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EventThe Pondoland Revolts
… by iKongo to reject tribal authorities and self-government of Transkei, initiated by the Bantu Authorities Act of 1951. During a protest gathering in the…
EventSADF officers dismissed
… State President F.W. de Klerk announced that 23 members of the South African Defence Force (SADF), including two … forcibly retired or suspended. This…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984 by Noor Nieftagodien
… Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education Apartheid was brought to an end by the struggles … Federation of South African Trade Unions …
Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984
… Apartheid was brought to an end by the struggles of millions of ordinary people in townships, factories and … Federation of South African Trade Unions …
"Form united front now": Interview with Albert Luthuli, 5 May 1962
… to forming a broad united front so as to rouse the whole of South Africa against "the fascist measure." Response "I am … Dennis Hurley, Dr. Alan Paton, Mr. P…
Passive Resistance in South Africa by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "Southern Africa in Transition by Davis, John A. and James K. Baker"(Pall Mall Press), London, 1966
… people in South Africa have always associated the history of the United States with the great name of Abraham Lincoln. … a change of heart in the rulers. …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Religion and Churches
… Muziwakhe Lembede 24. A. M. LEMBEDE, "African National Congress and Churches," Umteteli wa Bantu, 29 July 1944. In … their spiritual make-up, the Africans…
EventRioting and destruction in Cato Manor and Durban continues
… people had first begun living there informally at the end of their indentured labour contracts. A small number of them had earned enough money to buy land…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… Aid Fund (IDAF) was established by Canon L John Collins of St Paul’s Cathedral in 1956. Its mission was to work … leaders. Despite its close links to the…
EventA bomb blast rocks the ANC London office
… On this day the African National Congress (ANC) headquarters in London, England, was bombed. General Johann Coetzee, former head of the South African…
EventBrig. Ramushwana in NPKF admission
… In a telephonic interview Brigadier Gabriel Ramushwana of the National Peacekeeping Force (NPKF), says that the way … elections in April. However, he refused…
EventUnesco lists Robben Island as a World Heritage Site
… on Robben Island as they protested to Dutch rule of their countries. When the British took control of South Africa, a leper colony was started on the island…
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…
EventGertrude Shope, former president of the ANC Women's League, is born
… was 29 years old she decided to join the African National Congress (ANC) and soon afterwards left teaching as part of a campaign to boycott Bantu Education…
EventVerwoerd's grandson joins ANC
… In a historic move, Wilhelm Verwoerd, grandson of former South African Prime Minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, main architect of apartheid, joins the African…
Draft Declaration by ANC, 20 December, 2012, 53rd ANC Annual Conference, Mangaung
… five thousand delegates to this 53rd National Conference of the African National Congress, gathered at the University of the Free State, … Alliance partners,…
Chapter 7 - Gumede keeps the bright fire burning, 1928-29
… courtship with the CPSA and give effect to the ideals of the new Black republic thesis. For Gumede the stakes were … the ANC and the CPSA and how he would…
Freedom Charter sold out the dispossessed by Motsoko Pheko (The Sowetan), 2 Feb 2012
… not 100 years old. It abandoned the fundamental objectives of the original 1912 ANC more than 50 years ago. In 1955, a … an 80% black majority. In 1943, 1944…
ArchiveThe Emperor has no Clothes by Liz Timbs
… celebrates 47 years since his coronation as Isilo (King) of the Zulus of South Africa. Zwelithini (literally, “What does the world … once independence came…
EventMilton Obote (81), Uganda's former dictator, dies in a South African hospital
… Obote, a member of the legislative council of Uganda from 1957, founded the Uganda People's Congress in 1960. Obote became Uganda's Prime Minister after …
Chapter 10
… the last few chapters we have described the highest level of political development reached by the people, as expressed … the Native Representative Council;(c…
Chapter X - Trial by detention
… had changed at court. Our van drove through the gates of the old synagogue. We heard shouts of greeting as we were … I should follow Chief and that Farid…
Extracts from the book ‘A long walk to Freedom’. Nelson Mandela’s autobiography
… As adopted by the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress - 25 November 1992. The strategic perspective of the ANC is the transfer of…
Press Conference Introducing Alexandre Moumbaris, Stephen Lee and Timothy Jenkin who escaped from prison in South Africa: Oliver Tambo, 2 January 1980, Lusaka
… like to state in my preliminary remarks that the overthrow of the hated and criminal policies that prevails in South Africa requires first that the worst…
Press Conference Introducing Alexandre Moumbaris, Stephen Lee and Timothy Jenkin who escaped from prison in South Africa: Oliver Tambo, 2 January 1980, Lusaka
… like to state in my preliminary remarks that the overthrow of the hated and criminal policies that prevails in South Africa requires first that the worst…
ANC AND 1999 ELECTION NOMINATION LIST
… The Congress of South African Trade Unions COSATU has taken a firm stand that the federation will not be drawing up a list of its own people to be given to…
EventTatamkhulu Afrika South African poet, writer and struggle activist dies
… died from the Asia flu leaving him orphaned at the age of two. He was then taken care of by friends and family before being given to a Methodist … weSizwe …
Funeral arrangements afoot for Mama Dideka Mhlaba, 20 January 2010
… afoot in the Eastern Cape in preparation for the funeral of African National Congress (ANC) veteran, Mama Dideka Mhlaba (85) - wife of the late Rivonia…
Khoisan Identity
… In his State of the Nation address on 9th February 2012, President Zuma … instrumental in the SADF’s pursuit of the African National Congress (ANC) and South…
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
… Students Representative Council (SSRC) . Recent accounts of the event suggest that the SSRC was motivated and guided by underground networks of the African…