in the … in the South. Gauteng in Sotho means: 'for place of gold'. Alternatively the ‘gaut’…
EventZulu King Zwelithini threatens to establish a separate Zulu state
… the KwaZulu homeland and Natal province as an act of insubordination against the government and African National Congress (ANC). The ANC replied claiming…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - Introduction by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… Baard and Barbie Schreiner This book tells the story of Frances Baard, a black South African woman who was a trade … and the federation of trade unions, the…
Introduction - My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… This book tells the story of Frances Baard, a black South African woman who was a trade … and the federation of trade unions, the South African Congress of…
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
… between the Natal Government and the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Natal Coolie Law, Law 14 of … 1919; leading to the formation of the South…
ArticleAbstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes Conference
… Following is a list of abstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes - … push heavy skips”: Examining NUDW and CCAWUSA organising of occupational…
Links & Partnerships
… All of the below links are to websites that SAHO recommends (and … to discover! A Country Study: South Africa - Library of Congress - Good site that covers…
ANC NEC meets (30th November, - 2 December 2001), 29 November 2001
… The African National Congress National Executive Committee Meeting will take place … from Friday, the 30th November until Sunday, the 2nd of December, 2001…
ArchiveInterview with Lybon Tiyani Mabasa
… in the Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) at the time of this interview, was born in 1952 and graduated from … School in Soweto in 1971. He studied at the…
”The African Mine Workers’ Strike-A National Struggle.”flyer issued by the ANC Youth League, August 1946
… against the most brutal, callous and inhuman exploitation of man by man in the history of mankind. Their struggle is a challenge to the whole … serfdom…
EventNelson Rolihlahla Mandela passed away
… The 5th of December marks the anniversary of the death of revolutionary anti-Apartheid liberation … Imprisoned in 1964 for his role in the African National…
EventAlbert Luthuli is elected as an ANC President
… The African National Congress (ANC) was founded as the SANCC in 1912. John Dube … and the well known writer and poet, Sol Plaatje, was one of its founding…
EventCol. Muammar Gaddafi seizes power in Libya
… power in Libya after a coup d'etat. Gaddafi, the leader of the Free Unionist Officers movement, overthrew the monarchical rule of King Idris, who had ruled…
EventSouth African football legend Steve Mokone died
… in Washington D.C on 20 March 2015. He would go to be one of the most recognized South African in the world because of his mark he made in football outside…
EventThe People's Progressive Party (PPP) is banned
… People Progressive Party (PPP) under the leadership of the former African National Congress (ANC) member Rocky Malebane-Metsing, was banned in … coup attempt…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… 1943 (Including 'The Atlantic Charter from the Standpoint of Africans within the Union of South Africa' and 'Bill of … booklet. The Annual Conference of the…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - White Students and Black Students
… will have just cause for gratitude over the consummation of this first All-Student Congress held under the auspices of the National Union of S. … regard to…
EventBarend Strydom kills 8 People in Pretoria
… in the legislative capital. Strydom claimed to be the head of a white supremacist group called the ‘Wit Wolwe’ (White … that the organisation did not exist…
EventMK’s Luthuli Detachment and ZAPU in a joint operation
… in Wankie (now Hwange) Game Reserve, near the border of Zambia and Botswana. The operation became know as the … give added military impetus to both the…
ArchiveGeorge Peake by David Hemson
… had links throughout Southern Africa and an understanding of the social linkages between struggles particularly in … 1953 George was a founding member of the…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid: A Preliminary Study of Albert Luthuli, 1920s-1952s Dr Peter Alegi, Department of … crowning achievements: President of…
Land mine kills 6 in South Africa by Sheila Rule (New York Times), 16 December 1985
… army spokesman in Pretoria said those killed were members of two families, including a mother and two children. The … to be ''terrorists'' from the outlawed…
EventNico Basson says that SADF had supplied weapons and covert assistance to IFP in order to weaken the ANC
… Party (IFP) in order to weaken the African National Congress (ANC). IFP leader Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi denied …
EventVanessa Brereton, former human rights lawyer, admits that she was an Apartheid spy
… under the Apartheid regime. When the African National Congress (ANC) was unbanned in 1990, she was unanimously … her involvement, but in 2003, Bulelani…
EventSA and Mozambique revive Nkomati Accord
… During the 1980's P. W. Botha, the President of South Africa and leader of the National Party, launched his "Total Strategy" in … another. Mozambique agreed…