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ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
… In the appeal letter the president, A. Esmal, and the secretary, A. Ismail, justified the calling of such a … Indian Congress (SAIC) and Omar Hajee Amod…
ArticleAfrica: Colonialism, Arts, Protest & Independence
… with General Muhammad Neguib as president Julius Nyerere elected President of Tanganyika African Association France … of South African cabinet appointed, by…
ArticleOrganization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000
… with General Muhammad Neguib as president. Julius Nyerere elected President of Tanganyika African Association. France … of South African cabinet appointed,…
Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
… new leadership came to power in the ANC. Walter Sisulu was elected secretary-general and a number of Youth Leaguers were elected to the national executive,…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… such as Natal, where it found an effective provincial secretary in George Champion . Soon ICU branches were opened … from ICU membership ( official document…
ArchiveBibliography by Howard Barrell
… of Regis Debray, an African Communist pamphlet (London:SACP, n.d. [circa 1968-1969]. *Kasrils, R., Unpublished … Journal of Southern African Studies, 18 (1),…
EventMuntu Myeza, SA anti-apartheid activist, is born.
… Muntu Myeza was Secretary General of the Azanian People’s Organisation … African Students' Organisation (SASO). In 1974, he was elected general secretary of…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… the CPGB rules. Party affairs Comrade DG Wolton, General Secretary, explained his desire to leave for Britain, urging … propaganda among natives is.' Head…
Last kicks of a dying horse July 1992 - June 1993
… to sabotage these efforts through the assassination of Chris Hani in April 1993 and to invade the venue of the now … into structures ready to serve a…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… thorn in the side of the apartheid government, serving as Secretary General of the ANCYL from 1948. By the time the … Congress (PAC) and South African…
BiographyKrishna Rabilal
… their future as individuals. By this time, Chetty was elected as the national organiser of the Black People's …
BiographySumboornam Pillay
Sumboornam (Sam) Pillay, who later became known as Sam Moodley, was born in 1948*. She grew up in the multi-cultural community of Dundee, Northern Natal (now…
ArticleSophiatown Timeline
… shortage of labour there. 1948 The Nationalist Party is elected to power. 1950 Hendrik Verwoerd is made Minister of Native Affairs. W.M. Eiselen is made…
The International Socialist League (ISL)
… G. Weinstock as treasurer, and David Ivon Jones as secretary. S. P. Bunting was also a popular founding member … and the leadership of the Bolshevik party…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… under siege for two weeks. On 24 March while the Regional Secretary General of the PAC Philip Kgosana a student at the … charging with batons. Also in the…
ArticleNegotiations and the transition
… Botha were that the ANC should end its alliance with the SACP. In August 1988 Mandela contracted tuberculosis and was … (PASO) unit was relaunched. Ntobeko…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline 1850-1889
… Natal Indian Congress . Abdoola Hajee Adam Jhaveri is elected its first President and MK Gandhi, the Natal Indian Congress's first Secretary. 1896 At the…
Mandela’s membership of the Communist Party: what needs to be reassessed by Tom Lodge
… experience. Joe Matthews was a member of the clandestine SACP’s leadership in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He told … held at the University of Cape Town…
Lecture by the President of the ANC, President Jacob Zuma, on the occasion of celebrating the life and times of the tenth President of the ANC President Nelson Mandela, 10 July 2012, Limpopo
… contribution during the Defiance Campaign, Mandela was elected president of both the Youth League and the Transvaal … together again during the brutal…
ArticleThe Arrival of Jan Van Riebeeck in the Cape - 6 April 1652
… Planning Council (made up of members from the ANC, SAIC, SACP and COD) held mass meetings and demonstrations … The holiday was abolished in 1994 by the…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Red Lives. Convenor: Arianna Lissoni
… political involvement on himself and family. The names of SACP, NIC and African National Congress (ANC) stalwarts adorn … National Congress (ANC) and South…
EventJames Filbert Sojane, sports administrator and pioneer in the taxi industry, dies
… joined Orlando Pirates as a supporter in 1966 He was soon elected Secretary of the Supporters Club and subsequently Secretary of the club its self. In 1973,…
Chapter 9 - Negotiating the transition
… they were keen to secure multilateral agreement that an elected body draft the final constitution. Inkatha and COSAG, … round of negotiations, disaster…
African National Congress Women's League Constitution
… of movement to any other area and report to the new branch secretary on arriving. 5.2.9 Refrain from publishing and or … and one representative from each…
Nelson Mandela’s leadership: The early years (Part 1) by Raymond Suttner, 4 June 2018
… a significant role in the “mother body”, with Sisulu elected ANC national Secretary-General in 1949. But from the time of the Defiance … recent scholarship,…
ArticleNatal Indian Association (NIA)
… Interior, Richard Stuttaford, to segregate Indians. He was elected as President of the Congress in May 1938, and in … This course was adopted on the ground…
ArticleChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli timeline 1800 - 1967
… who succeeded Rev Grout as head of the mission station, is elected Chief of Groutville. 1892 John Bunyan Luthuli, second … of a hereditary Zulu Chief. 1928…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… Wentworth. A vastly talented political analyst, he is soon elected to the Students’ Representative Council (SRC) and … They raise funds that allow the UCM to…
ArchiveSonia Bunting: Continuous Compassion and Adamant Activism by Jack Lucas
… married in 1946, moving to Cape Town where Sonia served as Secretary to the Cape Town Peace Council in addition to her … rebranded as an underground South…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… leaders like Ahmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada who was later elected as Chairman of TIYC. Over time other members of the … moved up the ranks of the TIYC was…