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Organize... or Starve! - The history of the SACTU
… Organize... or Starve! - The history of the SACTU …
1946-Albert Christopher promises return of Old Guard
… 1946-Albert Christopher promises return of Old Guard …
The Formation of the Multi-Party Negotiation Process
… The Formation of the Multi-Party Negotiation Process …
Statement of Dr Y. M. Dadoo', Secretary, Non-European United
… Statement of Dr Y. M. Dadoo', Secretary, Non-European United …
Structure of Government in South Africa since 1994
… Structure of Government in South Africa since 1994 …
ArticleThe Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU)
… The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) …
A selection of documents related to the Defiance Campaign
… A selection of documents related to the Defiance Campaign …
Systems of democracy: the American Revolution (under construction)
… Systems of democracy: the American Revolution (under construction) …
ArchiveWiehahn Commission: precis of speech
… Precis of speech on the Wiehahn Commission of Inquiry into labour legislation, by Auret van Heerden, … of South African Students, delivered at the 56th…
ArchiveDeportation of NUSAS President Elect
… Appendix B to President's address to the 44th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, 30th June to 9th July, 1968. … Deportation of…
BiographyA. B. Nogoya
… Born 1925. Factory worker. Joined African National Congress in 1949 and during the Defiance Campaign led a batch of 40 volunteers to defy apartheid…
BiographyJohnson Dhlwati
… He was born in the Clarkebury district of the Cape and educated at the Clarkebury Training … where he later taught boot making. Dhlwati was a secretary of…
Document 47. Minutes of the Annual Conference of the ANC, December 15-19, 1949
… at 10:10 a.m. on the 15th December 1949. In the absence of the Senior Chaplain the Speaker, Cr. R. V. Selope Thema, … R.H.GodIo, M.J. Sipamla, Nyasaland…
BiographyKgalabi Jafta Masemola
… Kgalabi Jafta Masemola, “The Tiger of Azania”, also popularly known as “Bra Jeff” by many … Atteridgevill township.He joined the African National Congress…
BiographyAndries (General China) Chamile
… Johannesburg Chamile worked as a labourer. He was a member of the Newclare branch of African National Congress which he joined during the Defiance Campaign…
Godfrey Mokgonane Pitje
… Pitje was born in 1917, in the northern Transvaal, the son of semiliterate Bapedi parents. Studious and able, he made … minded students in establishing a…
BiographySister Bernard Ncube
… in the Transvaal region and in 1984 was elected president of the Federation of Transvaal Women (FEDTRAW) . Sister Ncube was detained six … the National…
BiographyHoratio (Bud) Isaiah Mbelle
… the interpreter for African languages at the Supreme Court of Griqualand West at Kimberley””a post which he held for … in Kimberley he joined the South…
Thomas G. Karis
… Karis, a former foreign service officer who was a critic of U. S. policy on South Africa and who became a leading … probed the question of whether the courts…
BiographyAdriaan Vlok
… where he matriculated in 1956. Following three months of military training in Pretoria during 1957, he began work … the Soweto Civic Association, the South…
BiographyRobert John McBride
… were a White Afrikaner bus driver from the rural village of Harding in southern Natal, and a Coloured daughter of a … Front (UDF) . Here he met Vincent James…
BiographyMthuthuzeli Tom
… Tom was born on 7 September 1959, in the village of Mpongo outside East London, and was one of eight children. His mother was a domestic worker and his … Tom…
BiographyTopsy Madaka
… New Brighton, Port Elizabeth in 1954. He was the son of Nontsikelelo and Mongameli Madaka who, both passed away in … Lesotho. After SASM was banned, he…
BiographyPoomoney Moodley
… and Kanniamah Moodley; who themselves were children of Indian indentured labourers in Natal. In 1930, when … pass laws. She also became a member of the Natal…
EventANC adopts the Programme of Action
… The adoption of a Programme of Action by the African National Congress (ANC) at the December conference marked one of the … Tambo and Nelson Mandela, in…
EventANC becomes signatory to the Geneva Convention of 1949 and Protocol 1 of 1977
… At a ceremony at the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, the African National Congress (ANC) President, Oliver Tambo,…
Magic of a mix of cultures
… Magic of a mix of cultures …
ArchiveCombination of forms of struggle
… Combination of forms of struggle …
BiographyBlanche la Guma
… 1927 in Athlone, Cape Town, Western Cape, the youngest of five children. Her parents were actively involved in local … this time, Alex was an organiser for…
BiographyHannah Margaret Stanton
… in Lady Selborne, then a mixed black township on the edge of Pretoria. Stanton's own role was marginal - letters to the press, membership of the non-racial…