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ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
… first female deputy president) while Hersheela Narsee was secretary. The following year Nozizwe Madlala took over as president and Victoria Mxenge was…
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… and introduces a policy of apartheid. 1949 Sobukwe is elected as president of the Fort Hare Students' … is selected by Godfrey Pitje as the Youth League…
Bathandwa Ndondo
… in Umtata, Transkei in January 1981. At UNITRA, he was elected to the Student Representative Council (SRC). A year … played a leading role in the UNITRA’s…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… Repression and non-violent resistance to apartheid SACP banned A protest in support of the South African … the training college staff afterward. Albert…
When your position can't be sustained, create a scarecrow - The Menace of Post-Apartheid South Africa by Thabo Mbeki, 18 January 2016
… voices within the organisation. Sello Moloto was elected Limpopo ANC Provincial Chairperson in 2005. Like all … Mbeki leadership, within the ANC itself……
ArticlePan Africanist Congress (PAC)
… , an ardent Africanist, who was key to the breakaway, was elected as its founding president and Potlako Leballo as secretary. On 21 March 1960 the PAC…
ArticlePrevention/Treatment
… women were infected. Yet, in the same year, ANC leader Chris Hani, speaking from exile, warned: Existing statistics …
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
… Several of the AZAPO’s leaders including the president and secretary were arrested shortly after the launch and even … former leader of the Black People's…
BiographyBheki Cele
… Forestry and Fisheries [21] . When Cyril Ramaphosa was elected president in 2018, he appointed Cele as Minister of …
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… leadership and some members of the former Party (the SACP was not yet formed) wrote in an editorial entitled … of the national organizations met in March…
EventUnion leader, Moses Mayekiso is reported to be under arrest on his return from Sweden.
… Moses Mayekiso was the General Secretary of the Metal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU) and became a member of the South African Communist Party (SACP)…
PlaceOliver Tambo District Municipality
… and by the Eastern Cape Districts of Amatole , Chris Hani , uKhahlamba and Alfred Nzo. The District extends over … and by the Eastern Cape districts of…
Black South African Poets of the 1970’s and their Publications
… 1984 Ingoapele Madingoane Afrika My Beginning 1979 Chris van Wyk It is Time to Go home, AD Donker 1979 Fhazel …
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… a Declaration of Principles and constitution . It also elected SACTU executive committee. The president, Petrus … Workers Industrial Union and Leslie Ma …
ArticleThe Anti-Pass Campaigns 1960
… 1959 the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) was formed. They elected Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe as their first chairman and Potlako Leballo as secretary and…
PlaceNxuba (formerly known as Cradock)
… while Cradock, which will be renamed Nxuba, is in the Chris Hani District Municipality. The other name that was proposed … Cradock, which will be renamed…
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… and October 1996 in the country's first democratically elected convention, the Constitutional Assembly. However, the … also saw the rise of the South African…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… Community raises his profile in the Communist Party. He is elected to the Johannesburg District Committee of the CPSA. … distributing an anti-war leaflet in…
BiographyRick Turner
… original investigating officer, murder and robbery captain Chris Earle, testified at a section 29 hearing of the Truth …
BiographyMotlotlehi – His Majesty King Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho
His Majesty, King Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II was born on 2 May 1938, in the Village of Salang in the Mountain District of Mokhotlong in the…
BiographyIrene Menell (nee Manderstam)
… joined the then Progressive Party (PP) and held numerous elected positions at national, regional, and constituency …
BiographyColine Williams
Coline Williams was born on 30 May 1967 and grew up in Bonteheuwel, a township in the Western Cape, South Africa. The eldest of three siblings, Coline, her…
BiographyDr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy
Dr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy was born in Durban on 1 September 1958. He was the youngest of four sons. The family resided in Sea Cow Lake and later…
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… Agent to the Native Tribes in 1845-53, and subsequently Secretary for Native Affairs, 1853-75. 1847 Shepstone began … consisting of 8 members representing…
ArticleThe Interim South African Constitution 1993
… South African government, South African Communist Party (SACP), Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), Labour Party, the … the continued governance of South Africa…
Document 12 - Notes prepared by Nelson Mandela for his meeting with P. W. Botha
… Viva COSATU, Viva! Viva SACP, Viva! Viva ANC, Viva! Viva the Alliance, Viva! … myself, and on behalf of the new Executive you have just elected, we thank…
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… emerged on the scene ( see SAIC history ). Dr. Naicker was elected to the organisation's leadership in 1945. Due to more … 10,000 signatures was presented to…
Cosatu march: For Who, for What? by Simelane and Nicolson (Daily Maverick), 8 October 2015
… Union of Metalworkers SA (Numsa) or its expelled general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi. Other demonstrations also took … Rights Union were there, while the SA…
ArticleCosatu timeline
… ANC. After a decline in the vote towards the ANC, General secretary of COSATU, Zwelinzima Vavi warns the Tripartite … COSATU affiliated union. Left to right:…
Executive summary of the statement of the National Executive Committee of the ANC delivered by President Jacob Zuma at the 100th anniversary of the ANC, Mangaung 8 January 2012
… the history of our struggle. Among them are Elijah Barayi, Chris Dlamini, John Gomomo, Jay Naidoo, Oscar Mpetha, Ray … We salute MK`s illustrious commanders…