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EventMagnus Malan and Constand Viljoen deny knowledge of mass graves
… South African governments to seek answers from the United Nations, who was in command of Namibia at the time. Viljoen …
EventElectrically powered units replaced Johannesburg's horse-drawn trams
… mass transport in the industrialised Northern Hemisphere nations and were readily available for purchase. A factor …
EventAmerican troops withdraw from Somalia
… The seriousness of the situation prompted the United Nations to order a peacekeeping force to stabilise the … 2014]|UN, Somalia- UNOSOM II Background , from…
South Africa: Liberation and Reconciliation Role of International Solidarity, 8 April 2004
… are no more - because of the struggles of the oppressed nations and the support they received from outside, including especially support from decent people…
ArticleChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli timeline 1800 - 1967
… India. 1944 April, The African National Congress Youth League is formally constituted. Joins the African National … November 23, M.B.Yengwa and other…
Archive”I am Albertina Sisulu”, Interview from Blue Portraits
… He was assassinated. From there I joined the ANC Women's League. As you know, ANC has been banned for the last thirty … doing the work. We first of all…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March, Pretoria, 9 August
… to the crowd Dora Tamana, a member of the ANC Women’s League and a founding member of the Federation of South …
ArticleA history of Apartheid in South Africa
… the ANC started on a more militant path, with the Youth League playing a more important role. The ANC introduced …
Conflict among civic organisations
… in 1983 who renamed their new organisation the Cape Action League. Civic organisation divisions at time undermined the …
ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
… launched ”¦ to counter the rabid racism of the Youth League with its slogan “Africa for the Africans”.’ SOYA …
State of the nation address by the President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela
… take steps to inform the Secretary General of the United Nations that we will subscribe to the Universal Declaration … Rights and other human rights…
"What I would do if I were Prime Minister" by Albert Luthuli, 5 February 1962, Chicago
… of cooperation. The human rights as declared by the United Nations will be entrenched in the state constitution. Trade … to see it as part of a larger unit,…
Letter to Ayatollah Khomeini by O. R. Tambo, Iran, 13 February 1979
… ranks of the anti-imperialist and anti-racist community of nations. We salute the heroic Iranian people. We lower our …
Fatima Meer: Portfolio
… all the people of this country and the whole community of nations throughout the world look to us to move the country …
EventDay of the African Child
… Charter on Human and People's rights as well as the United Nations convention on The Rights of the Child. Despite the …
EventUN Security Council urges SA government to end Rivonia Trial
… action Click here, to read SAHO's Chronology on United Nations and Apartheid. …
EventDr Abrahams to be returned to Bechuanaland
… by South African security. In September, the United Nations in its Report of the Special Committee on the …
EventFollowing the infamous Treason Trial, ANC leader Chief Albert Luthuli is banished by the Apartheid Government for five years
… appealing for "Action against Apartheid" from the United Nations. His banning order prevailed until his death in 1967. …
EventThe Korean War ends
… North Korean and Chinese Communists against the United Nations (UN) forces (mainly South Korean and American). The …
EventSecurity Council examines violence in South Africa
… of the permanent mission of Madagascar to the United Nations the Security Council convened on 15 and 16 July to …
EventRebels overrun the Somalian capital of Mogadishu
… strong ties with the USSR and other Soviet-bloc nations. In 1978 the Barre government lost Soviet support …
EventTRC releases documents revealing plot to kill UN Secretary
… an alleged plot by Western countries to assassinate United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden. He …
EventHansi Pauline Pollak, welfare worker and social activist, is born
… persons, as deputy director of welfare, for five United Nations Refugee Relief Association (UNRRA) camps in the …
EventSouth African Indian Congress opposes "Ghetto Act"
… 1946, India requested the secretary-general of the United Nations to put South Africa's treatment of the Indian …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Bibliography
… without Forgiveness . New York, Random House, 1999. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). South Africa: … Transformation for Human Development . New…
EventThe Pondoland Revolts
… Ganyile, a member of the African National Congress Youth League further strengthened the local leadership. As the …
EventPeter Mokaba is born
… the president of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) and occupied this position during the period …
ArticleThe Daily Dispatch
… been awarded honorary doctorates and addressed the United Nations Security Council. Due to its use to pressure the …
EventWalter Sisulu celebrates 90th birthday
… Charlotte Maxeke, a pioneering member of the ANC Women's League. In 1940 WaIter and four others, namely Thabethe, … the evening they had formed the core of…
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
… It is supposed to be part of the British Commonwealth of Nations and yet it can have an anti-British Government. It is … that is why South Africa cannot…