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ArticleNelson Mandela Awards 1960s - 2000s
… Awards 1960s 1964 Elected Honorary President of the Students' Union, University … City and County of Cardiff, Cardiff. 1 July, Awarded the Chris Hani Award…
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…
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…
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……
ArticlePrevention/Treatment
… women were infected. Yet, in the same year, ANC leader Chris Hani, speaking from exile, warned: Existing statistics …
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)…
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…
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…
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…
BiographyBheki Cele
… Forestry and Fisheries [21] . When Cyril Ramaphosa was elected president in 2018, he appointed Cele as Minister of …
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…
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…
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…
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…
BiographyRick Turner
… original investigating officer, murder and robbery captain Chris Earle, testified at a section 29 hearing of the Truth …
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…
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…
EventOliver Tambo returns from exile
… in 1944 with Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu, and was elected as the organisation's Secretary. He was appointed as the Secretary General of the … in 1967…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the ANC - 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…